The Capitalist: Lime ‘appreciates Medieval spirit’ of bike jousting trend

Rumours, whispers and City gossip in this week s edition of The Capitalist BAYEUX PLATFORMS TAPESTRY OF CRITICISM Titans of industry and finance gathered earlier this week at the British Museum for the CBI’s annual reception, with a glimpse of the famous Bayeux Tapestry acting as an incentive to RSVP. But The Capitalist’s eye was drawn not to the latest corporate takeover of the hottest exhibition in town, but to the name of the guest speaker. You know that political plates are shifting when Britain’s biggest business group books a guest speaker not from the BBC or IFS but from the CPS, with a dash of Daily Telegraph on the side. Newly installed boss at the free-market Centre for Policy Studies (and Telegraph columnist/podcast supremo) Liam Halligan boomed through the Egyptian Sculpture Gallery with a thundering critique of government largesse, high borrowing and debt. Was it overly political? Halligan told The Capitalist that “basic arithmetic has no ideology.” ‘REBEL’ RAPPER