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Honda’s Swindon plant is a victim of the electrification revolution

by Joe Ware | Feb 22, 2019

Despite giddy excitement in Westminster regarding the formation of The Independent Group, the most sobering news of the week was the announcement that Honda would be closing its...

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Coal dust, urban pigs and sewage – the grim reality of pre-industrial Europe

by Marian L. Tupy | Feb 22, 2019

Last week, I wrote about Jason Hickel’s romantic idea that people in the past “lived well” with little or no monetary income. I noted that prior to the Industrial Revolution,...

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A simple message to the Government – Build, Baby, Build!

by Nigel Hawkins | Feb 21, 2019

Unlike most issues in politics today, there is widespread agreement that the UK is facing a housing crisis. While new-build volumes have risen since the financial crisis of...

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Banning short selling stops the market from doing its job

by Tim Worstall | Feb 20, 2019

The German authorities have recently banned short selling in a company called Wirecard – this is the wrong decision. It misses the point of what markets are actually about,...

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The UK Housing Market in 2019 – The Deep Trends (Part 2)

by Gavriel Merkado | Feb 18, 2019

PART II: the UK Macro Factors Following on from Part 1, where I analysed global macro factors in the forecasting the near-term future of house prices here in the UK and for...

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The romantic idea of a plentiful past is pure fantasy

by Marian L. Tupy | Feb 15, 2019

On January 29, the Guardian ran a column that sparked an interesting debate on two continents. Anthropologist Jason Hickel from the University of London rejected the...

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Believe it or not, Britain isn’t a nation of NIMBYs

by Matt Singh | Feb 14, 2019

Last week, polling for CapX found broad agreement that there is a housing crisis in Britain, though people in all regions thought it was less bad in their local area, with...

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The UK Housing Market in 2019 – The Deep Trends (Part one)

by Gavriel Merkado | Feb 13, 2019

PART I: The Global Macro Factors Time and again, I am asked: What about the future? What can you tell me about what will happen tomorrow? Next week? Next month? Next year? ...

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London must be the UK’s shining star, not a vortex

by John Ashmore | Feb 9, 2019

London is the lodestar of the UK economy - but it has an image problem According to a newly released report, it’s time for London to shed its uncaring image and show the rest of...