The real, youth-driven answer to Britain’s retail decline
As restaurants close & local shops get taxed out of business, we need a shot in the arm for young enterprise to stop Amazon & Netflix destroying our towns Iona…
The seven deadly sins of money & how to keep them in check
Iona Bain We're not necessarily the righteous or censorious kind here on the Young Money Blog. But as we approach Halloween, we thought "hey, why don't we jump on the ridiculous…
How to deal with social pressures to spend
FIRST PUBLISHED: 2014 FULLY UPDATED: 2017 Iona Bain Picture the scene: it’s Friday night and your friends want to go out to a bar or a fancy new restaurant. But…
Slash your food costs with these 8 super-smart tips
Iona Bain Relentless pressure on the pound is pushing up shopping bills for families, with inflation climbing to 1.8 per cent. Food prices are being hiked for the first time…
News Round-Up – Tax, tomato ketchup, and satin bras
Google giggle Google has used the tax haven of Bermuda to shelter £30billion of profits including £3bn from the UK, the company has admitted. Bermuda has a corporation tax rate…
Child labour, organics and Bowie – News Round-Up
BATTERY CHILDREN Major electronics brands, including Apple, Samsung, Sony, Microsoft and Vodaphone, are failing to do basic checks to ensure that cobalt mined by child labourers has not been used…
Food for thought: how to stop waste in Food Bank Britain
Disclaimer: This is what we like to (politely) call a "heritage" blog. That means we haven't updated the information here since publication (although we have tidied up the format). A…
