When Roy the old English bulldog fell ill in September, Tracy Higgins did not think twice about getting him the medical care he needed. Several trips to the vets later and the final bill came — for nearly £8,200. Higgins, who lives in east London with her husband Kevin, took seven-year-old Roy to the vets…
My family has had a multi-car policy with Admiral for years. My son, whose car is on the policy, had an accident in November 2020, when another driver crashed into him. We were adamant that he was not at fault. I spent a long time gathering evidence for Admiral, including photographs of the accident scene…
The move from corporate America to cash-strapped academia in Britain was quite a shock for Helen Lee, who’d had an annual budget of “around $20 million” and access to state-of-the art-research facilities at Abbott Laboratories, the US pharmaceutical giant where she ran a division. Checking into her new laboratory at Cambridge University in 1995, where…
When I began writing these columns, a friend warned me never to read the comments — “Readers have strong opinions and you may not like them.” I’m pleased to say I’ve completely ignored the advice. The more feedback I get, good and bad, the happier I am — it’s how you learn and develop. During…
It’s been the golden rule for finance ministers since Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV’s energetic chief tax collector, coined it more than 300 years ago. Pluck the goose in a way that maximises the feathers while minimising the hissing, he advised. No wonder, then, that speculation has emerged suggesting that Rachel Reeves might target banks as…
Mario Draghi has urged Europe to adopt a new industrial strategy and to increase investment by at least €800 billion each year in order to keep up with the United States and China. In a report for the European Commission, the former boss of the European Central Bank said the bloc had the foundations in…
The boss of Ashmore Group is hoping that interest rate cuts in the United States will boost investors’ sentiment and staunch years of client withdrawals from the emerging markets-focused fund manager. Its assets under management have shrunk from a peak of almost $100 billion in 2019 to $49.3 billion, driven by outflows as customers have…
The price of bitcoin hit $70,000 this week after Donald Trump promised to turn the US into the “bitcoin superpower of the world” if he is elected as president in November. “The United States will be the crypto capital of the planet and the bitcoin superpower of the world,” Trump said, speaking to a cheering…
Sir Keir Starmer must raise taxes or rein in the state, because not doing so would risk putting Britain “on a path to unsustainable debt” that could trigger Liz Truss-style market crises, a House of Lords committee has warned. The Lords’ economic affairs committee said in a report that the prime minister must confront “painful…