2024 was a busy year. The Paris Olympics and Paralympic Games inspired us all. Taylor Swift-fever infected the country as the singer’s Eras tour arrived in Britain, with even the new prime minister in attendance.
On the topic of politics, more than half the world’s population headed to the polls last year. As well as Labour’s decisive victory at home, the other big story was Donald Trump’s imminent return to the White House. You can read more about that in our latest blog.
Despite continuing global conflicts, the world economy showed signs of improving and there are some reasons to be optimistic for 2025.
Keep reading for your list of cultural, sporting, and economic highlights to look forward to in the year ahead.
Some big names in huge films will tempt you to multiplexes this year
Timothée Chalamet was everywhere in 2024, including at his look-a-like contest. Having starred in some huge films in 2024 (Wonka and Dune Part 2), Chalamet returns in early 2025 as a young Bob Dylan.
The Oscar-tipped A Complete Unknown has just been released and charts Dylan’s rise, culminating in 1965’s Newport Folk Festival when he plugged in and “went electric”.
A British blockbuster will return to a much-loved universe in the summer. Following the cult success of Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later and its sequel, 28 Weeks Later, Juen will see the release of 28 Years Later.
Maggie Gyllenhaal is also back in the director’s chair with a remake of Bride of Frankenstein. The Bride! stars Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale in a sci-fi monster musical.
For something a little more down to earth, you might try F1, which promises to be an adrenaline-fueled look at motorsport from the director of Top Gun: Maverick, and that boasts Lewis Hamilton as a producer.
Finally, you’ll have to wait until December 2025 for the latest instalment in James Cameron’s Avatar franchise, but Avatar: Fire & Ash is sure to be worth the wait.
It is set for release on 19 December.
Debut novelists and established authors will vie for a place on your to-read pile this year
Two literary heavyweights have new novels coming out in March this year.
Having won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021, British-Tanzanian author Abdulrazak Gurnah returns with Theft, a story about the interlocking lives of young people coming of age in modern-day Tanzania.
Award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, meanwhile, releases her latest novel, Dream Count, after a 10-year wait.
The award-winning poet Seán Hewitt will take his first foray into novel writing following 2022’s memoir All Down Darkness Wide. Open, Heaven is a story of first love, coming out, and coming of age, set in a rural northern England village.
Later in the year, Lisa Harding’s gothic The Wildelings will take readers into the heart of an elite Dublin university.
Sofka Zinovieff, meanwhile, follows up her acclaimed Putney with Stealing Dad. The novel will see three siblings unite after the death of their father and, despite its dark subject matter, it could become your summer beach read.
2025 promises another summer of music and sport
A “misunderstanding” from Neil Young saw the Glastonbury Festival hit the headlines six months before it was due to kick off. Young became the second act, after Rod Stewart, to confirm attendance at Worthy Farm this year.
If you aren’t one of the 200,000 people lucky enough to bag a ticket in the minutes that they were on sale, the BBC will have you covered.
After the Olympics last year, you can get your sports fill in July when the UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 kicks off in Switzerland. The lionesses will be defending their title and will have their work cut out for them.
Experts are optimistic about the economy but we’re on hand to provide reassurance and advice
With inflation stabilising, experts expect the Bank of England base rate to fall further during 2025. This is good news for borrowers especially mortgage holders who could see their repayments fall.
Forecasts are also for GDP growth in 2025, with a knock-on for the job market and your earnings.
Whatever 2025 brings, remember we’re in hand to help.
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