The Capitalist
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Feb 27, 2025
Leftists whining about USA and Ukraine instead of capitalism. Would stear clear unless that is you thing.
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The Capitalist is the podcast that champions free markets, fresh ideas, and thoughtful solutions. Join sharp minds from business, politics, and beyond for intelligent debate and optimistic conversations about building a brighter, market-driven future for Britain. Brought to you by the team behind CapX's unmissable daily briefings from the heart of Westminster.
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Is Britain at war with wealth?
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Despatch: Could trillionaires actually save the world?
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Can the BBC survive its biggest crisis yet?
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Despatch: Tax treachery will cost us
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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Special: Decoding the Chancellor’s pre-Budget signals
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Despatch: Why the Right should back the Oxford Cambridge Arc
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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How Britain could build enough homes
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Despatch: Labour is scaring the wealth away
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Brexit means... more taxes?
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Despatch: 21st century Thatcherism
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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Ofcom faces legal action over online safety
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Special: Does Britain need a chainsaw revolution?
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Special: Live at the Conservative Party Conference
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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Despatch: Is Ed Miliband a threat to climate action?
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Labour's immigration challenge
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Despatch: Is Starmer on shaky ground?
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Is anyone being serious?
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Despatch: Steve Baker thinks a crash is coming
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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Who speaks for Britain’s centre-right?
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Despatch: Britain is becoming France
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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Special: Steve Baker on Britain's Milei moment
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Despatch: Is Angela Rayner on the ropes?
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Does migration hurt our economy?
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Despatch: The Online Safety Act is humiliating Britain
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Fix this tax mess
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Despatch: Just start building
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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Trump, Putin and the price of peace
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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Despatch: How Labour took your job
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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Online Safety Row: Wikipedia Vs. the Government
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Despatch: The Conservative comeback begins
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Will the UK be sued over the Online Safety Act?
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Despatch: The Online Safety Act stands against Britain’s liberal tradition
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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EU's tariff 'humiliation' & doctors' dodgy pay metrics
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Despatch: Private equity didn’t ruin Britain – it’s helping rebuild it
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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The return of James Cleverly, broke retirees, and bans on air conditioning
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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Despatch: The fiscal fantasy is over
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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Is America breaking the world’s economy?
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Despatch: The greatest prime minister we never had
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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Is socialism on the rise in Britain?
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Despatch: The Chancellor won't survive this
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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Taxing the rich is not a quick fix
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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Despatch: How to sell difficult economic truths
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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How to reduce energy prices
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Despatch: On Track in Coventry
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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How tax really affects growth
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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Despatch: Is Rachel Reeves ready for the coming crisis?
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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Spending Review: Health, Policing, and Reform’s Rise
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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Despatch: Jeremy Hunt on Free Trade
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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UK-US Trade: The Real Story
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Despatch: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Cheese
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May 30, 2025 |
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Special Edition: Reviving the High Street with Samuel Hughes
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May 27, 2025 |
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Despatch: Copying Reform Is a Trap
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May 23, 2025 |
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Border Lines: Can Labour’s Migration Gamble Pay Off?
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May 20, 2025 |
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Despatch: Bordering on Failure – Is Labour Serious About Reform?
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May 16, 2025 |
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In Conversation: Fraser Nelson, Richard Reeves and Nicholas Eberstadt
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May 13, 2025 |
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Despatch: Ignore the doubters, more trade with India is win-win
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May 09, 2025 |
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Special Edition: From Gridlock to Growth
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May 06, 2025 |
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Despatch: Wake up Tories, Reform are on the march
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May 03, 2025 |
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From Beijing to Bangalore: A New Economic Order?
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Despatch: From Stronghold to Shaky Ground
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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Global Growth Is Faltering — Can Britain Sprint Ahead?
