The CapX Podcast Creators & Guests

Oliver Wiseman was the US Editor of The Critic from 2019 to 2021.

Sam Ashworth-Hayes is a former director of studies at the Henry Jackson Society.

Dr. Ben W. Ansell is a professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions at Nuffield College. His work focuses on both comparative politics and international relations. He is also co-editor of the academic journal Comparative Political Studies.Ansell has published three academic books, "From the Ballot to the Blackboard," in 2010, "Inequality and Democratization: An Elite-Competition Approach," co-authored with David Samuels and published in 2014, and "Inward Conquest: The Modern State and the Revolution in Government that Shook the World," in 2021. His first general audience book, "Why Politics Fails," was published in 2023.

Dr. Steven Pinker is a cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular science author. He is also known for his advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind.

Investigations Producer, BBC Newsnight; “Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children”

Daniel John Hannan, Baron Hannan of Kingsclere is a British writer, journalist, and former politician serving as an adviser to the Board of Trade since 2020. He is the founding president of the Initiative for Free Trade. A member of the Conservative Party, he was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 1999 to 2020.

Duncan Weldon is a journalist, former political advisor, economist, researcher, and market strategist.

Diane Coyle is an economist, author, and Professor of Public Policy at University of Cambridge.

Kate Andrews is the Economics Editor at the Spectator. She regularly features across the national media and writes a weekly column for the Daily Telegraph business pages.

Eric Kaufmann is an author, journalist, and professor of Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Anne Applebaum is a journalist and historian whose work focuses on the history of Communism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. Currently, she is a staff writer for The Atlantic and a senior fellow at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

Madeline Grant is a columnist, Assistant Comment Editor and Parliamentary Sketchwriter for The Telegraph.

Dr. Jade McGlynn is an author and Research Fellow at the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. Her research focusses on Russia’s war against Ukraine since 2014, propaganda, memory politics, and state-society relations in Russia.McGlynn is a frequent contributor to BBC, Deutsche Welle, The Telegraph and The Spectator. She has published four books about Russia. Her first book, "Rethinking Period Boundaries: New Approaches to Continuity and Discontinuity in Modern European History and Culture," was published in 2022.Jade is also often engaged as a public speaker and to consult on issues of foreign policy, diplomacy and defence relating to Russia and Ukraine by governments and organisations in the UK, USA, and beyond.