John Ashmore

John Ashmore is Editor of CapX.

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Weekly Briefing: Cheer up – and get real

John Ashmore - 13 Aug 2023

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Weekly Briefing: Appetite for distraction

John Ashmore - 6 Aug 2023

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Weekly Briefing: Go anti-woke and go for broke?

John Ashmore - 23 Jul 2023

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Weekly Briefing: Hamster wheel government

John Ashmore - 16 Jul 2023

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The CapX Podcast: Isabel Hardman on the NHS' Fight for Life

John Ashmore - 14 Jul 2023

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Weekly Briefing: Inflated expectations

John Ashmore - 9 Jul 2023

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Weekly Briefing: Unhappy birthday, NHS

John Ashmore - 2 Jul 2023

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The CapX Podcast: Where does all your rubbish go?

John Ashmore - 30 Jun 2023

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Weekly Briefing: Seven-year glitch

John Ashmore - 25 Jun 2023

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Weekly Briefing: Naysayer nation

John Ashmore - 18 Jun 2023

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The CapX Podcast: The big AI debate

John Ashmore - 9 Jun 2023

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Weekly Briefing: Is it time to scrap inheritance tax?

John Ashmore - 4 Jun 2023

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The CapX Podcast: A fork in the road

John Ashmore - 26 May 2023

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The cost of neutrality: how nutrient rules are sabotaging housebuilding

John Ashmore - 23 May 2023

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Weekly Briefing: A new conservatism?

John Ashmore - 21 May 2023

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The CapX Podcast: What's the point of National Conservatism?

John Ashmore - 19 May 2023

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Weekly Briefing: Grown-up politics

John Ashmore - 14 May 2023

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The CapX Podcast: Lord Frost on the state of Brexit Britain

John Ashmore - 12 May 2023

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The CapX Podcast: Fuelling the future?

John Ashmore - 28 Apr 2023

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The CapX Podcast: Reasons to be fearful, with Ed West

John Ashmore - 21 Apr 2023

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Weekly Briefing: The beauty of building

John Ashmore - 16 Apr 2023

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The CapX Podcast: AI-pocalypse now?

John Ashmore - 14 Apr 2023

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The CapX Podcast: Stephen D King on why we need to talk about inflation

John Ashmore - 6 Apr 2023

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Weekly Briefing: Councils of despair

John Ashmore - 2 Apr 2023

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The CapX Podcast: Ben Ansell on Why Politics Fails

John Ashmore - 31 Mar 2023

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Weekly Briefing: Pension potty

John Ashmore - 26 Mar 2023

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The CapX Podcast: Hannah Barnes on the rise and fall of the Tavistock's gender clinic

John Ashmore - 24 Mar 2023

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Weekly Briefing: Job done, work to do

John Ashmore - 19 Mar 2023

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The CapX Podcast: Breaking down the Budget

John Ashmore - 17 Mar 2023

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Weekly Briefing: Hunting for rabbits

John Ashmore - 12 Mar 2023

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Weekly Briefing: A long time in politics...

John Ashmore - 5 Mar 2023

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The CapX Podcast: Ross Clark on Not Zero

John Ashmore - 3 Mar 2023

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Weekly Briefing: What price peace?

John Ashmore - 26 Feb 2023

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The CapX Podcast: Gavin Jackson on how money makes the world go round

John Ashmore - 24 Feb 2023

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Weekly Briefing: Nicola Sturgeon, vibes politician

John Ashmore - 19 Feb 2023

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The CapX Podcast: Alex Massie on the Sturgeon succession

John Ashmore - 17 Feb 2023

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There's no 'scandal' in Labour's GPC Files, just a crude political hatchet job

John Ashmore - 13 Feb 2023

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The CapX Podcast: Sam Richards on remaking Britain

John Ashmore - 10 Feb 2023

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Weekly Briefing: Getting Brexit glum

John Ashmore - 5 Feb 2023

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The CapX Podcast: Why is tax so taxing?

John Ashmore - 3 Feb 2023

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Weekly Briefing: The case for realism

John Ashmore - 29 Jan 2023

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The CapX Podcast: Christopher Snowdon on why Nanny doesn't know best

John Ashmore - 27 Jan 2023

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Weekly Briefing: Stat attack

John Ashmore - 22 Jan 2023

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John Longworth on how to make Brexit work for Britain

John Ashmore - 20 Jan 2023

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Weekly Briefing: The age of see-saw politics

John Ashmore - 15 Jan 2023

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The CapX Podcast: Samuel Hughes on solving the housing puzzle

John Ashmore - 13 Jan 2023

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Does it matter whether or not Rishi Sunak uses an NHS GP?

