Sixteen years ago the Debt on the Doorstep campaign began to tackle extortionate costs imposed by non-bank lenders in the UK market. As the campaigners for this noted
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Just a note of thanks to someone in Waterstones in Cambridge today, where I was literally browsing the shelves and noted this:

Larry Elliott has written in the Guardian this afternoon that: The history of EU negotiations is that victory is snatched from the jaws of defeat
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An advantage of living with teenagers is you get to talk to teenagers. By and large they get a bad press. Most I see are
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I was most amused by the concluding comments in a talk by Andy Haldane, chief economists of the Bank of England, this week. So much
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Eighteen months or so ago I helped launch the Progressive Pulse blog, of which I am the sole director. I think it’s time to give
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This is from The Times this morning: The nine biggest accounting firms have agreed a cap on the number of FTSE 100 companies that a
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There are a few bits that are very American in here, but it’s worth watching: Hat tip to Max Lawson

I have been a critic of GERS. As a result I have exposed weaknesses in its methodology that I think are significant. Those weaknesses include
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