The economics of ancient Rome with George Maher
Rome was the greatest city of the ancient world, commanding an empire that spread from Damascus to York and encompassed a quarter of the world’s popul...
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Free Exchange is a podcast from CapX in which we interview the leading lights of British politics. We get beyond the headlines to find out why they do what they do, and think what they think.
CapX Live with Jacob Rees-Mogg
It's a very special edition of the podcast this week as we take you inside Tory conference in Manchester for a fascinating, fun-packed conversation wi...
Alex Deane on Lessons from History
Most us know about Henry VIII, Napoleon and Churchill, but what about history's unheralded heroes? In his new book Lessons from History, political co...
Vivek Ramaswamy on the woke-industrial complex
There's a new, invisible force at work in the highest ranks of corporate America and it's behind what may be the defining scam of our era. By co-optin...
Duncan Weldon on 200 years of muddling through
Why is the British economy the way it is today?That's the rather daunting exam question The Economist's Duncan Weldon sets himself in his newly releas...
David Skelton on the New Snobbery
Long before the Red Wall became a part of our everyday political lexicon, David Skelton was talking and writing about the disconnection between post-i...
Frank Luntz on the New Language of Politics
Few people know more about the language of politics and how to effectively communicate with the public than Frank Luntz. As an award winning political...
Niall Ferguson on the Politics of Catastrophe
From the eruption of Vesuvius to the Chernobyl meltdown, human history has always been punctuated by catastrophes - some natural, others very much man...
The Aristocracy of Talent
Meritocracy is the creed of our age. An idea that has great success in crossing traditional boundaries: not just Thatcher, Reagan and Boris Johnson, b...
I Britain racist?
Is Britain a racist society?After a year where prejudice, privilege and protest have never been far from the headlines, it's a question that continues...