There is it seems no problem in the UK that can’t be solved by raiding someone’s pension. The major parties have now all published their manifestos and every single one includes some sort of reduction …
We have often pointed out that over the economic cycle, it isn’t really a good idea for state spending to be much more than 35-37% of GDP. That’s because at no time in recent history …
We wrote about the battle for Alliance Trust, one of the UK’s oldest investment trusts in the magazine’s investment briefing a couple of weeks ago, and I also looked at the war of words between the …
What would you do if you ran a country in which various rubbish policies had, over several decades, resulted in a long-term housing bubble, one which meant that the average house was far too expensive …
Every time I write about downsizing someone quite rightly points out that it is easier in theory than in practice. Leaving the large lovely houses you have brought your children up in isn’t ever easy. …
Ed Miliband has announced another policy (will it never end?). This one makes some sense. It is the abolition of ‘non-dom’ tax status in the UK. Anyone who is domiciled in another country (this basically …
According to Nicola Sturgeon, life just isn’t fair. You’ll know this by now – the SNP’s campaigning pretty much always centres on something not being fair. But this week’s campaign against unfairness is silly even …
I wrote here that the change in the inheritance rules might kick off a wave of ‘downsizing’ from pensioners. Why? Because you can leave your pension pot to your heirs 100%-free of inheritance tax (IHT) …
I noticed at tweet a few nights ago from Duncan Weldon. It went like this: “Some fretting about UK deflation. Genuine question: in the absence of wage falls how do falling energy/food costs make debt less …
In the middle of the beginning of what looks like it will be a pretty trying election campaign, I thought it might be worth passing on the thoughts of Lord Strathclyde – one of the …