The Wage Slaves Escape Manual

When I retire in twenty or thirty years’ time there will be little or no state pension for me

If you are in your 20s, 30s or 40s then retirement probably seems a long way off and not really worth thinking about. Actually, it is going to get a much longer way off

We like to pretend that when we are looking for love money is unimportant. Actually it can make or break a relationships because couples argue about money more than anything else

It’s one of the great tragedies of the last decade that a very simple human need – to have a roof over your head and a safe place to live – has become such a game of housing roulette.

So there we were, sat on the riverbank on the most glorious afternoon of the year so far, just chilling out, having a picnic, watching clouds, enjoying good company. Next to us was a group doing pretty much the same – little tray BBQ from the supermarket, a few beers, idle chat, lying on the [...]

Housing market bulls will point to the great gains made in house prices over the past five years. That’s great if you already had a home, and you bought in the right area.

But lots of college leavers can’t afford a bedsite, never mind a decent flat, and you could have replicated that kind of capital increase if you had picked the right shares on the stock market.

Where would we be without mavericks? Television and business life would be far less interesting without them. Yet it is actually very hard to navigate the school system and progress in a traditional career without suppressing your own maverick tendencies. Mavericks bend or break rules, come up with zany ideas which corporations are reluctant to [...]

If all your money worries were taken care of, how much would you like to earn?

Always a bit skint? Does your money only just reach until the end of the month? Do you wish you had just a little bit more spending money? It could be because that’s what you are most comfortable with. I came across this amazing exercise while reading Brandon Bays’ new book, Consciousness The New Currency.  [...]

So we finally saw the details of the Lib-Con pact – a Faustian bargain for the 21st century. What a mess it was – rises in VAT and National Insurance and the starting rate of income tax raised t0 £10,000 to keep the Liberals happy. And the Tories were forced to ditch their stated wish of increasing the threshold at [...]