Whenever softy liberals preach that we should stop selling arms to dictators who may use them to bomb innocent women and children, those on both right and left talk of the vital industries and jobs in arms factories which will be lost. Working from Home has, perhaps permanently, ended the hell of commuting for many and cleaned up the City air; but closed hundreds of lunchtime takeaways and emptied the wine bars. So, should the commuters take Boris’s advice, start commuting again and save the sandwich-makers? Or should they be told, as were the redundant miners and steel workers in the ‘80s, to get on their bikes and look for new (Deliveroo) jobs? We have to move forward, not back. I’d say.
“Record year for annuity sales driven by advisers”
I was asked this week whether annuities are now ‘a good investment’. They’ve been recommended very rarely in recent years, since ‘pension freedoms’ allowed pretty much unlimited drawdown on pension funds and anything left to be passed on to beneficiaries free of Inheritance Tax.