Have you ever wanted jeans that also give you directions? Or a bidet that uses nanotechnology? Or a games console for your dog? If so, there’s only one place to go: the world’s largest gadget fair, the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which celebrated its 50th birthday at the weekend. CES is the place where […]
What joy to hear those calls for inheritance to be taxed, good and hard, ringing out again. Parents, after all, should be prevented from slaving their lives away to produce gain for their children. Among those who are getting it wrong again on this issue is Polly Toynbee, who says: “Alternatively, we could have fair property […]
Imagine for a moment that members of the board of Ofcom publicly declared that they “hate” ITV and that Channel 4 are “scum”. Or if the executives at the British Board of Film Classification expressed a desire to ban movies made by 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. Or if a spokesman for Ofgem, the […]
Over the Christmas week, CapX is republishing its favourite pieces from the past year. You can find the full list here. For a bunch of supposed professional sceptics and cynics, British journalists tend to have a surprisingly strong romantic streak. No other trade (it is a trade, and not a profession) enjoys analysing its […]
Over the Christmas week, CapX is republishing its favourite pieces from the past year. You can find the full list here. There is no standard definition of what makes a country viable as a country. What are the materials, the history, the culture, the institutions that allow a territory to grow into a something more […]
Over the Christmas week, CapX is republishing its favourite pieces from the past year. You can find the full list here. People generally vote in a way that benefits their own interests. It is with this in mind that we can learn a lot about the type of people who are supporting Remain versus […]
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 recent years, I have given a number of presentations to high-school and college students on the importance of economic freedom and persistent threat of socialism – as witnessed, for example, by the […]
Over the Christmas week, CapX is republishing its favourite pieces from the past year. You can find the full list here. A couple of years ago, I commissioned a study in which 1,000 Swedes were asked eight questions about global development. On average, every age group and every income group was wrong on all eight […]
Over the Christmas week, CapX is republishing its favourite pieces from the past year. You can find the full list here. Throughout the West, patriotism is on the rise. Theresa May is a strong advocate. She took the opportunity in Birmingham to make the case that a passion for one’s country is not the […]
Over the Christmas week, CapX is republishing its favourite pieces from the past year. You can find the full list here. In the days around the release of David Bowie’s final album, several leading writers on music republished earlier interviews with the great man. We know now why there were no fresh interviews to accompany […]
Over the Christmas week, CapX is republishing its favourite pieces from the past year. You can find the full list here. It was hard not to detect a defensive, even plaintive, tone in Mark Zuckerberg’s open letter to Facebook users this weekend. “After the election, many people are asking whether fake news contributed to the […]
Over the Christmas week, CapX is republishing its favourite pieces from the past year. You can find the full list here. Liberal progressives have lost. The stark truth is that the model that has more or less dominated Western politics for the past three decades is defunct. It could not be more dead. Corbyn kicked […]
Over the Christmas week, CapX is republishing its favourite pieces from the past year. You can find the full list here. The “political centre ground could be further to the left than thought”. So declared a recent press release from the University of Sussex – highlighting research published on the LSE’s politics and policy blog. The […]
Over the Christmas week, CapX is republishing its favourite pieces from the past year. You can find the full list here. Socialism is back in vogue, especially among America’s college-educated youth. They are too young to remember the Cold War and few study history. It is, therefore, timely to remind the millennials of what socialism […]
Over the Christmas week, CapX is republishing its favourite pieces from the past year. You can find the full list here. The first, largest, and simplest message to be gleaned from the Richmond Park by-election is that it is rarely sensible to behave as though the electorate is dominated by fools. Zac Goldsmith’s decision to […]
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