Lewis James Brown

Lewis Brown works for the Centre for Policy Studies and CapX and is a Conservative Councillor.

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Politics

Hillary won’t inspire America but she might save it 

This is the weekly newsletter from CapX. To receive it by email every Friday, along with a short daily email of our top five stories, please subscribe here. US Democratic Party Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton last night made her acceptance speech to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Much like the candidate herself, it was […]

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Andrea Leadsom has momentum but she’s no Jeremy Corbyn

This is the weekly newsletter from CapX. To receive it by email every Friday, along with a short daily email of our top five stories, please subscribe here. After the live performances finished and the judge’s votes tallied, Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom will go forward to the public vote in what the Guardian’s Frankie […]

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IDS resignation ends Tory post-election honeymoon

“Blimey, even IDS has found a line he won’t cross” remarked one of my friends as the news broke Friday night. That statement was based on the neritic reading of UK politics that is spread so easily through meme on Twitter and Facebook, images that are almost always restricted to no more than a scintilla […]

Politics

Oldham may be the end for UKIP

In 1997, Ted Turner’s World Championship Wrestling threatened the very existence of Vince McMahon’s World Wrestling Federation. The WWF was being beaten in television ratings, pay-per-view buy rates, merchandise sales and all the other pecuniary methods of measuring success in professional wrestling. McMahon, however, is a canny operator and managed to turn around his company […]

Reviews

CapX Reviews: The Conservatarian Manifesto

“It was right in everyone’s face. Tyler and I just made it visible. It was on the tip of everyone’s tongue. Tyler and I just gave it a name.” Fight Club There has been much talk in America this past year of whether the ‘libertarian moment’ has finally arrived – the political awakening of a movement that […]