Independent writing & analysis

Independent analysis on technology, politics, communications, and risk.

I write about how political institutions, technology, security, and markets shape one another, and what changes when the rules or the political environment move.

Lucie Polivka ManningLondon
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I'm a final-year International Social and Political Studies (EISPS) student at UCL, combining a core grounding in history, law, politics, and philosophy with specialisation in international relations and political economy, alongside a semester at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in public international law, international trade law, and criminal law.

I chose breadth over an early specialism because the problems I'm interested in, political risk, crisis communications, cybersecurity governance, don't respect disciplinary boundaries. A regulatory fight over AI is a legal question, a political one, and a communications one at once.

This site exists because most news now reaches people on demand rather than at a fixed hour, and reading something isn't the same as understanding what it means. I track stories across a defined set of areas, work through what's actually at stake, and publish the analysis, as much a discipline as a portfolio.

I'm building toward a career in strategic communications, political risk, and public affairs, particularly where cybersecurity, AI governance, and financial or corporate risk intersect.