Money

Heaven is a Trad Dad

1 February 2025 9:00 am

M y husband earns more than me. A lot more. I am, of course, extremely fortunate to be in such…

My wife earns more than me – and it doesn’t feel great

18 January 2025 9:00 am

This is the article I have thought about writing for years, but I have always ended up asking what would…

‘Teaching someone to draw is teaching them to look’: the year’s best art books

7 December 2024 9:00 am

Subjects range from a Paleolithic bone carving to Banksy’s graffiti, via colour concepts, romanticism, tattoos and mirror painting

We’re all caught in the insurance trap

30 November 2024 9:00 am

In they pour, one after another, cheerily thudding on to the doormat: ‘Thank you for insuring with us again! Now,…

How to buy a house that isn’t on the market

9 November 2024 9:00 am

There are many, mutually reinforcing causes of the property crisis: it is too easy to borrow; there are too many…

The real test for the republic

9 November 2024 9:00 am

It’s always intimidating to write for a readership more clued up than you are. I file this on the very…

Labour’s new cabinet divide

2 November 2024 9:00 am

There were no civil servants present when ministers gathered for their weekly cabinet meeting on Tuesday. The reason? It was…

Rachel Reeves is taking us back to the 1970s

2 November 2024 9:00 am

The first fiscal event to be delivered by a female Chancellor of the Exchequer is a landmark moment, but in…

Still hunting for a Trump trade? Gold may have further to rise

2 November 2024 9:00 am

Anyone hunting for a ‘Trump trade’ at this late stage has probably missed the US election bus. If you bought…

The Murdochs’ next move: Rightmove

28 September 2024 9:00 am

Next month’s Budget tax raids on capital have provoked a festival of creative doom-mongering on the fringes of Labour’s conference…

Why people would hate a property tax

14 September 2024 9:00 am

My friend Tim Leunig is a cerebral thinker of the best kind. Though not party-political, he has worked for Tory…

How big business pushed up vet bills

31 August 2024 9:00 am

I was on my way to a Pilates class when I spotted Paul waving at me urgently from across the…

Who’ll be blamed for Rachel Reeves’s tax hikes?

3 August 2024 9:00 am

Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt entered Downing Street with one mission: to clean up the public finances after Liz Truss’s…

‘Nationalise Google!’: the techno-optimists hoping to save the world

20 July 2024 9:00 am

Future House is a weird private members’ club. There’s a mattress on the floor for napping, a bathtub designed to…

Abba’s genius was never to write a happy love song

25 May 2024 9:00 am

Benny and Björn may have composed some of the catchiest tunes ever, but even their bounciest melodies are ballasted with melancholy

In praise of Harry Cobden

2 December 2023 9:00 am

The beauty of mid-range products

4 November 2023 9:00 am

Once or twice, when on a crowded overnight flight, I have taken a sneaky stroll through the different cabins for…

Britain has an entitlement problem

9 September 2023 9:00 am

An Institute for Fiscal Studies paper, published at the end of last month, makes grim reading. Through the prism of…

Portrait of the week

15 July 2023 9:00 am

Price caps are a slippery slope

3 June 2023 9:00 am

Sometimes it’s the little things that depress most. I groaned last week to hear the news item. The government is…