The papers have been kicking John Lewis this week, as it has started to exclude items where it gives an additional year’s guarantee from its ‘never knowingly undersold’ price promise (see John Lewis price promise flaw news). While a little naughty, actually I have a much more fundamental issue with price promises. While ‘never knowingly undersold’ or...

Update Note 14 February: Thankfully the government has now relented and put more money into the Financial Inclusion Fund, so the need for a campaign has now abated – full info in the debt help saved by government U-turn news story. Over 100,000 people a year get help from the Financial Inclusion Fund (FIF), which provides money...

As I’ve written here many times before, Mrs MSE and I are Scrabble obsessed. We take a board with us everywhere and play three or four times a week. As nerdy and prattish as it is, I even graph the score of every game between us and over the weekend finally I smashed my best ever score....

I love this idea for teaching your children about money. Let the bank of mum and dad become a true savings and loans co-operative and that’s exactly what one parent is doing. I’ve been blogging a lot about financial education recently, we’re in the midst of campaigning to get financial education in schools and on the back...

I’m still buzzing after yesterday’s Commons launch of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on financial education, which MoneySavingExpert (MSE) and Personal Finance Education Group (PFEG) are joint backers of. So many MPs turned up to support us, many sharing a passion for getting financial education on the curriculum, meaning we may actually have a chance at...