In those lazy, hazy days of Lockdown 1, we walked by the beautiful River Windrush most days. Our...
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“Mask-wearing and working from home to go as England’s Plan B rules set to end”
So will everything go back to ‘normal’ now? Will we all stand packed and maskless on the London...
“Zopa pulls out of P2P consumer lending as it blames cowboy firms for ‘damaging customer trust’”
Peer-to-Peer lending is the slightly more organised equivalent of a mate saying ‘got this great...
“Care homes: Following the money trail”
Care homes began to be privatised at the end of Maggie’s ‘80s. I remember all sorts of grants were...
“Just half of Brits would split wealth equally among children”
With some exceptions, most parents want to ensure they treat their children equally. The problem...
“Fire savers: We’re going to retire at 40. Here’s how”
My first pension had a retirement age of 50, and the talk then was of the lives of leisure our...
“Laura Kuenssberg replacement at BBC should be ‘pro-Brexit’, says senior Tory MP”
This guy would, I suspect (hope?) be the first to complain about state control of the media in...
“Rishi Sunak to save billions by counting IMF cash as aid for poor”
I can just hear conversations amongst the older generations of my childhood: 'Charity begins at...
“Sunak faces the brutal maths of electric vehicles”
Of course, the tax breaks for electric cars are pretty good, which is why there are too many EVs...
“Amid the petrol crisis, is it time to switch to an electric car?”
My journey west to find the Coast Path was the first proper test for my electric car. And here’s...
“Two more UK energy suppliers stop trading on gas price hit”
I jumped on the bandwagon 20 years or so ago, shopped around and changed my ‘phone provider from...
“Climate protesters arrested after blocking M25 junctions in rush hour”
If anyone is going to be in favour of the climate-change protesters main objectives, it’s surely...
“UK care homes say funding shake-up threatens their viability”
Much of the emphasis in the ‘how to solve the care problem’ debate has been on ‘PMI’, Protecting...
“Where Does the Taliban Get Its Funding From?”
They say that, if you want to find how bad stuff happens, or perhaps try to stop it happening....
“Will pupils ever sit exams again?”
It’s the kids/students I feel sorry for in all this. If they do well this year, it’s ‘grade...