By Bob Lyddon – 4 minute read – The Bank of England's newly-unveiled CHAPS system went down for several hours on Monday – It’s time to face reality: the UK lacks a main pillar of financial stability.
By Bob Lyddon – 3 minute read – The FCA has written to 30 or so institutions regarding the debanking of customers. While promising, it cannot obscure the FCA itself has ‘form’ in enabling de-banking in the past.
By Bob Lyddon – 4 minute read – The UK’s PEP regime has become a self-referencing industry in its own right, serving the interests of financial institutions while causing new and considerable detriments to UK citizens in good standing.
By Brian Monteith – 5 minute read – It is deeply ironic a food product like Soy milk, so beloved of the more socially and ethically conscious amongst us, comes from a crop which not only contributes to the destruction of the environment, but might also be harming our mental and physical wellbeing.
By Ewen Stewart – 6 minute read – WE ARE tossing aside the pillars that made us free, affluent and prosperous – for the whims of policymakers fixated by short term expediency and cowardice. As others create and grow we urgently need to rediscover the bedrock of what made our civilisation prosper so mightily.