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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Despatch: Steel Trap — Why Nationalisation Won't Work
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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Economic Nostalgia vs. the Hard Work of Growth
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Despatch: No Growth, No Progress
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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Backlash Economics: When Policy Meets Pocketbooks
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Despatch: Mel Stride, Robert Colvile, David Miles and Alys Denby
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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Regulation Nation: Why Britain is Losing Its Best and Brightest
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Despatch: Our Growth Problem is a Productivity Crisis
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Special Edition: Spring Statement Slashes Growth
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Despatch: A Message from Kemi Badenoch
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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George Osborne, Robert Colvile, and Professor Sir Niall Ferguson
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Despatch: CANZUK vs. the World — The Case for a Fourth Global Power
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Tough Talk, Weak Results: How Tariffs and Moscow Hurt the US
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Despatch: The Age of Unknowns
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Washington’s New Best Friend? Trump, Putin, and the Future of Ukraine
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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Despatch: Politics Needs More Outsiders
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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AI Hype, Trump’s Economic Woes & The Decline of Debate
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Despatch: There’s no point in democracy without debate
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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Economic Missteps: How Reform UK Is Squandering Its Credibility
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Despatch: Will the Tories Bow to Farage?
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Political Meltdown: Labour Stumbles, Tories Collapse
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Despatch: Imagine a Britain where you can just do things
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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The Cost of Defiance: Can the UK Survive the Trump Effect?
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Despatch: Can Rachel Reeves get growth back on track?
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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Britain’s Bottleneck: Why Bold Reforms Are Stuck in Neutral
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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Despatch: Heathrow airport, an allegory of our decline
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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Trump, Tariffs, and Tech Titans
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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Despatch: Think renting is bad? Just wait
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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How to get Britain building
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Despatch: It's time to remake the case for conservatism
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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Introducing: The Capitalist
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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CapX's Christmas podcast: Heroes and villains of 2023
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Analysing the Autumn Statement with Richard Hughes and Vicky Pryce
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Israelophobia with Jake Wallis Simons
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Making sense of Conference with Robert Colvile
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Cambridge, too far?
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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The War On Your Mind
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Isabel Hardman on the NHS' Fight for Life
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Where does all your rubbish go?
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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Frank Luntz on the language of freedom
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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This is Europe with Ben Judah
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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The big AI debate
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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A fork in the road
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May 26, 2023 |
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What's the point of National Conservatism?
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May 19, 2023 |
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Lord Frost on the state of Brexit Britain
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May 12, 2023 |
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In defence of the rich – with Emily Carver, Luke Johnson, Merryn Somerset Webb & Martin Vander Weyer
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May 05, 2023 |
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Fuelling the future
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Reasons to be fearful, with Ed West
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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AI-pocalypse now?
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Stephen D King on why we need to talk about inflation
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Ben Ansell on Why Politics Fails
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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Hannah Barnes on the rise and fall of the Tavistock gender clinic
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Breaking down the Budget
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Colonialism and the culture wars with Nigel Biggar
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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Ross Clark on 'Not Zero'
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Gavin Jackson on how money makes the world go round
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Alex Massie on the Sturgeon succession
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Remaking Britain
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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Why is tax so taxing?
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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Christopher Snowdon on why Nanny doesn't know best
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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John Longworth on how to make Brexit work for Britain
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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Samuel Hughes on solving the housing puzzle
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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The CapX Podcast: The heroes and villains of 2022
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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Educating England
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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Census sensibilities
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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Baroness Dambisa Moyo on the global growth challenge
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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Tyler Cowen on talent, economic optimism – and where to find a decent curry
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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Oliver Wiseman on America's 'red ripple'
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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Ian Acheson on police, prisons and protecting the border
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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Third time lucky?
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Iuliia Mendel on working for Zelensky and Ukraine's fight for survival
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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The CapX Podcast: Bonds, Bailey and Bonking for Britain
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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The CapX Podcast: Richard Reeves on why modern men are struggling
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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The CapX Podcast: Julian Jessop on a tough week for 'Trussonomics'
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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Edward Chancellor on The Price of Time
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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Brad DeLong on Slouching Towards Utopia
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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Exam questions with Dr David James
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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Robert Colvile and Henry Hill on the way water works
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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Are you a Booster or a Doomster?
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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Madeline Grant on the age of 'vibes politics'
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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Tomiwa Owolade on culture, cancellation and 'decolonising the curriculum'
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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And then there were two...
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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Dr Jade McGlynn on Putin’s memory-makers
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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Boris got done
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Owen Polley on Protocol politics
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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Off the rails?
