Finance

There was a neat piece in the latest issue of Private Eye, out last week. There frequently is, of course. This one opened up thus: “A bombshell ...

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A surfeit of woe?

Taylor Swift is back in London this week, with a string of five shows in six nights starting at Wembley on Thursday evening. She was there for three g...

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Swiftonomics

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