Oliver Wiseman

Oliver Wiseman is a former editor of CapX. He is based in Washington, DC.

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An all too parochial pandemic story

Oliver Wiseman - 18 May 2021

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Undoing Trump's policies won't solve Biden's border headache

Oliver Wiseman - 23 Apr 2021

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With his new job, Prince Harry is fully signed up to the misinformation delusion

Oliver Wiseman - 26 Mar 2021

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The baby boomers promised freedom but left chaos

Oliver Wiseman - 12 Feb 2021

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Don't forget the brave individuals who stood up against Trump's delusions

Oliver Wiseman - 13 Jan 2021

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Is there any room for compromise in post-Trump Washington?

Oliver Wiseman - 3 Dec 2020

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Reports of the death of the Republican Party have been greatly exaggerated

Oliver Wiseman - 6 Nov 2020

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Nothing would be better for the illiberal left than a Trump win

Oliver Wiseman - 28 Oct 2020

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The literature of Donald Trump is more righteous than right

Oliver Wiseman - 13 Oct 2020

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Forget getting back to normal - let's make the most of pre-vaccine purgatory

Oliver Wiseman - 24 Sep 2020

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How Donald Trump went from YIMBY to NIMBY

Oliver Wiseman - 28 Aug 2020

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On trade, Trumpism will outlast Donald Trump

Oliver Wiseman - 22 Jul 2020

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Beware the 'utopians' who would use Covid to ruin our cities

Oliver Wiseman - 10 Jun 2020

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The 'degrowth' crowd have produced a slam dunk of wrongness

Oliver Wiseman - 12 May 2020

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Planet of the Humans is not 'dynamite', but it deserves to bomb

Oliver Wiseman - 29 Apr 2020

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The corona conspiracies are unhinged - but is denouncing people all that helpful?

Oliver Wiseman - 15 Apr 2020

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Big numbers and little platoons: Washington takes on the virus

Oliver Wiseman - 19 Mar 2020

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It's not always just the economy, stupid

Oliver Wiseman - 4 Mar 2020

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Beware simplistic 'culture war' narratives about Donald Trump's voters

Oliver Wiseman - 29 Jan 2020

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He's no Trump, but Boris may be Britain's Shinzo Abe

Oliver Wiseman - 10 Jan 2020

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Trumponomics is all diagnosis and no prescription

Oliver Wiseman - 9 Dec 2019

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A pointless warning

Oliver Wiseman - 21 Nov 2019

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Who can beat Trump?

Oliver Wiseman - 5 Nov 2019

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The Democratic debate underlined the real trend in US politics - declinism

Oliver Wiseman - 16 Oct 2019

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Impeachment is as big a risk for the Democrats as for Trump

Oliver Wiseman - 25 Sep 2019

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Should we be anxious about the future of capitalism?

Oliver Wiseman - 9 Sep 2019

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In defence of shareholder capitalism

Oliver Wiseman - 23 Aug 2019

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Elizabeth Warren threatens a lose-lose US trade policy

Oliver Wiseman - 31 Jul 2019

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Conservatives must oppose Trump's bogus claims of Big Tech bias

Oliver Wiseman - 17 Jul 2019

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Free Exchange: Steven Pinker's inconvenient truths

Oliver Wiseman - 3 Jul 2019

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The moral of the story

Oliver Wiseman - 29 Jun 2019

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In Conversation: Niall Ferguson and George Osborne

Oliver Wiseman - 28 Jun 2019

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May's 'legacy push': illegitimate, irresponsible and unhelpful

Oliver Wiseman - 22 Jun 2019

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The Brexit deal that refuses to die

Oliver Wiseman - 15 Jun 2019

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Beware populists bearing 'common sense' economics

Oliver Wiseman - 8 Jun 2019

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Free Exchange: Rory Stewart wants to be Britain's next prime minister

Oliver Wiseman - 4 Jun 2019

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Will fiscal flexibility save the Conservatives?

Oliver Wiseman - 1 Jun 2019

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The leadership question

Oliver Wiseman - 29 May 2019

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A Theresa May Brexit

Oliver Wiseman - 25 May 2019

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Free Exchange: David Brooks climbs the second mountain

Oliver Wiseman - 24 May 2019

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Inequality is about more than the Gini coefficient

Oliver Wiseman - 18 May 2019

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Is the Brexit Party bigger than Brexit?

