Matthew Lynn

Matthew Lynn

Matthew Lynn is a financial columnist and author. He writes for WSJ Marketwatch, The Spectator and Money Week as well as The Telegraph, and has worked as a columnist for The Sunday Times and Bloomberg. His books include ‘Bust: Greece, The Euro and The Sovereign Debt Crisis’ and ‘The Long Depression: The Slump of 2008 to 2031’ as well as the ‘Death Force’ thrillers published by Hodder Headline. He is also the founder of Lume Books, a leading e-book publisher.

America’s most valuable company is about to be crippled by Trump

The president’s poorly planned, poorly designed, poorly executed policies are hurting US businesses

Matthew Lynn 14 Apr 2025, 5:00pm

Netflix tax is a symbol of everything wrong with the UK

The last thing the British economy needs is another levy to make us pay more for TV

Matthew Lynn 13 Apr 2025, 1:00pm
Trump’s tariff team is beset by chaos and betrayal

The president’s willingness to undermine his inner circle has destroyed any hope of a coherent way forward

Matthew Lynn 12 Apr 2025, 8:00am
How Labour killed London: in five charts

From a stagnating economy to rising crime, our capital city is in crisis

Matthew Lynn 9 Apr 2025, 6:16pm

Trump is turning the United States into a global laughing stock

There is a perfectly rational case for resetting trade. But the arbitrary and incoherent administration isn’t making it

Matthew Lynn 7 Apr 2025, 2:57pm
Starmer has precious little time to save Britain’s carmakers from oblivion

Punishing net zero targets have left the UK’s auto industry perilously exposed to Trump’s tariffs

Matthew Lynn 6 Apr 2025, 11:00am
Labour must rip up its net zero plans in this new world order

Now more than ever, Britain needs a strategy for growth that stands a chance of working

Matthew Lynn 5 Apr 2025, 7:00am
Musk was never going to last in the White House, but he leaves behind an extraordinary legacy

The maverick CEO put free speech at the heart of foreign policy and showed how to cut government spending

Matthew Lynn 3 Apr 2025, 1:55pm
Trump just proved Brexit was the best decision Britain ever made

Britain will escape the punishing levies the US is imposing on imports from the EU. Europe’s manufacturers may even decide to move to the UK

Matthew Lynn 2 Apr 2025, 10:45pm
Trump is plotting the biggest tax rise in global history

The burden for paying the bulk of the president’s Liberation Day tariffs will fall on consumers, potentially at some $600 billion a year

Matthew Lynn 31 Mar 2025, 3:32pm

A peace deal does not mean bosses should return to Russia

A country where corruption is endemic and leaders untrustworthy is not fit for investment

Matthew Lynn 29 Mar 2025, 9:00am
No one can blame the ‘king of steel’ for leaving Britain

Labour is chasing out our talented and wealthy non-doms – and we’ll all be poorer for it

Matthew Lynn 28 Mar 2025, 3:05pm
The tide is turning against the fantasy economics that prop up net zero

Many of the things we take for granted are about to be become prohibitively expensive

Matthew Lynn 27 Mar 2025, 6:00am
The £300 billion time bomb ticking under the Spring Statement

Even the slightest economic tremor could have massive consequences for Rachel Reeves

Matthew Lynn 26 Mar 2025, 3:41pm
The rush for solar panels is leaving us at the mercy of China

Getting to net zero means being reliant on the slave labour of foreign powers

Matthew Lynn 25 Mar 2025, 12:17pm
Trump could yet turn Reeves into a tax-cutting Chancellor

Getting rid of the digital sales tax is necessary and long overdue

Matthew Lynn 24 Mar 2025, 12:55pm
The West is losing the tech race and Musk knows it

Trump’s heavy tariffs may slow down competition temporarily – but Western companies can’t hide forever

Matthew Lynn 23 Mar 2025, 11:00am
Income tax at 40pc is becoming the norm in Starmer’s Britain

The only growth this Government is achieving is in public resentment

Matthew Lynn 21 Mar 2025, 4:12pm
Our ballooning public sector is larger than that of France. No wonder we are heading for bankruptcy

The only area of Britain that is growing is the number of people employed by the state

Matthew Lynn 20 Mar 2025, 3:17pm
We must not allow Trump’s tariffs to let Labour off the hook

Britain’s economic decline is the fault of the Government

Matthew Lynn 18 Mar 2025, 1:17pm
Elon Musk’s silence is deafening as Trump wrecks his business

America’s ‘first buddy’ will have to choose between Maga and his role as Tesla chief executive

Matthew Lynn 16 Mar 2025, 11:00am
Ed Miliband bears more responsibility than Reeves or Trump for Britain’s decline

Our climate-obsessed Energy Secretary is to blame for January’s dire GDP figures

Matthew Lynn 15 Mar 2025, 9:00am