John Ashmore - 9 Jan 2023

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Weekly Briefing: Out with the bold, in with the 'new'

John Ashmore - 8 Jan 2023

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CapX authors choose their Books of 2022

John Ashmore - 19 Dec 2022

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Weekly Briefing: The season for NHS heresy

John Ashmore - 18 Dec 2022

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The CapX Podcast: Heroes and villains of 2022

John Ashmore - 16 Dec 2022

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Weekly Briefing: Chat to the future

John Ashmore - 11 Dec 2022

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The CapX Podcast: Educating England

John Ashmore - 9 Dec 2022

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Weekly Briefing: The strikes before Christmas

John Ashmore - 4 Dec 2022

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The CapX Podcast: Census sensibilities

John Ashmore - 2 Dec 2022

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Weekly Briefing: Widening the net

John Ashmore - 27 Nov 2022

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Weekly Briefing: Welcome to Wait Britain

John Ashmore - 20 Nov 2022

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Tyler Cowen on talent, economic optimism – and where to find a decent curry

John Ashmore - 18 Nov 2022

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Weekly Briefing; The numbers game

John Ashmore - 13 Nov 2022

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The CapX Podcast: Oliver Wiseman on America's 'red ripple'

John Ashmore - 11 Nov 2022

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Weekly Briefing: On a Rish and a prayer

John Ashmore - 6 Nov 2022

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The CapX Podcast: Ian Acheson on police, prisons and protecting the border

John Ashmore - 4 Nov 2022

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Weekly Briefing: Back to boring?

John Ashmore - 30 Oct 2022

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What kind of Rishi should we be ready for?

John Ashmore - 24 Oct 2022

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Weekly Briefing: A leading question

John Ashmore - 23 Oct 2022

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The CapX Podcast: Iuliia Mendel on working for Zelensky and Ukraine's fight for survival

John Ashmore - 21 Oct 2022

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If we're looking for bad policies to ditch, the triple-lock should be on the block

John Ashmore - 21 Oct 2022

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Weekly Briefing: For Hunt, a dread October

John Ashmore - 16 Oct 2022

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The CapX Podcast: Bonds, Bailey and Bonking for Britain

John Ashmore - 14 Oct 2022

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Weekly Briefing: Fitting the bill

John Ashmore - 9 Oct 2022

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The CapX Podcast: Richard Reeves on why modern men are struggling

John Ashmore - 7 Oct 2022

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Weekly Briefing: Can Truss make her case?

John Ashmore - 2 Oct 2022

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The CapX Podcast: Julian Jessop on a tough week for 'Trussonomics'

John Ashmore - 30 Sep 2022

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Weekly Briefing: Statement of intent

John Ashmore - 25 Sep 2022

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The CapX Podcast: Edward Chancellor on The Price of Time

John Ashmore - 23 Sep 2022

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Weekly Briefing: The 'optics' illusion

John Ashmore - 18 Sep 2022

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The CapX Podcast: Brad DeLong on Slouching Towards Utopia

John Ashmore - 16 Sep 2022

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Weekly Briefing: Action stations

John Ashmore - 4 Sep 2022

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Weekly Briefing: Fast food, faster politics

John Ashmore - 21 Aug 2022

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The CapX Podcast: Robert Colvile and Henry Hill on how water works

John Ashmore - 19 Aug 2022

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Weekly Briefing: Boiling Frog Britain

John Ashmore - 14 Aug 2022

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The CapX Podcast: Are you a Booster or a Doomster?

John Ashmore - 12 Aug 2022

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Weekly Briefing: Banking on a recession

John Ashmore - 7 Aug 2022

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The CapX Podcast: Madeline Grant on the age of 'vibes politics'

John Ashmore - 5 Aug 2022

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Weekly Briefing: Policy blitzed

John Ashmore - 31 Jul 2022

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The CapX Podcast: Tomiwa Owolade on culture, cancellation and 'decolonising the curriculum'

John Ashmore - 29 Jul 2022

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Rishi's green belt-tightening is no solution to the housing crisis

John Ashmore - 28 Jul 2022

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The BBC debate left plenty for both candidates still to answer

John Ashmore - 26 Jul 2022

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Weekly Briefing: The vision thing

John Ashmore - 24 Jul 2022

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The CapX Podcast: And then there were two...

John Ashmore - 22 Jul 2022

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The CapX Podcast: Dr Jade McGlynn on Putin's memory-makers

John Ashmore - 15 Jul 2022

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Weekly Briefing: Real American hero-ism

John Ashmore - 3 Jul 2022

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The CapX Podcast: Owen Polley on Protocol politics

John Ashmore - 1 Jul 2022

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Does the census really prove we don't need to build more houses?

John Ashmore - 29 Jun 2022

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Weekly Briefing: Never had it so bad?

John Ashmore - 26 Jun 2022

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The CapX Podcast: Off the rails?

John Ashmore - 24 Jun 2022

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Weekly Briefing: Channeling discontent

John Ashmore - 19 Jun 2022

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The CapX Podcast: Tom Harris on the SNP's 'neverendum'

John Ashmore - 17 Jun 2022

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Weekly Briefing: What's the big idea?

