It is widely expected that the Bank of England will increase its base rate for the fourteenth time since 2021 when it meets tomorrow. Whether
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ISAs have a role in UK savings, but the creation of ISA millionaires was not one of them
As The Independent reports: The number of “Isa millionaires” has surged to more than 4,000, according to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) figures. Some 4,070 savers were sitting on
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Indictments
As the Guardian notes in a morning newsletter: Trump has been indicted on four charges: * Conspiracy to defraud the United States * Conspiracy to
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The present is unsustainable. Oil and banking have made it so. Something is going to have to change.
The Bank of England meets this week to consider raising interest rates, yet again. The consensus of opinion is that they will do so by
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Sunak is turning up the heat and the anger may be hard to constrain
There was always going to be a moment when the far-right would try to mount a backlash against the inevitable progress of the climate change
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The unbanked – and what to do about the problem
If the media was to be believed, the fact that there are people without access to bank accounts in the UK has only just been
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There is lots of money available – if you know where to look for it
I think the time has come for me to note the project that I am working on this summer. Like so many readers of this
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Why does the UK do so badly economically?
I noticed this tweet this morning: If the UK was a US state, it would be the poorest in the country: Mississippi wages, with Californian
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Why won’t Labour deliver what the people of this country want?
Kenan Malik wrote this in an opinion column in The Guardian today: The paradox is that the public in Britain is more liberal today about
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