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Geopolitics & Security
24TH SEPTEMBER 2026Britain must reshape its Europe strategy, aiming to rejoin a reformed EU and enhance collective power through strategic cooperation in tech, energy and defence.
The Opportunity Bargain: The Hard Choices Britain Can’t Duck on NEETs
Tackling Britain’s NEET crisis means helping young people pursue opportunity and giving businesses the confidence and incentives to provide it.
Why We Built CentreAI Codify
CentreAI Codify converts a country’s statute book into structured, machine-readable law.
Why We Built CentreAI Policy
CentreAI Policy is a tool that helps policymakers turn complex issues into evidence-led policy options.
Breaking the Black Sea Blockade: Securing Ukraine’s Agricultural Exports
Ukraine is vital to global food security. Russia’s renewed campaign against commercial shipping in the Black Sea puts that role at risk.
Leading in the Age of AI: How to Build an AI-Enabled State
The age of AI demands a new model of government, with a stronger centre driving technological transformation across the state.
AI-Assurance Ecosystems: Building the Infrastructure to Enable Confident Adoption of Safe AI
AI-assurance ecosystems are vital for safe artificial-intelligence deployment, boosting trust and economic growth.
Build the Roads, Not the Engine: An Open-Source Strategy for Middle-Power AI Sovereignty
Capturing AI’s economic value means investing in the open tools, standards and infrastructure that turn powerful models into practical applications.
Hard Tech, Hard Power: Rebuilding Britain’s Industrial Base for the Age of AI
The UK must prioritise hard tech, building the physical infrastructure, manufacturing capacity and investment needed to compete in the age of AI.
Clearing the Way for Growth: How Demining Became an Economic Imperative in Ukraine
Ukraine is reframing demining as an economic imperative, showing how clearing land can unlock recovery, restore livelihoods and strengthen food security.
Beyond Hormuz: Building Resilience for the Next Crisis
The Strait of Hormuz closure was absorbed because governments built resilience decades in advance. Those buffers have now been spent and must be rebuilt.
How Rwanda Is Using Data to Deliver Better Health Care
By connecting health data across the system, Rwanda is enabling faster decisions, shorter waits and better care.
“Where Do I Start?”: How Governments Can Use AI and Data to Unlock Fiscal Space
A dual-track approach to using AI and data to create fiscal space now while strengthening long-term public financial management.
Tech & Digitalisation
Tech & Digitalisation
6TH FEBRUARY 2025Flexible, context‑specific regulation can help Global South countries harness artificial intelligence for growth while managing societal risks.
Why the AI Techlash Is a Test of Leadership
Governments must confidently embrace AI to drive innovation and accelerate economic growth – but they also need to get the public on side.
Indonesia: Reimagining the State
In an op-ed for The Jakarta Post, Tony Blair outlines how Indonesia can harness AI to reimagine government, improve services and set a global example.
Russia After Ukraine: Constrained But Disruptive
Russia faces lasting structural constraint that will lead to brittleness at home and sustained volatility abroad.
Five Lessons From Ukraine for Resilience Amid Instability
What Europe can learn from Ukraine’s resilience - from digital services to decentralisation and defence technology.
Beyond the Harvest: Modernising Ukraine’s Agricultural Processing Sector
Ukraine should turn its agricultural strength into greater prosperity by expanding processing, attracting investment and opening new markets.
Technological Disruption Is Inevitable. British Prosperity Is Not.
The UK must embrace risk and innovation to secure its future amid technological disruption, or risk falling behind.
Tony Blair: The Future Demands a Radical Response Based on Understanding the World We Live In
In an op-ed for The Observer, Blair explores how government can create the conditions for the UK to thrive in a rapidly changing world.
Preventing a “Lost Generation”: Britain’s NEET Crisis and the Case for Reform
Britain faces a growing NEET crisis, with more than one million young people out of work or education and at risk of long-term inactivity.
Iran’s Attacks on Digital Infrastructure Show Why the World Needs New Technological Alliances
National security now depends on trusted technological partnerships as Iran's attacks expose the risks to critical AI infrastructure.
Digital Embassies and AI Sovereignty: Building Resilient States Beyond Borders
Digital embassies provide states with a new strategic solution for enhancing resilience, security, sovereignty and operational continuity in the age of AI.
The Labour Party Is Playing With Fire Over Its Future and the Future of the Country
In this essay, Tony Blair sets out the need for a new agenda for Britain.
Lower Numbers, Higher Ambition: Making Falling Migration Work for Growth
Net migration is falling – but Britain risks shutting out the talent a dynamic economy depends on.
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