John Ashmore - 12 Jun 2022

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The CapX Podcast: A matter of confidence

John Ashmore - 10 Jun 2022

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Weekly Briefing: Careful what you wish for...

John Ashmore - 22 May 2022

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The CapX Podcast: How to solve a problem like inflation

John Ashmore - 20 May 2022

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Weekly Briefing: The food zealots should BOGOF

John Ashmore - 15 May 2022

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The CapX Podcast: Vladimir Ashurkov on standing up to Putin

John Ashmore - 13 May 2022

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Weekly Briefing: A lot of local difficulty

John Ashmore - 7 May 2022

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The CapX Podcast: Britain's cost-of-government crisis

John Ashmore - 6 May 2022

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The CapX Podcast: John Penrose on escaping the poverty trap

John Ashmore - 29 Apr 2022

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Does anyone still seriously believe the NHS is the 'envy of the world'?

John Ashmore - 27 Apr 2022

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The CapX Podcast: Sam Ashworth-Hayes on party politics, Rwanda and the 'Granny State'

John Ashmore - 22 Apr 2022

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Do we really want 70% of school leavers going to university?

John Ashmore - 19 Apr 2022

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The CapX Podcast: Rosa Maria Paya on setting Cuba free

John Ashmore - 14 Apr 2022

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Our awful planning laws risk squeezing the life science out of Britain

John Ashmore - 13 Apr 2022

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Weekly Briefing: Leading by example?

John Ashmore - 10 Apr 2022

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The CapX Podcast: Nicole Lampert on 'Beardsplaining' and 'Holocaust denial'

John Ashmore - 8 Apr 2022

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Sunak's family finances are far from the Chancellor's biggest problem

John Ashmore - 7 Apr 2022

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Russia's massacre of Ukrainian civilians is appalling, but not surprising

John Ashmore - 4 Apr 2022

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Weekly Briefing: A Falk in the road?

John Ashmore - 3 Apr 2022

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The CapX Podcast: Helen Dale on Ukraine's tortured history

John Ashmore - 1 Apr 2022

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Weekly Briefing: Great expectations

John Ashmore - 27 Mar 2022

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The CapX Podcast: A Spring in his step?

John Ashmore - 24 Mar 2022

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Sunak has bought some breathing space, but the biggest challenges are still to come

John Ashmore - 23 Mar 2022

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Weekly Briefing: Spring Statement of intent

John Ashmore - 20 Mar 2022

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The CapX Podcast: Merryn Somerset Webb on Share Power

John Ashmore - 18 Mar 2022

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Homes for Ukraine is a big upgrade – but some key questions remain unanswered

John Ashmore - 14 Mar 2022

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Weekly Briefing: In the war on Putin, don't cancel culture

John Ashmore - 13 Mar 2022

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The CapX Podcast: Throwing oil on the fire?

John Ashmore - 11 Mar 2022

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The CapX Podcast: Will Storr on The Status Game

John Ashmore - 4 Mar 2022

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Weekly Briefing: Europe on the edge

John Ashmore - 27 Feb 2022

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The CapX Podcast: War in Ukraine – victory over Covid

John Ashmore - 25 Feb 2022

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Weekly Briefing: Politics and the Kremlin's language

John Ashmore - 20 Feb 2022

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The CapX Podcast: John McWhorter on 'Woke Racism'

John Ashmore - 18 Feb 2022

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Weekly Briefing: The number crunch

John Ashmore - 13 Feb 2022

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The CapX Podcast: Kate Andrews on Levelling Up, inflation and never-ending NHS waiting lists

John Ashmore - 11 Feb 2022

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Weekly Briefing: The growth imperative

John Ashmore - 6 Feb 2022

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Weekly Briefing: Natal attraction

John Ashmore - 30 Jan 2022

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The CapX Podcast: Eastern Menace

John Ashmore - 28 Jan 2022

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Have only 17,000 people 'really' died from Covid? 

John Ashmore - 25 Jan 2022

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Weekly Briefing: Inflation bites

John Ashmore - 23 Jan 2022

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Pacific Vim: Why should Britain join CPTPP?

John Ashmore - 21 Jan 2022

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Weekly Briefing: Red meat in the last chance saloon

John Ashmore - 16 Jan 2022

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The CapX Podcast: Can the party go on?

John Ashmore - 14 Jan 2022

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Off you Trot - a new Corbyn Party would be a blessing for Labour

John Ashmore - 10 Jan 2022

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Weekly Briefing: Statue of limitations

John Ashmore - 9 Jan 2022

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The CapX Podcast: The heroes, villains, highs and lows of 2021

John Ashmore - 21 Dec 2021

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Weekly Briefing: Frosty the go man

John Ashmore - 19 Dec 2021

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Boris' winter of discontent is only just getting started

John Ashmore - 15 Dec 2021

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Weekly Briefing: Taking a pass on Covid

John Ashmore - 12 Dec 2021

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Weekly Briefing: Beware the 'stronger ground'

John Ashmore - 5 Dec 2021

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The CapX Podcast: Lord Mandelson on Labour, Levelling Up and the danger of the hard left

John Ashmore - 26 Nov 2021

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Weekly Briefing: Slow-coach Britain

John Ashmore - 21 Nov 2021

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Weekly Briefing: What's an MP's job?

