State-funded pensions will cost £5 trillion, today's Daily Mail informs us. Laid bare for first time, £180,000 burden facing every Brit...

Extract from an article by the Daily Mail's Alex Brummer: Roughly one-sixth of construction output consists of putting up new homes. In...

This is something I drafted a long time ago but did not send because of lack of staff, money, and everything else that makes life tolerable....

David Cameron has suggested that the NHS and the education system should ‘close the gap’ between rich and poor. Recently a grandfather of ...

I have a book entitled The Great Pensions Swindle * which, 40 years ago, made some useful points about the likely unreliability of state pen...

It is objected that directors and shareholders of water firms continue to receive substantial ‘rewards’ in salaries and dividends, although ...

Mention the world ‘tax’ to most people and their first – and often only – reaction is to ask for ways they can cut their tax bill. But once ...

I see that those on pension credit (the means-tested supplement to the basic state pension), along with others receiving benefits, are to be...

This is a letter sent to Bel Mooney, the ‘agony aunt’ of the Daily Mail . Dear Bel Every day I wake up and pray: ‘Please God let today be...

(This is an update on the blog post of 25 April 2011 , commenting on the government’s plans to tax property. Looking at the recent Budget, i...