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1 Bringing Your Whole Self to Work with Port of Rotterdam’s Saskia Mureau 21:38
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21:38People want to feel supported and safe at work – and inspired to innovate. What can people working at large corporations do to create this kind of environment? Saskia Mureau is the Director of Customer Digital at the Port of Rotterdam where she is harnessing digital systems to reduce emissions. She is passionate about creating inclusive workplaces where psychological safety and collaboration drive meaningful change. In this episode, Kamila sits down with Suchi to talk about why she chose to work at large corporations rather than startups. Saskia also reflects on her personal experiences, including navigating IVF while at work, and discusses how organizations can foster environments where employees feel empowered to bring their whole selves to work. Links: Saskia Mureau on Linkedin WHO infertility research BCG 2024 report on psychological safety in the workplace Suchi Srinivasan on LinkedIn Kamila Rakhimova on LinkedIn About In Her Ellement: In Her Ellement highlights the women and allies leading the charge in digital, business, and technology innovation. Through engaging conversations, the podcast explores their journeys—celebrating successes and acknowledging the balance between work and family. Most importantly, it asks: when was the moment you realized you hadn’t just arrived—you were truly in your element? About The Hosts: Suchi Srinivasan is an expert in AI and digital transformation. Originally from India, her career includes roles at trailblazing organizations like Bell Labs and Microsoft. In 2011, she co-founded the Cleanweb Hackathon, a global initiative driving IT-powered climate solutions with over 10,000 members across 25+ countries. She also advises Women in Cloud, aiming to create $1B in economic opportunities for women entrepreneurs by 2030. Kamila Rakhimova is a fintech leader whose journey took her from Tajikistan to the U.S., where she built a career on her own terms. Leveraging her English proficiency and international relations expertise, she discovered the power of microfinance and moved to the U.S., eventually leading Amazon's Alexa Fund to support underrepresented founders. Subscribe to In Her Ellement on your podcast app of choice to hear meaningful conversations with women in digital, business, and technology.…
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The new Government faces a tall order: it must deliver on the same growth promises others have made, but do it better. A tough task, especially with tensions brewing between Rachel Reeves and colleagues pushing their own agendas. Despatch is a fresh addition to The Capitalist, delivering standout writing from the team behind CapX's unmissable daily newsletters. This article was written by independent economist Julian Jessop and narrated by Benjamin Wilson. For more sharp analysis like this, subscribe to CapX’s daily briefings straight from the heart of Westminster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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1 Britain’s bottleneck: why bold reforms are stuck in neutral 29:55
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29:55With a healthy majority in Parliament, what’s stopping Britain’s Government from enacting the kind of sweeping policy changes we’re seeing in the United States? Michael Binyon from The Times and the National Review Institute’s Dominic Pino share their insights, plus: will tariffs force Putin’s hand in Ukraine? And how can we restore consumer optimism in Britain? Follow Dominic Pino and CapX on X, and make sure you're subscribed to CapX's unmissable daily briefings from the heart of Westminster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Extending an existing runway at Heathrow is a solution more economical and environmentally astute than constructing an entirely new third runway. It would result in lower carbon emissions, reduced noise pollution, and its implementation would be phased – a blueprint of pragmatic innovation. So why has the proposal been ensnared in a years-long labyrinth of bureaucratic complexity? Despatch is a fresh addition to The Capitalist, delivering standout writing from the team behind CapX’s indispensable daily briefings. This article was written by George Trefgarne, CEO and Founder at Boscobel & Partners, and read by Benjamin Wilson. For more sharp insights and thoughtful commentary, subscribe to CapX’s daily briefings . And don't miss the new episodes of The Capitalist every Tuesday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Can Britain strike a deal with President Trump and avoid the looming tariff trap? Why are leaders in the UK and the US falling short of the so-called "Reagan test"? And, could the UK be on the cusp of creating its own billion-pound tech titan? Join Douglas Carswell from the Mississippi Centre for Public Policy and author of The Conservative Futurist, James Pethokoukis, as we delve into crucial questions and explore how free market principles can pave the way for future prosperity. Follow Douglas and James on X, and make sure you're subscribed to CapX 's unmissable daily briefings from the heart of Westminster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
As rents climb ever higher, you’d think the Government would aim to make renting easier. Yet the new Renters' Rights Bill threatens to do just the opposite. Instead of delivering on its promises, the legislation risks making the rental market less accessible and less equitable. Despatch is a fresh addition to The Capitalist, delivering standout writing from the team behind CapX’s indispensable daily briefings. This article was written by Reem Ibrahim and read by Benjamin Wilson. For more sharp insights and thoughtful commentary, subscribe to CapX’s daily briefings . And don't miss the new episodes of The Capitalist every Tuesday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
In this debut edition of The Capitalist: a bold new political movement takes aim at red tape to get Britain building, the Chancellor faces criticism over an economy teetering on the edge, and the Conservatives grapple with the path to reinvention. Insightful, sharp, and always forward-looking. Find out more about Looking for Growth by visiting their website. And make sure you're subscribed to CapX 's unmissable daily briefings from the heart of Westminster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Despatch is a fresh addition to The Capitalist , delivering standout writing from the team behind CapX’s indispensable daily briefings. In this debut edition, Emma Revell, External Affairs Director at the Centre for Policy Studies, explores why the case for conservatism must be reimagined and communicated in a language that resonates with modern audiences. And don’t miss the premiere of The Capitalist , our new weekly podcast, launching next week. This article was written by Emma Revell and read by Benjamin Wilson. For more sharp insights and thoughtful commentary, subscribe to CapX’s daily briefings . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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CapX Editor Alys Denby runs through the people and policies that made 2023 another peculiar year in politics, with Poppy Coburn, Assistant US Opinion Editor at the Telegraph, William Atkinson, Assistant Editor at Conservative Home and Joseph Dinnage, Deputy Editor of CapX. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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1 Analysing the Autumn Statement with Richard Hughes and Vicky Pryce 31:36
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31:36Aside from a windfall from higher inflation which the Chancellor used to make tax cuts, the underlying picture for the economy is essentially flat. That being said, some welcome pro-growth measures were announced, most notably the decision to make full expensing permanent. But is it too little too late? To analyse what this means for the future of the public finances, Robert Colvile was joined by Chair of the OBR Richard Hughes and economist Vicky Pryce. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
The world has just witnessed the worst attack on Jewish people since the Holocaust. Yet amid the international condemnation of Hamas terrorists, there has also been equivocation – and even celebration in some quarters. No other conflict stirs emotions like that between Israel and Palestine - so why is it that the world’s only Jewish state appears to be held to completely different standards to other countries? Jake Wallis Simons, Editor of the Jewish Chronicle, has a word for it:: Israelophobia. His new book explains how the world's oldest hatred has evolved, co-opting identity politics and anti-colonialism to to turn British values against themselves. He joined me at our offices for a conversation that couldn’t have been more timely. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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It’s Party Conference season, and while the Lib Dems were kayaking and playing crazy golf in Bournemouth last week, this weekend it’s the Tories’ turn to troop up to Manchester. Attendees are anticipating drama, gossip and exciting policy announcements – the Prime Minister is promising 'long-term decisions for a brighter future'. But while Rishi Sunak will be rolling the pitch for an election manifesto, on the fringes other grandees will be fighting for the soul of the Conservative Party. CapX welcomed our Editor-in-Chief and Director of our parent organisation the Centre for Policy Studies to give is a run-down of what to expect. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
CapX talks about housing a lot – most often to scream 'build more houses!' into a void – yet politicians appear stuck in a doom loop when it comes to this urgent topic. Conservative MPs talk a good game about the need for housing, as long as it's anywhere but in their constituency, while Labour talk up discredited socialist ideas like rent controls. But last week, drama returned to the housing discourse, as Secretary of State Michael Gove announced plans for dramatic expansion in Cambridge, Leeds and London. So is the housing shortage, which is the source of so many of this country’s problems, from low productivity to population decline, about to be solved? And how credible is the idea of a brand new neighbourhood on the outskirts of a centuries-old university town, albeit one that's at the cutting edge of the UK's tech sector? Few people are better placed to answer these questions than Samuel Hughes, Head of Housing at the Centre for Policy Studies, who the CapX Podcast was delighted to welcome this week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
In a world saturated with information, we have more choices than ever – but how freely do we make them? In their new book Free Your Mind – The new World of Manipulation and how to Avoid it , journalist Laura Dodsworth and behavioural scientist Patrick Fagan argue that there is a war on our minds as the media, advertisers, politicians and big tech vie to influence our decisions. They investigate the psychological techniques – from fear to flattery - that are used every day to manipulate us, and offer advice on how to recognise and resist them. We sat down for a fascinating conversation that ranged from the excesses of Covid lockdowns to the joy of rediscovering your masculinity by getting naked in a forest. Listeners are encouraged to enjoy this episode in the spirit of the book – sceptically… Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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The NHS recently marked its 75th birthday with the kind of love-in most countries reserve for a passing monarch or truly iconic celebrity. So what is about our health service that has created such a fervent attachment amongst so many Brits, even when it underperforms compared to some of our continental peers? To find out, we invited the journalist, author and broadcaster Isabel Hardman on to this week's episode of the CapX Podcast to discuss her brilliant new history of the NHS, Fighting for Life . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Trash, garbage, litter or rubbish – whatever you call it the world is producing ever more of the stuff. But where does it all go once it's left our colour-coded bins? And what about all those clothes you leave at the charity shop thining you've done a good turn? The fascinating tapestry of grime that is the modern waste industry is documented in painstaking, illuminating detail in the new book Wasteland, written by our guest this week, Oliver Franklin-Wallis. He takes us on a journey from hulking mountains of waste on the outskirts of New Delhi to abandoned mining towns in Oklahoma and back-street repair shops in Ghana, where engineers give new life to millions of the West's discarded gadgets. A truly enlightening, somewhat shocking episode this week – and I'd heartily recommend Oli's book to all our listeners. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
He’s best known for coming up with the terms death tax and climate change, so it’s fair to say Frank Luntz knows a thing or two about political communication – making him an ideal guest for the CapX Podcast. We sat down to discuss his latest project for the Centre for Policy Studies delving into how the British public really feel about that most American of values: Freedom. Few will be surprised to learn that it’s not an idea that animates our democracy in the same way it does for our gun-toting cousin across the Atlantic – but for those of us who care about choice and liberty, the detail of his findings are deeply worrying. Perhaps most concerning, from a CapX perspective, is that almost half of British either can’t tell or see no difference between capitalism and socialism. So as well getting his characteristically lively takes on all the latest political gossip on both sides of the pond, I asked Frank how those of us who value freedom make the case to a populus who seem to care more about fairness than prosperity? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
How do we really live now? From a Romanian truck driver to an Amazon deliveryman and a factory production line worker, Ben Judah tried to answer that question by speaking to the people whose labour makes the freedom and prosperity the rest of us enjoy possible – for his latest book This is Europe. The author and Atlantic Council fellow crossed the continent conducting hours of painstaking interviews with people whose vivid stories reveal the powerful forces reshaping our world: migration, technology, war and climate change. He joined the CapX podcast to discuss a book, by turns harrowing and uplifting, about a promise of unity, peace and the good life that’s realised for some in Europe – but painfully illusive for others. And our conversation was almost as wide ranging as the land it covers… Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
As with so much modern political theatre, the debate on artificial intelligence has become polarised to a point that is often profoundly unhelpful, with a false dichotomy between 'doomers' and utopians who see AI as a solution to the world's many problems, both technical and social. Between those positions is a world of nuance and wildly varying predictions on what this expanding new technology could mean. All the while commentators and politicians talk about 'AI policy' as if it were a single thing, rather than a whole suite of overlapping issues: they range from the banal – discriminatory algorithms and deepfake of politicians, say – to the unnerving prospect of AI reaching a human-like level of intelligence. As one of our guests in this week's episode puts it, at this stage talking about 'AI policy' is about as useful as talking about 'electricity policy'. To hammer out some of those questions we brought together Connor Axiotes, the Lead on Risk Policy at the Adam Smith Institute, and our own Head of Tech from the Centre for Policy Studies, Matthew Feeney. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
There are few political questions as vexed as how to tax hard-pressed motorists. For many years, the Treasury has treated British drivers as a cash cow, levying high taxes while investing relatively little in the road network. Now, however, things are changing rapidly. The take-up of electric vehicles and the upcoming ban on new petrol and diesel cars presents a big fiscal headache for the Government. How will they replace all that fuel duty revenue in a world where far fewer people are driving gas-guzzling vehicles? Thankfully, we at the Centre for Policy Studies have the answer, as this week's guest - our Energy and Environment Researcher, Dillon Smith - sets out in a new report this week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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What is National Conservatism? That's the question we're grappling with this week following the big National Conservatism Conference in London. While it certainly generated lots of media heat, it's still not particularly clear what this US-imported idea actually stands for. Indeed, the answer seemed to vary depending on which of the eclectic cast of speakers was on stage. CapX's deputy editor Alys Denby and our CPS colleague Karl Williams both dropped into the conference to take the pulse of this burgeoning movement and assess if it's got much of a future on this side of the pond. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Our guest this week played an instrumental role in the UK's departure from the European Union. As Boris Johnson's Europe adviser and then chief negotiator in the exit talks with the EU, Lord Frost drew on a lifetime of experience as a civil servant and foreign office diplomat to help get the Trade and Cooperation Agreement over the line. Since leaving government at the end of 2021, he has continued to be a vocal advocate for a smaller state, lower taxes and a version of Brexit that takes full advantage of potential divergence from the Brussels way of doing things. We sat down for a wide-ranging discussion, including the Tories' electoral plight, the shape of Brexit seven years after the referendum and whether the Government should go for a full-throttle war on Woke. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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1 In defence of the rich – with Emily Carver, Luke Johnson, Merryn Somerset Webb & Martin Vander Weyer 48:07
