You have decided savings rates are just too poor and you want to invest. Whether you have taken financial advice or not, you have looked at your pension arrangements and your cash savings, you’ve considered the risks, you can lock your money away for at least five years and want to start an investing Isa. … Read more
HISTORY THE HISTORY OF MAGIC by Chris Gosden (Viking £25, 512pp) The 2011 Census revealed that 56,620 of us said we were pagans, 11,766 described themselves as Wiccans and 1,276 people confessed they were signed up to witchcraft. Twenty-seven per cent of the British population also maintained that ‘communication with the dead is possible’. Some … Read more
Twitter users stretch words such as ‘yes’, ‘dude’ and ‘hey’ to modify their meaning, according to researchers who analysed 100 billion tweets. The US linguist experts say stretched words that convey a different meaning than the original are common feature of social media, but are rare in formal writing. For instance, ‘suuuuure’ can imply sarcasm, ‘duuuuude’ … Read more
From motorsport to building life-saving equipment fast in the Ventilator Challenge: Craig Wilson, of Williams Advanced Engineering, on the Meaning Business podcast By This Is Money Published: 13:22 BST, 29 April 2020 | Updated: 13:22 BST, 29 April 2020 Meaning Business is a new podcast series, where Simon Lambert speaks to people from the world … Read more
The number of families claiming child benefit has plunged by 44,000 to 7.28million over a year, putting more parents at risk of a poorer old age. Parents – mostly mums – can end up tens of thousands of pounds worse off in retirement because not claiming deprives them of valuable credits towards their state pension. … Read more