Oliver Wiseman - 17 May 2019

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What's the point of breaking up Facebook?

Oliver Wiseman - 11 May 2019

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What Thatcher got right

Oliver Wiseman - 4 May 2019

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Europe's tribes

Oliver Wiseman - 19 Apr 2019

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The false choice between capitalism and saving the planet

Oliver Wiseman - 16 Apr 2019

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Stuck in the middle

Oliver Wiseman - 13 Apr 2019

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Free Exchange: Will Tanner on the generation gap

Oliver Wiseman - 12 Apr 2019

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New parties and broken promises

Oliver Wiseman - 6 Apr 2019

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Free Exchange: Matt Forde on the funny side of politics

Oliver Wiseman - 5 Apr 2019

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Bregrets? Only a few

Oliver Wiseman - 30 Mar 2019

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What Brexit means without May

Oliver Wiseman - 28 Mar 2019

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The 'People's Vote' mask has slipped

Oliver Wiseman - 25 Mar 2019

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Welcome to the Brexit twilight zone

Oliver Wiseman - 23 Mar 2019

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Free Exchange: Where next on Brexit?

Oliver Wiseman - 20 Mar 2019

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Don't blame Bercow for the Government's Brexit woes

Oliver Wiseman - 19 Mar 2019

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Stuck on the Brexit rollercoaster

Oliver Wiseman - 16 Mar 2019

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Free Exchange: John Rentoul on Tony Blair

Oliver Wiseman - 14 Mar 2019

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Trade rules

Oliver Wiseman - 9 Mar 2019

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Free Exchange: Sam Bowman on neoliberalism

Oliver Wiseman - 7 Mar 2019

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Is the tide turning on inequality?

Oliver Wiseman - 2 Mar 2019

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Free Exchange: Gisela Stuart on Brexit and the Labour Party

Oliver Wiseman - 27 Feb 2019

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Is the Conservative Party really irredeemable?

Oliver Wiseman - 23 Feb 2019

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Free Exchange: Fredrik Erixon on the Innovation Illusion

Oliver Wiseman - 21 Feb 2019

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The Tories should stop scolding teens and stick up for pro-market environmentalism

Oliver Wiseman - 20 Feb 2019

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Purity tests

Oliver Wiseman - 16 Feb 2019

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The UK is not rising to the challenge of the housing crisis

Oliver Wiseman - 9 Feb 2019

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Free Exchange: Rory Sutherland on what economists get wrong

Oliver Wiseman - 8 Feb 2019

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Coercion not compassion

Oliver Wiseman - 2 Feb 2019

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Free Exchange: Cass Sunstein on nudges and freedom

Oliver Wiseman - 1 Feb 2019

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Bill Gates is right. The world really is getting better

Oliver Wiseman - 31 Jan 2019

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Brexit: Necessary but not sufficient

Oliver Wiseman - 26 Jan 2019

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Free Exchange: Paul Collier on the future of capitalism

Oliver Wiseman - 25 Jan 2019

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Public opinion offers little hope of compromise on Brexit

Oliver Wiseman - 23 Jan 2019

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The reckless Remainers

Oliver Wiseman - 19 Jan 2019

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Free Exchange: Henry Newman on where Brexit Britain goes next

Oliver Wiseman - 17 Jan 2019

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Venezuela is proof that there is an alternative. Let's never try it

Oliver Wiseman - 12 Jan 2019

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The real dividing lines

Oliver Wiseman - 5 Jan 2019

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Best of 2018: Anti-Semitism: the socialism of fools

Oliver Wiseman - 30 Dec 2018

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Best of 2018: The EU's war on what makes the internet great

Oliver Wiseman - 29 Dec 2018

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Britain is making big decisions for the wrong reasons

Oliver Wiseman - 22 Dec 2018

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Free Exchange: The CapX Awards

Oliver Wiseman - 21 Dec 2018

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A no deal Brexit is exactly the wrong kind of gamble

Oliver Wiseman - 18 Dec 2018

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The adults in the room?