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48:07Here at CapX we love an unfashionable cause – and in a cost of living crisis, few demographics are less popular than those who seem to be struggling less. But we're also fans of basic economic concepts, and with the tax burden the highest it’s been since the era of state socialism under Attlee, the Laffer Curve inevitably comes to mind. Because while calls to ‘tax the rich’ may be popular, if it means less money for public services, they will ultimately prove counterproductive. And it’s not just about Treasury revenues. The only way we’ll get out of the hole we’re in is by growing the economy and that means enabling businesses to thrive, to generate profits and – in the end – to make some people wealthy. To discuss whether the Government and society at large are doing enough to incentivise wealth creation, we were delighted to welcome broadcaster and commentator Emily Carver, Martin Vander Weyer , Business Editor at The Spectator, Merryn Somerset Webb , Senior Columnist at Bloomberg and entrepreneur Luke Johnson –founder and partner at Risk Capital Partners and chairman of Gail’s bakeries among other businesses. This fascinating conversation ranged from the deep cultural roots of Britain's distaste for the dirty business of making money, the moral obligations of the wealthy, to working out who really counts as 'rich'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Did you know that every time you fill up your car, you are paying for the UK’s biofuels mandate, the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO)? In fact, some 6% of the price Brits pay at the pump goes on biofuel being blended into petrol and diesel. More concerning still at a time of soaring food prices, crops such as wheat and corn are still a central part of the industry. That's why a new report from the Centre for Policy Studies calls on the Government to phase out food crops, both to bolster food security and help the environment. For this weeks' episode of the CapX Podcast I invited the author of that report, our Energy and Environment researcher Dillon Smith , to explain just what's going on here, and what kind of reform we need to see. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Things can seem a bit gloomy at the moment, and no one is better suited to explaining why than our guest this week, the Tory writer and self-proclaimed doom-monger Ed West. In an eclectic career that has spanned lad mags, religious publications and a very popular personal Substack, Ed has become one of the most entertaining, thought-provoking writers on the British right, and it was a pleasure to sit down and shoot the breeze with him for this week's episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Breathless predictions of AI-induced doom are all around, with some experts in the field saying the technology has already advanced beyond the point of no return. The recent open letter signed by the likes of Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak and Andrew Yang was just the latest example of the unease that programmes such as Chat GPT-4 have provoked. So how well-founded are the fears that a super-intelligent AI might render humanity obsolete? And what of the more prosaic and immediate concern that chatbots will turf millions of people out of work, spread disinformation and generally make our already topsy-turvy world even more unstable? To find out, we invited out colleague Matthew Feeney, Head of Tech at the Centre for Policy Studies, for an illuminating discussion on the history of artificial intelligence, where the tech is now and where it could take us in the future. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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After years where prices barely seemed to rise and interest rates remained stubbornly low, the last two years have seen inflation come roaring back - combined with union strife and an energy crisis it has felt like we've been living through the 1970s all over again. What better time then, for an economist to publish a handy explainer on just what inflation is, where it comes from and why central banks have so often failed to deal with it. Stephen D King is an economist and writer who is a senior adviser at HSBC and the author of four books, including his latest We Need To Talk About Inflation - 14 urgent lessons from the last 2,000 years. We sat down at CapX Towers to talk through the history of inflation and what the UK might have in store in the years to come... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Would we all be better off if only we had better politicians? It's a comforting illusion, but really the problem isn't those who sweep in and out of power, but you and me, the public - that's the basic argument put forward by political scientist Ben Ansell in his new book Why Politics Fails. Drawing on examples from Ancient Greece to Brexit and Covid lockdowns, Ben argues compellingly that the problem with politics is that self interest and collective goals rub up against each other to create five inescapable 'traps'. The 'democracy trap' for instance, is that we want a say in how we're governed, but all have rather different ideas of what that entails – the idea of a 'will of the people' is the stuff of utopian fantasy, not political reality. So how do we resolve those tensions and paradoxes while keeping in place the democratic processes we all take for granted? Our editor John Ashmore sat down with Ben to find out... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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1 Hannah Barnes on the rise and fall of the Tavistock gender clinic 41:16
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41:16How did an NHS clinic end up prescribing young people potential dangerous medical treatment with next to no data on the long-term effects? And why did that same clinic fail to respond to the concerns not just of outsiders, but its own staff? These are just some of the many questions posed by BBC journalist Hannah Barnes in her new book 'Time To Think', which details the rise and fall of the Tavistock and Portman Trust's Gender Identity Development Service, commonly known as GIDS. The clinic will shut its doors later this year after a series of damning reports and reviews, and an 'inadequate' rating from the Care Quality Commissions. The story of how what was once considered a ground-breaking medical service became mired in infamy is a fascinating tale of managerial failure, groupthink and a failure to observe basic clinical practice - a story Hannah sets out in painstaking and at times very moving detail in her book. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
It's that special time of year again when the Chancellor delivers a Budget, before commentators, policy wonks and political opponents rush to tear it apart in the ensuing days. In that noblest of British traditions, we invited our editor-in-chief, Robert Colvile and the Centre for Policy Studies tax and policy guru, Tom Clougherty, for a special Budget edition podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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How bad was the British Empire? That's the question Nigel Biggar, Emeritus Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford, has attempted to answer in his book Colonialism a Moral Reckoning . But in doing so, he has confronted those who don’t just want to tell a one-sided story of an imperial project motivated solely by racism and exploitation, but who want to silence alternative narratives – and who almost succeeded in preventing his book being published. I was delighted to have the chance to talk to him, not just about his own personal battle with the culture warriors, but about the deeper philosophical issues at play. How do you make a moral assessment of a vast sweep of history, with multiple actors each with their own motivations – one which includes both enthusiastic participation in the slave trade and being instrumental in its abolition? And what happens if we allow shame about the past dictate how we do things today? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
The Government's Net Zero target is nothing if not ambitious - to decarbonise the British economy - energy, manufacturing, transport and agriculture included - all in the space of just a few decades. But while there is a glut of potentially exciting new low-carbon technologies, and some encouraging signs that renewables are getting a lot cheaper, there's still a huge question mark over how feasible the 2050 target is. In his new book 'Not Zero', journalist Ross Clark suggests the Government has bitten off far more than it can chew, with a policy agenda that threatens to make Brits a lot worse off, with almost no benefit to the environment. I sat down with Ross to talk about just what Net Zero entails, how far the Government is from its target and if we aren't going to make it to Net Zero, what we should do instead. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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This week we're talking about moola, lolly, dough or dosh - the thing that makes the world go round...Money. In his recent book Money in One Lesson the economic journalist Gavin Jackson tries to answer a seemingly basic but very tricky question: what is money and how does it work? It's a grand tour of the monetary world, from pigs in Papua New Guina to sea shells in West Africa, the foundation of the world's first central bank and the links between currency and nationhood – all of which gave us plenty to talk about on this week's episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Nicola Sturgeon's resignation on Wednesday morning was a slightly puzzling political event – 'shocking', in the sense that it heralds the departure of a politician who has occupied the highest perch in Scottish politics for so long, but also not all that surprising, given both the First Minister's recent political travails and the fact she had started to openly discuss how long she'd be in the top job. So what comes next? Who will succeed Sturgeon and how will her exit affect the cause of independence? To run the rule over Sturgeon's record and the shape of the succession, we were delighted to welcome one of Scottish journalism's leading lights to this week's CapX Podcast. Alex Massie is the Scotland Editor of The Spectator, a Times and Sunday Times columnist and, of course, has been a regular contributor to CapX down the years. He joined our editors John Ashmore and Alys Denby down the line from his home in Scotland to discuss the 'surface finery' of Sturgeon's politics, the SNP's dire domestic record and who the runners and riders are to success her as First Minister. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Britain isn’t working well for many of us right now. The cost of energy, housing, and food are too high, while decent jobs with real prospects are hard to come by. That is the clarion call of a new campaign group that aims to get Britain building again - Britain Remade starts from the conviction that Britain has been a great hub of industry and science in the past, and there's no reason we shouldn't be in the future, provided we have the right policies in place . Their agenda is very much the same one that animates both CapX and our parent organisation the Centre for Policy Studies, so we were very happy to have one of Britain Remade's founders, Sam Richards, on the podcast this week. Sam is a former director of the Conservative Environment Network and before launching Britain Remade worked as a special advisor in 10 Downing St, focusing on energy and environment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Few political questions are as basic, or as pressing, as how a government raises the money it spends – and the last year in British politics has provided ample examples of the political pitfalls of tax reform. In principle a good tax system should be a winning combination of fairness, efficiency, smooth revenue raising and growth-enhancing incentives. The UK does reasonably well on some of these fronts, but overall our system is a burdensome, convoluted mess that is ripe for reform. So if Jeremy Hunt really wants us to have the 'most competitive tax system of any major country', what does he need to do? And what, in the short time between now and the next election, are the most politically feasible reforms he could come up with? To run a critical eye over the iniquities of the British tax system, we called on the expertise of the Centre for Policy Studies' Head of Tax, Tom Clougherty. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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From sin taxes to plain packaging, smoking bans to warnings about the perils of office cake , the reach of Britain's nanny state has never felt more pervasive or pedantic. Only this week the public health panjandrums came up with a new wheeze - proposing reducing the calorie content of certain naughty foods by 10% in a bid to shrink the nation's waistlines. Few know the intricacies of the public health bureaucracy – and the redundancy of many of their arguments – like our guest this week, the scourge of the scolds, Christopher Snowdon. As Head of Lifestyle Economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs, Chris is one of the most passionate and articulate defenders of individual liberty against misguided, over-zealous paternalism. He joined our editors John Ashmore and Alys Denby for a fun-filled chat about booze, fags and how to deal with the Covid 'Smileys'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Our guest this week. John Longworth, is a real titan of UK PLC. As a scientist, business, entrepreneur and advocate for the interests of British business, there aren't many who have John's breadth or depth of experience - something he's bringing to bear now as chairman of the Independent Business Network, which represents our often ignored small and family businesses. We sat down for a fascinating chat about how the Government can make a success of Brexit, the longstanding problems with the British economy and what British healthcare will look like in the decades to come. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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CapX regulars know all too well the parlous state of British housing. We don't build enough, what we do build is often shoddy and angrily opposed by local people, and both rents and mortgages are increasingly out of the reach of even those on middling income. There is no single silver bullet, no snapping of the fingers that will suddenly deliver a properly functioning, prosperity-enhancing British housing sector. But that doesn't mean we can't do anything - far from it. To get into the weeds of just where we can improve housing policy, what can be done in the short and long term and, crucially, how to make beautiful design central to development, we were delighted to welcome to the CapX Podcast the Centre for Policy Studies' own Head of Housing, Samuel Hughes. Samuel is one of the leading lights of British housing policy, who combines his work at the CPS with a role as a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford's Faculty of Theology and Religion. There's a great deal for experts and laymen, Nimbys and Yimbys alike to get stuck into here, and there's no doubt you'll come away from the conversation better informed about the state of one of the UK economy's most important sectors. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Trying to boil down this eventful, hectic and often tragic year into a single podcast was always going to be a hell of a challenge - but here on the CapX Podcast we like to shoot for the moon and cram in as much content for our loyal listeners as possible. To that end, our editors John and Alys brought together some of Westminster's sharpest commentators to run the rule over their heroes and villains of 2022. We also found room for separate Politician and Policy of the Year awards and, to lighten the mood of a gloomy 2022, a Reasons to be Cheerful heading into the New Year. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Wherever you look workers are going on strike and our schools are no exception - even though Jeremy Hunt managed to find an extra few billion behind the Treasury couch for education at his recent Autumn Statement. So what's going on here, why are union leaders still balloting, and what's the state of English schools after 12 years of Tory-led governments? To get the lowdown on all things educational I caught up with my Centre for Policy Studies colleague Mark Lehain, our Head of Education. Mark's no ordinary policy wonk. he's worked as a teacher, including as a headteacher and set up his own free school, as wel as working in the heart of government as a special adviser - what he doesn't know about English education over the last few years really isn't worth knowing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
What kind of country is Britain today? That might be a rather broad question, but thanks to the recently published census, we can have a stab at answering it – at least for England and Wales. For this week's topical podcast we kick off with deep dive into those findings, what they say about Britain's demography and, in particular, the rapidly declining status of Christianity. And if it's British institutions you're worried about, you might be interested in hearing about this week's hoo-ha at the Wellcome Trust, where the museum's own board appear uncomfortable with the very concept of a museum. We'll also trawl through the iniquities of the Online Safety Bill with our colleague Matthew Feeney, the Head of Tech and Innovation at the Centre for Policy Studies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Baroness Dambisa Moyo is a seriously impressive woman. She’s worked at the World Bank and Goldman Sachs analysing global economic trends, and sat on the boards of numerous FTSE100 companies including Barclays and Chevron. She’s also the author of five books including best-sellers Dead Aid – a critique of development policy in Africa – and How the West was Lost, about a series of mistakes and failures of postwar economic policy that have seen the balance of power tip towards China. On top of all that she’s a sought-after speaker and writer, and advises the Government on racial and ethnic disparities. I caught up with her backstage at the Centre for Policy Studies’ Margaret Thatcher Conference to discuss the macro-economic challenges facing the world, what Britain can do about them, and why international finance is no longer a man’s world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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1 Tyler Cowen on talent, economic optimism – and where to find a decent curry 40:08
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40:08Our guest this week is one of a kind. A truly polymathic personality, there's not much Tyler Cowen doesn't have a well informed view on, from the merits of Bradford curry houses to the future of cryptocurrencies and the fate of Trussonomics. That breadth of interest is evident from his prolific writing on his Marginal Revolution blog, in the pages of various newspapers and in the 20-odd books he's written in the last three decades or so. Tyler is also an avowed friend of the free market ,as Professor of Economics at George Mason University where he is chair and faculty director of the Mercatus Center. His latest book, co-authored with Daniel Gross, is Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World. As Tyler explains on the podcast, it's essentially a one-stop shop for companies and organisations looking to zero in on the best possible employees. As you would imagine with Tyler, our discussion was as wide-ranging and entertaining as the man himself. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
