Regular readers of CapX are probably used to hearing about how we can’t get anything right in this country – our housing market is broken, childcare is exorbitant, and our energy system is dysfunctional. But for all that doom and gloom, there is a bright spot. Over the past decade or so, the UK has […]
I live in a bubble. To me, the idea that there are, in 2022, couples that aren’t splitting their chores evenly, seems alien to me. But the data shows how naïve I am. In opposite-sex couples in the UK, where the woman works full time 39% of them say they split their chores evenly and […]
The UK has the most expensive childcare in the OECD – and probably the world. Over the past 20 years, average childcare costs have doubled, at over twice the rate of inflation. This is due to a number of factors. We force children into excessively regulated, formalised care; childminders and nursery teachers face a heavy-handed […]
Young and old people have different opinions and tastes on everything from fashion to politics. That might sound truistic, but it really matters if we’re trying to work out what the future might look like when today’s twenty-somethings are running our major institutions. This is especially true when looking at the entrepreneurs and innovators who […]
The UK BioBank is one of the most influential biomedical initiatives in the world. It contains genetic, health, and lifestyle data on half a million people and has been used to make extraordinary contributions to our understanding of human health. Over the past ten years, 28,000 researchers from 86 countries have used the BioBank to […]
The UK has some of the most expensive childcare in the world. For a couple where both parents earn median incomes, a full-time nursery place costs 52% of the mother’s earnings. If we’re to tackle the cost of living, we simply can’t ignore childcare. Expensive childcare is probably one of the greatest drivers of inequality […]
Harwell is a chocolate-box village, nestled in the Vale of the pre-historic Uffington White Horse and home to an 11th century church. It’s also the UK’s gateway to space. The Harwell Space Cluster is a research and commercial development campus with over 100 different organisations and the centre of a futuristic industry that contributes £5.7bn […]
