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CapX @capx.co · 03/01/2025
🎙️ Something new is coming… our new podcast The Capitalist launches this January. 🧠 Big ideas. 💡 Fresh thinking. 🌍 Thoughtful debate. Join us as we make the case for a freer, brighter, more innovative Britain. linktr.ee/thecapitalis...
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Ben Ramanauskas @benramanauskas.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I've written a piece for @capx.co. Javier Milei is doing a good job in Argentina. The UK could learn a lot from his policies. capx.co/what-can-the...
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CapX @capx.co · 25/11/2024
🍷On the face of it, the incidence of spiking seems high, but there's more to the story ✍️Len Shackleton capx.co/a-new-anti-s...
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A new anti-spiking law won't keep us from harm
Another day, another law. Spiking – adding drugs or alcohol to someone else’s drink without their permission – is to be made a specific criminal offence, the Government has revealed. The new offence w...
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CapX @capx.co · 25/11/2024
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Financial dependency is wrecking local government
With half of funding coming from Whitehall, why would voters pay attention?
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Centre for Policy Studies @cps.org.uk · 25/11/2024
Margaret Thatcher Conference returns in 2025! MTC25: Remaking conservatism Examining how the case for free markets, lower taxes and a smaller state can be remade 📝 Sign up here to be the first to hear when tickets go on sale www.tickettailor.com/events/cpsev...
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CapX @capx.co · 22/11/2024
CapX Stat of the Day
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Joe Hill @jo3hill.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I wrote for @CSWnews about where the Treasury's new Office for Value for Money should look to find savings! Tldr - down the gaps between the sofa cushions (existing Accounting Officer responsibilities) www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/...
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The price of everything and value of nothing
New teams, units and quangos come and go in government, often at the whim of ministers. How do we make sure the Office for Value for Money is effec...
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
"It’s possible that building the National Grid or West Coast Main Line or London meant a bit of noise and a few more lorries. It is still good that we built those things." Today's nimbywatch concerns a power cable that could provide 8% of the UK's electricity but has upset three people in Devon
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Nimby Watch: Who needs power in paradise?
The project could meet 8% of the UK’s electricity needs. Locals aren't keen.
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CapX @capx.co · 21/11/2024
Works to bury a power cable will ruin (temporarily) a North Devon Nimby's 'perfect paradise' "...this is a corridor a mere 65m wide, which will, when completed, provide nearly one-twelfth of the entire country’s energy needs from renewable sources." ✍️ @JonnElledge capx.co/nimby-watch-...
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Nimby Watch: Who needs power in paradise?
The project could meet 8% of the UK’s electricity needs. Locals aren't keen.
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CapX @capx.co · 12/11/2024
A combination of beauty and financial incentives will ignite a housing revolution ✍️Harry Phibbs capx.co/eleven-ways-...
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Eleven ways to convert Nimbys to Yimbys
Here is the good news: the Conservatives will go into the next election with a clear appeal to younger voters. They will widen home ownership by liberalising planning restrictions to increase supply, ...
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