We're turning our gaze Stateside this week where the mid-term elections promised a red wave and delivered ,well, something more like a ripple. A bad night for Donald Trump, a pretty good one for Joe Biden and a fascinating tee-up for the presidential race in a couple of years' time. To chew over the results we welcomed back to the podcast my predecessor as editor, Oliver Wiseman, who since leaving CapX has written for a number of outlets with breadth and eloquence about the US political scene. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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1 Ian Acheson on police, prisons and protecting the border 38:27
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38:27Law and order has shot up the political agenda in the last year or so, with the chaos in the Channel, damning reports into the culture of the Met Police and chaos in the prison system. Just this week we've seen the firebombing of a migrant centre in Dover and uproar over the treatment of asylum seekers at an asylum centre in the Kent village of Manston. Few commentators are better equipped to address this range of security issues than CapX regular Ian Acheson - a former prison governor, home office civil servant and community police officer, and now a senior adviser to the counter-extremism project. Ian brings a huge wealth of experience to bare in his regular pieces for CapX. In a media landscape where 'essential reading' has become a cliche, Ian's pieces genuinely fit the description – and his contribution to the CapX Podcast didn't disappoint either. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Typical isn’t it – you wait ages for a new Prime Minister and then three come along in six months. Rishi Sunak has taken command of a party that’s been through a bruising ideological battle and taken a battering in the polls as a result. He inherits an economy that’s in even worse shape than it was when Liz Truss took charge, which, to be clear, was already very bad. So where does he go from here? Will we see a return to the economic orthodoxy Liz Truss was reacting against, or will the third PM this parliament find a third way to get us out of the crisis and on a path to growth. To discuss this, the CapX Podcast is joined by two of our Centre for Policy Studies colleagues: our Research Director and Head of Tax, Tom Clougherty, and our Senior Researcher, Karl Williams. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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1 Iuliia Mendel on working for Zelensky and Ukraine's fight for survival 32:32
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32:32Volodymyr Zelensky became a a global icon almost overnight following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February of this year. The force of his leadership and defiance in the face of overwhelming Russian force offered hope in his country's darkest hour. For our guest this week, Zelensky's heroic defiance came as no great surprise. Iuliia Mendel worked as the president's press secretary from his election in 2019 until 2021, and her new book 'The Fight of Our Lives' is both a close personal account of working for Zelensky, and a moving tribute to a country whose very existence has been imperilled by the Putin regime. Iuliia joined us down the line from Kyiv, a city still living under the daily threat of Russian bombardment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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We aren't in the habit of quoting Lenin on CapX, but his observation that there are 'decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen' has felt pretty apposite recently. So there's plenty to discuss in our latest topical podcast: from chaos in the gilt markets to the Government's growing list of u-turns. We also take on the broader question on the UK's miserable growth path and long-term demographic prospects – and whether it's the proper role of the state to try and get the birth rate up. Joining our editors John and Alys on this week's episode is Gerard B Lyons, Business Researcher at our parent organisation, the Centre for Policy Studies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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1 The CapX Podcast: Richard Reeves on why modern men are struggling 46:32
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46:32When we think of the fight for gender equality, more often than not it's framed in terms of the unequal, often violent, treatment suffered by women and girls. In many, many places, that is very much still the case - but in the West the 'battle of the sexes' is not as clear cut as it once was. Though there are certainly a host of challenges facing women and girls, it's also the case that – in the US in particular – the social and economic life of men has been turned upside down. Men are losing ground in the labour market, falling behind in education and increasingly missing out on family life – for Black men in particular, these problems are even more acute. In his new book Of Boys and Men , the writer and policy expert Richard Reeves takes on these issues head-on and suggests some perhaps surprising solutions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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1 The CapX Podcast: Julian Jessop on a tough week for 'Trussonomics' 31:54
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31:54There's no doubt it's been tough week for proponents of so-called 'Trussonomics', with the Government's Growth Plan taking pelters from all sides and the Bank of England stepping in to calm down the gilt markets. But does that mean the game is up for supply-side reformers? Our guest this week, Julian Jessop, has been in the vanguard of the pro-liberalisation reforms set out by Kwasi Kwarteng and, despite this week's ructions, remains confident that the supply-siders have the right recipe to put Britain back on the path to economic growth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
From ancient Mesopatamia to the Monetary Policy Committee, the story of trade, commerce and capitalism is also the story of interest rates. Few people are as intimately acquainted with that topsy-turvy narrative as our guest this week, the financial journalist and historian Edward Chancellor. In his recent book The Price of Time , Edward offers not only a sprawling, fascinating history of interest and credit, but a compelling argument about how years of long, low rates have led us to the verge of economic crisis. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
In a world of relentless, high-velocity news, sometimes it pays to take a step back and look at the big picture. Our guest this week, the US economist Brad DeLong , does that with some aplomb in his new book 'Slouching Towards Utopia', a sweeping survey of economic development from the late 19th century to the present day, and an attempt to work out how we've ended up in this period of roiling economic crises. As well as making a big argument about the nature of economic life in the long 20th century that started in 1870, Brad's book is full of winning vignettes and works just as well as a piece of narrative history as an argument about economics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
It’s results season, so as well as an opportunity to offer congratulations or commiserations to all our many teenage listeners getting their GCSEs and A Levels this week, it’s a chance to talk about education policy. This is the first year since the pandemic that anyone has sat public examinations, which means an inevitable readjustment and many children disappointed with their grades. But does that mean the system is unfair? To discuss this Deputy Editor Ays Denby is joined by Dr David James, Deputy Head of Lady Eleanor Holles school in London and a regular contributor to CapX, for a conversation that ranged from the iniquity of course work to ideological assaults on the curriculum to the importance of independent schools. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Water, water everywhere...this week's news has been dominated by rows over the privatised utilities. From polluting water companies to 'greedy' energy bosses, it's open season on anyone who dares turn a (highly regulated) profit while providing an essential public service. Recent water and high energy prices have also turned a spotlight on a chronic failure to build new infrastructure, with the UK failing to approve a new reservoir for more than three decades. Joining us for this topical edition of the podcast are two leading lights of the centre-right policy world: CapX's editor-in-chief and Director of the Centre for Policy Studies, Robert Colvile, and the Deputy Editor of ConservativeHome, Henry Hill. (If you haven't had the chance, do read Robert's canonical piece on how the water industry actually works, complete with an array of informative and perhaps surprising charts on pre and post-privatisation investment.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Are you a booster or a doomster? A recent article by the economist and CapX regular Sam Bowman suggests this is the divide in UK economic policy. For the Boosters, not only is growth paramount, but there's plenty we can do through better domestic policy to improve things, both right now and for future generations. Doomsters, unsurprisingly, take a more pessimistic view, and see a country trapped in low growth, with huge demographic pressures and big public spending commitments coming down the line. For this week's episode we decided to test both sides of that debate and see if we could find some common ground. To that end I welcomed the original Booster, Sam Bowman, and one of the people he name-checked in his piece as a 'Doomster', Tim Pitt – a former Treasury adviser and partner at consultancy Flint Global. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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This week we were delighted to welcome one of the stars of the centre-right media landscape, Madeline Grant. After starting out in thinktank world at the Institute of Economic Affairs, Madeline has since forged a path in journalism as a comment editor, columnist and latterly sketch-writer at the Daily Telegraph. There was plenty for us to chew over, from Rishi's green belt proposals to Liz's regional pay U-turn. We also dived into a potted Scottish history lesson, SNP-style. Finally, we turn our attention to the Mother of Parliaments itself – and the dire state of the Palace of Westminster, which seems like a rather fitting metaphor for some of the pathologies of British politics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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1 Tomiwa Owolade on culture, cancellation and 'decolonising the curriculum' 39:48
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39:48In the last few years our guest this week, Tomiwa Owolade, has emerged as one of the most thoughtful, persuasive and eloquent young writers in Britain today, covering everything from Don Henley to Philip Larkin, from football to the wayward attempts to 'decolonise' the school curriculum. As well as writing a slew of articles in various online and print outlets, next year Tom publishes his debut book, This is Not America , in which he examines the many pitfalls of examining Black British identity through the lens of a completely different Black American experience. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
This week saw the hottest day in recorded history here in the UK – and things were equally fiery down in the Commons corridors as we whittled the Tory field down to a final two of Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss. So what can we take from the frenetic last two weeks of campaigning, and what can we expect in the month ahead as both candidates make their pitch to the Conservative membership? To chew the fat and read the runes, John and Alys were joined by two colleagues from CapX's parent organisation, the Centre for Policy Studies – our business researcher Gerard B Lyons and Head of Communications, Callum Price. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
While most of us in the West are pretty unequivocal about Vladimir Putin’s brutal campaign against Ukraine, in Russia itself a sophisticated infrastructure of deceit conditions the public to see and believe in a very different conflict. Few people are better placed to understand how this war came about than our guest this week, Dr Jade McGlynn. Unlike many of the armchair pundits who have emerged in recent months, Jade spent many years living in Vladimir Putin's Russia, as well as conducting groundbreaking research on how the Kremlin twists and exploits Russian history to its own nefarious ends. Jade is currently a Senior Researcher at the Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies in California, and alongside a glittering academic CV writes regularly for publications such as the Telegraph, the Spectator and, most importantly, CapX. She also has two books slated for publication next year - Russia’s War and the Kremlin’s Memory Makers She joined our editor John Ashmore down the line from Monterey to discuss why so many Russians still support the war, how secure the Putin regime still is and how best to rally support in the battle for Ukraine's survival. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Although many of us might not know it, thanks to pensions auto-enrollment the average Brit is more invested in the stock market than at any point in our history. But how many of us are taking advantage of our ownership of stocks and shares to influence the way our corporations behave? And how can we get the seemingly all-powerful fund managers to invest our money in a way that aligns with our values? That's the challenge that Moneyweek's editor-in-chief Merryn Somerset Webb sets out to answer in her excellent new book 'Share Power' - how ordinary people can change the way capitalism works, and make money too'. It's not only a colourful, vividly written guide to the workings of corporate finance, but a manifesto about where capitalism has gone wrong, and how we the people can put it back on track. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
We had plenty to get stuck into for this week's topical episode of the CapX Podcast: from the halting progress of Russia's offensive in Ukraine, to the equally halting processing of Ukrainain visas to come to the UK and just what a Russian oil embargo will mean for the world economy. We were very pleased to be joined this week by Karl Williams, a senior researcher at the Centre for Policy Studies and, helpfully for us, a bit of an expert on the oil and gas industry. As well as all things Ukraine, we also discussed the release of an utterly damning report into the conduct of former House of Commons Speaker John Bercow – a subject on which our panel had near total agreement... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
From the lowest prison cell to the grandest palaces, human beings are engaged in age-old battles for status and recognition. In his latest book The Status Game , acclaimed science writer WIll Storr brilliantly unpacks just how human societies are steeped in the search for status, how it leads to conformity, hysteria and violence – but also to enormous, life-enhancing achievements. I always enjoy recording our podcasts, but I must say this interview was a particular pleasure, with a writer and thinker who conveys great knowledge and enthusiasm about his subject. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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 to welcome Conservative Home's Deputy Editor Henry Hill. Henry is a prolific contributor to CapX and other sites, writing on a variety of topics, but with a particular focus on constitutional affairs and the Union. As well as the awful scenes in eastern Europe, Henry and our deputy editor Alys Denby and editor John Ashmore ran the rule over the end of Covid restrictions and the future of the BBC. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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 has taken hold in the United States and beyond. In his new book Woke Racism , McWhorter argues that this is not just a noxious ideology, but a religion, complete with the original sin of ‘white privilege’, a completely illogical catechism and a set of priests to spread the bad news – that all of the obstacles facing black Americans are due to structural or systemic racism. This creed, he argues, is not just wrong but actively harmful to the very people it purports to help. It has more to do with self-congratulation among the faithful, whom McWhorter labels ‘The Elect’, than any real attempt at social justice. As well as skewering the sloppy thinking and bullying behaviour of The Elect, McWhorter also offers a road map for how to deal with their style of thinking, and some concrete suggestions for how to improve the lot of Black Americans. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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1 Kate Andrews on Levelling Up, inflation and NHS waiting lists 43:24
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43:24From the soaring cost of living to ever-lengthening NHS waiting lists, the Government certainly has its hands full at the moment – even without the rumbling discontent about PartyGate in the background. And on top of the day-to-day issues, Boris Johnson has set himself the daunting task of reconfiguring Britain's political economy with the recently released Levelling Up White Paper. To talk us through all these issues and some of our favourite stories of the last week, we welcomed one of the stars of the centre-right policy firmament, The Spectator's Economics Editor, Kate Andrews. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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1 The Good the Bad and the Greedy with Martin Vander Weyer 40:46
