A growing number of UK parents are paying into pensions their children cannot touch until at least 57, betting on six decades of compounding and a tax system that stays broadly favourable.
Return to player is widely read as a measure of generosity, when it is really a rough guide to the long-run cost of a leisure habit and the behaviour it encourages.
A closer look at how lottery and betting spending is actually split, where good cause money ends up in environmental and heritage projects, and how to keep the ticket budget in proportion.
Merchant category codes quietly decide how gambling payments appear on your statement, what your bank can block and why budgeting apps so often disagree.
UK diesel has passed £2 a litre for the first time, and the reasons go well beyond the oil price: here is what is really driving record pump costs and who pays for them.
