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Claire said “It is very typical for the BBC chair to be a senior political figure, Lord Patten was a classic example, so the new chair is obviously going to be a mainstream Tory."

She added “There’s no question Number 10 has been spending time since January looking to identify a senior female figure who will impose its will on the BBC. They’re almost looking for a female Tim Wetherspoon, a Brexit supporter who deal with the unaccountable bias that all good Tories believe the BBC has.They’re looking for a Brexit-supporting business or political figure who will see the BBC through the next year of Brexit.”

Sanchit said “TikTok will be one of the first dominos to fall in what will be a lengthy process where lots of other apps get banned. It is not unique in the Chinese app sphere.”

He added, "With many Chinese apps, the US government or the Indian government aren’t aware of how that data is being mined."

“Governments are increasingly turning these grey data practices into hot topics, whereby they are able to garner a lot of political capital with their voter base. They’re almost weaponising these issues."

Joseph said "Part of the issue with Google Play Music was branding. The messaging was very confused. They changed the name several times. There was Google Play All Access, YouTube Music Key, and it speaks to the underlying issue that this has not been an area of focus for Google."

He added that Google's track record with branding did not "fill me with hope that the messaging is going to be super clear. Spotify does one thing well, which is music streaming. There is a risk if you dilute the proposition with a product like YouTube, with user-generation videos. But YouTube already has tens of millions of paying subscribers. It's going in the right direction to be a big player."

James said "I think ideally, you would want three global suppliers. It would be good if there was a way we could work globally to aid their survival. But it is a global question; it's very hard for an individual country to solve that problem, because you need global scale."

Meanwhile, insofar as the China market is concerned, stated James, "the volume in China is such that, if you're not doing well in China, it's very difficult to be doing well globally. The problem is, the more Huawei gets attacked in the US and Europe, the better it seems to do in China. Huawei grew its revenue in the first half of the year!"

Sanchit said "All you need is an internet connection and a website and you're ready to go."

Joseph said that there are “legitimate questions” to be asked about Dorsey’s role, “when you get specific failings around security or the product pipeline. Big tech has always promoted the idea of culture flowing from one or two people at the top. The idea of boy-genius messiahs helped them raise money on the way up, and I think there has to be accountability on the way down.”

He added “Twitter needs to focus on the basics. Make sure the platform is secure and the product works. Build compelling ad products for direct response advertisers, with targeting and attribution that works. Try not to get anyone murdered by someone radicalised by tweets. They don’t need that PR.”