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40:46Martin Wander 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- including under the editorship of Boris Johnson. His book the Good the Bad and the Greedy argues that scandals like the misselling of PPI and the fixing of Libor have eroded trust in enterprise, and that only a return to a kinder, more public spirited corporate culture can fix it. It’s both a defence of entrepreneurship as an engine of human progress and a criticism of a capitalist system that incentivises personal gain above all else. He joined the CapX Podcast for a lively conversation that ranged from what Margaret Thatcher got wrong to what it's like to work for Boris Johnson. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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 of conflict? Her answer is an interesting rejoinder to some of the more impassioned commentary we've heard on this topic We'll also be talking all things domestic, including PartyGate, Sue Gray's report, accusations of Tory Islamophobia, dodgy Covid stats and, of course, artificial wombs. Our special guest this week is Aria Babu, researcher at The Enterpreneurs Network and rising star of the policy wonk world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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 Centre for Policy Studies, makes clear. To help us explain why this is such a good idea, we welcomed one of the contributors to that report, Anthony Mangnall, the Conservative MP for Totnes and a member of Parliament's International Trade Committee. Joining Anthony is economist-turned-journalist Soumaya Keynes, the Britain Economics editor at the Economist and former co-host of Trade Talks, a podcast about the economics of trade. Who better to talk us through the ins and outs of the CPTPP, and what it might mean for Britain? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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 he hang on in the face of the most sustained criticism of his leadership so far? As well as the rumbling Partygate stories, we'll also be discussing the Novak Djokovic visa saga, the Molly Mae Hague pile-on and, of course, tantalising rumours of a new Jeremy Corbyn Party Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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1 Heroes, villains, highs and lows – CapX looks back on 2021 1:02:35
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1:02:35From 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 style with three of Westminster's brightest and best brains to pore over this year's events. Competition guru Sam Bowman , freelance political journalist Marie Le Conte and the Telegraph's sketchwriter Madeline Grant joined CapX's own Alys Denby and John Ashmore for a five-way Zoom-cast to try to get through as much of the year's endless news as possible. It only remains for me to thank you, our loyal listeners. We've had a great time making the podcast this year, with some wonderful guests - and we've got big plans for more great episodes in 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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1 Lord Mandelson on Labour, Levelling Up and the danger of the hard left 22:56
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22:56It'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 New Labour project, where he was integral to both Tony Blair's ascent to the leadership and the party's subsequent electoral success. He went on to serve in a number of Cabinet roles and as a European Commissioner, before returning to government under Gordon Brown as Business Secretary and President of the Board of Trade. Given the breadth of his experience in government, we were very pleased to welcome Lord Mandelson to appear earlier this week at the Margaret Thatcher Conference on Trade, hosted by CapX's parent organisation the Centre for Policy Studies. Our editor John Ashmore caught up with him afterwards to talk trade, Brexit and how he sees his party's prospects under Keir Starmer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
For the last two weeks the great and the good have descended on Glasgow to try to thrash out a climate deal at what's been billed everywhere as a make or break 'COP26'. For those of you who aren't familiar, COP stands for 'Conference of the Parties', which since 1995 has been the UN's annual get-together to discuss all things climate change. The Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement were both signed at previous COPs. It's also a pretty big deal for Boris Johnson, so much so that he appointed a dedicated minister, Alok Sharma, to oversee the conference. And, of course, this being a climate change conference, the usual crusties and superglue enthusiasts wondered the streets of Glasgow shouting about how we're all going to hell in a handcart. So what's the result of all this summitry and politicking? To find out, CapX editor John Ashmore and deputy editor Alys Denby talked to one of the stars of the market environmentalist movement, Eamonn Ives, the head of Energy and Environment at our parent organisation, the Centre for Policy Studies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Is economics fit for the modern world? That’s the basic question posed in Cogs and Monsters, the new book from Diane Coyle, one of Britain’s most eminent economists and our guest this week. Part critique of her own profession, part manifesto for a better, more up-to-date economics, Diane’s book goes beyond the standard criticisms of economics and gets into the the really big issues - not least, what should the role of an economist actually be? Should economics describe the world as it is, or as it should be? How can economists deal with a world of AI, big tech and big data? Diane is as well qualified as anyone to answer those questions, having worked a Treasury economist, economics editor of the Independent, professor of economics at the University of Manchester and, since 2018 as the head of the interdisciplinary Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge. She is also the author of no fewer than nine books, including the Weightless World, The Economics of Enough and ‘GDP - a Brief but affectionate history’. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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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 in his book Pugnare: Economic Success and Failure , the ascent of Rome wasn’t just a military or cultural achievement – it was an economic one. CapX sat down for a fascinating conversation with George – whose classical research combined with his professional experience as an actuary gives him a rare insight into the comparative workings of the ancient and modern worlds – to discuss the Romans' innovations in free trade, currency and banking, and why the lessons from the empire’s downfall are still relevant today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Just last week Boris Johnson was bestriding the world stage, joking about showing his pecs to Putin at the G7 and Nato summit. Today he is Prime Minister in name only, having reluctantly agreed to leave office after more than 50 of his ministers resigned. It's an ignominious ending to a dramatic premiership, In just over 1000 days, Boris Johnson secured a historic election victory, persuading many to vote Conservative for the first time and defeated a dangerous Labour leader. He took Britain out of the EU, he presided over the pandemic, almost dying himself in the process, and lead the world in support for Ukraine. But he leaves the country facing a devastating cost of living crisis, unresolved problems with the Northern Ireland Protocol, an unfinished legislative agenda and no clear successor to sort it out. CapX Deputy Editor Alys Denby is joined by her Centre for Policy Studies colleagues Callum Price, Head of Communications, and Tom Clougherty, head of tax, to discuss where all this leaves us, Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Too often neglected and misunderstood by both politicians and commentators on this side of the Irish Sea, Northern Ireland has in recent years been thrust into the spotlight by the intense wrangling over post-Brexit trade arrangements,. Just this week, the Government's bill to change that arrangement passed its second reading in the House of Commons - much to the chagrin of those who accuse Boris Johnson of trampling over international law. For this week's episode of The CapX Podcast we decided to get the inside track from one of the province's most astute Unionist commentators, Owen Polley. Owen is a weekly columnist with the Belfast Newsletter and a regular contributor to CapX on all things Northern Irish. He's also the author of a pamphlet titled An Agenda for Northern Ireland after Brexit. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
As if the British economy didn't have enough problems with soaring inflation, swathes of the country literally ground to a half this week thanks to massive industrial action from 40,000 rail workers. Like most of us, RMT members are feeling the pinch as prices outstrip their wages and passenger numbers have still yet to recover from their pre-Covid levels. But does that really justify a strike? And is this a sign that the UK is going 'back to the 1970s'? To discuss all that, John and Alys welcomed Tom Clougherty the Head of Tax at our parent organisation, the Centre for Policy Studies. Tom is one of Westminster's most authoritative commentators on all things tax-related, and just this week has co-authored a paper on why the idea of an Online Sales Tax is so thoroughly misguided. To cap off this week's episode, we head across the Channel to France, where a surge in support for Marine Le Pen's National Rally helped deprive Emmanuel Macron of a parliamentary majority and thrust his presidency into huge trouble. We talk to Paris-based journalist and CapX contributor Gavin Mortimer about what this electoral hammer-blow means for Macron's second term. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
You never have too long to wait before the SNP and its leader Nicola Sturgeon are beating the drum for another independence referendum. The dream of separation is the glue that holds an otherwise fractious coalition together, and this week Sturgeon has once again upped the ante by promising a fresh vote next year, come what may. Our guest this week, Tom Harris, is well placed to judge whether those dreams have the slightest chance of becoming a reality. Tom was a Labour MP from 2001 to 2015, before leaving the party in despair at its leftward turn under Jeremy Corbyn. Since leaving Parliament, he's established himself as a witty, authoritative commentator on all things Scottish and beyond, including as a regular contributor to CapX. I caught up with him from hs home in Scotland to discuss the fate of the nationalist cause, the travails of the Unionsts and how much better Labour could be doing if their leader was someone other than Keir Starmer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
It's been a truly tumultuous week, even by the elevated standards of farce we've come to expect in British politics. Monday saw a vote of confidence called in and ultimately defeated by Boris Johnson, but it was - to use the kind of classical allusion he's so fond of - a Pyrrhic victory. Over 40% of the PM's own MPs voted against him in what can only be described as a huge blow to his authority. To discuss the fallout from that vote and the ensuing Tory policy blitz we welcomed Will Atkinson to this week's episode of the CapX Podcast. Will has been a contributor to the site for some time and was recently appointed assistant editor at ConservativeHome – the closest thing the Tory party has to a house magazine. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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So it’s finally here, the long awaited Sue Gray report was published this week and it was great stuff for journalists – with lurid details of excessive drinking, wine splattered up walls and Downing Street staff partying until the early hours during lockdown. But the question Westminster insiders will be asking is what the public make of all this, and how will it effect their party’s prospects in a future election? To discuss this, I’m joined by pollster extraordinaire James Johnson. As Senior Opinion Research and Strategy Adviser he ran polling for Theresa May, before pivoting to the private sector as a founder of JL partners. He spends his time travelling up and down the country talking to ordinary voters and digging into what they really think about the state of our politics. We ran the rule over public perceptions of 'partygate', the war in Ukraine and the cost of living crisis in a conversation that may make difficult listening for supporters of the Prime Minister. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
There’s only one story in town this week when it comes to British politics and that’s the soaring cost of…well, just about everything. Consumer price inflation jumped to 9% in the 12 months to April, up from 7% in March and the highest level it has reached since 1982. After spending two years stepping in to save whole sectors of the economy, support millions of people’s wages and borrow hundreds of billions of pounds into the bargain, there's now a sense of helplessness on the Government's part as it faces severe global pressures on areas like energy and food prices. Indeed, on Wednesday night Rishi Sunak said: 'There is no measure any government could take, no law we could pass, that can make these global forces disappear overnight.' Do not despair though, here at CapX and our parent organisation, the Centre for Policy Studies we’re here to help. This week the CPS has produced a briefing paper setting out all the things the Government could do to take the strain off household finances. For this week's episode we're joined by one of that report’s authors, CPS Senior Researcher Karl Williams, and James Heywood, the CPS' Head of Welfare and Opportunity. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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As well as visiting untold horrors on the Ukrainian people, Vladimir Putin’s regime has launched a new wave of unprecedented repression in Russia itself, instantly jailing anyone who dares raise their voice in opposition to his despotic rule. One man who knows all too well the reality of standing up to Putin is our guest this week, Vladimir Ashurkov. Vladimir is a former financier, political activist and a leading light of Alexei Navalny’s anti-corruption foundation. He was forced to flee Russia in 2014, when he was granted political asylum here in the UK. Our editor John Ashmore spoke to Vladimir about the war in Ukraine, the malign influence of Russian money in the UK and his hopes for a democratic future for his homeland. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
It's been a bumper few weeks for political news. We've had endless 'Beergate' stories rattling the Labour leadership, soaring prices in the shops, dreadful economic forecasts from the Bank of England, Elon Musk's mooted takeover of Twitter and thehugely controversial leaked Supreme Court ruling on Roe vs Wade. To discuss those pressing issues, our editors John Ashmore and Alys Denby welcomed two of the stars of the Westminster wonk-world: Kristian Niemietz of the Institute of Economic Affairs, and the Adam Smith Institute's Morgan Schondelmeier . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Should poverty be defined by how much you earn, how much less money you have than the average household, or something altogether more holistic - the myriad of interlocking factors, from health to social capital to transport links, that define someone's quality of life? That's the question that Conservative MP John Penrose grappled with in his landmark report, Poverty Trapped, released at the end of last year. As well as an acute diagnosis of the problems of measuring poverty purely in terms of income, it's full of workable policy solutions to help spread opportunity and raise people's quality of life without simply spraying money about from Whitehall and hoping for the best. Our editor John Ashmore caught up with John earlier this week to discuss some of his ideas, including one housing policy which he says could be the biggest 'single moment of wealth creation' since the Second World War. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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1 Sam Ashworth-Hayes on party politics, Rwanda and the 'Granny State' 32:03
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32:03It's been quite a few weeks in British politics. After a brief Easter respite, the PartyGate saga reared its head again for Boris Johnson, who now faces a parliamentary probe on whether he misled the House of Commons. Equally controversial was his government's announcement last week of a deal to ship asylum seekers 5,000 miles away to Rwanda. Just what Brexit means for Britain's immigration system also became clearer this week with the publication of some fascinating Home Office figures on who has arrived in the UK since we fully severed ties with the EU in 2021. Joining us to make some sense of the political tumult on this week's topical podcast is CapX regular Sam Ashworth-Hayes. Sam is an economist, writer and policy analyst who has previously worked as Director of Studies at the Henry Jackson Society. He writes regularly here on CapX, as well as in outlets such as The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Few countries on earth are as politically and economically repressed as Cuba. For all its brutality and illiberalism of six decades of one-party rule, the communist regime has somehow managed to sell an image of itself as a brave holdout against Western imperialists, rather than a despotic economic basket case, allied to the world's very worst regimes, including Putin's Russia. Our guest this week, Rosa Maria Paya is the scion of what she describes as a 'family of dissidents' on the Caribbean island. Her late father Oswaldo was a prominent human rights activist who won the Sakharov Prize and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Rosa Maria has continued his work by founding Cuba Decide, a grassroots initiative campaigning for democracy and rule of law on the island. Our editor John Ashmore caught up with Rosa Maria on her recent trip to the UK, where she came to Parliament to speak about the plight of Cuban political prisoners and to urge the British government to introduce further sanctions against the communist regime. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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1 Nicole Lampert on 'Beardsplaining' and 'Holocaust denial' 41:15
