Tim Berners-Lee could be one of the richest men on the planet, why did he forfeit such large profits to make the World Wide Web a free and open space?
How do we reclaim the internet from social media companies taking away our sovereignty?
Have tech giants like Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk thanked Tim for his invention?
Rory and Alastair are joined by Sir Tim Berners-Lee to discuss all this and more.
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00:00 – Intro
00:30 – HP
01:50 – Guest intro: Sir Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the World Wide Web)
06:24 – Oxford physics, love of maths & chemistry
06:49 – The early internet
8:55 – The “good web” and the “bad web”
12:44 – Was capitalism good for the internet?
13:11 – The diagram: bad (Snapchat, TikTok, Insta) vs good (democracy, collaboration)
14:26 – CERN
15:22 – Building his own computer in the 1980s
17:10 – The unique atmosphere of CERN
18:12 – Inventing the Web
21:49 – Britain’s lost tech edge; Pi, ICL, Silicon Glen
23:31 – Why the US (ARPAnet) won; Europe left behind
#politics #podcast #ai #tech
24:59 – Lesson for Europe: avoid bureaucracy, fund innovation
25:24 – AI needs a CERN-style international hub, not national silos
26:58 – Sovereign LLMs vs international collaboration
27:44 – Revolut
28:58 – 2012 Olympics: “This is for everyone” moment
29:49 – Democracy risks from tech
33:15 – Are algorithms bad for us?
35:01 – Does Tim regret not cashing in?
37:29 – Politics: Gordon Brown’s open data push vs David Cameron’s disinterest
41:28 – Breaking the “walled gardens” of Facebook & LinkedIn
42:36 – AI
49:11 – Saddened by global politics; liberal decline
50:03 – Digital sovereignty 2.0?
51:03 – Invention myths: no “eureka moment,” long processes
51:49 – Book plug: This is for Everyone (Macmillan)
52:02 – Debrief
Donald Trump
President of the United States (2017–2021, 2025–present)
Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB with codename ‘Krasnov’, claims an ex-Soviet spy in an article published by ‘The Mirror’
Lee Judge – King Features
Jack Ohman – Tribune Content Agency
KAL – Andrews McMeel
Matt Wuerker – Andrews McMeel
I told you that you weren’t going to get a new cartoon until Sunday. I was wrong.
I had a good day yesterday. I was on a panel with two lions of my industry, Jack Ohman and Kevin Kallaugher, here at the convention for the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC). I finished my cartoon for the FXBG Advance, and did it with several of my colleagues watching me draw from over my shoulder. Later, I had dinner with a few of my friends, and we had a great talk about life, business, politics, and cartooning. From there, I had a few drinks with other colleagues and made some new friends. At one point, a political cartooning colleague of mine approached me, saying he had just met another cartoonist who was a fan and wanted to meet me. During all this, I forgot about my phone. I didn’t check email, texts, or social media at all.
I was tired and ready to go to bed when I got back to my, but figured I’d check some social media, messages, email, notifications, ect. Then I saw some vague threatening posts featuring my previous Charlie Kirk cartoon, with one of them saying, about me, “Let’s make this guy famous.”
I didn’t have to draw a cartoon. I didn’t have to draw one until Monday. But I didn’t even take off my jacket before this cartoon was done. I didn’t even use my drawing glove. I saw a few hate posts, opened my iPad, and went to work.
Dear Fucknuts: I’m not afraid of you. If you’re going to worship a fascist bigot, then I’m going to mock you and call you out. As I wrote a couple of days ago, I’m all out of fucks to give, and I refuse to be intimidated or scared of piss-ant MAGAts like you.
I’m not celebrating Kirk’s death or mocking him. I’m mocking you.
There posts are from Twitter/X:
So how does this guy plan to make me famous?
I’m being put on a “list” of people who “celebrated” Kirk’s assassination.
Vladimir Putin. The fella on the right
President of Russia (1999–2008, 2012–present)
Bill Bramhall – Tribune Content Agency
Walt Handelsman – Tribune Content Agency
Scottish woman blamed for giving birth to a Russian Spy
Mary Anne MacLeod TrumpMother of Donald Trump (1912–2000)
Mary Anne Trump was a Scottish-American socialite and philanthropist. She was the wife of the real-estate developer Fred Trump and the mother of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States. Born a native Scottish Gaelic-speaker in the Outer Hebrides, MacLeod immigrated to the U.S but was it legal?
