
A smooth-voiced addition to the Muttering
Each week the e-mail is accompanied by ‘Martin’s Money Mutterings’, my audio and video commentary on the event. This week I was speaking to my mate Graham Rogers , who as well as presenting Classic Gold radio in the mornings (and I do a quick hit on there every Thursday at 10.15am) is also the voice of...

Do not pass go, do not go to jail, go to free parking
I’ve just been sent a report from Bishop Stortford’s Citizen newspaper. Apparently a parking clampdown’s been requested by the town council following suggestions written in this site’s Chat Forum that free parking in the town is a good way to escape Stansted Airport’s parking charges. It’s an interesting read, and does create a bit of a moral...

A 500 word debt message to politicians
The House Magazine asked me if I’d like to write an opinion piece for its personal finance special. It’s the trade magazine for the political classes (politicians, their advisers, teams and lobbyists) and is apparently read by up to 70% of MPs. Therefore I wanted to make sure I got the message across correctly. Of course I...

Celebrity Mastermind in two days…. gulp
I was off work on Monday, and turned the computer on in the evening to see my agent’s e-mail asking me if I’d be the reserve for Celebrity Mastermind being filmed on Thursday. Essentially this meant being on-call in case someone dropped out. While the idea appealed and is very flattering, after all it’s good profile-raising stuff...

Oops, red faces all round at MSE Towers
In this week’s e-mail there’s a new way to call mobile phones for 3p a min (read about it). It was added to the CallCheckers and at the bottom a web link inserted. Unfortunately, while the correct link to cheapchatuk.co.uk was put in the UKCallChecker, the link in the International Callchecker went to cheapchat.co.uk. Those who choose...

The Devil Wears Primark. Good Hollywood MoneySaving
A tale of good MoneySaving from Hollywood… The MSG recently interviewed Anne Hathaway for Five News, shown today, covering the launch of the film ‘The Devil Wears Prada’. While the MSG was waiting to start the interview, Anne Hathaway pointed out she owned the same top as the MSG and said she’d got it from Naf Naf...

The Hoff wants m’woman!
I never thought I’d write such words, but it’s true. I received a text from the MSG the other day, who as she was interviewing The Hoff about his new film for Five News, had been given strict instructions to tell me everything. Her text included, “The Hoff thought I was hot and was very disappointed to...

Me and My Minder: Step out of the way please!
There are always hoards of people waiting as I leave the LK Today studio; not for me, but queuing to see the Sharon Osborne Show be recorded. Walking the 100 metre gauntlet to the car (TV companies always send cars, so the producers needn’t worry that you won’t make it) is always strangely worrying as many cry...

Debt suicide. The banks’ fault or the deceased?
On Friday morning I interviewed the Chief Executive of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Retail Banking for the ITV1 Tonight with Trevor programme I’m presenting on this evening (Monday 25 Sep). It specifically concerned the case of Richard Cullen – who sadly committed suicide with £140,000 of unsecured debts in early 2005. Of the large number of...

“This site’s changed my life”
This wasn’t originally going to be a blog entry, it was a reply to MoneySaver Black-Saturn in the ‘New Stats about the site’ discussion who said “you must be proud”, yet after reading through it I thought it worth an entry. To answer the question, yes I am really proud. I find the sheer scale of the...
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