Yesterday our Prime Minister wrote in the newspaper of record that he will ‘kick down the barriers to building, clear out the regulatory weeds and allow a new era of British growth to bloom’. The Chancellor of the Exchequer later stood in front of a TV camera and promised ‘to grow the supply-side of our […]
The Chancellor’s big growth speech on Wednesday morning was so widely trailed that it contained few surprises. But it was still the clearest and most coherent statement of her economic philosophy and plans so far. Before diving into the detail, it is only fair to welcome the change of tone. It has been refreshing to […]
As Los Angeles burns, with ten dead and over 10,000 homes destroyed, a deeper story emerges about how well-intentioned red tape has turned a natural disaster into a regulatory catastrophe. The fires raging through Pacific Palisades and beyond aren’t just revealing the physical vulnerability of California’s hillside communities – they’re exposing the fundamental weakness of […]
Stand back and look at the economic trends across the decades and it’s evident that the UK is stagnating at best and collapsing at worst. Because of this, you are £10,700 a year poorer, Britain faces being a diminishing country in the world and for the first time ever the younger generation(s) are set to be […]
President-elect Donald Trump recently announced a commitment to abolishing the federal Department of Education. This announcement, coupled with the news that Elon Musk will be running DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency), suggests that Trump is keen to remove what many of his supporters consider to be burdensome, costly and culturally corrupt institutions. Amid the recent […]
It’s official. Elon Musk, along with biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, has been announced by Donald Trump as the head of DOGE – ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ – a body advising the White House and the Office of Management and Budget from outside government, with a plan to ‘dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful […]
A confession: I am not a football fan. I have never even been to a game. This does not mean that I am ignorant of the size of football’s fanbase, or the financial scale of the game. On the contrary. Association football is an English creation, emerging from English public schools, and the Football Association, […]
Here at CapX, we saw the power of ‘X’ long before Elon Musk made it impossible to ignore. X is weird and a bit ugly, but repays a deeper look. X stands for the excitement of the unknown. It hints at vast treasures waiting to be discovered, while promising an encounter with something extraordinary – […]
Imagine that a certain Grantham grocer had decided to sell his business. His daughter would have not taken it well had a government official intervened and tried to prevent him, concerned perhaps that there would have been a threat to the employment prospects of a delivery boy or that the purchaser might want to rationalise […]
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