{"id":27457,"date":"2016-07-02T09:03:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T16:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/michael-gove-says-britain-needs-to-create-its-own-darpa"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:09:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:09:54","slug":"michael-gove-says-britain-needs-to-create-its-own-darpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/michael-gove-says-britain-needs-to-create-its-own-darpa","title":{"rendered":"Michael Gove says Britain needs to create its own DARPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/michael-gove-says-britain-needs-to-create-its-own-darpa.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I thought they already had one.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Alasdair Gray, the acclaimed Glaswegian writer and artist, penned a phrase now engraved on a wall of the Scottish Parliament: \u201cWork as if you live in the early days of a better nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael Gove, the controversial Caledonian Brexiteer, journalist and Conservative politician, has in turn declared his intention to seek the leadership of the UK Tory Party and thus become the Prime Minister, to \u201creboot democracy\u201d in a new \u201cstart-up nation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Delivering his leadership pitch today Gove said: \u201cI want this country I love \u2013 and which has given me so much \u2013 to embrace this opportunity for change with optimism and conviction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/m.theregister.co.uk\/2016\/07\/01\/michael_gove_makes_tech_promises_in_tory_leadership_pitch\/\">http:\/\/m.theregister.co.uk\/2016\/07\/01\/michael_gove_makes_tec...hip_pitch\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought they already had one. Alasdair Gray, the acclaimed Glaswegian writer and artist, penned a phrase now engraved on a wall of the Scottish Parliament: \u201cWork as if you live in the early days of a better nation.\u201d Michael Gove, the controversial Caledonian Brexiteer, journalist and Conservative politician, has in turn declared his intention [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61328,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27457\/revisions\/61328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}