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...
Read MoreIt has been almost a year since the UK left the European Union. It has been over three weeks since the transition period came to an end. Early days, I...
Read MoreBrexit & a train by another name
The statement to the House of Commons last week by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, made clear that the public finances were in dire str...
Read MoreFor the love of furlough and post-Brexit Britain
Yesterday, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak (pictured on the home page), made a statement to Parliament. Yes, another one, as the Covid-19...
Read MoreCoping with Covid
In light of the coronavirus crisis, on Monday March 16 the government announced social-distancing restrictions. Yes, one month ago today; that’...
Read MoreHeading for a fall? Yes – but just how big will it be?
This blog is inspired by a short story from FT Money (the ‘personal finance section of the year’ as it’s flagged) in the Financial ...
Read MoreCutting the booze could lead to a cruise (or maybe a flight to somewhere)
You couldn’t make it up, although you would think that someone had. A couple of weeks ago The Times ran a big piece about Ruja Ignatova, a Bulga...
Read MoreFINANCE: Dodgy dosh
Weeks ago, before the Supreme Court declared that his prorogation of Parliament was unlawful, Boris Johnson weighed into the debate about the collapse...
Read MoreFINANCE: (Thomas) Cooking the books?
On a hot day earlier this month, I espied the car below on a street in central London. The temperature was appropriate, because this particular vehicl...
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