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Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock Before having our first baby last year, we wondered whether we had the money, time and necessary skills to raise a child. Perhaps you find yourself contemplating the same? Many people certainly have, as birth rates have been declining across the world for the past 200 years. Research attributes this trend to the escalating […]

It can cost £200,000 to raise a child until the age of 18 in the UK. Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock Before having our first baby last year, we wondered whether we had the money, time and necessary skills to raise a child. Perhaps you find yourself contemplating the same? Many people certainly have, as birth rates have been […]

The Bank of England’s governor has repeatedly warned that it will not cut UK interest rates any time soon, even with a recent sharp fall in consumer price inflation. Like central banks in the US and eurozone, the bank has been sharply increasing its base rate to try to tame a spike in inflation. But […]

NeydtStock/Shutterstock The tide of employment law has continued to turn on the gig economy after the UK Supreme Court’s recent ruling that Deliveroo drivers are not considered workers but self-employed independent contractors. This means people working in the gig economy are less likely to be able to access standard UK protections such as paid leave, […]

Bself/Shutterstock We must “bulldoze through” the planning system to “get Britain building again”. So said Sir Keir Starmer at the Labour party’s last annual conference. He argued it’s time to “fight the blockers” and build the 1.5 million homes that he thinks Britain needs. But it is simplistic to lay all the blame on our […]

Is this the future? arda savasciogullari In 2019, Tesla was in the happy position of being a high-volume, premium-priced leader in the global electric vehicle (EV) market. Deliveries of 367,500 cars represented 50% growth over 2018. That included 92,550 of the mid-sized Model 3 cars and 19,450 of the larger Model S and X vehicles […]

Deatonphotos/Shutterstock Royal Mail, the UK’s oldest postal service, has received plenty of bad news in recent weeks. It has been fined for failing to achieve its delivery targets, lost an exclusive deal with the Post Office and recorded operating losses of £319 million – £100 million higher than for the same period last year. There […]

On November 16 2023, fans of Everton FC may have been reasonably satisfied about how the football season was shaping up. They were 14th in the English Premier League, and had recently recorded wins against West Ham and Crystal Palace. Then on November 17 everything changed. The club were docked ten points for breaching the […]

fizkes/Shutterstock There is a poverty crisis in the UK. But when outlining his 110 growth measures aimed at getting “the British economy working” during his autumn statement, the chancellor’s measures to tackle the cost of living crisis were limited to economic support payments focused on short-term wins. We argue that raising living standards should be […]

The UK is currently 16th out of 50 European countries in terms of the best pension offering. Linda Bestwick/Shutterstock A question that is perennially asked by financial experts is: “can the government (in other words, the taxpayer) afford to keep increasing pensions?” But in my view, the real question should be: “what is the purpose […]