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41:15It's another topical podcast this week as our editors sat down with freelance journalist, CapX regular and 'Queen of the Internet' Nicole Lampert. In a very wide-ranging chat, we discuss the horrendous attacks on Ukrainian civilians, the latest trans rights row, the novel concept of 'Beardsplaining' and what it's like for a Jewish woman to be called a 'Holocaust denier'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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It's a very topical podcast this week as we run the rule over Rishi Sunak's much-anticipated Spring Statement. With war in Ukraine and a Covid crisis in China, combined with already soaring inflation here in the UK, the Chancellor had a hugely unenviable task on Wednesday afternoon - so how did he do? Was the statement up to the mark of dealing with a generational cost of living crisis, and is Sunak really the Nigel Lawson tax-cutter he would have Tory MPs believe? To chew over those question the CapX team welcomed James Heywood, the Head of Welfare and Opportunity at our parent organisation, the Centre for Policy Studies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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. It's a bit of a cliche to call these chats 'wide-ranging', but they really did cover a lot of ground, from the Labour politicians he most admires, to the state of the British economy and the thrill of taking on the world's fastest zipline dressed entirely in tweed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Most us know about Henry VIII, Napoleon and Churchill, but what about history's unheralded heroes? In his new book Lessons from History , political commentator and self-declared amateur historian Alex Deane shines a light on the less-known characters who have helped shape our world, from sharp-shooting barons to self-medicating surgeons, to the Lion of Africa and a bear who nearly caused a nuclear war, this is history in all its technicolour glory with an unforgettable cast of characters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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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. But don't take my word for it. Our guest this week, Vivek Ramaswamy, has seen this phenomenon first hand, from Wall Street internships to Ivy League classrooms and then as the CEO of a successful pharmaceutical company, he's witnessed the emergence of the woke-industrial complex. His recently released book Woke, Inc. takes us behind the scenes, revealing the inner workings of the scam but also offering a better way forward. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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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 answering it with his pacy, vivid canter through the Industrial Revolution, two World Wars, post-war decline and resurgence in the 1980s, right up to the current crisis. We were delighted to get Duncan on to the podcast for a chat about the book and his reflections on the where the British economy may be heading as we recover from the Covid cataclysm. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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. 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 since the Brexit referendum. But it's also a call to arms to offer a new settlement for communities that have for too long been kept on the margins of Britain's political, economic and cultural life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Few people know more about the language of politics and how to effectively communicate with the public than Frank Luntz. As an award winning political and communications consultant, pollster and pundit, Dr. Luntz has served as an election consultant and commentator in national elections across the globe. He has worked for more than 50 Fortune 500 companies and CEOs, and he is the author of three New York Times bestsellers. He also has friends in high places, having conducted his very first political polling for the Oxford Union campaign of one Boris Johnson. For the last six weeks Frank has been a Visiting Fellow at our parent organisation, the Centre for Policy Studies. During that time he's been conducting a mega-survey of British public opinion, delving in huge detail into our attitudes to moral values, capitalism, technology and the culture wars. We sat down to discuss the new centre of gravity of British politics, and why Frank sees himself as a 'reverse Paul Revere', journeying across the Atlantic to warn us 'the Americans are coming'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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From the eruption of Vesuvius to the Chernobyl meltdown, human history has always been punctuated by catastrophes - some natural, others very much man-made. 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 shaped so many previous crises. Moreover, we can't hope to understand the pandemic without a keen appreciation of the history of economics, society, culture and politics. The latest episode of the CapX Podcast is a recording of our CapX Live event with Professor Ferguson – a typically lively, entertaining and thought-provoking discussion with our editor-in-chief, Robert Colvile. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Meritocracy is the creed of our age. An idea that has great success in crossing traditional boundaries: not just Thatcher, Reagan and Boris Johnson, but Clinton, Blair and Xi Jinping have sung the praises of a society where anyone can rise based on their own talent and effort. But just as meritocracy has risen to be the dominant idea of our age, it's faced an onslaught of criticism, from the traditional left who saw it as a betrayal of principles of equality and solidarity, contemporary social justice activists who regard it as just another instrument of white power, and conservatives who fear it undermines the bonds of community and tradition. Most interesting though are the trenchant critiques from some of those at the heart of the meritocratic system, like the Yale Law professor who calls it a "sham"- an excuse for the wealthy to game the system and pass on their privilege to the younger generation. These are some of the questions that preoccupy Adrian Wooldridge, the political editor of The Economist, in his latest book, the Aristocracy of Talent . This episode of the CapX Podcast is a recording of a CapX Live interview with Adrian last week where we discussed the history of the meritocratic idea from Plato to the present day, how supposedly meritocratic societies have been corrupted and laid low by old-fashioned cronyism, and how we can go about correcting that. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Is Britain a racist society? After a year where prejudice, privilege and protest have never been far from the headlines, it's a question that continues to provoke the fiercest debates – not least after the recent publication of the Government's recent Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities. For the latest instalment of The CapX Podcast, editor John Ashmore spoke to Dr Rakib Ehsan, an independent researcher and author who covers ethnicity and cultural issues in the UK. Rakib is a regular contributor to the site and one of his pieces, on social outcomes for white working class children , is quoted at length in the Commission's report. In a wide-ranging interview, we discussed the nature of discrimination in Britain, whether we are importing a US-style culture war, the importance of family structure for people's life chances and the acute difficulties now faced by Keir Starmer's Labour Party in negotiating between its metropolitan base and its socially conservative former heartlands. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Deep rifts are tearing societies apart and shredding old political allegiances: across the Western world, regions are rebelling against cities, the working class against the elites and the young against the old. For far too many, contemporary capitalism simply isn't delivering the goods. For Sir Paul Collier, one of the world's leading development economists, the response to this profound crisis is as much ethical as technical. His proposals for a capitalism based on both prosperity and morality have appeal beyond the traditional left-right divide – and he has a pragmatic plan to put them into action. He joined CapX and an online audience for a fascinating conversation that ranged from 19th century Bradford, to his own experiences growing up in post-war Sheffield to the morality of modern media influencers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Right now All the Government’s efforts are focussed on coronavirus, but what about the fundamental mandate it was elected on? As the vaccine roll-out continues apace, backbench MPs could be forgiven for raising their eyes to the horizon and starting to think about their prospects for re-election in 2024. By far the biggest Conservative cohort in parliament is the so-called 109 group of MPs newly elected in 2019. These guys are the cavalry, who stormed the red wall with promises of delivering Brexit and levelling up those parts of the country that had been overlooked by Labour for generations. They’re fiercely loyal to Boris Johnson while recognising that their jobs depend on sticking up for their voters – many of whom aren’t traditional Tories. CapX spoke to four of them – Dehenna Davison, MP for Bishop Auckland, James Sunderland, MP for Bracknell, Virginia Crosbie, MP for Ynys Môn and Alexander Stafford, MP for Rother valley – to find out how they feel about the future now that Britain has left the EU with a trade deal and the pandemic has derailed the economy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
For our final CapX Pocast of the year, it’s time to take a look back at this absolute car-crash of a year. Rather than the usual tête-à-tête, we decided to make this a bit more of a panel show format, with each of our guests choosing their hero, villain, moment, policy and idea of the year, before rounding off with some reflections on what’s ahead in 2021. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Not many economists have trekked through lawless jungles, visited shops and restaurants world’s most entrepreneurial refugee camp or hung out with inmates in a Louisiana mega jail. For his book, Extreme Economies, Richard Davies went to some of the most desperate places on the planet, but found incredible stories of human resilience. People with nothing had created businesses and currencies from scratch - proving that even in dire circumstances, the free market finds a way. In this episode of the podcast we discuss what a world ravaged by the global pandemic can learn from disaster zones, displaced societies and failed states. Visit www.extremeeconomies.com/signed and enter the code CapX to get a signed copy of Richard's book for the special price of £7. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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1 Free Exchange: Lockdown vs liberty with Jonathan Sumption 35:30
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35:30Few have opposed the Government’s handling of the pandemic with as much eloquence and authority as Lord Sumption. The former supreme court judge, medieval historian and Reith lecturer doesn’t just dispute the scientific evidence, he questions the legal and constitutional justification for these restrictions on our liberty. He’s claimed that the Government has a habit of deliberately avoiding parliamentary scrutiny and is using fear as an instrument of coercion. That, he says, is how democracy dies. As England was put back under stay-at-home-orders he spoke to CapX about the ethics and efficacy of lockdown. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Our guest this week is Matt Forde - one of Britain's foremost stand-ups, satirists and impressionists. He's a highly successful stage comedian, the voice of Boris Johnson, Keir Starmer and Donald Trump on the revamped version of Spitting Image and, as of a few weeks ago the author of a new memoir, Politically Homeless ,. It covers his youth in a working class area of Nottingham, teen years of hard left activism and a long, often thankless stint working for the Labour Party - including dressing up as a fluffy chicken to harangue a prominent Lib Dem on the campaign trail. As you'd expect from a comedian, this was great fun to record, but Matt can certainly do the serious stuff too, and his insights on working in a party machine are well worth tuning in for, even if you really tuned in to hear his eerily accurate impressions of Boris and Donald Trump. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Not many podcast guests start by telling you they are in pain. Even fewer that the source of their discomfort is the scars inflicted by North Korean prison camp guards. Then again, not many podcast guests have seen what Timothy has. This remarkable man has escaped the Kim regime, not once but twice and lived o tell his extraordinary tale. His is a story of tireless courage, resilience and, in his account, a great deal of luck. Timothy now has a new life here in the UK, working for a charity called Open Doors that helps Christians facing persecution all over the world, including the 300,000 toiling under the vengeful eye of the Kim regime. He joined us down the line for what was one of the most moving, humbling episodes of Free Exchange we've ever recorded. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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1 Free Exchange: Tim Harford on How To Make The World Add Up 31:44
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31:44Stats! What we need is stats! If Dickens' hard-nosed utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind was around today he'd probably be knee-deep in SAGE briefings and ONS data bulletins, trying to work out what the heck is going on with this virus. In the absence of a fictional Victorian schoolmaster, who better to lead us through the numerical mire than Tim Harford - the economist, author, broadcaster and TED-talker - whose new book 'How To Make The World Add Up' is an invaluable guide to seeing through the statistical fog. It's much more than just a handy Spark Notes for numeracy though, as Tim delves into the deeply held psychological biases that lead us down the wrong path. This was a great discussion about a book packed with insights and wonderful nuggets, such as: what do the inner workings of a toilet tell us about political polarisation? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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1 Free Exchange: Johan Norberg on the importance of being open 31:14
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31:14What do Ancient Rome, Muslim Spain and Song era China have in common? Military might, sophisticated legal systems or, perhaps, intellectual brilliance? All of these things played their part in creating the great empire of the past, but the answer is something a little more abstract. In his latest book the Swedish historian Johan Norberg argues that that every truly successful civilisation is defined by one key ingredient – openness. To new ideas, new people and new technology. At a time when much of that life-enhancing, economy-expanding openness seems under threat from pandemic panic and populist demagoguery, his optimistic message feels particularly urgent. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Not many organisations can claim to have had Adam Smith, Edmund Burke and Karl Marx as members. Then again, not many organisations are anything like the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce – better known today as the RSA. For over 260 years Its mission has been nothing short of improving an entire nation – funding inventions, encouraging trade, planting millions of trees, putting on the Great Exhibition and creating Britain’s first exam board. And int hat time it has been a hotbed of utilitarianism, a home to conservatives, radicals and even the founding father of communism. Who better to discuss this fascinating, intensely colourful history than Anton Howes, the RSA’s house historian, whose history of the Society, Arts and Minds, was released in May. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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1 Free Exchange: Jamila Mammadova on the Caucasian conundrum 22:11
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22:11For the final instalment of our Illiberalism in Europe series we’re going to the furthest boundary of the continent, beyond the Black Sea to Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. Our guest is Jamila Mammadova, a native of Baku and now a researcher at the foreign policy thinktank the Henry Jackson Society. She sat down with CapX editor John Ashmore to discuss Caucasian foreign policy, Putin's territorial ambitions and the possibility of a new state in eastern Europe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Brendan Simms is one of Britain’s leading historians. Professor of the History of International Relations at Peterhouse College, Cambridge, Brendan has published extensively on Britain’s role in the world, European grand strategy, and the rise of fascism in the C20th. His books are widely acclaimed and include Europe: The Battle for Supremacy , Britain’s Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation, and his latest, Hitler: Only the World was Enough. Our Deputy Editor, Frank Lawton, sat down with Brendan for discussion that ranged from the Holy Roman Empire to the future of Europe (with the odd trip down a Brexit byway for good measure). But first, Frank began by asking if there was such a thing as ‘historical thinking’ and whether it was of any use to policy makers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
This week is the latest instalment in our Illiberalism in Europe series, exploring the many different challenges to freedom on the continent – our topic is the way the UK approaches drugs: should we legalise them, decriminalise them or keep the status quo? If we do, which substances would be allowed, and which would remain prohibited? What have countries that have changed their drug laws experienced, and what might the UK learn? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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This week we’re stepping back into antiquity for a look at political life in Ancient Rome. Our guest is the Daily Telegraph’s political journalist and Classics enthusiast Asa Bennett, who has just written a book entitled Romanifesto looking at how our current crop of politicians could learn from the travails of their ancient forebears. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Whether it’s interfering in Syria, Venezuela or Iran, Vladimir Putin is rarely out of the headlines. But what’s life like for the opposition activists trying to take the fight to the Russian president on his home turf? To find out, we spoke to Vera Kichanova, the first ever Libertarian Party candidate elected to public office in Russia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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1 Free Exchange: David Willetts on how the baby boomers took their children's future 34:32
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34:32Lord David Willetts has been an intellectual titan on the centre right for the past 30 years. Having worked in Margaret Thatcher’s policy unit, Willetts was an MP between 1992 and 2015, and served as a Cabinet Minister in the coalition government. He is President of the independent think-tank the Resolution Foundation, and the author of a number of books, including The Pinch: How Baby Boomers took their children’s future – and why they should give it back. The book caused quite a stir on publication in 2010, and its thesis has proved remarkably prescient in the years since. So to mark the release of the second edition, our Deputy Editor Frank Lawton sat down with him to discuss the broken social contract and how to fix it. Frank began by asking him when – as a Baby Boomer himself – he first realised he was to blame for everything. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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1 Free Exchange: Raoul Ruparel on how to negotiate a Brexit deal 32:07
