Some personal/professional news: I'm launching "When the Facts Change - economics and politics in a fast-changing world". Click on the link in my X biography to read my first post. I'll obviously continue to write my weekly "Economics Agenda" column for the Telegraph, and

Any such pitch will be totally at odds with - and undermined by - the relentless tax rises imposed by his government. If he thinks the answer lies in breakfast clubs, handouts and subsidies then we are doomed.

@LiamHalligan @Telegraph All the best in 2026 and keep up the good work. Have followed your views since Financial Crisis and found them prescient, accessible and straightforward.

@LiamHalligan @Telegraph @AllisonPearson I’ve never missed an episode. A must listen for the right thinking. Thank you to you and Allison for keeping us all sane.

@LiamHalligan @Telegraph @AllisonPearson It's always a great pleasure. You've created the best politics pod bar none, keeping old-school journalism alive in the process. Nowhere else do I see that investigative approach, those thoughtful, long-form interviews...it's superb, you have great chemistry, and you make it fun!

Born in 1996, Henry Patten grew up in Essex and started playing tennis aged 5. He attended the sport-focussed Culford School and then earned a scholarship to the University of North Carolina at Asheville, in the US, where he really came into his own. Turning professional in

The other day, I asked one of the various AI-driven search engines a question: “Name British Wimbledon Champions of the last fifty years” The answer included the fabulous Virginia Wade, of course, who so memorably took the Ladies Singles title in 1977 - the year of the late

Thanks to everyone who has listened to Planet Normal this year - the @Telegraph podcast which I co-pilot with @AllisonPearson Every week, we clamber aboard "the rocket of right-thinking", our "flying refuge of reasoned views" to take a trip to Planet Normal - where, for a

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Britain faces some considerable domestically generated dangers in 2026 ­– not least power cuts as a result of net-zero policies and serious unrest given the public’s growing impatience with pace of legal (and especially illegal) immigration. But I’d say the biggest danger is

No wonder the government borrowed £10bn more during the first eight months of this fiscal year – from April to November 2025 – than during the same period in 2024. In fact, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility, Labour is now forecast to borrow £75bn more over the

People like Eddie Dempsey, and a significant share of Labour’s 230-odd backbenchers, and even some ministers, seem to view the servicing and repayment of sovereign debts not as an absolute necessity, but a political choice. Even Reeves, in her second Budget Statement in November

For Labour’s hard left, taxing the private sector more, securing ever higher government spending is – or absolutely should be – the ultimate aim of any Labour government. And when tax revenues run short, just borrow the money say Labour ideologues – and who cares about the

Since Labour took office, we've lost around 200,000 pay-rolled positions, as jobs available have fallen consistently, particularly for young people. Such an absolute loss of employment opportunities is extremely unusual, not least at a time when the population is rising - the

While the quarterly data is awful, the monthly GDP numbers look even worse. Growth has been flat or negative for the last four successive months. Month-on-month growth has been flat or negative, in fact, over nine of the last fifteen months under Labour – which, for a government

Just before Christmas, the Office for National Statistics released data showing a downward revision of previously published GDP growth figures. These latest ONS figures did little to raise festive cheer. Early in 2025, between January and March, GDP grew by a relatively buoyant

The UK faces some serious economic dangers in 2026 - and quite a few of those dangers are self-inflicted. My final @telegraph column of 2026 doesn't hit a particularly festive note - but, as I wrote in the paper, I'd rather come across as a grinch, than provide a false

💥📺🎙️👂 New "When The Facts Change" post Just before Christmas, I recorded an "End of Year Review" with political scientist Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ Proper, grown-up analysis of economic and political events in the UK over the last twelve months - and a lookahead to 2026 Link

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💥📺🔊🎄 New EXCLUSIVE When The Facts Change post Liam Halligan & Matt Goodwin: The UK economy in 2025 - implosion in 2026? A one-hour end-of-year review discussion with Telegraph Economic Agenda columnist Liam Halligan and political scientist Matt Goodwin. They review a

For any of my followers who live close to Saffron Walden - or who fancy a trip to North Essex tonight This will be good - if I say so myself 🎻☘️