Douglas Grant

Douglas Grant is a CapX contributor, based in London

Articles

Trade

Debunking three myths about TTIP

Over the last couple of years a menacing and secretive global power, known only by its acronym, has emerged. It operates across borders, with scant regard for international law – let alone the lives of those under its rule. Left unchecked, it poses an existential threat to Western civilisation. I am, of course, talking about […]

Enterprise

How Entrepreneur First plans to make London Europe’s Silicon Valley

“We invest in individuals, which I don’t think anyone else in the world does,” says Alice Bentinck, co-founder of start-up accelerator Entrepreneur First. We’re sitting in one of the co-working spaces that play host to the programme’s young developers. Around us, German and Spanish speakers discuss ideas over laptop-strewn desks. Some of them, I’m told, […]