Mary Anne MacLeod Trump must be turning in her grave at the wilful egregious actions of her son years after her death.
And becomes Krasnov…
Clay Bennett – Tribune Content Agency
Nick Anderson – Tribune ontent Agency
John Deering – Creators
Jeff Danziger – Tribune Content Agency
Mike Luckovich – Creators
DearElon Musk.
You are one billionaire I can think of who hasn’t stolen their way to their profits. Your continued support for the Starlink system upon which President Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy of Ukraine and his countrymen and women rely to defeat the one-sided illegal onslaught. Please step up to the mark. Malcolm Patten
NB Jessica Rose Phillips (née Trainor; born 9 October 1981) is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Yardley since 2015. A member of the Labour Party, she has served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls since July 2024.
PS Your new name for “La Manche” will upset the French… When you move into your new office pay particular attention to the Sobchak reading lamp bulbs. Your security team may wish to pay particular attention in view of the history that may apply to them…
Additionally, read Killer in the Kremlin by John Sweeney, among other books, plus anything by Anna Politkovskaya.
PPS French television journalists are complaining that Tulsi Gabbard is a Russian sleeper Agent…
Russia: Don’t join NATO, we’ll protect you.
Eastern Europe: Protect us from what?
Russia: From what we might do if you try to join NATO…
By Bill Bramhall – Tribune Content Agency
By Robert Arial – Andrews McMeel
Clay Bennett – Tribune Content Agency
Cartoon by Jeff Danziger for Counterpoint
Joel Pett – Tribune Content Agency
First of all, I think Putin in his military fatigues when he went to Kursk, just looks like a stupid little man. President Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy of Ukraine, on the other hand, looks like a warrior ~ Sir Bill Browder
BREAKING: Trump wants to Ban This AI Photo showing him worshiping Elon Musk
Trump insiders told us, “Trump is disgusted by This AI photo and wants it banned from the internet.”
Jimmy Margulies – King Features
The GOP just spent millions convincing its voters that mail ballots were safe, effective, and even—dare we say—patriotic. And it worked: Republicans closed the mail-voting gap in swing states and even outpaced Democrats in places like North Carolina and Arizona. But now, Donald Trump has decided to light that investment on fire like a stack of Dominion voting machines doused
Possibly the essence of the Steel Report?
Update to this: Trump landed with £300,000 costs after losing ‘Dirty Dossier’ case against Christopher Steele! Donald J Trump handed bill in UK court after he fails to prove former MI6 spy breached data protection law. And he has not paid it. Surprise surprise. Another scam…
Who would have thought it? A man who has his tiny hands on nuclear codes and who is Commander in Chief of the worlds most powerful military complex is at he same time weak and timid before another man who is simply brighter and in charge of a crumbling economy, a resourceful yet badly led military and who will not win the war he has engaged in since 2014. He just doesn’t have all the cards!
This ‘Tiny Hands’ man Trump deserves to be charged with war crimes, alongside Putin for the death of countless Ukrainians after Krasnov applied the Kill Switch to US intelligence recently. What bravery and one up to the KGB!
Trump is a short fingured vulgarian ~ Kurt Anderson
Andy Marlette – Creators
By Gary Markstein – Creators
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The United States of America is the UK’s Number One Military Ally. We shall have to endure a malign stochastic sociopath felon becoming the US president. How does that work we wonder…
“Judge Juan Merchan seems hellbent on making Donald Trump take the oath of office saying, ‘I, Donald Trump, a convicted felon, do solemnly swear … .’ He’s scheduled Trump’s hush money sentencing for January 10 and doesn’t seem inclined to change it, though he does say he won’t send the president to prison. Trump is suing. Inauguration Day is the 20th.”-CB
Cartoon by Chip Bok for Counterpoint
“Trump talked the talk; will he walk the walk? Or maybe that would be too hard for him because, you know … bone spurs (or any other excuse he can come up with.)”-PM
Cartoon by Pedro X. Molina for Counterpoint
“The front-runner candidate of the Republican party who — along with his most fanatical accomplices — has spent recent years trying to deny that he is a puppet of Putin, is becoming more and more explicit in his adoration of the criminal Russian dictator.” – PM
Cartoon by Pedro X. Molina for Counterpoint
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