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- Ed Conway: is free trade in retreat? · 30 min · Épisode 97‘‘If there’s an insight in the book that I think is relatively novel, it’s that the coming tidal wave of car imports from China isn’t just about the finished car. It’s about the…
- Ross Clark: Britain is heading for a debt crisis · 27 min · Épisode 96‘The basis of this crisis is a very fundamental truth: it is politically easier to spend money than it is to raise it.’ This week on The Capitalist, Marc Sidwell speaks with…
- Best of CapX: What’s anti-fascist about price controls? · 10 min‘And do we really think government is going to speculate better than the assembled forces of the world’s speculators? Or is it more likely to be the idiot player in the market…
- Liam Halligan & Daniel Herring: what’s in the Budget? · 29 min · Épisode 95John Healey has delivered his first Budget as Chancellor. In this special edition of The Capitalist, Liam Halligan is joined by Daniel Herring, the Centre for Policy Studies’…
- Best of CapX: Healey’s Budget will be built on sand · 7 min'The best course would be to grip spending, not least on welfare, and use the savings to cut the deficit and taxes on business, that essential engine of growth.’ As John Healey…
- David Frost: the fight to stay out of the EU starts now · 30 min · Épisode 94‘Most people believe we’ve been living in some sort of crazy neoliberal lab experiment for the last 40 years… And that’s because nobody has tried to challenge it.’ This week on…
- Robert Tombs: Britain needs a better story · 26 min · Épisode 93Why has it become a reflex for Britain to emphasise the worst of our history while neglecting the best? This week on The Capitalist, Marc Sidwell speaks with Robert Tombs…
- Best of CapX: The Tories rediscover Adam Smith · 6 min‘She [Badenoch] promised to build a missile and drone defence system called Britannia Shield, telling the hall that if Russia fires a missile at Manchester, Andy Burnham’s £2 bus…
- Andrew Griffith: we’re ready for the battle of ideas · 1 h 5 min · Épisode 93At a Centre for Policy Studies fringe event at the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham, the CPS's new Director Liam Halligan put the questions to Shadow Chancellor Andrew…
- Best of CapX: How to make British infrastructure cheap again · 9 min‘The Bakerloo line extension, if it is ever built, will be the most expensive underground line built anywhere in the world outside of New York City.’ Britain is pretty good at…
- Helen Whately: young people need jobs, not handouts · 22 min · Épisode 92What should we do about the nearly one million young people not in education, employment or training? The Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Helen Whately joined Marc Sidwell on…
- Best of CapX: Trump is right about Britain’s tech laws · 10 min‘American firms dominate the tech industry and so almost any domestic digital regulation a foreign government passes will land disproportionately on US companies.’ The Trump…
- Chelsea Follett: the past was worse than you think · 26 min · Épisode 91Why do so many people – on the Right as well as the Left – look back fondly on a pre-industrial world they would never actually want to live in? This week on The Capitalist…
- Best of CapX: Corporate welfare is Britain’s blind spot · 7 min‘You cannot reform what you cannot measure, and Britain cannot presently measure corporate welfare in any meaningful way.’ From support for wind farms to assorted tax reliefs…
- Liam Halligan: Britain needs saving from itself · 37 min · Épisode 90What does the fight for free markets look like in 2026 – and how can Britain escape its high-debt, high-tax, low-growth doom loop? Liam Halligan, the new Director of the Centre…
- Best of CapX: Labour are a bigger threat to jobs than AI · 6 min‘The only thing more power-hungry than AI are, of course, leftist politicians themselves.’ Economist William Stanley Jevons noticed that making a technology more efficient means…
- Daniel Hannan: our debt is now a national security threat · 31 min · Épisode 89Is Britain’s own debt now as dangerous as any foreign rival? This week on The Capitalist, Marc Sidwell speaks to Daniel Hannan, the writer, peer and former MEP who has just taken…
- Best of CapX: Don't let China win the AI standards war · 9 min‘The nations whose standards the world adopts win far more than the nations that merely rent their software by the month.’ The UK used to allow proprietary technology to compete…
- Julian Jessop: Burnham's growth plan won't work · 25 min · Épisode 85Will the man who paints himself as the antidote to Thatcherism lead us back to the worst of the 1970s? This week on The Capitalist, as Britain’s borrowing costs spiked and Andy…
- Best of CapX: Why can’t Britain build data centres? · 6 min‘In Britain, we can force £100 million to be spent on a bat tunnel; imagine what our planning system will do with a gigawatt campus.’ Britain is the home of the first data…
- Jonn Elledge: how we invented the city · 27 min · Épisode 84This week on The Capitalist, Marc Sidwell speaks to the writer and CapX columnist Jonn Elledge. His new book ‘31 Inventions That Built Our World’, surveys the technologies – from…
- Best of CapX: Red tape is a tax on time · 8 min · Épisode 78Compliance costs British business around £52 billion a year. Damian Pudner asks how much of that is wasted on rules nobody has bothered to think through? Every hour spent on…
- Dalibor Rohac: capitalism can save the West · 25 min · Épisode 83Are Nimbys a threat to national security? Britain’s inability to build houses and infrastructure is rightly at the heart of our domestic political debate. Dalibor Rohac thinks it…
- Despatch: A £3 trillion problem · 7 min · Épisode 83Britain's national debt has just passed £3 trillion for the first time – and John Penrose says it's time to get it under control. But while Andy Burnham ruled out breaking Rachel…
- Richard Hanania: Can you trust a populist? · 32 min · Épisode 82Richard Hanania had a ringside seat for the rise of MAGA, as his Substack essays on anti-woke issues gained traction at the highest level of the new American Right. He had high…