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32:07It’s the Brexit Election – at least according to some broadcasters – yet we’ve had relatively little scrutiny of what ‘getting Brexit done’ actually means if Boris Johnson does win his cherished majority. To shine a light on the next phase of negotiations, I caught up with one of the key players involved in putting together the Withdrawal Agreement. Raoul Ruparel spent two years as Special Adviser to then Brexit Secretary David Davis, followed by a year in 10 Downing St as Theresa May’s Special Adviser on Europe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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With the general election just two weeks away we wanted to get the inside track from three party political experts on how their side’s campaign has gone so far, and what they expect to happen on December 12. From the Lib Dems we welcomed Mark Pack, the Editor of Liberal Democrat Newswire. From Labour, Sienna Rodgers, the Editor LaboutList, and completing the line-up was the regular CapX contributor and Assistant Editor of ConservativeHome, Henry Hill. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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1 Free Exchange: The new dividing line in British politics 47:48
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47:48Throughout 2019, CapX has been working with the anti-poverty charity the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on a project about rebalancing Britain - looking at how to tackle the longstanding issues in the British economy such as the gap between towns and cities, rural and urban areas and the different regions of the UK. A big focus of that project has been how to improve the lot of low-income voters. So to discuss that this week, we brought together JRF’s Executive Director Claire Ainsley; pollster extraordinaire James Kanagasooriam; and CapX's Deputy Editor Frank Lawton. I began by asking Claire about just how important low-income voters will be in the coming election. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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1 Free Exchange: Tim Bale on the life and times of political parties 32:04
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32:04In confusing times, Tim Bale is a rare voice of clarity. Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London, Tim is a regular presence on radio and tv, providing insightful commentary on the latest political crises. The author of many incisive books, including The Conservative Party: from Thatcher to Cameron, and Five Year Mission: Labour under Ed Miliband, Tim spoke to our Deputy Editor, Frank Lawton, about elections, Brexit and his latest co-authored book, Footsoldiers: Political Party Membership in the C21st. Frank began by asking why we need political parties in the first place. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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1 Free Exchange: Peter Pomerantsev on the war against reality 35:22
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35:22This week we were delighted to welcome Peter Pomerantsev to CapX Towers. Peter is one of the world’s leading writers on propaganda and fake news, and has even given evidence to the US Congress on Russian disinformation. He also boasts a fascinating and varied CV, including many years working as a TV producer in Putin’s Russia – an experience he documented in gripping style in his first book ‘Nothing Is Real and Everything is Possible’. Peter sat down with CapX Editor John Ashmore to discuss his latest book ‘This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality”, in which Peter travels the world finding out how despots and demagogues are twisting the truth – and how we can start to fight back. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Our guest this week is entrepreneur, economist, air force veteran and latterly candidate for the US Congress, Tim Kane. Tim is also the co-author with Glenn Hubbard of the acclaimed book ‘Balance: the Economics of Great powers from ancient Rome to modern America’ – I started by asking him about the thesis behind the book and why it is that great powers end up falling on hard times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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1 Free Exchange: Konstantin Kisin on free speech in comedy 31:14
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31:14CapX editor John Ashmore speaks to comedian Konstantin Kisin about growing up in the Soviet Union, the perils of policing free speech and the worrying role of big tech companies in censoring debate. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What is the future of capitalism? This week's Free Exchange exchange, recorded live at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, debates just that. Our Editor John Ashmore chaired an expert panel including the RSA's Alan Lockey, digital policy expert Casey Calista and fellow of the Adam Smith Institute and self-declared inventor of neoliberalism, Sam Bowman, as they discussed the rise of platform capitalism, solving Britain's productivity crisis and whether we should be scared of big tech. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Are the Conservatives doomed by demographics? With younger and BME voters rejecting the party, what can the Tories do to turn things around and put together an election-winning coalition, not just for the upcoming poll, but for the many to come in the future? That was the question facing the panel for our CapX live debate at the Tory conference in Manchester last week. I invited Conservative activists Elena Bunbury and Resham Kotecha along with polling supremo Joe Twyman to chat about the challenge ahead, the perils of tokenism, and how the party can truly offer something for everyone. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
This week is a special episode of Free Exchange, recorded live at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester. The director of the Centre for Policy Studies, Robert Colvile, was joined by some of the leading lights on the right to discuss why free markets, competition and conservatism really are the route to prosperity. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Gisela Stuart is a rare figure in British politics - a Labour politician who campaigned wholeheartedly for Brexit. As an MP from 1997-2017, Gisela is perhaps best known for her role in the 2016 referendum, where she chaired the Vote Leave campaign and appeared in the TV debates. But her deep interest in constitutional and foreign affairs long-predates that referendum. Gisela sat on the Foreign Affairs Select Committee for nearly a decade, was a founding signatory to the foreign policy think tank The Henry Jackson Society, and is now Chair of Wilton Park, an executive agency of the Foreign Office dedicated to mediation and resolving international conflict. Our Assistant Editor, Frank Lawton, sat down with her to chat all things foreign affairs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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1 Marie Le Conte on how the Westminster bubble really works 35:25
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35:25This week it was our great pleasure to be joined by journalist Marie Le Conte, whose new book on Westminster gossip lifts the lift on how things really work in the corridors of power. We sat down to chat about the power of WhatsApp, clashing political cultures, and the fine art of coffee hopping. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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1 Free Exchange: The criminal cartels running Cuba and Venezuela 47:03
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47:03This week we're going international and talking about two connected regimes that have been brought to their knees by brutal authoritarian governments: Cuba and Venezuela. Boris Arenas Gonzalez was blocked from leaving Cuba by the Communist regime, so joins us down the line from Havana to talk about the political situation, the centrality of the black market, and his life as a pro-democracy activist. Diego Moya Ocampos grew up in Venezuela and now works as a political risk analyst at IHS Market in London. Rather than seeing the situation in Venezuela as evidence of the failure of central planning, Ocampos argues that the governing class operates in practice as a criminal cartel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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1 Peter Riddell on good government and the uncertain life of a British Minister 30:09
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30:09Peter Riddell is one of the country’s most respected analysts of the workings of government, parliament and Whitehall. Prior to his current role as Commissioner for Public Appointments, Peter was the Director of the Institute for Government, and a journalist with over 40 years experience during which he has held editorial positions at The FT and The Times. He is also the author of 8 books, including 15 Minutes of Power: The Uncertain Life of British Ministers and In Defence of Politicians (In Spite of Themselves) . Our Assistant Editor Frank Lawton began by asking why politicians needed defending in the first place. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Our guest this week is a true heavyweight of the British political scene. Sir Malcolm Rifkind spent more than a decade in Cabinet from 1986 to 1997, beginning as Scotland Secretary under Margaret Thatcher before going on to serve as Transport Secretary, Defence Secretary and finally Foreign Secretary under John Major. In 2010 David Cameron appointed Sir Malcolm to chair Parliament’s Joint Intelligence Committee, with oversight of MI5, MI6 and GCHQ. I sat down with Sir Malcolm to discuss the changing role of the Foreign Secretary, how Britain should deal with a rising China and what the future holds after Brexit. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Robert D. Kaplan is the author of some 18 books and is widely-regarded as one of the world’s leading thinkers on foreign policy, defence and geopolitics. He’s been named in Foreign Policy’s ‘Top 100 Global Thinkers’, and he’s advised Kings, Prime Ministers and Defence Secretaries all over the world. He’s reported from over 100 countries, giving him a grounding in the reality of foreign affairs that most pundits could only dream of. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Our guest this week is the journalist and author Owen Bennett. Owen has been a member of the parliamentary lobby since 2014, writing for publications such as the Daily Express, HP and City AM, and he was recently appointed Whitehall Editor at the Daily Telegraph. In between reporting on the highs and lows of British politics he’s managed to write three books – Following Farage, The Brexit Club and his soon-to-be-released biography Michael Gove, A Man In A Hurry. We sat down to talk about Gove’s upbringing, his time in the Oxford Union and those infamous cocaine revelations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Our guest this week is the world-renowned historian and journalist Anne Applebaum. Anne is a regular columnist in the Washington Post, a visiting professor at the London School of Economics and the author of a number of critically acclaimed books on the Soviet era, including Gulag – A History, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2004. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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For the latest episode of Free Exchange, CapX’s acting editor John Ashmore sat down with one of the world’s most renowned historians, Niall Ferguson. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In his final episode as host of free exchange and editor of CapX, Oliver Wiseman talks to Steven Pinker Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Is Rory Stewart 2019’s answer to Nick Clegg? Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson thinks so. Like Nick Clegg, she said of the unlikely star of the early phases of the Tory leadership contest, he is 'changing political communication'. But, she added, 'like Nick, I fear the electorate will appreciate him yet vote for someone else.' Whether or not you think this week’s guest is the best candidate to be the next Conservative leader, Rory Stewart has been a breath of fresh air in the last week or so, escaping Westminster to tour the country and talk politics with whoever will listen. With his social media videos he has cut out the middle man and inserted himself into the conversation about the future of his party and the country. Now most of his colleagues expect these walking tours to be an entertaining distraction before they settle down to the serious task of selecting Britain’s next Prime Minister. But Stewart isn’t running to be a inoffensive amuse bouche. He means business. For this week's episode of Free Exchange, I met up with him in St James’s Park to talk about everything from the social care and Brexit to opium pipes and why he is the 'Trumpian anti-Trump'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
My guest for the first in a new run of Free Exchange episodes is the New York Times columnist and bestselling author David Brooks. His previous books include The Road to Character , The Social Animal and Bobos in Paradise . Most recently, he is the author of The Second Mountain . In his latest work, he deals with a bigger issue than the stuff we usually worry about here at CapX: what does it mean to live a good life? That is a personal question, and The Second Mountain is a very personal book. But it is not without political implications. Mr Brooks is critical of meritocracy. He cites the grim statistics about deaths of despair and loneliness in America. He thinks something needs to change if people are to live more fulfilling lives, and his book is an attempt to put his finger on what that thing might be. Mr Brooks was in London earlier this week and came to CapX's offices to talk about The Second Mountain . I started by asking him about the personal crisis that serves as the book's starting point. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
We spend an awful lot of time worrying about the political weather. But behind the day-to-day drama, the political climate is changing too - and in fundamental ways. One of the biggest shifts in recent years is the widening generational gap. There have always been differences between younger and older voters, but they are getting harder and harder to ignore. In fact, age – not class or income – is now the best predictor of how someone will vote. The younger you are, the less likely you are to vote Tory. And that problem for the right appears to be getting worse. So if you want to understand the challenges the Conservative Party face, tackling the generational aspect of modern politics is unavoidable. On Monday, Onward, a centre-right think tank, published the latest set of polling on the Conservatives’ generational woes. For this week’s episode of Free Exchange I spoke to Will Tanner, director of Onward and former adviser to Theresa May, about what is driving Britain’s widening age gap, and what the Conservative Party should do about it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it does. Westminster’s Brexit crisis continues to deepen and the mood on all sides in SW1 continues to darken. Which is why this week on Free Exchange my colleague John Ashmore and I decided to cheer ourselves up by talking to Matt Forde. Matt is one of Britain’s leading political comedians. He hosts 'Unspun' on Dave and his podcast ‘The Political Party’ features interviews with some of the most interesting people in politics. We spoke to Matt about his time as a political adviser, whether it’s getting harder to make jokes about politics as the debate gets nastier and why he’s fallen out of love with the Labour party. Tickets are available now for his new show, 'Brexit Through the Gift Shop' at the Bloomsbury Theatre on May 25. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Ever since Theresa May wrote to Donald Tusk to trigger Article 50 two years ago, March 29th, 2019, has been a Brexit lodestar. The UK’s planned departure date has been a point of comparative clarity in what has been an exceptionally turbulent period. This week, the Prime Minister officially abandoned her plan for Britain to leave the EU on time, writing to Donald Tusk to ask for a short extension to Article 50. There is no guarantee that the EU will accept the request. More generally, with just nine days to go until what was supposed to be Brexit day, what will happen next remains staggeringly unclear. In an emergency episode of Free Exchange, CapX's Editor Oliver Wiseman spoke to three astute Brexitologists to try to make sense of the great riddle of British politics that only gets more complicated. Helping me get my head around the latest developments was the Institute for Government’s Tim Durrant, Open Europe’s Dominic Walsh and CapX’s very own John Ashmore. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Tony Blair was arguably the most electorally successful Prime Minister in recent British history. And yet, if you ask British voters today what they think of the man behind New Labour the answer is not exactly an enthusiastic thumbs up. Just 22 per cent think Blair did a good job, while 49 per cent think he did a bad job. Nowhere is the repudiation of Blair clearer than at the top of the Labour Party. For those with their hands on the reins today, ‘Blairite’ is about the worst insult going. And it is impossible to understand the rise of Corbyn without appreciating Blair’s legacy. My guest this week is someone who takes a very different view of Blair. John Rentoul is the Independent’s chief political commentator who, unusually for a Westminster journalist, also teaches a course on Tony Blair with Jon Davis at King’s College, London. Davis and Rentoul have just published a book on the Blair government aptly titled Heroes or Villains? The Blair Government Reconsidered . They make generous use of fascinating first-hand testimony to paint a more flattering portrait of New Labour than many on both the left or the right would agree with. For this week’s episode of Free Exchange, I spoke to John Rentoul about things Blair: what were his biggest achievements? How much of the blame does he deserve for contemporary political problems? Why was his relationship with Gordon Brown quite so dysfunctional? And how, ultimately, will history judge him? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