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Tom Harris on the SNP's 'neverendum'
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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A matter of confidence
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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What Britain really thinks with James Johnson
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May 27, 2022 |
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How to solve a problem like inflation
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May 20, 2022 |
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Vladimir Ashurkov on standing up to Putin
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May 13, 2022 |
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The cost-of-government crisis
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May 06, 2022 |
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John Penrose on escaping the poverty trap
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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Sam Ashworth-Hayes on party politics, Rwanda and the 'Granny State'
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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Setting Cuba free with Rosa Maria Paya
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Nicole Lampert on 'Beardsplaining' and 'Holocaust denial'
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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Helen Dale on Ukraine's tortured history
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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A Spring in his step?
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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Merryn Somerset Webb on Share Power
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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Throwing oil on the fire?
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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The Status Game with Will Storr
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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War in Ukraine – victory over Covid
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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John McWhorter on Woke Racism
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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Kate Andrews on Levelling Up, inflation and NHS waiting lists
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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The Good the Bad and the Greedy with Martin Vander Weyer
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Eastern Menace
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Pacific Vim: The case for CPTPP
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Can the party go on?
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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Heroes, villains, highs and lows – CapX looks back on 2021
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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Lord Mandelson on Labour, Levelling Up and the danger of the hard left
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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Good COP? Bad COP?
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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Diane Coyle on Cogs and Monsters
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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The economics of ancient Rome with George Maher
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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CapX Live with Jacob Rees-Mogg
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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Alex Deane on Lessons from History
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Vivek Ramaswamy on the woke-industrial complex
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Duncan Weldon on 200 years of muddling through
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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David Skelton on the New Snobbery
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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Frank Luntz on the New Language of Politics
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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Niall Ferguson on the Politics of Catastrophe
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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The Aristocracy of Talent
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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Is Britain racist?
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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The Future of Capitalism with Sir Paul Collier
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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Meet the '109ers'
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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The heroes and villains of 2020
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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Extreme economies with Richard Davies
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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Free Exchange: Lockdown vs liberty with Jonathan Sumption
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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Free Exchange: Matt Forde's impressions of politics
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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Free Exchange: Fleeing North Korea
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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Free Exchange: Tim Harford on How To Make The World Add Up
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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Free Exchange: Johan Norberg on the importance of being open
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Oct 09, 2020 |
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Free Exchange: Arts and Minds
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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Free Exchange: Jamila Mammadova on the Caucasian conundrum
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Feb 28, 2020 |
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Free Exchange: Brendan Simms on a tale of two Unions
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Jan 24, 2020 |
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Free Exchange: Should we legalise drugs?
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Jan 16, 2020 |
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Free Exchange: Asa Bennett on Ancient Roman politics
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Jan 10, 2020 |
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Free Exchange: Vera Kichanova on standing up to Putin
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Jan 08, 2020 |
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Free Exchange: David Willetts on how the baby boomers took their children's future
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Dec 11, 2019 |
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Free Exchange: Raoul Ruparel on how to negotiate a Brexit deal
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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Free Exchange: Tales from the campaign trail
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Nov 29, 2019 |
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Free Exchange: The new dividing line in British politics
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Nov 19, 2019 |
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Free Exchange: Tim Bale on the life and times of political parties
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Nov 12, 2019 |
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Free Exchange: Peter Pomerantsev on the war against reality
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Nov 08, 2019 |
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Free Exchange: Tim Kane on the decline of great powers
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Nov 05, 2019 |
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Free Exchange: Konstantin Kisin on free speech in comedy
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Oct 23, 2019 |
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Free Exchange: The future of capitalism
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Oct 15, 2019 |
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Doomed by demographics?
