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general election delivers a big Labour majority. The Conservatives are reduced to a rump of 150 seats; the Liberal Democrats advance strongly in the Home Counties and end up with 40 to 50 seats. The strategy of being an anti-Tory protest party has worked well enough to turn the “Blue Wall” yellow.

But play their cards right and the Lib Dems could become the natural political home for the liberal centre right. Do that and British politics (or, to be more precise, English politics) could become a genuine three-party fight consisting of a social democratic Labour Party, a pro-market liberal party and a populist party of the right. In those circumstances, the populist Tories – dependent on an ageing cohort of voters – would have little chance of ever again forming a parliamentary majority.

Sometimes, technology moves faster than legacy tech companies can follow. We're seeing that now in two areas, with generative AI dominating nearly every conversation that isn’t about cybersecurity – both top of mind for enterprise CIOs.

Traditional enterprise software companies are leveraging large language models to attack conceptually simple problems. Cybersecurity vendors, for example, use generative AI's natural language capabilities to better understand alert and observability data by writing and executing complex queries using LLMs.

At the same time, the cybersecurity landscape is evolving at a nearly unmeasurable rate. The days of signature-based malware detection are disappearing; for example, using regular expressions and pattern matching for cloud access security can limit the effectiveness of a CASB tool. Innovation in bringing new approaches to these problems to market is emerging from a new generation of cybersecurity startups.