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He presents Money Box on Radio 4 and appears on many radio and television programmes. He writes for Saga Magazine, Radio Times, and Financial Times.

He has won many awards most recently Broadcast Journalist 2014 at the Santander Financial Media Awards, Headline Money Financial Broadcaster of the Year 2014 and Chartered Insurance Institute 2014 Voice of the Customer.

He has an honorary doctorate from University of Essex for his journalism over many years defending the interests of consumers.

He is an authority on the Victorian writer Wilkie Collins and edits his letters.

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  • Thursday, 3 November, 2022
    Advice & Comment
    Interest rates are returning to the old normal

    The last time inflation was where it is today, mortgage rates were in double figures too

  • Wednesday, 8 June, 2022
    Personal Finance
    History tells us UK interest rates will go up and up

    Rates are expected to hit 2.5% within a year — but that is still far below the long-term average

  • Tuesday, 15 February, 2022
    Advice & Comment
    Scrap mounting energy standing charges

    The levies hit the poor, confuse householders and undermine fair market

  • Wednesday, 12 January, 2022
    Advice & Comment
    The fight over measuring UK inflation

    Three different indices spread confusion and create risks

  • Tuesday, 5 October, 2021
    UK companies
    How banks exploit us by making services too complex

    It’s time to simplify products and documents to reduce cost and anxiety for customers

  • Friday, 30 July, 2021
    Advice & Comment
    Insurance reforms short change UK customers

    Key pricing data will still be kept secret — and the industry remains unpunished

  • Thursday, 20 May, 2021
    Advice & Comment
    Online fraud: let’s close the loopholes

    Government bill doesn’t go far enough to stop financial crime

  • Thursday, 1 April, 2021
    Advice & Comment
    Banks must act to control fraud epidemic

    Don’t think you are too clever to be conned

  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
    Advice & Comment
    Consumers deserve stronger, faster protection

    We all pay the price for the FCA’s inadequacies

  • Thursday, 19 November, 2020
    Advice & Comment
    Capital gains tax should be fairer and simpler

    Charging CGT at income tax rates is not that controversial — it’s been done before

  • Wednesday, 29 January, 2020
    Advice & Comment
    Inhuman rights weigh on the leasehold system

    Law Commission needs to tackle the feudal system of charges

  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2019
    Property sector
    40-year mortgages will take a long time to die

    Longer term home loans are a winner for lenders — but could spell dangers for borrowers

  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2019
    Advice & Comment
    Financial advisers and the ‘wealth tax’ toll

    The industry takes a percentage of its clients’ invested assets year after year

  • Thursday, 29 August, 2019
    Advice & Comment
    Wait until 75 for your state pension? I don’t think so

    While working can be good for your health, it can also make bad health a lot worse

  • Thursday, 18 July, 2019
    Advice & Comment
    Inheritance tax: it’s really not so taxing

    Few people pay it, so what’s all the fuss about?

  • Wednesday, 12 June, 2019
    Advice & Comment
    The heavy cost of policing financial services

    The UK spends far more on regulating the finance industry than on fighting organised crime

  • Tuesday, 19 March, 2019
    Advice & Comment
    Auto enrolment comes of age — but contributions are far too small

    Any rise must start with employers, who at the moment get away with paying in practically nothing

  • Thursday, 24 January, 2019
    Advice & Comment
    The insurance renewal quote that priced me out of house and home

    How I saved £650 in 30 minutes on a Sunday afternoon

  • Thursday, 24 January, 2019
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    FT Money editor Claer Barrett on the latest finance tips for freelancers ahead of th…

  • Tuesday, 13 November, 2018
    Pensions
    #BackTo60 and unanswered questions on state pensions

    Campaigning women born in the fifties given short shrift from the government

  • Tuesday, 25 September, 2018
    UK tax
    HMRC tax crackdown victimises easy targets

    Taxing contractor loan receipts from 1999 — how is that not retrospective legislation?

  • Wednesday, 22 August, 2018
    Workplace pensions
    Why is the pensions dashboard still stuck on the blocks?

    Industry experts warn the 2019 deadline for online tracker looks impossible

  • Wednesday, 27 June, 2018
    Tax
    A tax on knowledge: the digital penalty

    The chancellor should zero rate duty on electronic books and newspapers

  • Wednesday, 16 May, 2018
    EU energy
    Gas bills are more expensive — and probably wrong

    New technology could prove the average Briton overpays by £46 a year

  • Thursday, 12 April, 2018
    UK tax
    Treasury ramps up the pressure on contractors’ tax

    Expect the government to target this expensive loophole in the autumn Budget

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