He says the Conservative manifesto includes: "a new high-risk high-payoff research agency, modelled on ARPA and funded by an unprecedented DOUBLING of the basic science budget" Wow. That would directly solve many of the chronic problems of UK research funding.https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1199735028558815232 …
Here is one of the relevant blog posts from him: https://dominiccummings.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/20180904-arpa-parc-paper1.pdf …