This week’s topical podcast is understandably dominated by Vladimir Putin’s all-out assault on Ukraine, which has shocked and appalled most of us in equal measure, not only for the brutality of Russia’s aggression, but the impotence of the Western response. To discuss what the UK and its allies should do next, we were very glad […]
Our guest this week, John McWhorter, is a man of many talents: a Columbia University professor, prolific author, music historian, New York Times columnist and one of America’s leading authorities on linguistics. Beyond his academic career, McWhorter has also found a following as a prominent critic of the language-policing, statue-toppling, academic-cancelling brand of anti-racism that […]
Martin Vander Weyer has had a front row seat for some of the biggest economic developments of the last 50 years – both as a banker and as business correspondent for the Spectator. His new book The Good, the Bad and the Greedy argues that scandals like the mis-selling of PPI and the fixing of […]
As part of our new year revamp of the CapX Podcast we’re bringing you another topical, multi-topic episode this week. To kick off we head east and speak to former Ukrainian MP Alyona Hlivco about the perilous situation on her country’s borders. Is this just more brinkmanship from Vladimir Putin, or is there a real risk […]
Why is a rainy island in north-west Europe trying to join a trade bloc centred on the Pacific? At first sight, the UK’s application to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement on Trans-Pacific Partnership seems highly counter-intuitive – but it actually makes a lot of sense, as a report this week from our parent organisation, the […]
The CapX Podcast returns with a rundown of the big stories of 2022 so far – and the only place to start is Downing Street itself, where stories of lockdown gatherings have caused massive political ructions and left the Prime Minister fending off critics on all sides. So what’s next for Boris – and can […]
From the Washington riots to European Championship football fever, the Taliban sweeping through Afghanistan and the brutal murder of MP David Amess, it’s been mostly a year to forget – and that’s before we begin to talk about the concertina-ing nightmare of Covid false dawns. Here on the CapX Podcast, however, we ended 2021 in […]
It’s not often we get bona fide political royalty on the CapX Podcast, and whatever your political outlook, few people have bestrode British politics over the last few decades like Peter Mandelson. Mandelson is often credited as being the original ‘spin doctor’ in the 1980s, but that rather glib epithet undersells his influence on the […]
Rome was the greatest city of the ancient world, commanding an empire that spread from Damascus to York and encompassed a quarter of the world’s population. It’s a civilisation whose splendour and eventual decline has inspired generations of painters and poets for more than a thousand years. But as businessman and historian George Maher argues […]
. It’s a very special edition of the podcast this week as we take you inside Tory conference in Manchester for a fascinating, fun-packed conversation with the one and only Jacob Rees-Mogg and our editor-in-chief, Robert Colvile. The Leader of the House of Commons was in ebullient mood, telling the audience at our CapX Live […]
Most us know about Henry VIII, Napoleon and Churchill, but what about history’s unheralded heroes? For the latest CapX podcast we welcomed political commentator, former Tory adviser and self-declared amateur historian Alex Deane, whose new book Lessons from History shines a light on the less-known characters who have helped shape our world. From sharp-shooting barons to self-medicating surgeons, […]
There’s a new, invisible force at work in the highest ranks of corporate America and it’s behind what may be the defining scam of our era. By co-opting social causes and embracing ‘wokery’ America’s biggest companies have pulled the wool over people’s eyes, subverting both democracy and the free market capitalism that made the country great. […]
Why is the British economy the way it is today? That’s the rather daunting exam question The Economist’s Duncan Weldon sets himself in his newly released book 200 Years of Muddling Through – The surprising story of Britain’s economy from boom to bust and back again. . It’s fair to say that Weldon succeeds in […]
Long before the Red Wall became a part of our everyday political lexicon, David Skelton was talking and writing about the disconnection between post-industrial Britain and the country’s political class. https://media.acast.com/capx/davidskeltononthenewsnobbery/media.mp3. Skelton’s latest book ‘The New Snobbery’ is partly a polemic about the disdain and condescension voters in these communities have faced from so-called progressives, particularly […]
Few people know more about the language of politics and how to effectively communicate with the public than Frank Luntz. An award-winning political and communications consultant, pollster and pundit, Dr. Luntz has decades of experience as an election consultant and commentator on national elections all over the world. He has worked for more than 50 Fortune […]
From the eruption of Vesuvius to the Chernobyl meltdown, human history has always been punctuated by catastrophes – some natural, others very much man-made. . https://media.acast.com/capx/niallfergusononthepoliticsofcatastrophe/media.mp3 . In his new book Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe, world-renowned historian Professor Niall Ferguson argues that far from being “unprecedented”, the response to Covid-19 exhibits the same political and social pathologies that have […]
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