Calling all King's College London Students & Alumni tennis fans. Don't miss next yr's KCL Tennis Day -this Sept some 40 players, (incl me) gave their best shot(s) in a mixed doubles tournament at Redbridge preceded by a dinner at Queen's @suesearle @KCLalumni @stscsport @the_LTA

As we say a sad farewell to Summer, Autumn brings its own fruitful joys too: pictures taken yesterday from Telegraph Track in the London Borough of Sutton

Heard about another possible duty for pension trustees to consider yesterday on BBC R4 - a very wide interpretation of ESG for pension property investors to include building aesthetically pleasing dwellings and public buildings. For me, build homes at least with enough storage space!

Djokovic now playing mixed doubles - US Open - now on Sky Tennis

Can we help the burgeoning army of UK gig workers from journos to gardeners? A simple automatic deduction of expenses by HMRC based on average earnings rather than completing long tax returns may be better, I write today #tax #freelance www.ftadviser.com/tax/2025/8/7...

UK homeowners may be “millionaires on paper” yet unable to afford to pay council tax and while their adult children can't afford to buy a home My latest The People's Friend Money Page features Lifetime Mortgages. Is raiding the "piggy bank" that is your home advisable?

A great book by former Pensions World and Cambridge University alumnus Mic Wright

My book came out last week. My author copies just arrived today. My small study now looks like a very egotistical warehouse. You too can join the craze for owning this book geni.us/BreakingMicW...

Deer in Bushey Park in South West London today. Now on my way to the WTW Media awards party tonight.

Are there tooo many isa types. They need reform and simplification. Few journalists can sum up every option and caveat in 600 words - pity the poor consumer navigating this' minefield' with Pooh traps a plenty. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Does anyone have a telephone number of the LTA tennis as I think my friend may have landed on a clone bogus site. We tried the LTA number ending in 7000 but just got a recorded message. #pensionscams

Britain’s MI6 spy agency promotes ‘Q’ to be first female head  - a another splinter in the glass ceiling

Our brains love the colour gradation in rainbows, maybe due to our ancestors searching for sources of water. Looking at plants helps us recover from stress & looking at something we think is beautiful causes dopamine release. I've posted this photo to alter your brain biochemistry for the better 🌿

Here is my June Op Ed for @ftadviser.com - hope it produces a few fireworks! @moorgatemermaid.bsky.social I am already working on the July op Ed with some interesting tax angles - I welcome input from tax specialists: www.ftadviser.com/pensions/202...

France is ready to fight pension reforms for its long retirement www.thetimes.com/article/ac78...

For anyone interested in longevity, later life or why we age: 'Why we die' is a highly readable book - its first 250 pages makes complex science accessible to the layman. The 2nd half (for nerds) are sources. Author Nobel Prize winner Venki Ramakrishnan deserves every accolade.

1 in 5 people save in current a/cs and have no deposit a/cs at all and £300bn languishes in a/cs earns less than 2% interest. Read my latest @TheFriendMag double page spread on online savings platforms (7 June issue) to make the most of your funds. Out in all good superstores and WH Smith now

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... one answer would be flexible easy access workplace savings vehicles aka savings sidecars linked to auto enrolment pensions. Check out my article for @profpensions.bsky.social on this @jonstapleton.bsky.social @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

City wrangles over plan to get pension funds to invest more in the UK www.thetimes.com/article/419a...

www.ftadviser.com/pension-dash... - my monthly column for @ftadviser.com is published today. The pensions dashboard must be pitch perfect else American giants Apple or Amazon will muscle in on the UK's £3 trillion pensions industry @moorgatemermaid.bsky.social

My latest monthly money page for The People's Friend - out now in all good superstores and newsagents.

DWP to overhaul carer’s allowance checks after overpayment scandal - see today's Guardian

www.ftadviser.com/retirement-i... my latest monthly column for @ftadviser.com @moorgatemermaid.bsky.social

A fascinating UK pensions job for someone but note the 11 April deadline! Worth sharing round the friends of pensions BlueSky? @stevewebb1.bsky.social @henrytapper.bsky.social @pensionsdave.bsky.social @prospectpension.bsky.social @stephawthorne.bsky.social @jonstapleton.bsky.social

Buy The People's Friend (5 April edition -published by DC Thomson) now in superstores to see my monthly money page double page spread. This month's theme in one of Britain's oldest magazines (founded 155 years ago) is investing for beginners with expert input from Fidelity's Tom Stevenson.

Ballet dancers may get pensions at 40 to reflect ‘burdensome’ job www.thetimes.com/article/8949...

Campaigners fight plan to abolish royal parks police - keep the Royal Parks Police who know the parks best and keep us safe www.thetimes.com/article/db22...

mol.im/a/14485777 a £39k salary in 1997 is roughly equivalent to £100k today after inflation is taken into account. If the 40 percent threshold for higher rate tax had kept pace with inflation, 40 percent income tax would start at £77k. Ouch!

Today's much discussed advice gap will become a yawning chasm in future as the 10m auto-enrolled workers with DC pensions begin to retire in their hundreds of thousands without regulated advice. See my monthly FTAdviser column. #pensions @moorgatemermaid.bsky.social www.ftadviser.com/advice-guida...

The Lisa question: what to do about the hippogriff of savings www.thetimes.com/article/2564...

Buy the Mail on Sunday today to see my annuity piece. Thanks to a huge number of experts - for their input.

Taxpayers could be on hook for generosity to miners - always a pension angle www.thetimes.com/article/ce80...

Avoiding looming pensioner poverty, especially among women, i, is almost as hard as fighting climate change. That is no excuse for more procrastination, I write in my monthly column published today in FTAdviser @ftadviser.bsky.social @moorgatemermaid.bsky.social www.ftadviser.com/pension-refo...

Companies giving up ‘a ton of money’ to insurers in pensions www.thetimes.com/article/3e9f...

Isle of Man plans pension reform as ageing population takes toll www.thetimes.com/article/21ae...

Isle of Man to abandon Triple Lock on the New State Pension. Source: BBC R4 World at One today #pensions

#Pensions and @chichesterft.bsky.social - an unusual mix. Catch the Sir Terence Rattigan devastatingly moving double bill Summer 54 of Separate Tables (just Table No 7) and the Browning Version where an ill health pension is a useful plot device. Veteran star Sian Phillips shines but well done all!

Martin Lewis Money Show next Tuesday evening on @Itv is on private pensions @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com

Please allow people with a Freedom Pass or a disability card the fastest possible access to the Victoria Line Platform - it is cruel to send them on a circuitous route to control crowds especially away from peak times @london.gov.uk