Quoted by name
Comment from Damian Pudner carried by national news outlets.
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Daily Express 18 Oct 2026
Andy Burnham and John Healey plot huge tax hike - how it could hit you
“Borrowers, businesses and consumers will end up paying for this one way or another.”
On the Chancellor's reported plan to raise the surcharge on bank profits from 3% to 8% at the Budget.
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The Sun 16 Oct 2026
Britain must slash welfare spending rather than tax banks
A further tax on banks would be “an act of monumental economic stupidity”.
On the IMF's advice that the Chancellor should look to welfare and pensions for savings before taxing banks.
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GB News 1 Oct 2026
UK borrowing costs hit highest level since 1998 in blow to John Healey ahead of Budget
“This is the bond market putting a price on Britain's fiscal credibility.”
On the 30-year gilt yield passing 6% for the first time since 1998.
Read at gbnews.com
Under his own name
Damian's comment pieces for national titles, including his regular column for CapX, which he has written since March 2025. The latest six are below, with every piece listed underneath.
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CapX 15 Oct 2026
Healey's Budget is about to bill you for Whitehall's waste
Before the Budget: what £1.3tn of public spending actually buys, and why taxes are set to rise again.
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UnHerd 15 Oct 2026
Surprise! Labour's Right-wing Budget
Are Burnham and Healey diverging?
On three proposed tax rises the Chancellor turned down within days of each other.
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UnHerd 8 Oct 2026
Britain needs a gilts crisis
It would end the inertia.
On why the bond market can force reforms that politics keeps putting off.
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CapX 1 Oct 2026
Burnham needs to make radical cuts
On paying for a run of expensive new pledges without another tax rise, and why the bond market wants honesty.
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CapX 17 Sep 2026
The Bank was right not to follow the Fed
Why a US rate rise was the wrong cue for an economy as different as Britain's.
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City AM 9 Sep 2026
One of Britain's biggest taxpayers has left – who can replace Rokos?
On the hedge fund founder who paid an estimated £330m in UK tax last year, then moved to Greece.
Read at cityam.com
Every piece
The CapX column in full- 3 SepCapXBritain is selling its debt to the wrong market
- 20 AugCapXRed tape is a tax on time
- 6 AugCapXAre linkers a good deal for taxpayers?
- 23 JulCapXBritain's next chancellor needs a chainsaw
- 9 JulCapXStudent loans are now a stealth tax on work
- 6 JulCity AMSurely Gary Stevenson is smart enough to know a wealth tax won't work?
- 25 JunCapXWho will be the next Chancellor?
- 11 JunCapXReeves is closer to an IMF bailout than she thinks
- 28 MayCapXTime is running out for the political status quo
- 14 MayCapXBritain is in disarray, and the bond markets aren't happy
- 30 AprCapXBritain needs builders, not bureaucrats
- 16 AprCapXBritain is pricing out its young
- 2 AprCapXState intervention won't protect us from price shocks
- 18 MarCapXBritain's next energy crisis could be self-inflicted
- 5 MarCapXBritain once led the world – what happened?
- 18 FebCapXThe Bank of England is fighting the last war
- 5 FebCapXBritain is sleepwalking into a debt trap
- 22 JanCapXDoes our inflation target still make sense?
- 14 JanCapXWhat the Jerome Powell investigation means for Britain
- 8 JanCapXThe young will pay the price of the 'Reeves recession'
- 18 DecCapXBritain's inflation fixation has gone too far
- 27 NovCapXLabour have set our economy on a path to ruin
- 20 NovCapXBritain can't afford this pre-Budget pantomime
- 6 NovCapXSick-note Britain is forgetting how to work
- 23 OctCapXRachel Reeves is scaring the wealth out of London
- 9 OctCapXCan Britain believe in fiscal conservatism again?
- 25 SepCapXWould a flat tax save Britain's economy?
- 11 SepCapXThe Bank of England is losing its invincibility
- 28 AugCapXFrance's fiscal crisis is a warning for Rachel Reeves
- 14 AugCapXBond traders know that Britain's in trouble
- 31 JulCapXWe bailed out the banks. Who will bail out the state?
- 17 JulCapXBritain's fiscal fantasy is over – and time is running out
- 3 JulCapXRachel Reeves is finished, and Keir Starmer is exposed
- 20 JunCapXLabour and the Bank of England are on a collision course
- 11 JunCapXWhat Reform don't understand about monetary policy
- 26 MarCapXIt's time for the Bank of England to prioritise growth
In the studio
Damian's segments on national news channels. Each card opens the clip on YouTube. GBTT's own programme, Pints & Policy, is on the same channel.
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13:42
£150bn of cuts a year, or it ends badly
With Benedict Spence, on the sickness and disability benefits bill and the doom loop.
Watch the clip
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5:57
£37bn in business rates, profit or not
With Dawn Neesom on The Weekend, as M&S and John Lewis warned the Chancellor before the Budget.
Watch the clip
- UK LiveFull stream · Damian from 3:13:57 Tax cuts, inheritance tax and a bond crisis With Mark Littlewood and Paul Cox, on the 62% tax trap at £100k and why it may take a bond crisis to force reform. Watch on UK Live
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17:14
£57bn of welfare cuts is doable
On the £3tn debt, who receives the interest on it, gilts and the triple lock.
Watch the clip
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8:41
Where did £20 billion go?
With Mike Graham on the morning of the Bank of England's September decision: fiscal headroom, gilts and the Budget.
Watch the clip
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5:29
Something has gone wrong somewhere
On inflation, interest rates and the cost of PIP.
Watch the clip
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7:27
The managed decline of the UK economy
On flat productivity, a rising tax burden and a policy regime largely unchanged since 1997.
Watch the clip
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18:10
The UK economy needs a reset
On growth, the tax burden, the debt and what a serious change of course would look like.
Watch the clip
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8:14
“There will be a revolution”
With Mike Graham, on what the economic settlement since 1997 has done to working people and the young.
Watch the clip
Booking Damian
Damian Pudner is available for live and recorded interviews on the public finances, tax, gilts, the Bank of England and the Budget.
He spent more than 25 years in the City of London as a macro and fixed income specialist at investment banks and hedge funds, and was Director of the Institute of International Monetary Research. He writes a regular column for CapX, his work has appeared in UnHerd, The Telegraph, The Spectator and City AM, and he has been published by the Institute of Economic Affairs.