How is the Uk doing on Racial Discrimination?

After George Floyd’s murder, hundreds of thousands marched across the UK, forcing Britain to reckon with the legacy of structural racism. Ministers promised change. A new race disparity commission was launched . Five years later? The numbers are in.

📉 Out of nearly 600 recommendations made in official government reports over the past 40 years, fewer than a third have been fully implemented. Many were partially enacted. Some were quietly shelved. Others got the ceremonial lip service before being erased during austerity. It’s the “crisis > commission > forget” cycle — or as Prof. Ted Cantle put it, a doom loop.

The Guardian’s deep dive (🔗 here) lays it bare — and while there’s been progress in areas like boardroom diversity and GCSE attainment for some groups, much of the institutional needle hasn’t moved:

• Policing: Black people are still 7.5x more likely to have a gun aimed at them than white people. Use of force disparities persist.

• Health: Black mothers are nearly 3x more likely to die in childbirth. Mental health detentions? Triple the rate.

• Justice: Even accounting for arrest bias, Black defendants are charged more often for the same offences.

• Education: Achievement gaps have narrowed, but the system still suspends Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children at rates 2–3x higher than others.

• Representation: Ethnic diversity is rising in business, the civil service, and teaching — but many of these gains are recent and fragile.

📌 The So What: As the US rolls back DEI and the UK enters an era of "acceptable xenophobia" and “war on woke,” the question isn’t just whether we’re making progress — it’s whether we’re prepared to defend what little has been gained.

Systemic racism isn’t a theory; it’s a recurring line item in decades of official reports. The real scandal? That we keep needing new ones.

You can read more soon

👀What's going on?👀 

If Elon Musk was hoping to doge drama (See what we did there), he missed by a Cybertruck sized gap😅

This week, Elon Musk and President Trump — once a Silicon bromance for the ages — fell out spectacularly. The result? Tesla’s stock dropped 14% in a day, wiping out $150 billion in market value. That’s more than the entire value of BP or the more than the GDP of Hungary gone in a day💵

Elon, no stranger to trolling from his platform X (formerly Twitter), slammed Trump’s flagship "Big beautiful" spending bill as a “disgusting abomination.” Trump, never one to be out-trolled, fired back: calling Musk “crazy” and threatening to pull all federal contracts and subsidies tied to Tesla, SpaceX, and more. Keep in mind: SpaceX alone has over $22 billion in US government contracts.💥

By the time Musk threatened to ground NASA’s Dragon spacecraft, and Trump vowed to “terminate Elon’s governmental subsidies,” investors had seen enough — triggering Tesla’s worst single-day loss in its 15-year public history.📉

British EV buyers have been cooling on Tesla for months, with sales down despite the overall market growing. A cocktail of scandal, political controversy, and an aging product line means the Tesla brand is no longer the no-brainer it once was😏.

Even before this political implosion, Tesla was faltering:

• Sales: Down 20% year-on-year in the US and EU.

• Recalls: Eight for the Cybertruck in 15 months.

• Competition: BYD and other Chinese EV makers are eating Tesla’s lunch — and doing it profitably.

• Product pipeline: Nothing new, nothing cheap, and nothing (yet) autonomous despite the hype.

For years, Tesla’s valuation been boosted by hype, headlines, and a CEO who can shift markets with a meme. But with that volatility now turning toxic, institutional investors are sounding the alarm. New York and Maryland pension funds are calling for Musk to be reined in and are demanding a CEO who actually focuses on running the company rather than stoking the culture wars😅

When your stock price depends on your CEO’s relationship with a volatile president, it appears you’re no longer a car company but a reality show with optional wheels📺.

Yes, Musk is still selling a vision of a robot-powered future — Cybercabs, Robovans, and Optimus robots that will cook your dinner. But right now, what investors are getting is bad press, cancelled contracts, and a CEO live-blogging a political crisis it may be all a bit too much😫

You can read more here

• Tesla’s Worst Day Ever – CNBC

• Fallout Boys – Finimize

• Trump vs Musk – The Hill

💡 So What?

Forget quarterly earnings — what’s Tesla’s geopolitical risk premium? Because that’s what shareholders are now pricing in.

👷🏿So its London Tech Week👷🏿

There’s nothing quite like a UK tech event where the country’s Prime Minister shares a stage with the “godfather of AI” and the crowd treats him like a Marvel character. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang—leather jacket and all—was greeted like Iron Man at London Tech Week this week, with people queuing 40 minutes early just to catch a glimpse. His praise for the UK? Glowing. His commitment? A bit less golden.👀

Huang hailed the UK as the “envy of the world,” praised its researchers (Google DeepMind, Synthesia, Wayve, ElevenLabs all got name-checked), and announced a new “sovereign AI industry forum.” But let’s be clear: this wasn’t a billion-dollar shopping spree. It was optics. Nvidia will expand in Bristol, but most of the real investment firepower is reserved for other stops on Huang’s European tour (Cue his chat with we think France's PM, Macron next week  👋).

Meanwhile, PM Keir Starmer delivered the most tech-forward speech of any UK leader in recent memory. His tone? Serious. His plan? £1 billion for compute infrastructure, 7.5 million AI-skilled workers by 2030, and AI trials in schools, hospitals, social work, and even asylum backlogs. It's the kind of government-as-a-startup energy we haven’t seen since... well, ever.😮

Still, the structural issues remain. Tech Nation’s new report revealed the UK tech sector hit a $1.2 trillion valuation, with startups raising $7B in the first half of 2025. Sounds impressive—until you look under the bonnet:

• It now takes nearly a decade for UK startups to hit Series C funding.