John Ashmore - 14 Nov 2021

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The CapX Podcast: Good COP? Bad COP?

John Ashmore - 12 Nov 2021

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Weekly Briefing: Notes on a shambles

John Ashmore - 7 Nov 2021

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Labour are right to scotch the idea of an 'anti-sleaze' candidate in Shropshire North

John Ashmore - 5 Nov 2021

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The CapX Podcast: Diane Coyle on 'Cogs and Monsters'

John Ashmore - 4 Nov 2021

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Weekly Briefing: The steel Chancellor?

John Ashmore - 31 Oct 2021

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Budget Briefing: Rishful thinking?

John Ashmore - 27 Oct 2021

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Weekly Briefing: Mind the stopgap

John Ashmore - 24 Oct 2021

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Weekly Briefing: A blessed life

John Ashmore - 17 Oct 2021

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Stop getting Bond wrong! No Time To Die is the revamp no one needed

John Ashmore - 12 Oct 2021

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Weekly Briefing: Planning for failure

John Ashmore - 10 Oct 2021

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The CapX Podcast: Reasons to be cheerful, with Jacob Rees-Mogg

John Ashmore - 8 Oct 2021

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Build Back Bozza: The PM offered something for everyone, but put polish over policy

John Ashmore - 6 Oct 2021

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Weekly Briefing: Boris' real opposition?

John Ashmore - 3 Oct 2021

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The CapX Podcast: Alex Deane on Lessons from History

John Ashmore - 1 Oct 2021

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Keir Starmer delivers a speech for ages

John Ashmore - 29 Sep 2021

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Weekly Briefing: A reorganisation, not a revolution

John Ashmore - 19 Sep 2021

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The CapX Podcast: Vivek Ramaswamy on the woke-industrial complex

John Ashmore - 15 Sep 2021

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Weekly Briefing: U-turn for the worse

John Ashmore - 12 Sep 2021

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Weekly Briefing: Crisis? Which crisis?

John Ashmore - 5 Sep 2021

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The CapX Podcast: 200 years of muddling through

John Ashmore - 27 Aug 2021

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Weekly Briefing: Staring into the void

John Ashmore - 22 Aug 2021

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Weekly Briefing: A premium experience?

John Ashmore - 15 Aug 2021

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Caesar the day! More Latin in our schools is no bad thing

John Ashmore - 2 Aug 2021

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Weekly Briefing: Pick battles, not fights

John Ashmore - 1 Aug 2021

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Weekly Briefing: The business of isolation

John Ashmore - 25 Jul 2021

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The Government should give the anti-obesity crusaders a wide berth

John Ashmore - 15 Jul 2021

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The CapX Podcast: David Skelton on 'The New Snobbery'

John Ashmore - 15 Jul 2021

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Weekly briefing: Time for a new lexicon?

John Ashmore - 11 Jul 2021

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The CapX Podcast: Frank Luntz on what Britain really thinks

John Ashmore - 7 Jul 2021

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Labour's reheated 'Buy British' policy would leave us all worse off

John Ashmore - 5 Jul 2021

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The Matt Hancock 'dead cat' theory is a new low in political analysis

John Ashmore - 28 Jun 2021

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Weekly briefing: What's in Javid's in-tray?

John Ashmore - 27 Jun 2021

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Weekly briefing: A Chesham and Amer-ing

John Ashmore - 19 Jun 2021

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Spare us the corporate 'values' sermons about GB News

John Ashmore - 16 Jun 2021

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The CapX Podcast: The Aristocracy of Talent

John Ashmore - 15 Jun 2021

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Weekly briefing: A seriously silly boycott

John Ashmore - 13 Jun 2021

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Weekly briefing: The long and winding roadmap

John Ashmore - 6 Jun 2021

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The real reason the mainstream media isn't covering your protest

John Ashmore - 1 Jun 2021

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Cummings rails against Hancock, Boris and the failed British state

John Ashmore - 27 May 2021

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Weekly briefing: Trees, trains and trade deals

John Ashmore - 23 May 2021

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Weekly Briefing: Tone down the Tory triumphalism

John Ashmore - 9 May 2021

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Weekly Briefing: A wallpaper tiger?

John Ashmore - 2 May 2021

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Suing AstraZeneca is just the latest instalment of the EU's vaccination clown show

John Ashmore - 27 Apr 2021

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Weekly Briefing: Beware a Dom scorned

John Ashmore - 25 Apr 2021

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The CapX Podcast: Is Britain racist?

