Two months and no base rate cut. Not surprising I suppose as now we’re at 0.5% there’s not exactly anywhere for rates to go. Yet it’s the long term that’s more concerning, as we adapt to this low interest rate, low inflation (or even deflationary) environment, the shock once rates return even just back to where they...

As a big supporter of access to education, each year I do an unpaid radio morning in conjunction with the government to explain how student finance works, as there are so many myths and misunderstandings (the parents’ guide to student finance we do each year is part of this). By bad fate this year’s was scheduled in...

While checking out how the savers’ rights petition was doing on the number 10 website, I clicked the closed polls section. In there, the tenth biggest ever poll on the site with 70,000 plus signatures is the Bank Charges Consumer Charter. Scanning the polls above it, every single one of them has (with response) next to it…...