The perilous economic conditions facing the UK can be traced back to Trump: Primarily 1) war in Iran, 2) tariffs. Anyone who loves Britain should loathe Trump.
Economics
2026-09-14: Two non-resident crypto billionaires are attempting to wreck British politics even further by funnelling astonishing amounts of cash towards Nigel Farage
2026-09-14
2026-09-09
Councils pay more than £125m a year placing vulnerable children in illegal care homes in England: Private companies inevitably getting in on this lucrative ‘business’.
2026-09-08
Majority of Tory and Reform voters do not back cuts to disability benefits, survey finds: It’s a shame then that Reform have so little respect for their membership.
2026-09-01
Number of young people with no close friends has soared since 2014 in England: ‘The number of young people with no close friends has risen fivefold since 2014 as a result of growing up in a “bleak world” dominated by austerity, the pandemic and social media.’
UK houses near top state secondary schools cost £40,000 more, research reveals: ‘The £40,574 extra, a premium of about 11%, can be compared with an average annual fee of £23,000 charged by private schools…’
2026-08-12
Stagnation: the norm: ‘Before 1945 trend growth was usually below 1% a year.’
2026-08-08
Richard Tice and Reform’s money - the new unanswered question: ‘This is a question that cuts to the core of who funds British politics - and who funds Reform.’
2026-08-01: Temporarily housed Britons refused usage of air conditioning by landlords; children suffer
2026-08-01
The tangled financial web at the heart of Reform UK: ‘Sources have described how staff at several different banks were so concerned about a range of transactions…that they reported them to the National Crime Agency’.
2026-07-02: Nearly 300k more people in England may die over the next decade as a result of the US UK trade deal
2026-06-03: The economic benefits of Open Source software
2026-06-02: Evidence-based investing guidance from Tim Hale's book 'Smarter Investing'
2026-05-30: Anti-wealth-inequality campaigner Gary Stevenson shows us how he became so rich - and what it cost him - in 'The Trading Game'
2026-05-24: Cash is not king, over the long term
2026-05-16
2026-05-02
Rich People Didn’t Look Like This Before: ‘The luxury of viewing your face-lift less as a major, potentially ruinous surgery and more as a routine to-do list item is the ultimate status symbol’
2026-04-04: Policy reactions so far to the oil crisis
2026-03-22
Britain is sliding towards billionaire politics: Is Labour too timid to stop it?: ‘The conditions that allow extreme wealth to dominate politics, such as rising campaign costs, sophisticated digital campaigning, and weak transparency rules, are present here too’.
2026-03-21: An interesting proposal from the government to help Britons reduce fuel consumption and hence costs …
2026-03-16
2026-02-18: The Big Short retells and explains what led to the devasting 2007-2008 financial crisis
2026-02-17: $15 million of USAID's former budget seized to provide protection for 1 Trump official
2026-01-06: FTSE 100 CEOs have already earned more than you probably will all year