If someone utters the word ‘neoliberal’ in a political debate, chances are they’re using it as a term of abuse. However, in recent years, a small but growing group have tried to reclaim the word, transforming an insult left-wingers hurl at free marketeers to something more meaningful. My guest on the podcast this week is a member of that group. As well as being one of the most compelling advocates of neoliberalism, Sam Bowman is a font of interesting and thought-provoking opinions on a wide range of policy questions. Until a few years ago, Sam worked at the Adam Smith Institute. Now he works at the consultancy Fingleton Associates. He is also an occasional CapX contributor. He recently came into our offices to talk all things neoliberalism. I hope you enjoy the conversation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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My guest this week is Gisela Stuart. Gisela was elected as the Labour MP for Birmingham Edgbaston in the 1997 landside that brought New Labour to power. Her seat had returned a Conservative MP for the previous 99 years but she won as the Labour candidate in five successive elections before stepping down in 2017. Gisela became a household name late on in her political career, when, during the 2016 referendum, she chaired the Leave campaign, taking part in the televised Wembley debate watched by millions and touring the country with Boris Johnson and Michael Gove in the now infamous Vote Leave battle bus. As a German-born ally of Europhile Tony Blair, she was, on paper at least, an unlikely person to head up the campaign to take Britain out of the EU. But meeting Gisela, it soon becomes clear you are dealing with an original thinker reluctant to follow anyone’s lead on a question as important as Europe. I spoke to Gisela about the reason for Euroscepticism, the state of the Brexit debate, whether she supports the Prime Minister’s deal, the legacy of the referendum and the health of her party – including whether or not she would continue to take the Labour whip were she still an MP. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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We are said to be living in an age of rapid technological transformation, with another game-changing new gadget just around the corner and innovations overhauling everything from how we communicate to what jobs we do. But is our economic system really as innovative as we think? Not according to this week’s guest on Free Exchange. Fredrik Erixon argues that far from being dominated by swashbuckling entrepreneurs, the version of Western capitalism in place today is defined by a dreary managerialism and a stultifying aversion to risk. The result is slow growth, stagnating living standards -- and unhappy voters. Fredrik set out this argument in a book called The Innovation Illusion: How So Little Is Created By So Many Working So Hard , which he wrote with co-author Bjorn Weigel a few years ago. Fredrik is also the director of the European Centre for International Political Economy, a think tank based in Brussels. I spoke to Fredrik about the ways in which we have lost our way economically, what that means politically, and we can rediscover the recipe for success. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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My guest on the podcast this week is Rory Sutherland. Rory is the Vice Chairman of the advertising agency Ogilvy, a job title which the company’s website describes as ‘attractively vague’. Rory is not your average ad man. After more than 20 years as a copywriter and creative director for the firm, he set up an in-house behavioural economics practice. And outside the day job, he writes the Wiki Man column for the Spectator . In his journalism, speeches and in conversation Rory is a fount of counterintuitive, insightful and entertaining arguments that mean he is never knowingly dull. I met him earlier this week at Ogilvy’s London offices, where we discussed, among many other things, the relationship between innovation and marketing, why McDonalds is a safer bet than the Fat Duck, and what economists get wrong about human nature. I started by asking him what advice he had for those of us keen to persuade more people of the merits of the market. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
This week's guest on Free Exchange is the co-author of one of the most consequential books written in recent years. Cass Sunstein is a professor at Harvard Law School and one of America's most prolific and prominent academics. Nudge , which he wrote with the economist Richard Thaler just over a decade ago, applied the insights of behavioural economics to policymaking. Its publication was the start of a quiet revolution in government, with the creation of so-called 'nudge units' that have found ways of boosting pension saving, reducing energy consumption and catching cancer earlier with small changes that make it as easy as possible for people to make the right choices. I spoke to Cass about nudges, his time putting theory into practice in the Obama administration, and his new book, On Freedom , in which he argues that we need to rethink freedom of choice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
This week's guest on Free Exchange, the CapX podcast, is Sir Paul Collier, Professor of Economics at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. As a development economist, Paul has spent his life tackling some of the thorniest and most important questions around: what is holding the world’s poorest back? And what can be done to give them a route out of that poverty? His bestselling book The Bottom Billion , published a decade ago, quickly became a must-read for anyone remotely interested in the area. More recently, however, Paul's focus has changed. His latest book, The Future of Capitalism , deals with what he thinks has gone wrong not in a failed African state, but here in the West. And he thinks our political and economic system isn’t living up to the promises we make about it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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CapX Editor Oliver Wiseman speaks to Henry Newman, Director of Open Europe and one of the most eagle-eyed Brexit watchers in SW1, to try and make sense of the latest developments. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
For the final episode of the year, Oliver Wiseman and a group of CapX contributors hand out the gongs in the CapX Awards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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You might think the United States is a dynamic, free market economy - but you'd be wrong. In their new book The Myth of Capitalism, Jonathan Tepper and Denise Hearn show convincingly that modern America is actually characterised by "ersatz capitalism", with a few big players dominating swathes of the economy, capturing regulators and screwing over consumers into the bargain. CapX Deputy Editor John Ashmore sat down with Jonathan to discuss the way out of America's malaise, the impact of oligopoly capitalism on Western society and whether there's cause to be optimistic about the future. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
CapX's deputy editor Oliver Wiseman spent the weeks before the election criss-crossing the country. He talks to Robert Colvile about the extraordinary results, and what happens next Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Professor John Curtice, the pollster's pollster, talks to Robert Colvile about election night and taking the pulse of the nation, in a special election edition of the CapX podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
As strategy director to David Cameron and pollster for the Remain and Better Together campaigns, Lord Cooper of Windrush has been at the heart of some of the biggest moments in British politics. Ahead of the UK election, he talks to Robert Colvile about what he's learned, why pollsters get it wrong, and why Margate holds the key to Britain's future. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Lord Owen was Britain's youngest ever Foreign Secretary - before jumping ship to start his own party. The former leader of the SDP talks to Robert Colvile, CapX's Editor, about making Brexit a cross-party cause and why today's Labour MPs shouldn't follow in his footsteps. (This interview was recorded before the election was called.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Sue Cameron has made it her life's work to understand the people who run Britain - not the politicians, but the civil servants who sit behind them. She talks to Robert Colvile, CapX's Editor, about how well Britain is governed, which Prime Ministers have got the best grip on the Whitehall machine, and how the Civil Service is going to cope with Brexit. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Robert Colvile talks to Frank Field - the Labour MP who's spent his career thinking the unthinkable, and often been punished for it by his party. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Robert Colvile, Editor of CapX, talks to the Observer columnist Nick Cohen about the decline of the Left, his fears over Brexit, and why Jeremy Corbyn isn't going anywhere. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Robert Colvile, Editor of CapX, talks to Daniel Hannan MEP about Brexit, free trade and the most surprising and important idea in economics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
An award-winning columnist and polemicist, Peter Oborne is the premier chronicler of the decline and fall of Britain's political class. He talks to Robert Colvile about the rise of political lying, his hopes for Brexit, and why he thinks we don't understand the Muslim world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Chancellor, Brexiteer, climate change sceptic, Spectator editor, prime ministerial speechwriter - Lord Lawson has had one of the most packed careers in politics. He talks to Robert Colvile about what he's learned over his career, and where the next crisis is coming from. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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This week's episode of Free Exchange is a recording of the most recent CapX Live event: a conversation with Adrian Wooldridge, the political editor of the Economist, where he also writes the Bagehot column on British politics. Adrian came to CapX HQ to talk about his new book. He and former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan have recently published Capitalism in America , a brilliant economic history of the United States. In explaining America's unlikely rise -- one of the greatest success stories in human history -- Greenspan and Wooldridge make the case for popular capitalism. In doing so, they use the past to explain how America can rediscover its dynamism and make the most of the future. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Since the election of Donald Trump and, to a lesser extent, the Brexit referendum, there’s been a fierce debate about what caused these political earthquakes. Are the drivers of these votes primarily economic or cultural? The economic side of the argument is the more popular one. Consider, for example, the stereotypical Trump voter: someone probably in the Midwest who has been on the sharp end of globalisation. He has struggled to find work since deindustrialisation rendered his skills redundant. He is one of the losers of recent economic history. Eric Kaufmann, Professor of Politics at Birkbeck College, London, thinks this caricature is badly wrong. His new book Whiteshift is attracting plenty of attention – and praise – for the more uncomfortable conclusion it draws: that recent ruptures like Trump and Brexit can be almost entirely explained by identity, not economics. According to Kaufmann, they are a consequence of demographic change. The white majority is declining and as it does so, it feels culturally threatened. That, he argues forcefully, is why the anti-immigrant message of candidates like Trump is so appealing. For the podcast this week, I met Eric in his Bickbeck office to talk about the ideas in his monumental and thorough study of a difficult subject. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
This week's episode of Free Exchange is on... you guessed it: Brexit. The Prime Minister may have dodged a confidence vote for the time being, but everyone seems to agree that she will struggle to get her deal through the House of Commons. What happens if she loses that vote? And can she go back to the renegotiating table in an effort to allay some of her colleague's concerns? CapX Editor Oliver Wiseman was joined by Stephen Booth, Director of Policy and Research at Open Europe, Lee Rowley, Conservative MP for North East Derbyshire and one of the backbenchers who has submitted a letter of no confidence in the Prime Minister, and John Ashmore, Deputy Editor of CapX, to make sense of an uncertain time in Westminster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
This week we’re bringing you a recording of a CapX Live event held at our offices last week. I sat down with Jamie Susskind to talk about his new book, Future Politics . Jamie’s book is an invaluable, and at times terrifying, guide to the ways in which we are hopelessly unprepared for the rapid technological change is going to transform politics. Jamie and I spoke about what these transformative new technologies are, how worried we should be about big tech, why so many politicians get technology so badly wrong, and whether the core principles of political philosophy are still relevant in the digital age. I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Arguably the most important political trend across the West in recent years has been the rise of national populism. It had a hand in the election of Donald Trump and the vote for Brexit. It has upended politics in numerous European countries. It is tempting -- and reassuring -- to see this anti-establishment wave as a flash in the pan: a bump on the road towards ever more liberal democracies. Matthew Goodwin argues otherwise. In 'National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy', he and his co-author Roger Eatwell explode a number of widespread myths about why populism is popular, who supports these movements, and how they will change politics in years to come. Matthew is this week's guest on the podcast. He explained the 'four Ds' that are driving voters into the arms of populists, what the liberal establishment gets wrong and why the likes of Donald Trump, Marine le Pen and Matteo Salvini could be the new normal. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
CapX Editor Oliver Wiseman is joined by three eagle-eyed Westminster watches for a discussion of this week's budget. Is austerity over? Is that good news? Why are Britain's growth figures so underwhelming? Will Universal Credit work with more money? Just how much do we spend on the NHS? And will Philip Hammond survive long enough to deliver another budget? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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When we think about the economy, we tend to think about stuff. Physical goods are manufactured and sold, factories are built and upgraded, innovation gives us shiny new gadgets we can hold in our hands. But this is becoming a less and less accurate way of thinking about things. Increasingly, intangible assets are what matter. According to Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake, the authors of the brilliant Capitalism Without Capital , these intangible assets don’t play by the basic laws of economics. And so the rise of assets you can’t touch, they argue, is having a big impact on how the economy works. Haskel and Westlake start with a simple, even obvious, insight and end with an important and thoughtful book about the nature of the modern economy. Their work has received high praise from high places. Bill Gates calls Capitalism without Capital “required reading for policymakers”. For this week’s episode of free exchange, I spoke to Stian about his book, which is out now in paperback, and the implications of the ideas contained within it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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22:05Free Exchange, the CapX podcast, is back with an exciting new series of interviews and conversations. In the coming months, we'll be welcoming a fascinating line up of politicians, policymakers, authors, economists and journalists on to the show to talk about some of the biggest questions we face today. We’re kicking things off with a live recording of a CapX event at Conservative Party Conference on what the term “global Britain” really means. It’s a phrase ministers and Brexit supporters are fond of using when laying out their vision for Britain after it leaves the European Union. But is it anything more than a soundbite? And if so, what should it mean for government policy? Our three guests were all, in their own ways, well-placed to consider these issues. Jim O’Neill is the economist famous for coining the term Brics who went on to work with George Osborne on the Northern Powerhouse. He now sits as a crossbench peer in the house of lords and earlier this year was appointed Chair of Chatham House. The second guest was Lucy Neville-Rolfe. Lucy is a former businesswomen who is now a Conservative member of the house of lords and who, like Jim has also been involved in economic policymaking, serving as commercial secretary to the treasury under Philip Hammond until last summer. Last but not least was Bob Seely MP. Bob is the Conservative MP for the Isle of Wight and a member of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee. He’s also a CapX contributor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Brexit is at an impasse. The row between Theresa May and David Davis over the wording of a customs backstop ended with a fudge of a fudge of a fudge. This has only underlined just how difficult this government has found it to pin its Brexit colours to the mast. That is partly because of a disagreement within Cabinet. But it's also the product of a hung Parliament that means whatever the government agrees, a majority of MPs could take a different view and scupper the whole thing. With the Brexit countdown clock ticking, a crucial series of votes on the EU withdrawal bill around the corner, and a council meeting at the end of the June, Theresa May is running out of time. To help break the deadlock, Open Europe, home to some of the smartest thinking on UK-EU relations, this week published its blueprint for a deal that is a workable compromise in what is a fraught Brexit debate. In a special Brexit edition of the Free Exchange podcast I spoke to Open Europe’s director Henry Newman about their proposal for a pragmatic deal with the EU as well as why Brexit has drifted so badly off course. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