John Ashmore - 21 Apr 2021

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The end of football: anyone who values competition should oppose the European Super League

John Ashmore - 19 Apr 2021

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Weekly briefing: The public inquiry puzzle

John Ashmore - 18 Apr 2021

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Sobel's 'business is the enemy' comment shows the scale of Starmer's challenge

John Ashmore - 30 Mar 2021

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Weekly Briefing: An offence to freedom

John Ashmore - 28 Mar 2021

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Weekly Briefing: The perils of Covid schadenfreude

John Ashmore - 21 Mar 2021

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Workers with benefits – Uber's announcement strikes the right balance

John Ashmore - 17 Mar 2021

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Weekly Briefing: Common sense departs

John Ashmore - 14 Mar 2021

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Is test and trace a £37bn Serco failure? It's a bit more complicated than that...

John Ashmore - 11 Mar 2021

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Weekly Briefing: The anatomy of a pay row

John Ashmore - 7 Mar 2021

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Taxes, tweaks and super-deductions – but where was the long-term plan?

John Ashmore - 3 Mar 2021

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Weekly Briefing: Wishes for Rishi

John Ashmore - 28 Feb 2021

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Sunak should think twice about any rise in corporation tax

John Ashmore - 25 Feb 2021

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How Sunak can stamp his authority on the housing market – at a bargain price

John Ashmore - 22 Feb 2021

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Weekly Briefing: Time to call Labour's bluff

John Ashmore - 21 Feb 2021

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A 'policy blitz' won't cure Labour's pains

John Ashmore - 15 Feb 2021

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Weekly Briefing: 'Don't Fund GB News' shows the censorious left at its very worst

John Ashmore - 7 Feb 2021

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Matt Hancock deserves praise for his 'Contagion' inspiration

John Ashmore - 5 Feb 2021

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Weekly Briefing: Is this 'vaccine nationalism' or common sense?

John Ashmore - 31 Jan 2021

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Weekly Briefing: The ordinary relationship?

John Ashmore - 24 Jan 2021

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Weekly Briefing: A sceptical inquiry

John Ashmore - 17 Jan 2021

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Stop the Scotch Egging and focus on the big picture

John Ashmore - 12 Jan 2021

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Weekly Briefing: When it comes to vaccines, the UK was right to go it alone

John Ashmore - 10 Jan 2021

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Chaos in the Capitol was a fitting epitaph to a disgraceful presidency

John Ashmore - 7 Jan 2021

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Weekly Briefing: In the bleak midwinter

John Ashmore - 20 Dec 2020

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The CapX Podcast: The heroes and villains of 2020

John Ashmore - 18 Dec 2020

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Weekly Briefing: Deal, no deal...big deal?

John Ashmore - 13 Dec 2020

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Weekly Briefing: Green Britain?

John Ashmore - 6 Dec 2020

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Sunak should extend the stamp duty holiday - preferably forever

John Ashmore - 1 Dec 2020

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Weekly Briefing: Hey, big spender!

John Ashmore - 29 Nov 2020

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CapX Live: The secret life of Special Advisers

John Ashmore - 24 Nov 2020

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Weekly briefing: Winning the peace

John Ashmore - 22 Nov 2020

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Starmer is right to remove the whip from Corbyn, but the damage is done

John Ashmore - 18 Nov 2020

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Weekly briefing: Clap for corporations

John Ashmore - 15 Nov 2020

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Weekly briefing: A vote of confidence?

John Ashmore - 8 Nov 2020

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Free Exchange: Matt Forde's impressions of politics

John Ashmore - 6 Nov 2020

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What are the prospects for Farage's Brexit Party 2.0?

John Ashmore - 2 Nov 2020

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Weekly Briefing: A bleak slide into lockdown

John Ashmore - 1 Nov 2020

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Free Exchange: Fleeing North Korea

John Ashmore - 30 Oct 2020

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Rishi Rich - are attacks on the Chancellor racist, or just inept?

John Ashmore - 27 Oct 2020

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Weekly briefing: Making a meal of it

John Ashmore - 25 Oct 2020

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Free Exchange: Tim Harford on how to make the world add up

John Ashmore - 23 Oct 2020

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CapX Live: Rob Ford on Brexitland

John Ashmore - 20 Oct 2020

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Weekly briefing: Tiers for fears

John Ashmore - 18 Oct 2020

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Weekly briefing: A conspiracy of none

John Ashmore - 11 Oct 2020

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Free Exchange: Johan Norberg on the importance of being open

John Ashmore - 9 Oct 2020

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A rocket boost, not a reboot

John Ashmore - 7 Oct 2020

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Weekly briefing: A free market recovery?

John Ashmore - 4 Oct 2020

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Weekly briefing: Ending the triple lockdown

John Ashmore - 27 Sep 2020

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Free Exchange: Anton Howes on the Society that shaped modern Britain

John Ashmore - 25 Sep 2020

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Weekly briefing: Keep safe and carry on

John Ashmore - 20 Sep 2020

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Weekly briefing: You Brexit, you fix it

John Ashmore - 13 Sep 2020

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Weekly briefing: The three Ds of Extinction Rebellion

John Ashmore - 6 Sep 2020

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Weekly briefing: Giving Boris a break

John Ashmore - 23 Aug 2020

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Is it really time to panic about our overcrowded islands?

