UK inflation fell to 2.6% in June. The number that matters next is not your shopping bill; it is what the Bank of England decides to do about rates. News · Macro · Cost of Living The number lands at seven in the morning, the way it always does, and by the time the kettle […]
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Tech stumbled, and boring names climbed- what the great rotation of 2026 says about chasing winners, and the quiet case for patience. Markets · Mindset The dull stuff is winning, and that tells you something Here is a sentence I did not expect to write this month: the boring companies are beating the brilliant ones.
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Ecclesiastes 11:6 tells us to sow morning and evening because we cannot know which will prosper. That ancient line teaches about diversifying. Faith · Investing A line older than the stock market There is a sentence tucked into the Book of Ecclesiastes that would sit comfortably in any modern investing seminar, except it is roughly
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Life · Habits · Change Most changes fail for the same quiet reason, and it is rarely a lack of willpower. The resolution that never survived February You know the shape of it. A bright, ambitious resolution made with total sincerity, burning hot for a fortnight, then guttering out somewhere around the middle of February,
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Finance · Mindset · Access A confession to open with: for the longest time, I believed finance was a room I had not been invited into. The velvet rope made of words Every industry has its own language, but finance has weaponised its own. The jargon is not there to help you understand faster. Quite
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There’s a piece doing the rounds about someone who changed jobs ten times in ten years to finally reach the career they wanted. I read it twice. The first time, I wanted to cheer — that’s grit, and grit deserves a round of applause. The second time, a quieter question crept in and wouldn’t leave:
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Redundancy is frightening, and pretending otherwise helps no one. But I’ve stood in that particular fear — and I want to tell you what I found waiting on the other side. Maybe you’ve just had the meeting. The one held in the too-gentle voice, with the folder already printed, where someone who quite likes you
Nearly half our waking life is spent somewhere other than where we are. That is not a scheduling problem. It is the problem. Lifestyle “In a minute.” I have said those two words more times than I would like to count, usually to a small person holding something up for me to look at, while
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Europe is hot, crowded and quietly rationing itself. The smartest travellers are changing their dates rather than their destination. July 2026 · Lifestyle Somewhere in Europe this week, a woman is standing in a queue that snakes around a piazza in thirty-eight degrees of heat, holding a phone above her head, waiting to photograph a
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Most “how to save money” lists read like they were written by someone who’s never run out of money before the end of the month. Skip the coffee. Sell the car. Photosynthesise. You deserve better than that — so I’ve stripped it down to the ten changes that genuinely shift the needle. The ones you’ll
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