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CapX's books of 2024 - CapX
8 hours ago · Andrew Tettenborn For fiction a return to the nineteenth century. Sir Walter Scott is much pooh-poohed, which is a pity. His best novel, ‘ Guy Mannering’, read again after a long interval, is as good as any from the period: not only do you see the original Dandie Dinmont, but you see a vanished Scotland of robust decency and common sense that would turn the minds of those now administering ...
How much are migrants earning? Not even Jonathan Portes knows
9 hours ago · Professor Jonathan Portes has been attacking the CPS for its migration estimates. Who's right? The truth is that a shockingly small proportion of visas in the last few years have been for workers Bad data on who is in the country has turned migration policy into a guessing game One of the worst ...
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It’s time to build, whether politicians want to or not - CapX
Dec 13, 2024 · Founders have better things to do than care about politics. But what if government won’t let them get on with creating the future? We may be about to find out. LFG’s analysis – that Britain is currently trapped in a growth emergency thanks to …
CapX's books of 2023 - CapX
Dec 15, 2023 · Our contributors have rounded up some of their favourite works, and whether you’re into political theory or the history of video games, there’s something for everyone in CapX’s Books of 2023. Robert Colvile One of the downsides of being a single parent is that your reading tends to be restricted to the likes of Harry […]
Prepare for the next great Conservative revival - CapX
Nov 6, 2024 · British politics has now entered a new and unpredictable phase. After their party’s smashing defeat at the latest election, most Tories assumed that Labour would be in power for at least a decade. In many cases, the stress was on the ‘at least’. Tory morale was rare as bananas at the end of the Second […]
What CapX is reading this summer - CapX
Aug 9, 2024 · The most important book I’ve read this year has been ‘Mud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania’, by Margo Rejmer.Having holidayed in Albania, Rejmer’s collection of first-hand accounts of life under Enver Hoxha provided for a moving insight into a country usually known only in Britain today by its recent prodigious output of small boat enthusiasts.