I was reminded by a piece in The Guardian the other week that September has historically been a sometimes savage month for high finance. For example, ...

A few years ago there was a joke circulating on social media that imagined a world 200 years from now in which the British prime minister went to Brus...

The biggest fiscal curse facing the nation, we have repeatedly been told by the government and the Bank of England, is inflation. The country has been...

The front page of The Times on Tuesday September 6 carried a photo of Liz Truss and noted of the newly elected leader of the Conservative Party that t...

You may have noticed that there is (yet again!) an election campaign underway in order to resolve who should be the leader of the Conservative Party, ...

You will know what hundreds and thousands are; those tiny multi-coloured sweets used to decorate cakes and ice cream, vanilla in particular. We are ta...

There had been much speculation before Wednesday’s budget as to which philosophy would prevail when the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, stood up to add...

It seems the UK economy is at the start of a period of significant turbulence. There’s a lot of news surrounding this subject at the moment R...

Today, April 6, is not just the first working day after the Easter holiday. It is the first day of the 2021-2 tax year. This blog, briefly, is about i...