Another chaotic @LeShuttle experience... Horrendous delays at Folkestone last wk, now paid a whacking extra to get an earlier shuttle home, told to go straight through, and then made to park up again. LeWait, LeGrandPain! 🙁

Good to be back @csjthinktank ... desperate stats on shocking educational outcomes...really important insight and recommendations about technical education. 😎

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 Queen’s Silver Jubilee. And Andy Murray obviously achieved that superb Wimbledon win in 2013, becoming Britain’s first men’s singles champion since the great Fred Perry took the title three times on the trot back in the 1930s. But, but, but ... In 2023, Britain’s Neal Skupski took the Wimbledon men’s doubles title, paired with Wesley Koolhof of the Netherlands. That makes Skupski a bone fide Wimbledon champion – who AI failed to mention The following year, 2024, Henry Patten retained the Wimbledon men's doubles title for Britain, along with Finland’s Harri Heliovaara. And this year 2025, two Brits combined to keep the men's doubles title for Britain for the third year in a row - Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool. So that makes another four Wimbledon champions over the last fifty years, as well as Virginia Wade and Andy Murray. Let's not forget mixed doubles, either. The brilliant Jo Durie and fellow Brit Jeremy Bates won the Wimbledon mixed doubles title in 1987. Heather Watson won the mixed doubles title in 2016, partnering with Finland's Henri Kontinen. And Neal Skupski (partnering with Desirae Krawczyk of the US) won the Wimbledon mixed doubles in 2021 and 2022, along with his 2023 men's double title. Oh - and 2024 Wimbledon men's doubles champion Henry Patten also won, again with Harri Heliovaara, the Australian Open men's doubles title earlier this year. With the 2026 Australian Open due to start in mid-January, I decided to invite Henry Patten to be a guest on Planet Normal - the weekly @Telegraph podcast that I co-present with @AllisonPearson I wanted to interview Henry because, for my money, doubles is at least as entertaining to watch as singles tennis - with its fast reflexes and astonishing net-play, quite often even more so. And it is surely, just as huge an achievement to win doubles grand slams (including Wimbledon) as it is to win singles titles. Yet we hear so little about the UK's considerable success in tennis doubles - and, to me, that doesn't seem right. 🧵1/2

ACE 🏆 ACE 🏆 ACE 🏆 ACE 🏆 All four of Henry Patten & Harri Heliovaara's titles this year were sealed with an ace! 🤯 🎥 @tntsports | @TennisTV

CHAMPIONS of the Nitto ATP Finals 🏆 Henry Patten & Harri Heliovaara fight past Joe Salisbury & Neal Skupski 7-5, 6-3 to claim the title #BackTheBrits 🇬🇧

SOLVING THE SCHOOL ABSENCE CRISIS, LIVE: x.com/i/broadcasts/1DXGyWPmy…

LOST BOYS LIVE AT REFORM: ⭐️Star-studded panel discussing the issues facing boys and young men in the UK in 2025👇 @montie @AndyCook_CSJ @_GeorgeFinch @miriam_cates @IsabelOakeshott @LeeAndersonMP_ x.com/i/broadcasts/1OdKrOaoY…

Very happy to be starting as CEO at Fix Britain today. The clue is in the name. 😎

Thrilled to be appointed CEO of @FixBritain_. Something is broken about Britain and the way we are run, far beyond usual moaning about politicians & public services. Our ambition is to build a detailed blueprint for a govt that works and that can be delivered in practice. 👷

📺WATCH: Housing First has been a 'demonstrable success' in Liverpool , @MetroMayorSteve said at our recent roundtable🏘️ 🇬🇧Alongside the Steve Morgan Foundation and regional partners, we're exploring how to scale it nationally. Learn more👇

What do you think about the Government's new sentencing review?

Powerful comments from Sophie Winkleman about the impact of social media and smartphones on the young.

Excellent by @StevenBartlett 👏

How to get more young people into work, help employers and raise £billions for the public purse...

Given the parlous state of the economy, this could be part of the solution.

Breakfast of champions. 😎 @McDonalds

Def worth a listen if you are a tennis fan ... recorded at 3am in the morning immediately after the men's doubles final at the Australian Open ... insight, passion, and honesty. 👏 @jamesgraysport open.spotify.com/episode/1G0…

🧠Our medical response to the rise in mental-ill health is inadequate. That's the consensus among GPs, according to CSJ polling in our new report, 'Change The Prescription'🗒️ With nearly 1⃣/5⃣ of adults on antidepressants, we need long-term solutions. Here's what GPs said👇

The power. The roar! 🔊 A #PointofTheYear from one of 2024's most memorable matches as Henry Patten & Harri Heliovaara claimed Wimbledon glory! 🎥 @Wimbledon

To 186 coastal MP's. There's rumours @Keir_Starmer is about to surrender our waters to the EU. Are we not an independent coastal state ? What country would hand over a rich resource (fish). Fish quota is a public asset. Have the GB public been asked ?