The best thing about the football off-season is the transfer speculation, deal agreements and player announcements. Watching teams bid £100m for a player is somewhat grotesque but it is also …
Financial Planning
London house prices record annual fall for first time in 18 months
Budget uncertainty and a glut of supply caused house prices in London and the south to record an annual for the first time since last spring, according to new data. …
On this day: The resignation of Margaret Thatcher
On 28 November 1990, Margaret Thatcher left Downing Street for the last time, leaving the United Kingdom in a very,very much better state than when she came there, writes Eliot …
Covid inquiry is a reminder that freedom matters as well as saving lives
The Covid inquiry continues labouring under the lopsided assumption that the only thing that matters in a pandemic is the number of deaths prevented. There was always an alternative to …
Salary sacrifice cap will hit ordinary earners hardest, research finds
Reeves’ crunch Budget measures ranged from freezing income tax thresholds to fresh levies on milkshakes and lattes as she sought to lower the UK’s fiscal headroom. But it was her …
Labour U-turns on workers’ rights manifesto pledge
The government has reversed its contentious plans to hand all new staff protection from unfair dismissal from day one, after months of warnings about the workers’ rights package from industry …
Budget crackdown on football image rights ‘incredible’, say tax experts
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been accused of disproportionately targeting football for tax rises after the Budget laid out plans for a raid on image rights earnings. Top footballers benefit from …
Reeves criticised over lack of action on ballooning clinical negligence costs in Budget
A leading medical defence organisation has criticised the Chancellor for missing the opportunity to tackle the ‘eye-watering’ NHS clinical negligence bill. In a statement following the Budget, Tom Reynolds, director …
British founders bagging a few Budget wins after dodging exit tax
Startup founders went into this week’s Budget in a state of quasi-panic. Rumours of a so-called ‘exit tax’ on wealthy individuals, fuelled by weeks of speculation that the UK had …
UK government denies brain drain due to high tax burden
The UK government has denied that more Brits are leaving the country because of a higher tax burden. The Prime Minister’s spokesman denied suggestions that tens of thousands of Brits …