Oliver Wiseman - 15 Dec 2018

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The Brexit test

Oliver Wiseman - 8 Dec 2018

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Brexiteers are snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

Oliver Wiseman - 6 Dec 2018

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Free Exchange: Adrian Wooldridge on Capitalism in America

Oliver Wiseman - 5 Dec 2018

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The poverty of the Brexit debate

Oliver Wiseman - 1 Dec 2018

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Free Exchange: Eric Kaufmann on Whiteshift

Oliver Wiseman - 30 Nov 2018

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Is 'Norway for now' really a nonstarter?

Oliver Wiseman - 29 Nov 2018

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Brexit lessons from the backstop

Oliver Wiseman - 24 Nov 2018

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Brexit: What next?

Oliver Wiseman - 21 Nov 2018

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CapX Live: Adrian Wooldridge on Capitalism in America

Oliver Wiseman - 20 Nov 2018

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The Brexit conundrum

Oliver Wiseman - 17 Nov 2018

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Free Exchange: Jamie Susskind on Future Politics

Oliver Wiseman - 16 Nov 2018

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Why America?

Oliver Wiseman - 13 Nov 2018

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Are the Conservatives the sun party or the moon party?

Oliver Wiseman - 10 Nov 2018

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Why Macron's EU army wouldn't keep Europe safe

Oliver Wiseman - 8 Nov 2018

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Free Exchange: Matthew Goodwin on National Populism

Oliver Wiseman - 7 Nov 2018

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Stopping Trump starts with understanding Trump

Oliver Wiseman - 3 Nov 2018

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Free Exchange: Budget special

Oliver Wiseman - 31 Oct 2018

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Why the budget marks a turning point in British politics

Oliver Wiseman - 29 Oct 2018

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After austerity

Oliver Wiseman - 27 Oct 2018

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Bridge schools are part of the answer to the global learning crisis

Oliver Wiseman - 26 Oct 2018

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Free Exchange: Stian Westlake on 'Capitalism Without Capital'

Oliver Wiseman - 24 Oct 2018

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Progressives need more than platitudes

Oliver Wiseman - 20 Oct 2018

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Free Exchange: 'Global Britain' with Jim O'Neill, Lucy Neville-Rolfe and Bob Seely

Oliver Wiseman - 17 Oct 2018

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Learning from free schools

Oliver Wiseman - 13 Oct 2018

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Book now: The future of politics with Jamie Susskind

Oliver Wiseman - 12 Oct 2018

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Bourgeoisie of the world, unite!

Oliver Wiseman - 6 Oct 2018

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Theresa May is back where she started

Oliver Wiseman - 4 Oct 2018

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Philip Hammond's inaction looks less responsible by the day

Oliver Wiseman - 1 Oct 2018

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The new common sense

Oliver Wiseman - 29 Sep 2018

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CapX at Conservative Party Conference

Oliver Wiseman - 29 Sep 2018

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Corbyn's conference speech echoed Trump in more ways than one

Oliver Wiseman - 26 Sep 2018

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What's wrong with woke capitalism?

Oliver Wiseman - 8 Sep 2018

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The economic consequences of the culture war

Oliver Wiseman - 1 Sep 2018

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Markets offer North Koreans a taste of freedom

Oliver Wiseman - 28 Aug 2018

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Anti-Semitism: the socialism of fools

Oliver Wiseman - 25 Aug 2018

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Elizabeth Warren's plan to hobble capitalism

Oliver Wiseman - 22 Aug 2018

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When it comes to tackling the cost of living crisis, less is more

Oliver Wiseman - 20 Aug 2018

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Turkey's crisis proves the weakness of strongmen

Oliver Wiseman - 18 Aug 2018

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Help us defend popular capitalism

Oliver Wiseman - 16 Aug 2018

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The myth of '45 and the 'chart of doom'

Oliver Wiseman - 11 Aug 2018

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Land of the giants?

