Church collections could benefit from going contactless A few months ago, my father-in-law told me how worried he was about the rural bank branches around him closing. Without a bank to go to, he said, …
Nicola Sturgeon is desperate to distract your attention from the figures No one in Scotland’s SNP has much been looking forward to today. That’s because the new official government expenditure and revenue statistics (GERS) have …
Athletes have more straightforward targets Give someone one clear target and the means to meet it and you sharply increase the chance that they will meet it. That’s good if the target is the only …
New graduates can look forward to a life of debt My favourite story in the weekend press this week came from Rebecca Myers in The Sunday Times. She graduated last year from Warwick University with …
Taking care of children is a job in itself Every time someone asks me how the gender pay gap can be closed I give them the same answer. Rearrange life so that women no longer give …
It’s time to put a positive spin on things A few weeks ago I asked you to think of a new way to describe the process of the UK leaving the European Union. “Brexit” doesn’t …
Would Brits have the same rights in Nicola Sturgeon’s independent Scotland? The morning after the UK’s referendum on Europe, Nicola Sturgeon thought about holding a snap referendum on the Scottish independence. She didn’t – presumably …
Are you confident your information is in safe hands? A letter arrives from my bank. I have not filled in a form they sent me. If I don’t do it sharpish they “may be obliged” …
There’s more to a fall in London property prices than Brexit We’ve been warning about the risks in the London housing market for a while now. It looks like other people have started to notice …
The joys of travelling by train just got more expensive Back in 2003, in the name of European harmonisation, Gordon Brown dumped the measure of inflation the UK had been using for decades. The Retail …