Archive - The CapX Briefing

Britain is bust. Who'll fix it?

Plus: why are Oasis gigs really so expensive, and can AI pay for defence?

7 hrs ago • Marc Sidwell and CapX

Ross Clark: Britain is heading for a debt crisis

The author of ‘Britain is Bust’ on the lessons of Greece, why the state pension can’t be spared and why no party is serious about the deficit

8 hrs ago • CapX, Marc Sidwell, and Ross Jonathan Clark

26:40

How socialist is Reform's Poundland plan?

Plus: mogging Andy Burnham, and why it's time to leave the Commonwealth

Nov 3 • Marc Sidwell and CapX

Best of CapX: What’s anti-fascist about price controls?

Tim Worstall says Isabella Weber’s proposals would hand politicians the same powers fascist economics relied on

Nov 3 • CapX and Tim Worstall

10:18

Shabana Mahmood u-turns on migration clampdown

Plus: Britain’s decline is not inevitable, and Labour still don't know what a worker is

Nov 2 • Harry Phibbs and CapX

Weekly Briefing: Healey’s Budget won’t deliver growth

Plus: fixing the illogical tax system, and is Britain a MoneySavingExpert economy?

Nov 1 • Oscar Gill-Lewis and CapX

October 2026

Even Burnham admits Budget not ‘radical’

Plus: Let's get serious about lifting tariffs, and how to properly incentivise doctors

Oct 30 • Oscar Gill-Lewis and CapX

Healey's welfare cut pledge unravels within hours

Plus: the Budget does cause considerable harm, and why you shouldn't ignore wage compression

Oct 29 • Harry Phibbs and CapX

A peacetime Budget for a wartime world

Plus: Britain needs another Big Bang, and are we a MoneySavingExpert economy?

Oct 28 • Marc Sidwell and CapX

Liam Halligan & Daniel Herring: what’s in the Budget?

The Centre for Policy Studies opens John Healey’s red box

Oct 28 • CapX and Marc Sidwell

28:59

Is Healey’s headroom shrinking?

Plus: Europe needs a new social contract, and how Mrs Thatcher unleashed Britain

Oct 27 • Marc Sidwell and CapX

Best of CapX: Healey’s Budget will be built on sand

Mel Stride says unrealistic spending plans make the Chancellor’s sums undeliverable

Oct 27 • CapX

6:51

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