For years, the United Kingdom’s response to disinformation has felt less like a coordinated defence and more like a game of whack-a-mole. Every few months, another malicious narrative would surface, often traced back to hostile state actors, and yet there was no central, strategic way to counter it. That is why Dame Emily Thornberry, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, reacted with such unmistakable relief to the Prime Minister’s announcement of a new National Centre for Information Defence. In her characteristically blunt style, she said the approach of successive governments had been “disjointed and without organisation.” That might sound like…

Here is a summary and humanized version of the content, written in six paragraphs. — It was a scene that could only happen in 2025: President Donald Trump, seated at the White House, flanked by some of the most powerful people on Earth, announced a new agreement on artificial intelligence. But unlike the kind of sweeping, government-imposed regulations that many experts have been demanding, this was a voluntary accord. The tech titans in the room—representing Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, xAI, and Nvidia—weren’t being forced to do anything. They were promising to be good. Trump, ever skeptical of government oversight, framed…