I’m doing something rather brave. I’m planning not to work next Tuesday. Now that may not sound much, but since February 2003 when I set up MoneySavingExpert, I’ve done some work every Tuesday – that includes during my honeymoon and paternity leave for baby MSE. Tuesday is the day we put together and write the weekly Martin’s...

Update 14 November 2017: From the Paradise Papers to the Panama Papers, Jimmy Carr to David Cameron and Google to Starbucks, headlines about avoidance continue to split the nation – some view it as a moral abhorrence, others legal self-protection. So I thought it would be worth setting out mine and MSE’s view. First of all, let’s clear...

This poem came about by accident, and for me that makes it even more beautiful. On St George’s Day, I asked people on my Facebook page: "What are you doing today?" The unplanned result was a portrait of Britons from the mundane to the magnificent. As I read it, I realised it was a poem and needed...