As our prime minister, Mr Micawber….oops, sorry, Mrs May, is well-known for thinking, something will turn up. Surely it will? Won’t it? As...

On Wednesday the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, announced his 2017 budget. He scrapped stamp duty on the purchase of houses priced under...

They are not short of money in Qatar. Granted, the men who are working on building the stadia that will stage the 2022 World Cup in that small Gulf st...

I went to the bank recently to order some euros for a holiday on the continent. I said I’d like 300. The woman behind the counter asked if I mea...

It was less than three months ago, when we had more than once been strongly informed that things were very stable and there was no chance of there bei...

On Wednesday afternoon, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, unveiled his 2017 budget – in fact, the first of two he’ll announ...

Admittedly, originally posted a year ago, but still very topical as Mrs May gets ready to pull the trigger on Article 50. So will we actually, really ...

Below is a bit of nonsense I wrote and stuck on my blog on June 26, three days after the citizens of the United Kingdom had voted for us to leave the...

Mega companies avoiding tax is a subject that isn’t going to go away. Nor should it – that is, as a talking point. In an ideal world the a...