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“We need technology if we’re going to raise ourselves further from the mud. But we also need to ensure that this technol...
01/01/2026

“We need technology if we’re going to raise ourselves further from the mud. But we also need to ensure that this technology doesn’t backfire...”

One of our favourite pieces of 2025
✍️Tom Ough

Human progress comes with a new set of mortal perils.

“The average socialist/communist imagines Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk lying among piles of golden ducats and doubloons, mak...
01/01/2026

“The average socialist/communist imagines Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk lying among piles of golden ducats and doubloons, making snow angels with their ill-gotten gains. How wrong they are.”

One of our favourite pieces of 2025
✍️James Price

Anti-growth lefties are terrified of the prospect that Elon Musk might become a trillionaire

“To his very great credit, Jeremy Clarkson has in this latest season allowed ‘Clarkson’s Farm’ to illustrate lessons at ...
31/12/2025

“To his very great credit, Jeremy Clarkson has in this latest season allowed ‘Clarkson’s Farm’ to illustrate lessons at his expense”

One of our favourite pieces of 2025
✍️Henry Hill

Watching Jeremy Clarkson take on the establishment should entertain wonks everywhere

“At CapX, we’re proud to still fly the Thatcherite flag. Because Mrs Thatcher remains the woman for this moment, with th...
31/12/2025

“At CapX, we’re proud to still fly the Thatcherite flag. Because Mrs Thatcher remains the woman for this moment, with the ideas that Britain still needs to get back on the right track.”

One of our favourite pieces of 2025
✍️Marc Sidwell

Mrs Thatcher offers a rejection of the idea that Britain is a nation of victims

“The beauty of economics lies not in trusting ‘men of good will’ in government, but in trusting free individuals to make...
30/12/2025

“The beauty of economics lies not in trusting ‘men of good will’ in government, but in trusting free individuals to make daily life better.”

One of our favourite pieces of 2025
✍️Mani Basharzad

The beauty of economics lies in trusting free individuals to make daily life better

“This is the Britain of today – a society low on dynamism, hidebound by a maze of rules and targets, where regulatory co...
30/12/2025

“This is the Britain of today – a society low on dynamism, hidebound by a maze of rules and targets, where regulatory compliance is a major growth industry and where people live in fear of speaking their mind.”

One of our favourite pieces of 2025
✍️Mark Pennington

We are living in Foucault's 'bio-political' dystopia

“...politics itself, as an activity, has been consumed by what was once a tool – the mass electronic media”One of our fa...
29/12/2025

“...politics itself, as an activity, has been consumed by what was once a tool – the mass electronic media”

One of our favourite pieces of 2025
✍️Steve Davies

Politics has lost touch with everyday life

Scotland was the last part of Britain to banish famine, unemployment was often rife and Scottish society was vastly uneq...
29/12/2025

Scotland was the last part of Britain to banish famine, unemployment was often rife and Scottish society was vastly unequal. Yet it became a seedbed of globally significant ideas. What explains Scotland’s outsize success?

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✍️Anton Howes

Scotland’s unique financial system unleashed the potential of ambitious individuals

“With the hundredth anniversary of her birth and the thirty-fifth anniversary of her resignation in sight, Margaret That...
28/12/2025

“With the hundredth anniversary of her birth and the thirty-fifth anniversary of her resignation in sight, Margaret Thatcher still looms large in British politics. This has not happened by chance.”

One of our favourite pieces of 2025
✍️Peter Just

We have never really stopped grappling with the idea of Thatcherism.

“Not even the most centrist of dads could, in good faith, describe Starmer’s first year as Prime Minister as having gone...
28/12/2025

“Not even the most centrist of dads could, in good faith, describe Starmer’s first year as Prime Minister as having gone well.”

One of our favourite pieces of 2025
✍️Joseph Dinnage

Starmer is the final wheezing, disorientated torchbearer of the Blairite political settlement

“The idea that disruptive and innovative economies create economic anxiety among working people is one of the more empir...
27/12/2025

“The idea that disruptive and innovative economies create economic anxiety among working people is one of the more empirically dubious beliefs that is commonly accepted as fact. More companies trying out new technologies means more jobs and more opportunity.”

One of our favourite pieces of 2025
✍️Ryan Streeter

We need to ask ourselves what types of behaviour we want to be more prevalent

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