As fears over the state of the NHS continue to hit the headlines, new data shows that the number of people buying private medical insurance has increased significantly for the first time since the financial crisis.
Figures compiled by LaingBuisson, a healthcare consultancy, and reported in The Guardian, reveal that ‘after falling steeply between 2008 and 2011 and then staying flat, demand for private medical insurance cover in Britain rose by 2.1 per cent in 2015 with just over 4 million people insured’.
HousingThisisMoney reports on Rightmove’s latest index which shows that house prices soared by more than 6 per cent in some parts of the country in 2016.
Rightmove’s latest index highlights that buy-to-let investors flooded the market in the early part of 2016 in an effort to beat the April stamp duty deadline. However, that pressure has tailed off, providing first-time-buyers with more choice and negotiating power.
I’ve been to a talk by two very clever and talented men: the American novelist and critic Jonathan Lethem and the English documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis. They were talking about Lethem’s book about his art collection, Cellophane Bricks: A Life in Visual Culture. Never have I left a talk with such a warm glow of
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