There aren’t many advertisements in the situations vacant columns for financial engineers. Perhaps it’s because there are no vacancies in this profession. Yet financial engineers are the best paid gamblers in the world.

The Government has circulated its proposals for welfare reform, which involve ensuring welfare recipients are ‘available and supported into … work’. Much of this is directed at solo parents, with a particularly draconian measure against women who bear another child while on the DPB, and who will be ...

We are used to seeing on international television programmes, particularly Al Jazeera, pictures of European doctors and health care professionals in Africa looking to help the ill, the poor, the hungry, the unemployed, and those with little hope for the future. Often this comes with justifiable appe...

In order to balance the books, the National Government has had to make some hard decisions. Or so it likes to tell us. These decisions adversely affect your income and your assets. They're all being cut because National wants to balance the books -and there's nothing wrong in that. The mistake, or d...

The debate about the possibility of a Chinese state backed organisation being allowed to buy the Crafar farms probably has been determined by now, or even determined even if no decision officially has been made.