Over the Christmas week, CapX is republishing its favourite pieces from the past year. You can find the full list here. BHS was systematically loaded with debt, then sold off to a company which stripped any remaining value and took it into administration. In a different context, such cartoonish behaviour would be redolent of despots […]
Over the Christmas week, CapX is republishing its favourite pieces from the past year. You can find the full list here. The battle of genetically modified foods is being waged in a mire of confusion and bad science. Scare stories over “frankenfoods” and “mutant crops” have insidiously manipulated the framing of the debate into a […]
Over the Christmas week, CapX is republishing its favourite pieces from the past year. You can find the full list here. In 1997 a seventeen-year-old girl crossed a river in the middle of the night, and did not see her family again for over ten years. That girl was Hyeonseo Lee, and the river […]
Over the Christmas week, CapX is republishing its favourite pieces from the past year. You can find the full list here. Venezuela has announced a state of “economic emergency”. You would be forgiven for not being overly surprised by this. Venezuela has been on the path to self-destruction for years. As I wrote in […]
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. In a week that has seen 267 dead in an earthquake in Italy, we in Britain should be thankful that our biggest news story has revolved around […]
Picture this. An American supremacist who happens to be running for President poses at a rally with a small-fry politician from the UK who believes in restoring the glory of the British empire and probably supports bringing former colonies back under UK control. Last night, outgoing UKIP leader Nigel Farage appeared at a Trump rally […]
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. At times, it felt like Silly Season would never arrive. Brexit, followed by a month of Westminster backstabbing and power struggles, all underpinned by a series of […]
Donald Trump has a new call to arms: the US presidential election could be “rigged”. Every time it looks as though Trump has hit a new low with his sensationalist diatribes, the newly-anointed Republican nominee finds a way to out-do himself. Questioning the integrity of the US electoral process is the latest in a one-sided […]
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. This week, the news cycle has once again been dominated by Donald Trump. At the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, moderate Republicans who detest and distrust […]
Donald Trump should have seen it coming. Last night, on the third day of what has been a shambolic and intensely surreal Republican National Convention, former presidential hopeful Ted Cruz delivered a scathing anti-endorsement of Trump’s candidacy. He left the stage amidst boos and jeers and his wife had to be escorted out for her […]
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. The phrase “a week is a long time in politics” has been so overused lately it has almost ceased to have any meaning at all. Nonetheless, Britain’s […]
Businesses in Venezuela have a problem. Actually, almost everyone in Venezuela has a great many problems. Starvation, for example. Shortages of basic goods. Dysfunctional and understaffed hospitals which lack medications. A corrupt and increasingly militarised government determined to protect the incumbent president, Nicolás Maduro, at all costs. But businesses, especially factories, face another, more specific […]
Andrea Leadsom was out of her depth. A resourceful woman with a successful (but, as the country discovered, not outstanding) career in the City and six years’ experience as an MP, she was virtually unheard of even in political circles until a month ago. She was propelled into the spotlight by the Vote Leave campaign, […]
Nigel Farage has resigned as UKIP leader, making UKIP the third British political party to be looking for a new leader in the space of ten days. Farage has been the marmite of British politics for half a decade, but it is in the last two years in particular that he has stamped his face, and […]
On Friday, the Prime Minister announced his resignation, triggering a leadership crisis in the Conservative Party. Boris Johnson is staking his claim, while others in the party are scrambling to find an “anyone but Boris” candidate. Today, David Cameron is holding a post-Brexit cabinet meeting, which promises to be an excruciatingly awkward affair for all […]
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. The country woke up this morning to a new Britain, a Britain that has finally done what it has been threatening to do for years. After being […]
Hashtag #CatsAgainstBrexit is currently trending on twitter, with users posting images of their kitties accompanied by deep musings about the future of Britain’s relationship with the EU. Counter hashtag #CatsForBrexit also seems to be doing well. But a far more macabre feline-based story ran in The Times this week. Tom Kington writes how the Mafia in […]
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. Tragedy has dominated global news this week. The US and the rest of the world are still reeling after a shooter opened fire in a gay nightclub in […]
Just before 1pm on Thursday 16th June, MP Jo Cox was shot and stabbed in her constituency in West Yorkshire. Police announced shortly after that she had died from her injuries. She was 41 years old. The country is currently in shock. Tributes have come from all sides of the political spectrum, from David Cameron, […]
Last night, a few hours before the polls closed in the District of Columbia Democratic Primary, Bernie Sanders tweeted the following: We must get rid of superdelegates. The fact that we had 400 superdelegates pledged eight months before the first ballot was cast is absurd. — Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) June 14, 2016 Of course, the […]
