Tag Archives: Society

What I’d pay more taxes for.

Posted on December 7, 2019 by

This election has become about “Getting Brexit Done” and “Saving our NHS”. It could have been about so much more. We don’t live in a just society when we allow poverty of the type video’d here. This is a tough … Continue reading →

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At work and after – how independent do we want to be?

Posted on November 1, 2018 by

Inequality over an occupational life-course is reflected in retirement. https://t.co/T6ahUk7350 — Jo Grady (@DrJoGrady) November 1, 2018 This seems to me very sound. Jo Cumbo rightly reports the gender pension  gap in retirement while Jo Grady concludes that pensions reflect pay and … Continue reading →

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Finding our Social Purpose

Posted on June 19, 2016 by

I have been troubled by bad dreams since I heard of the death of Jo Cox, I did not know here , I did not know of her, her life and mine were never likely to have crossed paths. It … Continue reading →

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Please vote – out of respect.

Posted on June 18, 2016 by

If you read no other article this weekend, read this by the Fleet Street Fox. It says what I was trying to say in an amateurish way yesterday, it talks of Jo Cox’s death as a wake-up call to those of … Continue reading →

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All at sea! TPR’s “Trafalgar” for maritime and offshore workers.

Posted on January 13, 2016 by

Well done Lesley Titcombe and hurrah for our best naval victory since Trafalgar! Continue reading →

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Addiction

Posted on August 12, 2015 by

Addiction is not a word that resonates positively. But we had a discussion yesterday centred on getting people addicted to properly managing their money, in which the word seemed entirely appropriate. People get addicted to courses of action resulting from a … Continue reading →

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Everything’s a prototype – nothing on the web will last.

Posted on August 7, 2015 by

  The way people think about websites has changed so much over the past three years. This morning I read an article called “web design is dead” in which the author, Sergio Nouvel (@shesho) argues that internet innovation has shifted from … Continue reading →

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WOW – RDR II just broke out!

Posted on August 3, 2015 by

The FCA have launched what they call “a major new review looking at how financial advice could work better for consumers”. A quick scan of the Terms of Reference of this Financial Advice Market Review suggests it is as ambitious in … Continue reading →

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“We all defer together?” – Guest Blog from Ralph Frank

Posted on July 29, 2015 by

The recently announced consultation on pensions tax relief has stirred up thought and debate on the issue of incentivising long-term saving.  There are theoretical, commercial and practical aspects to be addressed in this process of defining an approach to pensions … Continue reading →

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The lady’s not for turning.

Posted on June 26, 2015 by

For reasons that weren’t particularly obvious , a random group crammed into a much too small committee room in the House of Lords on Wednesday night for a round table with the new pensions minister. It was a hot day that … Continue reading →

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