It is difficult not to feel sorry for Brazilian football fans following their team’s ignominious exit from the World Cup. Bill Shankly, the legendary Liverpool FC manager famously said, “Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more […]
So I said to the gym instructor: ‘Can you teach me to do the splits?’ He said: ‘How flexible are you?’ I said: ‘I can’t make Tuesdays.’ (Tim Vine) Do you sometimes wish your job allowed you to do something else on Tuesdays? Well, maybe you can, or at least ask if you can. Since […]
What does it mean to be British? One of the greatest Britons of all time (arguably) once said ‘History will be kind to me as I intend to write it’. Although Winston Churchill could be said to have achieved this aim and despite being a national isntitution and the most popular British Prime Minister of […]
What’s the difference between a Tuna and a piano? You can tune a piano but you can’t piano a Tuna. Next What’s the difference between Financial Advice and money advice? This is however, no joke. Financial advice is about the choices we have to make when considering how to make investments and pensions or where to […]
Thankfully times have changed since signs advertising properties or rooms to let openly excluded people because of their race or the colour of their skin. Discrimination still happens in the UK of course, in spite of the fact that the Equality Act 2010 (which brought together various anti-discrimination legislation under one piece of legislation) has […]
Any family breakdown is a difficult time for a family and one of the most contentious issues is often the financial arrangements to be agreed. Families need to be aware that the statutory system for ensuring child maintenance is paid is undergoing radical reform. The DWP is now responsible for administering this scheme and has […]
I mean, what have you got to lose You know, you come from nothing, you’re going back to nothing What have you lost? Nothing! Part of Always Look on the Bright Side of Life (Monty Python) Citizens Advice is concerned that an increasing number of people who have very little are being left with nothing […]
“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it” Albert Einstein While you might think ‘evil’ is a bit strong to describe the activities of con men and scammers the effect their activities can have on their […]
‘Sun forces charity to ditch rip-off helplines’‘(headline on the Sun newspaper website 07 April 2014). Do they mean Citizens Advice?. Well, yes it seems they do. Imagine a 63 year old man – let’s call him Jim (an entirely fictitious character, so any resemblance to anyone alive or dead is coincidental) – calling a bureau […]
How do you feel about growing old? Do you agree with the French philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin who said: “Growing old is like being increasingly punished for a crime you haven’t committed”. How old is old anyway (especially if as some say sixty is the new forty?) However old you may feel, the state […]