Simon Nixon said: “The real win from the EU’s perspective is that it has successfully fended off Trump’s demands that it rewrite its regulatory rulebook to benefit U.S. companies.

“The irony is that this is the one thing that U.S. companies would have most wanted out of any trade deal.

Proponents of STEM as a field always frame it as pure and objective, its advances driven only by the scientific method and eventually diffusing into society by way of the economy and medicine.

But science, and tech especially, can never be dissociated from the politics of the society it bathes in.