Over the Christmas week, CapX is republishing its favourite pieces from the past year. You can find the full list here. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the first publication of the London A-Z Map. Started in 1936, the Geographers’ A-Z Map Company Ltd is now the largest independent map publishing company in […]
Over the Christmas week, CapX is republishing its favourite pieces from the past year. You can find the full list here. Zimbabwe is back in the news. Or it was. For about two days. European and Western media have dutifully reported on the series of painful economic crises the country has suffered since independence with […]
Every four years, foreign viewers are forced to somehow grasp the complexities of the Electoral College, exit polls and the inexact science of American democracy in action. This year is especially confusing (and exciting) — not only because the result is uncertain, but because an unusually large number of states will potentially have a say […]
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. South African President Jacob Zuma may be in trouble. Last Wednesday’s municipal elections represented the first major challenge to the African National Congress’ reign since it swept […]
Prime Minister Theresa May has started assembling her new team with ruthless efficiency. She announced the Great Offices of State within hours of assuming premiership, with her first cabinet announcement being former foreign secretary Philip Hammond as Chancellor of the Exchequer, replacing George Osborne. They are joined by Amber Rudd as Home Secretary and the […]
On this day, in 1965, the BBC’s reported that: “Ronald Biggs – a member of the gang who carried out the Great Train Robbery in 1963 – has escaped from Wandsworth prison.” Biggs, 35, escaped by scaling a 30ft wall with three other prisoners after a rope ladder was thrown over the wall of the exercise […]
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. Exhausted from a fierce and all-consuming battle over Britain’s EU membership, much of Westminster was looking forward to last weekend as an opportunity to collect thoughts, re-kindle […]
A dis-United Kingdom, a divided Britain, a split cabinet. All words used like they’re going out of fashion in the run up to the referendum, and yet we were still seemingly shocked at David Cameron’s announcement this morning that he would step down as Prime Minister before the Tory party conference in October. But was […]
A revised update from police in Florida states that up to 50 people have been killed and 53 hospitalised from the attack in Pulse nightclub on Sunday morning. The aspects of this particular crisis – and how key politicians respond to it – will likely be key issues of the upcoming presidential election. The shooting […]
In this week’s installment of sub-Saharan countries in chaos, we turn to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Last Thursday, opposition militia from over 50 different armed groups organised widespread demonstrations against President Joseph Kabila. They are accusing Kabila of trying to delay elections until he can change the constitution to allow him to run […]
The Smartest Places on Earth: Why the Rustbelts are the Emerging Hotspots of Global Innovation. Antoine van Agtmael & Fred Bakker. Perseus Books Group, RRP £17.99 Rustbelt cities are becoming the unlikely hotspots of global innovation. At least, that’s the view according to Antoine van Agtmael, the economist who coined the term “emerging markets”, and Fred Bakker, […]
Security guards forcibly removed 20 members of the opposition party Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) from the National Assembly Chamber in South Africa’s Houses of Parliament on Tuesday. Chaos started when the EFF members tried to prevent South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma from giving an address, which quickly escalated into chanting, the hurling of insults, bottles, and […]
There has been a lot of excitement in the press today after a cameraman caught David Cameron on tape insulting visiting dignitaries, in conversation with the Queen, Speaker of the House of Commons and Archbishop of Canterbury. The Prime Minister was talking about this week’s anti-corruption summit, which he is hosting tomorrow, in London. Cameron’s […]
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the first publication of the London A-Z Map. Started in 1936, the Geographers’ A-Z Map Company Ltd is now the largest independent map publishing company in the UK, producing over 300 paper publications, including the much loved London A-Z, Street Atlases, Visitors Guides, and Great Britain Road Atlases. Not […]
Jeremy Corbyn’s party has swerved universal disaster in the UK’s local and devolved elections, with losses under his leadership so far in England fewer than some in the party had feared. But with meltdown for the party in Scotland, and losses where there should traditionally be gains at this point in the electoral cycle, Labour’s […]
After her publicist confirmed she had died after a short but brave battle with cancer, tributes from Victoria Wood’s family, friends and colleagues have come flooding in. CapX has decided to honour the star with a brief overview of her career, and reminders of the best quotes written and performed by her. Victoria Wood grew up […]
Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyema, announced on Tuesday that China has offered Nigeria a $6 billion loan to fund infrastructure projects. Onyema and President Muhammadu Buhari secured the deal with President Xi Jinping in Beijing, where Buhari is currently on his first official state visit to China at the invitation of the […]
Ben Wheatley and his wife Amy Jump have adapted J.G.Ballard’s prophesy of affluenza and anger into film, seven years after Ballard’s death. The maverick British film director and script writer have incorporated the ridiculous cars, lapels and shagpile sideburns of the 70s in the re-working of his dystopian futuristic social commentary, High Rise. Tom Hiddleston, one […]
Leader of the opposition, Mmusi Maimane was asked to leave the National Assembly Chamber in the Houses of Parliament, Cape Town during a quarterly Question and Answer session with President Jacob Zuma. The first three questions Zuma was due to face can be seen below: First three Qs to Zuma during #ZumaQandA in the National […]
Provisional results for last Thursday’s elections in Uganda have come in, and the outcome was confirmed officially on Saturday that President Yoweri Museveni had won 60.8% of the vote in presidential elections, while the main opposition candidate, Kizza Besigye, secured 35.4%. Former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi did surprisingly badly in third place with only 1.4%. Not […]
