Constitutions like the US’s were deliberately designed to slow down decision-making and put ‘grit in the system’ (and England’s did so organically). Tech can speed things up dramatically with real-time polling and electronic voting, and facilitates a huge increase in immediate voter-to-legislator contact. Is that a boon for good decision-making or a challenge? Are there implications for parties and parliaments?

Governments are spending a lot of money, including on debt interest, but most reforms cost money and society needs to pay for them. How and what consequences does this have for government planning?

Does the democratisation of news and information sources help or hinder actual democracy? How do we tackle disinformation (hostile states, fraudsters or other bad actors) and balance resisting misinformation with protecting free speech?

What are the implications of AI for state and non-state threats, conventional and hybrid warfare, and our international relationships?

Government projects for transformation that have been a success can seem rarer than hens’ teeth. There’s a growing sense that Government itself cannot achieve change but is that true or have there been examples that offer lessons that are overlooked and what does that tell us about how to deliver?

The difficulties in making change happen are often attributed to different ‘blobs’. How can you build an eco-system for delivery in the modern era?

The Industrial Revolution gave us a take-off in economic growth, urbanisation, trades unions, political realignment and the 1832 Great Reform Act. What will the AI Revolution give us? How do we cope with the transition, including in the labour market?

With the Human Rights Act under pressure, leaving the refugee convention and the ECHR on the table and the UN apparently incapable of resolving conflicts as well as suspicion of WHO, what does/should internationalism look like in the modern world.