Oliver Wiseman - 4 Aug 2018

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The Tories will pay a high price for ignoring Britain's burning injustices

Oliver Wiseman - 31 Jul 2018

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The needless cost of living crisis

Oliver Wiseman - 28 Jul 2018

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The left's dangerous monopoly on virtue

Oliver Wiseman - 21 Jul 2018

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Parliament's summer break can't come soon enough

Oliver Wiseman - 18 Jul 2018

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The least important Brexit red line

Oliver Wiseman - 14 Jul 2018

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Boris has made his move. Now the Brexiteers need a plan of their own

Oliver Wiseman - 9 Jul 2018

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What's really wrong with inequality?

Oliver Wiseman - 30 Jun 2018

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The one thing the Conservatives should agree on

Oliver Wiseman - 23 Jun 2018

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The EU's war on what makes the internet great

Oliver Wiseman - 21 Jun 2018

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Are the bad guys winning?

Oliver Wiseman - 16 Jun 2018

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No Brexit illusions

Oliver Wiseman - 9 Jun 2018

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Free Exchange: Henry Newman on breaking the Brexit deadlock

Oliver Wiseman - 7 Jun 2018

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California dreaming

Oliver Wiseman - 2 Jun 2018

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Popular capitalism is about so much more than Maggie

Oliver Wiseman - 31 May 2018

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Free Exchange: Marx's poisonous legacy

Oliver Wiseman - 30 May 2018

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Ditch the declinism

Oliver Wiseman - 26 May 2018

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Free Exchange: George Freeman on rebooting Conservatism

Oliver Wiseman - 24 May 2018

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Remaking the case for the market

Oliver Wiseman - 19 May 2018

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Free Exchange: Is the internet destroying democracy?

Oliver Wiseman - 16 May 2018

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Escaping the Irish straitjacket

Oliver Wiseman - 12 May 2018

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Karl Marx and Britain's battle of ideas

Oliver Wiseman - 5 May 2018

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Sajid Javid's unique chance to build a better immigration system

Oliver Wiseman - 30 Apr 2018

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Useless Basic Income

Oliver Wiseman - 28 Apr 2018

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Fix the immigration system to make a success of Brexit

Oliver Wiseman - 21 Apr 2018

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Is anyone fooled by John McDonnell's charm offensive?

Oliver Wiseman - 20 Apr 2018

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'Global Britain' remains a work in progress

Oliver Wiseman - 14 Apr 2018

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The Conservatives are winning the battles but losing the war

Oliver Wiseman - 11 Apr 2018

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The false promise of manufacturing

Oliver Wiseman - 10 Apr 2018

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The dangers of pessimism

Oliver Wiseman - 7 Apr 2018

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Brexit's anti-climax

Oliver Wiseman - 30 Mar 2018

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Europe's technophobic technocrats

Oliver Wiseman - 24 Mar 2018

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There's only one Jeremy Corbyn

Oliver Wiseman - 17 Mar 2018

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Free Exchange: Are we suffering from a growth delusion?

Oliver Wiseman - 16 Mar 2018

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What Tokyo can – and can’t – teach us about the housing crisis

Oliver Wiseman - 15 Mar 2018

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The Conservatives' London problem is a national problem

Oliver Wiseman - 10 Mar 2018

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The challenge of Conservative renewal

Oliver Wiseman - 3 Mar 2018

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Britain's property taxes are broken

Oliver Wiseman - 24 Feb 2018

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Free Exchange: Brexit trade-offs

Oliver Wiseman - 24 Feb 2018

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The Remainers' dead end

Oliver Wiseman - 17 Feb 2018

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Free Exchange: Bryan Caplan makes the case against education

Oliver Wiseman - 14 Feb 2018

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The NHS delusion

Oliver Wiseman - 10 Feb 2018

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Free Exchange: Is Universal Basic Income the answer?

Oliver Wiseman - 7 Feb 2018

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How do you solve a problem like Facebook?

Oliver Wiseman - 3 Feb 2018

Free Exchange: On the front line of the Cold War

Oliver Wiseman - 31 Jan 2018

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Youthquake? What youthquake?

Oliver Wiseman - 29 Jan 2018

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Is Trump about to start a trade war?

Oliver Wiseman - 27 Jan 2018

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How to liberate the captured economy

Oliver Wiseman - 26 Jan 2018

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Why open vs closed hasn't replaced Left vs Right

Oliver Wiseman - 20 Jan 2018

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Does a calm 2018 really suit Theresa May?