John Ashmore - 7 Aug 2020

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CapX is hiring

John Ashmore - 7 Aug 2020

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Weekly briefing: Taking on Big Tech

John Ashmore - 2 Aug 2020

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Colonialism is central to Britain's past - but it's not the whole story

John Ashmore - 26 Jul 2020

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Weekly briefing: A poultry debate

John Ashmore - 12 Jul 2020

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Weekly briefing: China's confidence trick

John Ashmore - 5 Jul 2020

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Weekly briefing: Zion Lights' nuclear U-turn is a lesson for us all

John Ashmore - 28 Jun 2020

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Weekly briefing: The real battle to come

John Ashmore - 14 Jun 2020

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We won't defeat racism by waging a culture war

John Ashmore - 7 Jun 2020

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Weekly briefing: How worried should No 10 be at the Tory polling 'collapse'?

John Ashmore - 31 May 2020

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Weekly briefing: The coronavirus counter-revolution

John Ashmore - 17 May 2020

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Weekly briefing: YouTube deleting David Icke's channel is not an issue of 'free speech'

John Ashmore - 3 May 2020

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Weekly briefing: We can't choose between 'the science' and political trade-offs

John Ashmore - 26 Apr 2020

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Weekly briefing: Peering through the fog

John Ashmore - 19 Apr 2020

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The Smarties Stasi doesn't mean Britain is becoming a 'police state'

John Ashmore - 4 Apr 2020

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Goodbye, Jeremy - and good riddance

John Ashmore - 28 Mar 2020

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Will coronavirus really put us on a path to socialism?

John Ashmore - 22 Mar 2020

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Coronavirus, Piers Morgan and the limits of expertise

John Ashmore - 15 Mar 2020

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We must not let coronavirus spread the disease of protectionism

John Ashmore - 7 Mar 2020

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Attacking ethnic minority Tories is the grim endpoint of reductive identity politics

John Ashmore - 29 Feb 2020

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Free Exchange: The Caucasian conundrum

John Ashmore - 28 Feb 2020

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Labour's history lesson

John Ashmore - 22 Feb 2020

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The Johnson treatment

John Ashmore - 15 Feb 2020

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When it comes to trade, the fundamental things apply

John Ashmore - 8 Feb 2020

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Does Brexit really mean Brexit?

John Ashmore - 1 Feb 2020

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What's it really like standing up to Vladimir Putin?

John Ashmore - 30 Jan 2020

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CapX Live: Reviving Economic Thinking on the Right

John Ashmore - 27 Jan 2020

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When one tribe goes to war

John Ashmore - 25 Jan 2020

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How much should the Government focus on inequality?

John Ashmore - 18 Jan 2020

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Free Exchange: Should we legalise drugs?

John Ashmore - 16 Jan 2020

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Keir Starmer is wrong, the free market model hasn't failed

John Ashmore - 14 Jan 2020

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Free Exchange: Asa Bennett on the politics of Ancient Rome

John Ashmore - 10 Jan 2020

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Free Exchange: Vera Kichanova on standing up to Putin

John Ashmore - 8 Jan 2020

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What should Britain look like a decade from now?

John Ashmore - 4 Jan 2020

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A decade of great challenges - and huge opportunities

John Ashmore - 21 Dec 2019

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CapX's Books of the Year

John Ashmore - 20 Dec 2019

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Illiberalism in Europe book launch

John Ashmore - 20 Dec 2019

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Even in victory, the Tories must take stock

John Ashmore - 13 Dec 2019

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An NHS inflection point is coming - and politicians must face up to it

John Ashmore - 11 Dec 2019

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The debate we didn't see

John Ashmore - 7 Dec 2019

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Free Exchange: Raoul Ruparel on how to negotiate a Brexit deal

John Ashmore - 3 Dec 2019

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The state of the nation

John Ashmore - 30 Nov 2019

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Free Exchange: Tales from the campaign trail

John Ashmore - 29 Nov 2019

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In an awful interview, two things really stuck out about Jeremy Corbyn

John Ashmore - 27 Nov 2019

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At this election, the big questions are going unanswered

John Ashmore - 23 Nov 2019

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A debate where no one won, and the voters lost

John Ashmore - 20 Nov 2019

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Ukraine's government promises a fresh start - or another false dawn

John Ashmore - 19 Nov 2019

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Free Exchange: The new dividing line in British politics (it's not Brexit)

John Ashmore - 19 Nov 2019

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The 'relatability' fallacy

John Ashmore - 16 Nov 2019

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Totalitarian recall: the Cold War lives on at the heart of the Labour Party

John Ashmore - 9 Nov 2019

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Free Exchange: Peter Pomerantsev on the war against reality

John Ashmore - 8 Nov 2019

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Free Exchange: Tim Kane on the decline of Great Powers

John Ashmore - 5 Nov 2019

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The Tories must not rise to Labour's 'privatisation' bait

John Ashmore - 4 Nov 2019

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Two worldviews collide

John Ashmore - 2 Nov 2019

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Conservatives have reasons to be cheerful about December's election

John Ashmore - 30 Oct 2019

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Does the UK 'bear responsibility' for the Essex lorry deaths?