This May marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx. For many, this was an occasion for celebration, not sombre reflection on a set of ideas that, when put into action, have claimed the lives of millions. John McDonnell gave a speech on the enduring relevance of Marx. Jean Claude Juncker played his part in the fortification of the German thinker’s reputation by unveiling a Chinese funded statue of Marx in Trier. The headline of one New York Times piece simply said: "Happy Birthday Karl Marx. You were right!" For this week's episode of Free Exchange, I spoke to the IEA's Kristian Niemietz. author of a forthcoming book on Marxist regimes and their fellow travellers, about why a man whose ideas have been found not just to be wrong, but dangerously so, is still so revered by so many. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Conservatives can't agree on much at the moment. But one view that the vast majority of them would struggle to disagree with is that there are fundamental problems with the party's pitch to the electorate. The fault lines have been there for some time, but the issue became impossible to ignore after last year's general election. That is why there has been a flurry of activity on the centre-right of British politics lately. At the forefront of the wave of initiatives to reboot Conservatism is George Freeman, MP for Mid Norfolk and head of the Conservative Policy Forum, who last year launched his Big Tent Ideas Festival. The event, which journalists quickly dubbed "Tory Glastonbury", returns on larger scale this year. For this week's episode of Free Exchange, I spoke to George about the challenges and opportunities of Conservative renewal. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
We recently welcomed Jamie Bartlett to the CapX offices to talk about what happens where politics and technology intersect. Jamie is the author of The People Vs Tech: How the Internet is Killing Democracy , a book that touches on a number of the most pressing concerns surrounding the rapid pace of technological change and, as the title suggests, what that means for democracy. He spoke to CapX's Editor-in-Chief Robert Colvile about the ideas in his new book in front of a live audience. This week's episode of Free Exchange is an edited version of that conversation. We hope you enjoy it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
In this week’s Spring Statement, Philip Hammond described himself as positively tiggerish about the economic news he was bringing to the House of Commons. His upbeat mood was, in large part, thanks to a minuscule uptick in the Office for Budget Responsibility’s growth forecasts for the next five years. It’s a reminder of just how central GDP is to the decisions politicians and policymakers make, as well as just how little thought most of us put into what is behind this all-important number. That makes this week the perfect time to talk to David Pilling, the Financial Times’s Africa Editor and the author of The Growth Delusion. David thinks there is a major problem with how we measure growth. In fact, he goes further. It’s not just we are getting the measurements wrong, it’s that we are too slavishly devoted to growth in the first place. For this week’s episode of Free Exchange, CapX's Editor Oliver Wiseman spoke to David at the FT’s offices about what really goes into the most important number in economics, and how we could possibly be too focused on growth when it raises living standards and allows us to live longer happier lives. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
From an intricate knowledge of regulatory alignment versus regulatory equivalence to the difference between the customs union and a customs union, everyone interested in British politics suddenly has very strong views on the technical details of trade policy. But while most of us have been hurriedly scrubbing up on all things trade, for others this is their bread and butter. Allie Renison is head of trade policy at the Institute of Directors and is someone who actually knows what she is talking about on this all-important but often technical subject. When it comes to Britain's future trading relationship with the EU, Allie is an advocate for a partial customs union , which would minimise the impact of our departure on manufacturing firms embedded in European supply chains while giving the UK the freedom to forget its own trade policies and seek free trade deals with other countries in areas not covered by its deal with Europe. On the latest episode of Free Exchange, I spoke to Allie about Britain's options in its negotiations with Europe, the pros and cons of her proposal, what Trump really thinks about trade and, more generally, the health of free trade around the world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Is education a waste of time? Surely no one, let alone a professor of economics, would defend such an outlandish claim. Well that is the exact argument made by Professor Bryan Caplan in his new book, The Case Against Education: Why the Education System is a Waste of Time and Money . On this week's episode of Free Exchange, CapX Editor Oliver Wiseman spoke to Bryan about how he reached his provocative conclusion, why so many people still go to university if it really is so pointless and what he would change about education policy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Universal Basic Income may just be the trendiest idea in politics. It's also one of the most radical. Its advocates include Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Branson and John McDonnell. From the joblessness that could arise from automation and machine learning to growing concern over income inequality, UBI's cheerleaders claim the policy could solve some of the biggest political challenges we face. Put simply, a basic income is a lump sum from the government to which everyone is entitled. These days this generous sounding proposal is associated with the Left. But it has its roots on the libertarian Right. Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman were both supporters of a version of UBI. And one of the few real-world trials of the policy was carried out by Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. But does this rare point of agreement between Left and Right mean UBI is a good idea? On the latest episode of Free Exchange, I brought together Sam Dumitriu, who recently made the free-market case for basic income on CapX, and Robert Colvile, who thinks UBI is a particularly bad idea , to debate whether such a simple idea could really be the answer to so many difficult questions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
This week’s guest on Free Exchange is Sir Christopher Mallaby, a retired British diplomat whose career was defined by the Cold War. Sir Christopher recently published his memoirs, Living the Cold War . As well as an account of some of the most important events in the 20th Century, the book is collection of fascinating details of everyday life for someone involved in that all-consuming clash between East and West. His first posting was Moscow, where he arrived in 1961. Not only did he and embassy colleagues have to contend with the hardship and drudgery of Soviet life, but they also faced constant surveillance, harassment and attempts at subornation by the KGB. Of these irritations he now says: “So what? It was the Cold War and to be involved at the very front line was a thrill.” Almost 30 years later, as Ambassador to West Germany, he flew in to Berlin by helicopter to see the Wall come down. “I still remember the sight of a small East German boy returning with his parents through Checkpoint Charlie from his first outing to a capitalist toy shop,” he writes. “That was the moment when I knew the Iron Curtain had begun to melt. The tensions of life in Khruschev’s Moscow suddenly belonged to history. For something who had spend most of three decades working in the Cold War, it was a giant relief and something of a vindication.” I spoke to Sir Christopher about his career, life in the Soviet Union, his disagreement with Margaret Thatcher, and how to understand the Russian threat in 2018. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
This year may not have been a year of political earthquakes on the scale of 2016, but the last 12 months have contained more than their fair share of tumult. In Westminster, the idea of Prime Minister Corbyn started the year as a joke and ended as a very real possibility. In the United States, Donald Trump - the most volatile President in living memory - barely escaped the headlines, generating plenty of heat and not much light. Emmanuel Macron transformed French politics. And Brexit still means Brexit. For the latest episode of Free Exchange, the CapX team attempts to make sense of a year that has been compelling and discombobulating in equal doses. Who were the biggest winners and losers of 2017? What was the big idea of the year? And what story surprised us the most? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Oliver Letwin has been at the heart of Conservative politics for most of his adult life. From working in Margaret Thatcher’s downing street policy unit to serving as one of David Cameron’s most trusted ministers, he has played an important part in shaping the modern Conservative party. Sir Oliver has just published Hearts and Minds , a memoir in which he does more than just rattle off a series of anecdotes from a life in politics. Instead, he uses the book to make the case for the liberal, pro-market variety of conservatism that he believes is both the recipe for electoral success and good government. For this week’s episode of Free Exchange, Oliver Wiseman, CapX's Deputy Editor, met Sir Oliver in his Parliamentary office, where they discussed his book, his wide-ranging career, the roots of Tory modernisation, and why he is intensely relaxed about the Brexit negotiations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
This government has two big interconnected challenges. The first is, to quote the Prime Minister, to make a success of Brexit. The second is to see off the threat posed by Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell and a Labour Party now dominated by the far-left. In both cases the government is in a bind. On the one hand, Corbyn and Brexit bring with them significant amounts of political and economic uncertainty. And so the government is acutely aware that it cannot afford to put a foot wrong. On the other hand, there is something to the argument that the Conservatives will never make a success of Brexit or defeat Corbyn if they go about government with a softly, softly safety-first attitude. According to this theory, boldness – and a collection of game-changing policies - are the order of the day. What is true of the government’s predicament in general, is true of the Chancellor in particular as he prepares to unveil the budget in the House of Commons next Wednesday. Two recent budgets – Hammond’s own earlier this year and Osborne’s 2012 omnishambles budget – are reminders that a chancellor's first job is to avoid any unforced errors. Hammond doesn’t exactly have much money – or a big majority – to play with. But some argue that fundamental weaknesses in the economy require decisive action and radical solutions. To further raise the stakes, Hammond’s colleagues have pinned their hopes on the budget as a turnaround moment for the Conservatives after a torrid few months for the party. Will the Chancellor deliver the bold and brilliant budget? Or will it blow up in his face? For this week's episode of Free Exchange, CapX collected together four leading policy experts to discuss what the chancellor should - and shouldn't - do on Wednesday. Daniel Mahoney is Deputy Director and Head of Research at the Centre for Policy Studies Alan Lockey is Head of the Modern Economy Programme at Demos Julian Jessop is Chief Economist at the Institute of Economic Affairs Alex Wild is Research Director of the Taxpayers’ Alliance Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
John Kay was born a year before Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. In the latest episode of Free Exchange, the CapX podcast, he tells Robert Colvile that "sometimes I look at Corbyn and I think, he thinks what I thought when I was 17. It's just that I've learnt a bit since then and he hasn't." Whereas the Labour leader has spent his life ploughing the furrow of far-left activism, John Kay has had a diverse and fascinating career as an economist. In the 1970s, he worked at the Institute for Fiscal Studies under its Nobel prize-winning director James Meade and alongside Mervyn King, who would go on to become governor of the Bank of England. Kay became director of the IFS in 1979 and helped to build it into arguably the UK's most respected think tank. Kay has written on business and economics for the Financial Times for several decades and is the author of numerous popular books on economics, business and finance, most recently Other People's Money: Masters of the Universe or Servants of the People. In a world where economic debate has become less nuanced, Kay is someone who understands the genius of the market but is also alive to its shortcomings. He despairs at the caricatured greed-is-good view of the market that has become conventional wisdom. He calls this idea "both repellant to most thoughtful people and false as a description of how markets really operate". What has been lost, he says, is an appreciation of the extent to which "our economy does depend very heavily on morality and trust relationships. It is not a matter of leaving people to do whatever they like. Nor is it about glorifying greed." In a wide-ranging interview, he explains why he fell in love with economics, what big banks and taxi drivers have in common, where modern finance has gone wrong, why economists should admit there are somethings you cannot predict and the new book he is working on with his old colleague Mervyn King. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Michael Heseltine finds himself in an unusual position. He is one of the most distinguished Conservatives in the country, but is completely at odds with the party’s stance on the biggest issue of the day. While most Remain-supporting Tories – not least the Prime Minister – have taken the referendum result and run with it, Lord Heseltine has remained steadfast to his view that Brexit is an unmitigated disaster. In this week’s episode of Free Exchange, he tells Robert Colvile that he has become a controversial figure. But that it is “the Conservative Party that has changed. Not me.” Brexit, he says, is the most catastrophic domestic British political decision in his lifetime. So catastrophic, in fact, that it may never happen. Can anything good come from it? He doesn’t think so. And he thinks that the arguments for leaving the EU are built on either deception or a misunderstanding of how the modern world works. It isn’t just Brexit that has Heseltine so gloomy. It has come as a surprise to him that the battles against the hard left that his generation thought they had won for good in the Seventies and Eighties are having to be refought in the 21st century. For Heseltine, Prime Minister Corbyn is “a chilling prospect. I never thought for an instant that it would be possible, but the last election changed my mind.” Beyond Brexit and Corbyn, the Tory big beast also discusses why nothing in politics changes, how to get industrial policy right, why politicians should focus on investment not consumption, and what has motivated him throughout his successful careers in both business and politics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Daniel Hannan MEP is known to most people as a leading Eurosceptic, or, in the Guardian 's words, "the man who brought you Brexit". With Britain on its way out of the EU, Hannan has established the Institute for Free Trade, which makes the intellectual and moral case for free trade, and sees Brexit unique opportunity to revitalise global trade. A few weeks ago, at the Conservative Party Conference, he sat down with Robert Colvile, CapX's Editor-in-Chief, to discuss what sort of deal he would like to see between Britain and the EU, the genius of comparative advantage, and exactly why Jeremy Corbyn is so dangerous. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Jeremy Corbyn has built a potent political movement on the back of his explicit anti-capitalism. But it is not just the crowds of Corbynistas who don’t think much of the market. New research by Matthew Elliott of the Legatum Institute and James Kanagasooriam of Populus finds that on the economy the attitudes of the public as a whole are much closer to the Labour leader than the Conservative Party’s position.Capitalism is overwhelmingly associated with negative concepts such as greed and selfishness. Even among Conservative voters, renationalisation of the railways is a popular policy. What explains the unpopularity of private ownership and the free market?After a summer hiatus, Free Exchange, returns with Robert Colvile, CapX’s Editor-In-Chief, speaking to Elliott and Kanagasooriam about their findings and discussing what can be done to reverse these troubling trends. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Deepak Lal is one of the world's foremost development economists, who helped billions of people to prosper by arguing that prosperity is better delivered by markets rather than central planners. He talks to Robert Colvile about why the enemies of progress once again have the upper hand. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
At the Margaret Thatcher Conference on Security, Robert Colvile talks to the Pulitzer Prize winner about Russia, Trump and the state of the West. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In a special edition of the CapX podcast, recorded live in Parliament, Nicky Morgan, Sunder Katwala, Garvan Walshe and Eric Kaufmann debate whether immigration is a good or bad thing - with Robert Colvile in the chair. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Robert Colvile talks to Baroness Stroud, the new head of the Legatum Institute about fighting poverty on an individual, national and international level.From working with drug addicts in Hong Kong to working with IDS on welfare reform, Philippa Stroud has spent her life trying to help others. She talks us through her extraordinary personal story. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Jonathan Sacks, the former chief rabbi, talks to Robert Colvile at the Margaret Thatcher Conference on Security about whether the West has lost its moral compass. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Now executive chairman of the Resolution Foundation, Lord Willetts has long been one of the Tory party's intellectual heavyweights - the man so smart they nicknamed him "Two Brains". He talks to Robert Colvile - in a conversation recorded before the election - about what Britain's getting right. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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