Oliver Wiseman - 6 Jan 2018

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Free Exchange: Review of the year

Oliver Wiseman - 31 Dec 2017

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How Theresa May shot her own fox

Oliver Wiseman - 27 Dec 2017

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The year of the wake-up call

Oliver Wiseman - 23 Dec 2017

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Books of the year

Oliver Wiseman - 22 Dec 2017

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The trouble with culture wars

Oliver Wiseman - 16 Dec 2017

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The real Brexit fantasists

Oliver Wiseman - 9 Dec 2017

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Free Exchange: Oliver Letwin on the battle for the soul of Conservatism

Oliver Wiseman - 4 Dec 2017

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Reasons to be cheerful

Oliver Wiseman - 2 Dec 2017

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Why we should all be worried about Damian Green's laptop

Oliver Wiseman - 1 Dec 2017

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This week's Budget proved that Budgets just don't matter much

Oliver Wiseman - 25 Nov 2017

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With every Budget, Britain becomes harder to govern

Oliver Wiseman - 22 Nov 2017

Free Exchange: Can Hammond deliver the budget Britain needs?

Oliver Wiseman - 18 Nov 2017

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Why capitalism isn't broken

Oliver Wiseman - 14 Nov 2017

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We're all mad as hell. But about what?

Oliver Wiseman - 11 Nov 2017

Free Exchange: John Kay on the meaning of the market

Oliver Wiseman - 8 Nov 2017

Michael Heseltine: Brexit is a catastrophe

Oliver Wiseman - 1 Nov 2017

Free Exchange Live: In conversation with Daniel Hannan

Oliver Wiseman - 27 Oct 2017

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Does Britain really want to solve the housing crisis?

Oliver Wiseman - 21 Oct 2017

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In praise of Philip Hammond

Oliver Wiseman - 17 Oct 2017

Free Exchange: Why is capitalism so unpopular?

Oliver Wiseman - 9 Oct 2017

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Theresa May isn't the problem - the Conservative party is

Oliver Wiseman - 6 Oct 2017

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Capitalism isn't the problem. Capitalism is the solution

Oliver Wiseman - 3 Oct 2017

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Is this the most dangerous man in Britain?

Oliver Wiseman - 16 Sep 2017

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How human is the world of risk and return?

Oliver Wiseman - 15 Sep 2017

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Theresa May, Geoffrey Boycott and getting on with the job

Oliver Wiseman - 9 Sep 2017

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Are the rich hoarding the American dream?

Oliver Wiseman - 31 Aug 2017

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Brexit is a symptom - not the cause - of Britain's divided politics

Oliver Wiseman - 7 Aug 2017

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What CapX is reading this summer

Oliver Wiseman - 21 Jul 2017

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Should Britain open its borders?

Oliver Wiseman - 12 Jul 2017

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How immigration poisoned political debate

Oliver Wiseman - 10 Jul 2017

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Can we be saved from the Grave New World?

Oliver Wiseman - 4 Jul 2017

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Why the West is still worth fighting for

Oliver Wiseman - 27 Jun 2017

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Europe is more divided than Brussels would have you believe

Oliver Wiseman - 22 Jun 2017

How Theresa May shot her own fox

Oliver Wiseman - 9 Jun 2017

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Brexit: the elephant in the polling booth?

Oliver Wiseman - 7 Jun 2017

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Will Brexit make Grimsby great again?

Oliver Wiseman - 5 Jun 2017

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What has happened to the Conservative campaign?

Oliver Wiseman - 3 Jun 2017

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How British politics became a generation game

Oliver Wiseman - 28 May 2017

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Can the Tories win over the workers?

Oliver Wiseman - 15 May 2017

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Can anyone save Ebbw Vale?

Oliver Wiseman - 9 May 2017

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It's not inequality that gets people angry - it's unfairness

Oliver Wiseman - 20 Apr 2017

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How America's white working class has been driven to despair

Oliver Wiseman - 28 Mar 2017

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The Stoke by-election isn't just a referendum on Brexit

Oliver Wiseman - 22 Feb 2017