I suspect that there are those who have been wondering why I have made so many comments about the costs of ultra-processed food recently. I
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Pension funds should be investing 25% of contributions in new economic activity in the UK
I had a comment made by Baroness Ros Altmann, who was a Tory pensions minister in the closing years of Cameron’s premiership, made on the
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Why are you divorced from your savings?
Most people have no clue how their pension and other savings are managed, or who by, and what the consequences for the economy, the planet
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Failure is now hard-wired into all that Labour is doing
The Office for National Statistics has issued a bulletin on GDP growth this morning, noting: UK gross domestic product (GDP) is estimated to have increased
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Naive optimism is not the best way to manage Trump
This is from last night’s Mansion House Speech by Rachel Reeves: I will always do what is in our national interest… … for our economy…
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Rachel Reeves really is a very big threat to the well-being of this country
As Rachel Reeves made clear in her Mansion House speech last night, she wants to relax banking regulations. Big bonuses will be coming back, paid
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Rachel Reeves’ Budget is falling apart
Rachel Reeves increased the minimum wage, the rate of employers’ national insurance and the amount of income on which that charge is levied in her
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Bitcoin: questions needing answers
Katie Martin, a member of the FT editorial board, has noted the massive increase in the value of cryptocurrencies since the election of Trump in
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Wes Streeting appears utterly indifferent to the harm he will cause
As the Guardian has reported in a newsletter this morning: Wes Streeting has decided it’s time to bring [a] competitive edge to the NHS. Yesterday,
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