John Ashmore - 26 Oct 2019

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Free Exchange: Konstantin Kisin on free speech in comedy

John Ashmore - 24 Oct 2019

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Even if Johnson's deal passes, this is only the end of the beginning

John Ashmore - 20 Oct 2019

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Free Exchange: The future of capitalism

John Ashmore - 15 Oct 2019

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It's high time for a truly pro-growth tax reform

John Ashmore - 9 Oct 2019

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Free Exchange: Doomed by demographics?

John Ashmore - 8 Oct 2019

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A long-term economic plan?

John Ashmore - 5 Oct 2019

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A Tory story

John Ashmore - 28 Sep 2019

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A bad week for Boris - but the key facts have not changed

John Ashmore - 27 Sep 2019

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Free Exchange: Marie Le Conte on how the Westminster bubble really works

John Ashmore - 20 Sep 2019

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Free Exchange: The criminal regimes running Venezuela and Cuba

John Ashmore - 13 Sep 2019

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Forget the politics of envy, John McDonnell practises the politics of vengeance

John Ashmore - 9 Sep 2019

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A week to remember?

John Ashmore - 7 Sep 2019

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The history of Brexit

John Ashmore - 31 Aug 2019

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High speed fail?

John Ashmore - 24 Aug 2019

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A lifeline for Hong Kong

John Ashmore - 17 Aug 2019

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Free Exchange: Sir Malcolm Rifkind on China, Trump and the 'real risk' to the UK

John Ashmore - 16 Aug 2019

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The false choice between liberty and security

John Ashmore - 10 Aug 2019

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Vote Brexit, get Remain?

John Ashmore - 3 Aug 2019

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Free Exchange: Robert D Kaplan on the future of a bipolar world

John Ashmore - 31 Jul 2019

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Is Boris Britain's Trump?

John Ashmore - 27 Jul 2019

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Free Exchange: The life and times of Michael Gove

John Ashmore - 22 Jul 2019

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Giving back control

John Ashmore - 20 Jul 2019

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Rebalancing Britain: The northern city on the south coast

John Ashmore - 18 Jul 2019

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Beyond the blame game, the special relationship endures

John Ashmore - 13 Jul 2019

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Free Exchange: Anne Applebaum on populism, Poland and Putin

John Ashmore - 12 Jul 2019

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Is Brexit just a footnote?

John Ashmore - 6 Jul 2019

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Free Exchange: Niall Ferguson on Europe, Brexit and Boris

John Ashmore - 5 Jul 2019

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In-work poverty is up - is that necessarily a bad thing?

John Ashmore - 19 Jun 2019

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How Britain's housing market has created a mobility crisis

John Ashmore - 6 Jun 2019

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Major-party meltdown - not Remain's mythical victory - is the story of the European elections

John Ashmore - 28 May 2019

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Amber Rudd is right to complain about the UN's shrill, partisan report

John Ashmore - 23 May 2019

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CapX Explains: The grim consequences of Venezuela's 'triumph of sovereignty'

John Ashmore - 20 May 2019

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Joseph Stiglitz's tired ideas won't save American capitalism

John Ashmore - 15 May 2019

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A cooler planet needs cool heads

John Ashmore - 27 Apr 2019

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Change UK are the Remain party of Nigel Farage's dreams

John Ashmore - 25 Apr 2019

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The 1% own half of England. How worried should we be?

John Ashmore - 18 Apr 2019

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A frustrated public is yearning for someone to cut through the political fog

John Ashmore - 8 Apr 2019

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Women's property rights and the path to prosperity

John Ashmore - 27 Mar 2019

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A waning power? Rainer Zitelmann on the threats to global capitalism

John Ashmore - 19 Mar 2019

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Aldi, Lidl and the beauty of competitive capitalism

John Ashmore - 6 Mar 2019

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Unsurprisingly, American consumers are picking up the bill for Trump's trade war

John Ashmore - 4 Mar 2019

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When it comes to vaccines, the science that matters is persuasion

John Ashmore - 1 Mar 2019

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Yet another tax is no way to 'level the playing field' for the high street

John Ashmore - 22 Feb 2019

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Churchill, John McDonnell and the double standards of the hard left

John Ashmore - 14 Feb 2019

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What bin collections can tell us about a Hard Brexit

John Ashmore - 12 Feb 2019

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Why free trade is vital to dealing with climate change