• London firms raised 7x more than the rest of the country combined.

• 75% of founders say access to capital is still their biggest headache.

And just days earlier, fintech darling Wise announced it's packing its primary listing for the US—another blow to the London Stock Exchange, which hasn’t hosted a major tech IPO since early 2024. One founder described the UK funding ecosystem as "like trying to run a unicorn on NHS WiFi.”🇬🇧

📉 So what?

It's nice to see we have a government finally using the right language—talking about compute, planning reform, talent pipelines, and long-term partnerships. That’s not nothing (but not all new). But under the surface, glowing endorsements from Nvidia don’t fill late-stage funding gaps, fix regional inequality, or reverse the City’s credibility crisis.

If the UK really wants to lead in AI, it can’t just court celebrity CEOs and throw around billion-pound headlines. It needs to deliver capital that matches rhetoric, infrastructure that reaches beyond the M25, and a long-term plan that doesn’t vanish with the next reshuffle.

The flywheel Huang talked about? It only works if we grease the parts everyone’s still waiting on—investment, access, opportunity.

📚 Sources:

• Tech Nation 2025 Report

• Huang & Starmer at LTW – CNBC

• PM Starmer’s Full Speech

• Wise Moves Listing to US – CNBC

🤳🏾Apple has its Window's Vista moment🤖

That's how technology analyst Benedict Evans put it in a recent blog post covering Apple's innovation and execution

Why? Well Apple rolled into WWDC this week with what it claimed were the biggest software updates in years — a shiny new “Liquid Glass” interface, some UI polish, and a few party tricks across iOS, iPadOS, macOS and watchOS. But while the screens shimmered, the AI magic? Well that spinny mac thing is twirling.😅

The renamed iOS 26 comes with animated notifications that dodge your lockscreen photos, a Camera app that behaves more like TikTok, and a Phone app that can now screen calls like your mum (“Who’s this? Why are you calling?”). Apple Intelligence offers real-time translation in FaceTime, voice mimicry, and can spot a concert poster in your screenshots and nudge you to create a calendar invite. Cute. But game-changing? We'll let you decide🤔

iPads finally got resizable windows (only took a decade😅), and macOS Tahoe brings that “glass table at a Shoreditch coworking space” aesthetic to your desktop. Even the Apple Watch now shouts “you got this!” mid-run, like a hypeman with a heart rate monitor⌚

Here are the 13 top announcements 

💡 So What?

Apple’s updates are sleek — they always are. But WWDC left AI-watchers wanting. Microsoft is stuffing Copilot into Excel, Word, and Windows. Google’s Gemini is now natively running on Pixel chips. And Apple? Still teasing features that feel one cycle behind the leaders. Thats not always been a problem for apple but in a world where company valuations are being tied to how folks perceive their AI innovation it may just start to matter. The good news is they're sitting on a pile of cash (100's of Billion's) so whilst there’s no custom chip news or bold bets now, it may just be a YET.

📈 The tools behind the tech📉

📦Product📦

• A practical guide to building AI Agents

📏Design📏 

• The glitch gallery

👩🏿‍💻Code👩🏿‍💻

• Code review frustration

🏢The business behind the tech🏢

• LLM's are cheap?

Canva

Design company Canva are launching Rise, specifically for start ups and scale ups. It's designed to help ambitious high-growth companies rise through smarter branding, engaging content and sharper communication. All sessions will be hosted in our London office, in Shoreditch. 

Here is the link as you are one of the first to know

🚀Turn your challenges into AI projects🚀

At Colorintech, we believe you don’t need to be an expert to start building with AI. 

With many possible no-code solutions, anyone can identify a challenge in their professional or personal lives and create an AI solution to solve it, all you need is the right support. :WINK:

That’s why we created the… 

AI Learning Sprint

Led by the incredible Dr. André Skepple, AI Consultant at Advanced Thinking, this practical, collaborative and supportive sprint is designed to help you turn your challenges into ideas using AI-powered solutions that can benefit you (and maybe  even others).

What does the programme look like:

Over the course of a half day session and then additional virtual learning sessions, you’ll:

• Identify a problem you care about or a challenge you’re facing;

• Create a solution to the problem using innovative AI Tools that do not require coding experience;

•  Participate in a one half-day session in London with fellow participants;

• Get the chance to share your idea at our final showcase or via social media;

• Walk away with a certificate, a project you can share, and future-ready skills.
  
  

What are the programme logistics:

In order to take part in the programme, you must: 

• Attend our half day session on the 11th July 2025 in London;

• Interact virtually following half day session via virtual workshops, office hours with facilitator, and Notion activities for approximately six weeks. 

This isn’t just a programme, it’s a chance to make an impact in your life. 

If you’re interested applications to take part are open now! Use the link below to apply before the 16th Jun 2025 (11:59pm):
Application link: https://form.typeform.com/to/oTyEaN2H 

Please note, following your application you may be invited to a short chat with the facilitator.

HSBC opportunities 

HSBC is partnering with Project Nemo to launch a training programme designed to embed accessibility into every stage of product development, from UX to QA and everything in between.

This isn’t a one-size-fits-all webinar. It’s role-based, hands-on, and led by digital accessibility experts who understand your day-to-day.

Whether you’re a web developer, content author, QA tester, or product manager, you’ll leave with practical skills to build better, more inclusive digital experiences, without the guesswork.

Find out more about each of the sessions and sign up here: https://grp.hsbc/6048NpEOE

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