On the money

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Scooter solution to school non-attendance

A family doesn't have anywhere to live near their child's primary school. Perhaps something happened...

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Pinching yourself about poverty

Picture the parliamentarians gathered amid pomp and ceremony for yesterday’s Queen’s Speech. What...

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The rich who could cope with being poor

I doubt that Iain Duncan Smith could live for a year on £53 a week. But so what if he did? If he took...

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Neither a lender nor a Cypriot be

There are two trite and prissy sayings from Eng Lit often used to kick off money advice discussions....

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Priority debts and emotional APR

It's a curious expression, so feel free to mock. But I think the term "emotional APR" might help develop...

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Tesco ergo sum

It used to be a joke about Brits and their obsession with shopping. Now the government plans to build...

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Bedroom tax: what are we supposed to do?

The implications of the bedroom tax are slowly seeping into wider consciousness. Even so, there are still...

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Banks in schools

Moral panic alert. Banks are about to be let loose into the nation's schools to peddle their wares to...