John Ashmore - 7 Feb 2019

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Book now: Tom Bower on Corbyn's ruthless plot for power

John Ashmore - 6 Feb 2019

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London must be the UK's shining star, not a vortex

John Ashmore - 6 Feb 2019

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Don't worry, Brenda, there's little chance of a snap election

John Ashmore - 4 Feb 2019

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Deal or no deal, Britons will need skills to pay their bills

John Ashmore - 30 Jan 2019

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Putin's domestic woes reveal the truth about Russian power

John Ashmore - 22 Jan 2019

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The ‘East London Eton’ and the soft bigotry of low expectations

John Ashmore - 21 Jan 2019

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The economic impact of a border wall

John Ashmore - 15 Jan 2019

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Reasons to be cheerful about UK employment

John Ashmore - 14 Jan 2019

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A 'Minister for Hunger' is no solution to food insecurity

John Ashmore - 10 Jan 2019

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Best of 2018: James O'Brien's 'How To Be Right' gets it all wrong

John Ashmore - 1 Jan 2019

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Best of 2018: Factfulness – or why things are a lot better than you think

John Ashmore - 27 Dec 2018

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CapX's books of the year

John Ashmore - 22 Dec 2018

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Cooking up a solution to our bad food habits

John Ashmore - 21 Dec 2018

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Free Exchange: The myth of American capitalism

John Ashmore - 14 Dec 2018

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Piketty's plan for Europe would mean more power to the politicians

John Ashmore - 11 Dec 2018

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Mike Ashley is right about the dying high street, but wrong about the solution

John Ashmore - 4 Dec 2018

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Is it really worth going to university?

John Ashmore - 27 Nov 2018

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Austerity or obesity: What is behind the UK's stalling life expectancy?

John Ashmore - 23 Nov 2018

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How to make American capitalism great again

John Ashmore - 21 Nov 2018

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The case for a four-day week is compelling, but we don't need the state to impose it

John Ashmore - 12 Nov 2018

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How great data can help drive the American Dream

John Ashmore - 8 Nov 2018

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Do we get more Eurosceptic with age? That all depends...

John Ashmore - 6 Nov 2018

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James O'Brien's 'How To Be Right' gets it all wrong

John Ashmore - 1 Nov 2018

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The real Brexit lesson from Dyson's decision to build his cars in Singapore

John Ashmore - 23 Oct 2018

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John McDonnell's calculated moderation masks a radical ideologue

John Ashmore - 16 Oct 2018

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Liberals must show the courage of their convictions on migration

John Ashmore - 2 Oct 2018

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Is artificial intelligence a force for good?

John Ashmore - 1 Oct 2018

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After Brexit, where next for Europe?

John Ashmore - 22 Sep 2018

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The Brexit migration report: one step forward, two steps back

John Ashmore - 19 Sep 2018

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The spirit of the age

John Ashmore - 15 Sep 2018

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Why we should scoff at headlines about 'millions of unhealthy children'

John Ashmore - 5 Sep 2018

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A study in poor policy - Britain's visa regime needs an urgent reboot

John Ashmore - 4 Sep 2018

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A surge in measles cases proves the battle over vaccinations is far from over

John Ashmore - 29 Aug 2018

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What's the point of the EU banning halogen lightbulbs?

John Ashmore - 23 Aug 2018

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NHS privatisation? The numbers tell a different story

John Ashmore - 21 Aug 2018

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Good news: longer lives means higher productivity

John Ashmore - 20 Aug 2018

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Why Jeremy Corbyn can't bring himself to make a real apology

John Ashmore - 1 Aug 2018

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What CapX is reading this summer

John Ashmore - 30 Jul 2018

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Britain's outdated divorce laws need to be brought into the 21st century

John Ashmore - 25 Jul 2018

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Does shunning religion make us richer?

John Ashmore - 20 Jul 2018

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The biggest barrier to a US-UK trade deal isn't Donald Trump, it's the British public

John Ashmore - 13 Jul 2018

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David Davis's resignation poses more questions than it answers

John Ashmore - 9 Jul 2018

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Our NHS, which art in trouble

John Ashmore - 7 Jul 2018

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No, we are not in danger of reliving the 1930s

John Ashmore - 27 Jun 2018

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China's rise is too big to ignore

John Ashmore - 19 Jun 2018

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PMQs is the pits - here's how to make it better

John Ashmore - 24 May 2018

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The Government must end the madness of skilled migrant quotas

John Ashmore - 17 May 2018

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What having a baby has taught me about GDP

John Ashmore - 15 May 2018

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Does the internet really spell doom for liberal democracy?

John Ashmore - 10 May 2018

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The state must do better for Britain's modern families

John Ashmore - 27 Apr 2018

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Factfulness - or why things are a lot better than you think

John Ashmore - 25 Apr 2018

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Why we need to start building a 'Lego Government'

John Ashmore - 19 Apr 2018