Can a Government Built to Move Slow Keep Up?

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift · Jul 1, 2026 · 9m

This conversation starts with Mark Carney admitting his own emissions targets will be missed and uses it as a way into a bigger pattern: decisions on 24 Sussex Drive and a submarine fleet contract that sat untouched since 2017 are finally getting made after years of avoidance. The question driving the discussion is what changed, and what it reveals about the leaders who came before him.

The second half asks whether that momentum can survive an institution designed to resist quick change, then widens the lens further: if government moves at the speed of government while tech companies iterate…