Finance

Yesterday the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, unveiled his spring budget for 2024. It is likely to be the last major financial event until t...

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Hunting for better news

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, ...

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Canary no more a gold mine

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...

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Mortgaged up to the hilt

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...

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All Trussed Up

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, ...

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A fight over the public purse

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...

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Trillions and billions

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

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Hey, big spender

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...

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A plethora of money problems