With discussions around scrapping limits on contactless payments, here’s how to protect your money

I’ve never had much luck with metals. In 1981, around a year after the last structural gold bull market peaked, I was given a small krugerrand. Aged seven, having noted that it was not made of chocola

As the value of gold shoots up, is it worth raiding your jewellery box, asks Paul Lewis

Goldbugs are not ideal dinner guests. They are rarely in a particularly cheery mood: one pro-gold article I recall from the optimistic 2000s was entitled We’re freaking doomed, dude. That conjures up

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Expert advice from money-saving champion Mel Hunter on consumer rights and how to squeeze the most out of life for less