- Despatch: The flaw at the heart of the EU · 6 minThe recent Spanish border crisis – in which some 72,000 illegal migrants crossed into Ceuta from Morocco – should be a wake-up call for Europe, argues Mani Basharzad. Most of…
- Alex Tabarrok: Britain's equal pay madness · 23 min · Épisode 81Britain’s ‘equal value’ pay rules go well beyond upholding equal pay for the same work, and mean that tribunals have the power to ignore the market and decide that bin men and…
- Despatch: Ben Houchen – we need real devolution · 5 minGive Andy Burnham his due. He has been arguing for devolution for the best part of a decade. But Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen says that’s what makes the Prime Minister’s recent…
- Who owns the Moon? · 33 min · Épisode 80In June, SpaceX went public in the largest IPO in history. Three days earlier, a German historian published a book explaining why that moment had been 60 years in the making…
- Despatch: Helen Whately on welfare reform · 7 minOur new Chancellor has a problem: paying for Andy Burnham’s plans. Raising taxes will damage the economy, and won’t raise enough. Lower bus fares and VAT off energy bills are…
- Andrew Griffith – does Burnham understand business? · 27 min · Épisode 79Britain has a new prime minister. But will Andy Burnham’s new government reverse years of stagnation? CapX editor Marc Sidwell sits down with Shadow Business Secretary Andrew…
- Despatch: The regulator shouldn’t rig your YouTube feed · 7 minRather than letting people choose between freely-competing broadcasters, Ofcom wants to put a thumb on the scale for favoured 'trustworthy' sources, even on third-party platforms…
- The Capitalist Podcast: Burnham's trap · 25 minAndy Burnham is days away from becoming prime minister. According to economist Andrew Lilico, he’s inheriting an economy with almost no room left to manoeuvre – and a sense of…
- The Capitalist Podcast: Gawain Towler – Farage under fire · 31 min · Épisode 72Nigel Farage has just resigned his seat to force a by-election in Clacton. The establishment, his allies say, is trying to destroy him. Perhaps – but have they misjudged their…
- Despatch: Burnham can’t outrun the Westminster bubble on a Pendolino · 7 minAndy Burnham wants to escape the Westminster bubble by shipping bits of No.10 to Manchester. Neil Garratt of the London Assembly isn’t buying it – he says the BBC’s own move 15…
- The Capitalist Podcast: Jeremy Hunt – the choice Burnham can't duck · 21 min · Épisode 77Britain is in trouble. Its economy is stagnant, and its politics are in turmoil, with Andy Burnham set to be our seventh prime minister in a decade. Yet former chancellor Jeremy…
- The Capitalist Podcast: Britain's lost ambition · 23 min · Épisode 76From Disraeli's One Nation vision to Thatcher's Right to Buy, aspiration was once the animating principle of British conservatism. Yet after 14 years of Conservative government…
- The Capitalist Podcast: Matthew Elliott – how Brexit was won · 21 min · Épisode 75Ten years ago, Matthew Elliott ran the campaign that changed Britain forever. As the architect of Vote Leave, he helped deliver a result that almost nobody – including many on…
- Despatch: Rachel Reeves is sleepwalking toward an IMF bailout · 8 minBritain's national debt is heading for £3 trillion. Servicing it costs roughly the annual wages of four million full-time workers. And a former chief economist of the IMF is now…
- The Capitalist Podcast: Is Britain About to Scan Every Smartphone? · 23 min · Épisode 74Keir Starmer is giving tech companies three months to activate on-device content scanning and age verification across all smartphones and tablets sold in Britain – or face fines…
- Despatch: Why your inner caveman hates capitalism · 6 minWhy do so many people instinctively distrust free markets? Erik Lidström's answer is rooted in evolutionary psychology. For nearly two million years, humans lived as…
- The Capitalist Podcast: How to win a trade war · 27 min · Épisode 73With Donald Trump back in the White House, tariffs have become front-page news, and advocates for free trade find themselves on the back foot. Soumaya Keynes and Chad P. Bown…
- Despatch: Who funds the charities? · 7 minOver £12 billion of taxpayer money flows to large charities every year – and 21 of them get 99% of their funding from government. So at what point does a charity stop being an…
- The industrial policy illusion · 28 min · Épisode 72From the progressive left to the nationalist right – in Washington or Westminster – a new consensus is forming. It argues that government should play a larger role in the…
- Mel Stride on the cost of instability · 46 minBritain is paying more to borrow than any other major Western economy. So why is Labour preoccupied with internal power struggles? In a special live address, Shadow Chancellor…
- Despatch: Andy Burnham is overrated · 6 minAndy Burnham is heading for a leadership bid, and he's arrived with a big idea: Manchesterism. Apparently a form of business-friendly socialism, it's built on borrowing, backed…
- Kallum Pickering: The bond markets will decide Britain's PM · 35 minKeir Starmer is fighting for his political life. The bond markets are watching — and they have a long memory. Kallum Pickering, chief economist at Peel Hunt and columnist for…
- Despatch: Why the old parties aren't dead · 7 minFrom fractured local elections to the rise of Reform and the Greens, British politics increasingly feels unstable, fragmented and unpredictable. Yet in this essay, Lee David…
- Why aren't we investing our money? · 29 minWhen a business raises capital, it buys equipment, expands its operations, and hires people. That’s how investment becomes jobs. But the United Kingdom has ranked in the bottom…
- Live: Palantir and the AI race · 46 minBritain may have stumbled almost accidentally into one of the best positions in the world to win the AI race. The question is whether it has the wit and will to press on…
