The answer to the headline question should be, of course, a big, fat ‘Yes!’ Of course you can, and...
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“Arrest of alleged spy raises questions around UK’s China policy”
If you’ve read Ben MacIntyre’s “The Spy and the Traitor”, you’ll know that Russia, then the Soviet...
Ireland’s Budget Surplus
Remember George Osborne? His plan was to cut his way to a ‘budget surplus’, where the government...
“Sunak and Hunt accused of ‘damaging UK plc’ over NatWest boss’s exit”
Here’s the flip side. Should a business not have the right to choose whom it serves? If you as a...
“The working-from-home illusion fades”
Are workers working from home more or less productive than those catching the 7.02am to London...
“How can lifelong renting be made more compatible with retirement saving?”
Here’s a future problem that will doubtless be kicked down the road until it becomes a crisis....
“Apple versus the world”
Apple has just launched its first actual new product in quite a while, a virtual reality gizmo,...
“Sixteen convicted over £42m cash smuggling from UK to Dubai”
I can recommend the excellent BBC series “The Gold”, which tells the story of the Brinks Mat gold...
“Rishi Sunak sets up review to tackle ‘anti-maths mindset'”
If you’re a client, you might not find it particularly comforting to know that I hated maths at...
“Elon Musk joins call for pause in creation of giant AI ‘digital minds’”
When I was growing up, men landed on the moon and within years we would supposedly be colonising...
“Rough sleeping has risen by 26% in a year amid the cost of living crisis”
Whenever I go to London as I did this week, I’m always upset to see how many are (still, in the...
“England’s poorer pupils face ‘geographic exclusion’ from top state schools – study”
What’s this got to do with financial advice? Well, bear with me. I was a school governor for 15...
“Public sector borrowing hits highest level since 1960s”
So what does this say for the 10 years of Pre-Pan, Pre-Boris austerity? Has it done any more than...
“Is life in the UK really as bad as the numbers suggest? Yes, it is”
In films, the lives of seemingly random characters often coincide, entwine and lead to a (in my...
“Rishi Sunak wants all pupils to study maths to age 18”
‘You must have been really good at maths at school’ and bet you love numbers’ I often hear. The...