Pragmatist

When high street goods retailers call for increased taxes on e-commerce to subsidise their local business rates , you know their business...

Having spent the past seven years banging on about the changes needed to democratise the financial system, it's only fitting that m...

The government has announced bad debt relief for lending through P2P platforms; a consultation on whether to extend ISA eligibility to c...

So, two weeks have passed since the revelations of the latest (known) public sector IT disaster , and related wasted expenditure. But I...

A Conservatory Dream Last night we were treated to the story of a family who can now achieve their dream of building a conservatory , ...

The Inland Revenue is busy cleaning up part of Gordon Brown's poisonous legacy by clawing back Child Benefit payments made to house...

MPs and the media have a responsibility to put the corporation tax issue into proper perspective. The outrage is not how 'little...

Two things seem to be choking the flow of money to people and small businesses in the UK: broken regulation and perverse incentives. ...

There's a lot of concern about how to grow the UK economy. Some have pointed to banks and the public sector as ' the enemies of g...

I'm hopeful that the UK government's personal tax statement will end the cynical political ploy of leveraging middle class ig...

Scrapping national public sector pay rates is great news at last for regional growth.  As mentioned previously , government spending is ...

Raising the personal tax allowance is a great idea. Too many low income earners are paying tax at the same time as receiving benefits - ...

I confess that I spent a long time ignoring politics and politicians. I didn't even vote, to avoid encouraging them. I figured if I k...

The ebbing financial tide is leaving many weird schemes high and dry - Madoff's ponzi, Icelandic savings accounts, Irish real estate,...

In Part One of this post, I covered Warwick Lightfoot's book on the state of the UK's finances, Sorry, We Have No Money , which p...

The Christmas break finally allowed me to read various books that I knew were going to require some clear days, a rich diet, plenty of s...