Sovereign Albion

Andrew Bennett
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Sovereign Albion explores who we are, where we're going and how we get there, told through the lens of the builders — of companies, state capacity, and the nation — making it real. www.sovereignalbion.com

Episodes

  1. How to invest in AI sovereignty, with Lawrence Lundy-Bryan (Cloudberry VC)

    FEB 6

    How to invest in AI sovereignty, with Lawrence Lundy-Bryan (Cloudberry VC)

    Lawrence Lundy-Bryan is GP at Cloudberry, Europe’s first dedicated semiconductor fund. He also writes the State of the Future substack, which researches frontier technology analysis. Here we discuss how to invest in AI sovereignty, the bifurcation of VC into specialists and AUM agglomerators, the compute gradient, how the government's new venture fund (SovAI) can succeed, and enabling European founder ambition 00:00 Introduction01:07 Launching Cloudberry VC01:44 The Future of VC Funds: AUM Agglomerators vs Specialists04:47 Semiconductors: Past, Present, and Future10:21 The Importance of Edge Computing12:58 Europe's Role in the Semiconductor Industry21:38 Investing in New Applications29:23 Government's Role in AI and Semiconductors33:08 Complexity and Capabilities in Industrial Strategy35:57 Domain Elasticity and Building Conviction in New Founders41:41 Lawrence's Decision Making Process47:40 The European Venture Capital Landscape53:43 Raising Collective Ambition This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.sovereignalbion.com

    59 min
  2. Launching the Sovereign Albion podcast: How to Regulate British Nuclear, with John Fingleton & Mustafa Latif-Aramesh

    12/10/2025

    Launching the Sovereign Albion podcast: How to Regulate British Nuclear, with John Fingleton & Mustafa Latif-Aramesh

    Sovereign Albion is a new platform, exploring who we are, where we're going, and how we get there, told through the lens of the builders – of companies, state capacity, and the nation – making it real. This launch episode is with John Fingleton and Mustafa Latif-Aramesh, who were part of the UK’s brilliant recent Taskforce on Nuclear Regulation. When it launched, the report quickly became a rallying point for the many people who refuse to accept that Britain is at some terminal value, both economically and culturally. Nuclear could play an enormous role in enabling safe, clean, abundant energy — solving the energy trilemma of cost, climate and capacity! — but we have made it slow and expensive to build. Britain was the first country in the world to have civil nuclear energy, but today we haven’t built a new nuclear power station for 30 years. I wanted to understand how we got here, and what needs to come next. Thank you to the Centre for British Progress for supporting this experiment, to Julia Garayo-Willemyns, David Lawrence and Alys Key for their editorial support, and to Ben Mills and The Subthread for production support. Intro news footage source, ©Sellafield Limited. * John Fingleton is a leading economist and regulator. He was the CEO of the predecessor to the Competition and Markets Authority and was on the board of UK Research and Innovation, and now runs Fingleton. * Mustafa Latif-Aramesh is a leading infrastructure planning lawyer at TLT LLP and Parliamentary Agent who works across nuclear and other nationally significant planning and infrastructure projects. 00:00 The History of British Nuclear 01:00 Challenges in British Nuclear Development 04:02 Comparing Nuclear Costs: UK vs. South Korea 07:41 The Role of the State in Nuclear Projects 12:05 Future Technologies and Recommendations 16:18 Regulatory and Financial Incentives 28:20 Inside the Taskforce 32:56 Taskforce Member Roles and Expertise 34:53 Formation and Delays of the Taskforce 35:46 Reflections and Future Improvements 39:23 Is The Deep State Real? 45:11 Regulatory Bottlenecks and Political Economy 53:55 Compensation and Community Benefits 57:02 Cultural Perspectives on Nuclear Energy This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.sovereignalbion.com

    58 min
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Sovereign Albion explores who we are, where we're going and how we get there, told through the lens of the builders — of companies, state capacity, and the nation — making it real. www.sovereignalbion.com

Information

  • Creator
    Andrew Bennett
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    2
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Andrew Bennett
  • Show Website
    Sovereign Albion