Can Harry Potter and Jeremy Clarkson save Britain?

From television to music, content is king again, says Matthew Lynn. That's great news for Britain, and for investors buying into the companies that own those assets.

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How much would a new Harry Potter book be worth?

Apple is reported to be exploring deals for original programmes to put on a TV streaming service. Jeremy Clarkson is decamping to Amazon in a reported £160m deal the tech giant is spending big bucks to compete with Netflix. Netflix itself, perhaps the most significant technology company of the last three years, is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into some of the best-made programmes on television. The TV-streaming service now has 65 million paying subscribers and a market value of $42bn.

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Matthew Lynn

Matthew Lynn is a columnist for Bloomberg, and writes weekly commentary syndicated in papers such as the Daily Telegraph, Die Welt, the Sydney Morning Herald, the South China Morning Post and the Miami Herald. He is also an associate editor of Spectator Business, and a regular contributor to The Spectator. Before that, he worked for the business section of the Sunday Times for ten years. 

He has written books on finance and financial topics, including Bust: Greece, The Euro and The Sovereign Debt Crisis and The Long Depression: The Slump of 2008 to 2031. Matthew is also the author of the Death Force series of military thrillers and the founder of Lume Books, an independent publisher.