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Discos grab-bag crisps calorie con – food labelling must improve 19 Aug 2013 | 03:22 pm
Inaccurate price labelling is usually my territory. Yet similar tricks are played with nutrition and I want to highlight an annoying ploy to make salt and vinegar Discos look less calorific. Buying cr...
Sheer ignorance from financial giant Fidelity on student finance 15 Aug 2013 | 04:33 pm
My inbox has just been dirtied by a terrible press release from giant finance company Fidelity. It latches onto people’s misunderstandings about student finance to flog its junior ISA product. So I’ve...
Don’t throw bank statements away after six years 12 Aug 2013 | 07:13 pm
The conventional wisdom is you only need to keep bank, credit card and other personal finance documents for six years. This is because HMRC (the taxman) can only ask to go back that far if you’re bein...
What’s happened to my £1m donation to Citizens Advice? 12 Aug 2013 | 04:07 pm
In June 2012 I pledged a £10m donation to charity. A chunk of that was £1m to the UK’s Citizens Advice Bureaux, which I followed through on very soon after. Some of you may be interested to know what ...
A peek inside my overseas wallet – a nerd’s guide to what to take abroad 30 Jul 2013 | 09:37 pm
I invite you to take a peek inside my overseas wallet. This is no apocryphal journalistic device, I genuinely have a second wallet I pick up when I go abroad. Not to better match my overseas shoes (th...
Dear Archbishop… why I disagree with you over Wonga 29 Jul 2013 | 03:48 pm
I pray the Archbishop’s laudable but blundering entrance into the payday loan debate doesn’t hurt more than it helps. The trip-up of the Church’s own investments is a side show – my concern is far mor...
Three money lessons I’ll teach my daughter 11 Jul 2013 | 09:10 pm
Baby MSE is now eight months old. I’d always vowed to campaign to get financial education on the National Curriculum before she started school. This week, the Prime Minister confirmed that would hap...
“Who can I complain to if a shop is overpricing goods?” 24 Jun 2013 | 08:31 pm
This question, in various guises, is one of the most common I’m asked. In a nutshell, the answer is no one. We do not (in general) have retail price rights. Stores can sell goods at any price they cho...
Doing something rather brave – I won’t be working next Tuesday 24 May 2013 | 09:36 pm
I’m doing something rather brave. I’m planning not to work next Tuesday. Now that may not sound much, but since February 2003 when I set up MoneySavingExpert, I’ve done some work every Tuesday – that ...
Should MoneySavingExpert encourage tax avoidance? 20 May 2013 | 01:35 pm
From Jimmy Carr to Google, headlines about avoidance split the nation – some view it as a moral abhorrence, others legal self-protection. Yet recently I’ve even been shocked to see some on Twitter and...
