If alien anthropologists tasked with studying humanity were to have arrived on Earth during the end of the 19th century there are a few findings they would no doubt have reported back to their ex...
Napoleon Bonaparte once called Britain a ‘nation of shopkeepers’. He meant this as an insult, but we wear it as a badge of honour – every generation of Britons have been great entrepreneurs...
https://capx.co/how-britain-can-unleash-1-trillion-worth-of-exports/
America’s decision to support the suspension of patents on Covid-19 vaccines is being hailed by some as victory for public health – but it is also a win for copyright pirates, misguided NGOs,...
On New Year’s Day, there was more to celebrate than just the end of 2020. It was also the day that thousands upon thousands of works, by creators long dead, finally entered the public domain. A...
https://capx.co/how-britain-can-create-a-world-class-copyright-system-outside-the-eu/
When I walked out of Number 10 Downing Street for the last time I was optimistic about my future. I was about to become a father and, as former business adviser to the Prime Minister specialising...
https://capx.co/life-after-downing-street-how-to-change-careers-in-a-pandemic/
Netflix’s Street Food appears at first to just be a series about grilled meat, fresh empanadas and quick bites from food carts around the world. The latest series, set in Latin America, is a re...
https://capx.co/street-food-is-one-of-the-most-powerful-neoliberal-productions-of-our-time/
Rishi Sunak’s first Budget was confidently delivered, politically astute and, for the most part, economically sound. As usual, it will take a while to work through the details of every announce...
https://capx.co/a-balanced-budget-that-wont-balance-the-books/
The first budget after an election is rarely the time that governments start cutting taxes. According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, on average over the last three decades tax rises worth �...
Philip Hammond’s decision in this week’s budget to abandon the Private Finance Initiative has been regarded by some commentators as the adoption of a “Corbyn-lite” policy by the Conservat...
Profit is a funny word. It has come to mean exploitation. Why do we allow the Left to capture words like profit, or community, or compassion and redefine them into politically charged meanings fa...