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Oct 08, 2019 |
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The Case for Conservatism
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Oct 04, 2019 |
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Gisela Stuart on Britain's absent foreign policy
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Sep 27, 2019 |
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Marie Le Conte on how the Westminster bubble really works
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Sep 19, 2019 |
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Free Exchange: The criminal cartels running Cuba and Venezuela
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Sep 13, 2019 |
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Peter Riddell on good government and the uncertain life of a British Minister
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Aug 23, 2019 |
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Sir Malcolm Rifkind
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Aug 16, 2019 |
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Robert D. Kaplan on the future of a bipolar world
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Jul 30, 2019 |
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Owen Bennett on Michael Gove
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Jul 22, 2019 |
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Free Exchange: Anne Applebaum
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Jul 12, 2019 |
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Niall Ferguson on Europe, Brexit and Boris
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Jul 05, 2019 |
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Steven Pinker's inconvenient truths
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Jul 03, 2019 |
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Rory Stewart wants to be Britain's next prime minister
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Jun 04, 2019 |
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David Brooks climbs the second mountain
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May 24, 2019 |
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Will Tanner on the generation gap
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Apr 12, 2019 |
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Matt Forde on the funny side of politics
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Apr 05, 2019 |
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Brexit: Where next?
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Mar 20, 2019 |
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John Rentoul on Tony Blair
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Mar 14, 2019 |
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Sam Bowman on neoliberalism
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Mar 07, 2019 |
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Gisela Stuart on Brexit and the Labour Party
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Feb 27, 2019 |
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Fredrik Erixon on the Innovation Illusion
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Feb 21, 2019 |
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Rory Sutherland on what economists get wrong
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Feb 08, 2019 |
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Cass Sunstein on nudges and freedom
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Feb 01, 2019 |
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Paul Collier on the future of capitalism
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Jan 25, 2019 |
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Henry Newman on where Brexit Britain goes next
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Jan 17, 2019 |
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The CapX Awards: 2018
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Dec 21, 2018 |
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Jonathan Tepper on the Myth of Capitalism
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Dec 14, 2018 |
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Adrian Wooldridge on Capitalism in America
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Dec 05, 2018 |
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Eric Kaufmann on Whiteshift
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Nov 30, 2018 |
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Brexit: What next?
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Nov 21, 2018 |
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Jamie Susskind on Future Politics
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Nov 16, 2018 |
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Matthew Goodwin on National Populism
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Nov 07, 2018 |
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Budget Special
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Oct 31, 2018 |
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Stian Westlake on Capitalism Without Capital
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Oct 24, 2018 |
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Jim O'Neill, Lucy Neville-Rolfe and Bob Seely on Global Britain
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Oct 17, 2018 |
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Henry Newman on breaking the Brexit deadlock
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Jun 07, 2018 |
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Marx's poisonous legacy
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May 30, 2018 |
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Rebooting Conservatism with George Freeman
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May 24, 2018 |
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Is the internet destroying democracy?
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May 16, 2018 |
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Are we suffering from a growth delusion?
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Mar 16, 2018 |
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Britain's Brexit trade-offs
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Feb 24, 2018 |
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Is education a waste of time?
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Feb 14, 2018 |
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Is Universal Basic Income the answer?
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Feb 07, 2018 |
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On the front line of the Cold War
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Jan 31, 2018 |
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2017 in Review
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Dec 31, 2017 |
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Oliver Letwin
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Dec 04, 2017 |
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Budget preview special
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Nov 18, 2017 |
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John Kay
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Nov 08, 2017 |
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Lord Heseltine
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Nov 01, 2017 |
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Daniel Hannan
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Oct 27, 2017 |
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Matthew Elliott and James Kanagasooriam
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Oct 09, 2017 |
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Deepak Lal
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Jul 26, 2017 |
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Anne Applebaum
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Jul 19, 2017 |
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CapX's Great Immigration Debate
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Jul 12, 2017 |
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Philippa Stroud
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Jul 05, 2017 |
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Lord Sacks
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Jun 29, 2017 |
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David Willetts
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Jun 21, 2017 |
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Election Special
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Jun 14, 2017 |
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John Curtice
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Jun 07, 2017 |
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Andrew Cooper
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May 31, 2017 |
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David Owen
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May 24, 2017 |
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Sue Cameron
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May 17, 2017 |
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Frank Field MP
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May 10, 2017 |
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Nick Cohen
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May 03, 2017 |
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Daniel Hannan
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Apr 26, 2017 |
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Peter Oborne
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Apr 19, 2017 |
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Nigel Lawson
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Apr 12, 2017 |
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Welcome to Free Exchange
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Apr 04, 2017 |