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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

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.

Monarchs, MPs and merchants: the register laying bare Britain’s slave-trading past

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

Ban private jets and cut speed limits to avert UK fuel crisis, say campaigners

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

Oil company shares soar to all-time highs as Middle East war turbocharges price per barrel

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