Just last week Boris Johnson was bestriding the world stage, joking about showing his pecs to Putin at the G7 and Nato summit. Today he is Prime Minister in name only, having reluctantly agreed to leave office after more than 50 of his ministers resigned. It’s an ignominious ending to a dramatic premiership, In just […]
. Too often neglected and misunderstood by both politicians and commentators on this side of the Irish Sea, Northern Ireland has in recent years been thrust into the spotlight by the intense wrangling over post-Brexit trade arrangements,. Just this week, the Government’s bill to change that arrangement passed its second reading in the House of […]
As if the British economy didn’t have enough problems with soaring inflation, swathes of the country literally ground to a half this week thanks to massive industrial action from 40,000 rail workers. Like most of us, RMT members are feeling the pinch as prices outstrip their wages and passenger numbers have still yet to recover from their pre-Covid […]
. It’s been a truly tumultuous week, even by the elevated standards of farce we’ve come to expect in British politics. Monday saw a vote of confidence called in and ultimately defeated by Boris Johnson, but it was – to use the kind of classical allusion he’s so fond of – a Pyrrhic victory. Over […]
So it’s finally here, the long awaited Sue Gray report was published this week and it was great stuff for journalists – with lurid details of excessive drinking, wine splattered up walls and Downing Street staff partying until the early hours during lockdown. But the question Westminster insiders will be asking is what the public […]
As well as visiting untold horrors on the Ukrainian people, Vladimir Putin’s regime has launched a new wave of unprecedented repression in Russia itself, instantly jailing anyone who dares raise their voice in opposition to his despotic rule. One man who knows all too well the reality of standing up to Putin is our guest […]
It’s been a bumper few weeks for political news. We’ve had endless ‘Beergate’ stories rattling the Labour leadership, soaring prices in the shops, dreadful economic forecasts from the Bank of England, Elon Musk’s mooted takeover of Twitter and thehugely controversial leaked Supreme Court ruling on Roe vs Wade. To discuss those pressing issues, our editors […]
Should poverty be defined by how much you earn, how much less money you have than the average household, or something altogether more holistic – the myriad of interlocking factors, from health to social capital to transport links, that define someone’s quality of life? That’s the question that Conservative MP John Penrose grappled with in […]
It’s been quite a few weeks in British politics. After a brief Easter respite, the PartyGate saga reared its head again for Boris Johnson, who now faces a parliamentary probe on whether he misled the House of Commons. Equally controversial was his government’s announcement last week of a deal to ship asylum seekers 5,000 miles […]
Few countries on earth are as politically and economically repressed as Cuba. For all its brutality and illiberalism of six decades of one-party rule, the communist regime has somehow managed to sell an image of itself as a brave holdout against Western imperialists, rather than a despotic economic basket case, allied to the world’s very worst […]
It’s another topical podcast this week as our editors sat down with freelance journalist, CapX regular and ‘Queen of the Internet’ Nicole Lampert. In a very wide-ranging chat, we discuss the horrendous attacks on Ukrainian civilians, the latest trans rights row, the novel concept of ‘Beardsplaining’ and what it’s like for a Jewish woman to […]
Regular readers will be familiar with the work of this week’s CapX Podcast guest, Helen Dale. Once described as ‘Australian literature’s lone classical liberal’, Helen is the author of three novels, as well as a lawyer and a regular contributor to a number of prominent publications, including CapX. . For this week’s podcast, I wanted […]
It’s a very topical podcast this week as we run the rule over Rishi Sunak’s much-anticipated Spring Statement. With war in Ukraine and a Covid crisis in China, combined with already soaring inflation here in the UK, the Chancellor had a hugely unenviable task on Wednesday afternoon – so how did he do? Was the […]
Although many of us might not know it, thanks to pensions auto-enrollment the average Brit is more invested in the stock market than at any point in our history. But how many of us are taking advantage of our ownership of stocks and shares to influence the way our corporations behave? And how can we […]
We had plenty to get stuck into for this week’s topical episode of the CapX Podcast: from the halting progress of Russia’s offensive in Ukraine, to the equally halting processing of Ukrainain visas to come to the UK and just what a Russian oil embargo will mean for the world economy. We were very pleased to […]
From the lowest prison cell to the grandest palaces, human beings are engaged in age-old battles for status and recognition. In his latest book The Status Game, acclaimed science writer WIll Storr brilliantly unpacks just how human societies are steeped in the search for status, how it leads to conformity, hysteria and violence – but […]
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