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David Frost: the fight to stay out of the EU starts now

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Robert Tombs: Britain needs a better story

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Best of CapX: The Tories rediscover Adam Smith

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Andrew Griffith: we’re ready for the battle of ideas

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Best of CapX: How to make British infrastructure cheap again

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Helen Whately: young people need jobs, not handouts

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Best of CapX: Trump is right about Britain’s tech laws

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Chelsea Follett: the past was worse than you think

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Best of CapX: Corporate welfare is Britain’s blind spot

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Liam Halligan: Britain needs saving from itself

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Best of CapX: Labour are a bigger threat to jobs than AI

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Daniel Hannan: our debt is now a national security threat

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Best of CapX: Don't let China win the AI standards war

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Julian Jessop: Burnham's growth plan won't work

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Best of CapX: Why can’t Britain build data centres?

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Jonn Elledge: how we invented the city

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Best of CapX: Red tape is a tax on time

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Dalibor Rohac: capitalism can save the West

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Despatch: A £3 trillion problem

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Richard Hanania: Can you trust a populist?

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Despatch: The flaw at the heart of the EU

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Alex Tabarrok: Britain's equal pay madness

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Despatch: Ben Houchen – we need real devolution

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Who owns the Moon?

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Despatch: Helen Whately on welfare reform

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Andrew Griffith – does Burnham understand business?

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Despatch: The regulator shouldn’t rig your YouTube feed

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The Capitalist Podcast: Burnham's trap

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The Capitalist Podcast: Gawain Towler – Farage under fire

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Despatch: Burnham can’t outrun the Westminster bubble on a Pendolino

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The Capitalist Podcast: Jeremy Hunt – the choice Burnham can't duck

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The Capitalist Podcast: Britain's lost ambition

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The Capitalist Podcast: Matthew Elliott – how Brexit was won

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Despatch: Rachel Reeves is sleepwalking toward an IMF bailout

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The Capitalist Podcast: Is Britain About to Scan Every Smartphone?

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Despatch: Why your inner caveman hates capitalism

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The Capitalist Podcast: How to win a trade war

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Despatch: Who funds the charities?

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The industrial policy illusion

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Mel Stride on the cost of instability

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Despatch: Andy Burnham is overrated

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Kallum Pickering: The bond markets will decide Britain's PM

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Despatch: Why the old parties aren't dead

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Why aren't we investing our money?

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Live: Palantir and the AI race

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Despatch: Should the government run supermarkets?

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The left stole feminism – let’s take it back

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Despatch: A smarter path to Net Zero

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Is Britain really broken?

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Despatch: Get Britain off the benefits treadmill

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Adrian Wooldridge: How centrists fight back

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Steve Davies: The Great Realignment

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Despatch: Driven to blackouts

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Tyler Goodspeed: You're wrong about recessions

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Despatch: Same mistakes, same results

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How the Tories win again

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Despatch: Economic nationalism is a myth

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Tim Leunig: Let's tap the North Sea for energy

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Despatch: How to beat Zack Polanski

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Pierre Poilievre: Why free markets work

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Despatch: Farage v. Polanski?

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Build, baby, build

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Despatch: Generation Unemployed

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If we don't own AI's future, China will

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Despatch: Thatcher's ownership revolution isn't over

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Is small-state conservatism ready for a comeback?

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Could Keir Starmer be replaced?

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Despatch: Build up, not out

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Special: Lessons from the Lawson boom

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Despatch: Should we ban rich people?

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Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg: It's time for a Tory-Reform pact

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Despatch: More Tory turmoil?

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Will Trump strike Iran?

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Despatch: Is Britain sacrificing a generation to unemployment?

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The Rage of Party with George Owers

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Special: Sir Malcolm Rifkind on Margaret Thatcher

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Forecast 2026: Has Nigel Farage peaked?

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Is the political centre breaking?

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Despatch: Education needs more scrutiny

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Is the Online Safety Act doomed?

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Despatch: All parties should be subjected to the OBR

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Sir Malcolm Rifkind on the future of the Conservatives

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Despatch: Labour need a new strategy

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Budget Day with Jeremy Hunt

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Despatch: Can Britain escape its economic doom loop?

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Is Britain at war with wealth?

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Despatch: Could trillionaires actually save the world?

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Can the BBC survive its biggest crisis yet?

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Despatch: Tax treachery will cost us

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Special: Decoding the Chancellor’s pre-Budget signals

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Despatch: Why the Right should back the Oxford Cambridge Arc

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How Britain could build enough homes

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Despatch: Labour is scaring the wealth away

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Brexit means... more taxes?

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Despatch: 21st century Thatcherism

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Ofcom faces legal action over online safety

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Special: Does Britain need a chainsaw revolution?

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Special: Live at the Conservative Party Conference

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Despatch: Is Ed Miliband a threat to climate action?

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Labour's immigration challenge