Annie Shaw

Financial agony aunt; journalist, broadcaster, money expert. Former Times and Telegraph staffer and Independent on Sunday, Express and Saga columnist

[bat020 @bat020]

if you want to get a vignette of how the mass media has changed over the past decades: here is Armando Iannucci, in his regular op-ed Telegraph column, urging Telegraph readers like himself to join Stop the War's monster demo on 15 Feb 2003 against the impending assault on Iraq.

[Annie Shaw @CashQuestions]

@NJM71 Always walk round Marine Drive starting at Happy Valley + round to the West Shore, goat-spotting on the way. Lunch at Wok and Roll in Mostyn St on our return. Have you been in the mines, and St Tudno's church? If you walk up the Orme (instead of tram) you can visit the Cromlech!

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@NJM71 I remember the pitying looks locals gave us when we came out of the chippy and headed for the benches on the prom. I think the seagulls got to eat more than we did!!!!🦅🦅🦅

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@alexgroundwater Rediscovering financial potential of pets is good. When did we start providing them with wellness treatments and considering their mental health? Time to get them back in harness turning spits and wheels. Think of the fossil fuel energy saving!

[Annie Shaw @CashQuestions]

@alexgroundwater I think you may need to lie down for a bit 😉😂

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@HenryPryor Apparently he is really Tom Anthony James Buckley-Thorp-Vickers. Treble barrelled at both ends 😜

[James Marriott @j_amesmarriott]

Loved this. Reliable rule of reading fiction is that every time you pick up a book by a mid twentieth century British woman novelist it will turn out to be a banger. I think that era is of the under-appreciated peaks of the history of the novel.

[Annie Shaw @CashQuestions]

@RowanMMcDade In short, Rach is giving back some of the dosh she filched with the NI increase without giving back some of the NI increase.

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@RowanMMcDade *cynic's hat on* I don't expect HMRC to give a fourex. I imagine this is almost "the point" of the plan - another Eat out to help out marketing wheeze. Put money into hospitality's pocket (because they aren't going to reduce prices, are they?) just not remit so much to the taxman

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@AlderleyScruff @StationEdge Have to? Surely not, even to escape rabid dogs ... or come to think of it, nuclear attack

[Annie Shaw @CashQuestions]

RIP Giles

[Vicky Spratt @Victoria_Spratt]

Today we said goodbye to legendary housing solicitor Giles Peaker of @nearlylegal fame in the countryside just outside of Stevenage.

As online conversations about housing become more febrile, his knowledge, enormous wit and ability to disagree agreeably (most of the time) will be horribly missed.

Apt to Tweet farewell, as he met and brought so many people together on this app.

Wonderful words from @justinbates28 too ❤️

[Annie Shaw @CashQuestions]

@ScotRamsay @DanNeidle Burn it and pretend you never got it. Compo must surely be just around the corner 😜

[Annie Shaw @CashQuestions]

just been talking to @EddieNestorMBE on @BBCRadioLondon about a @benandjerrysUK promotion, why people aren't saving enough for retirement and the number of people who travel abroad without insurance

[Annie Shaw @CashQuestions]

@NJM71 Belated Happy Barber Day, Nic 🥳🍾🪅

[Annie Shaw @CashQuestions]

Just been talking to @TheOfficialJVS on @BBC3CR about pensions and why people are not saving enough for their retirement

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@paullewismoney The fact there has been a complaint isn't even recorded as a warning to others, so factoring in a sum equivalent to the max Omb award into a solicitor's fee structure becomes a very lucrative proposition for the continuation of bad practice

[Annie Shaw @CashQuestions]

@paullewismoney "regulated" does a lot of heavy lifting in the context of solicitors anyway. Real wrong 'uns are indeed "regulated" and when you complain to the legal ombudsman all they need to do is bung you the very inadequate max payout the Omb wd award to avoid inquiry and get off scot free.

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@Budfrog Beware of scammers indeed.

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@MerrynSW And he went to a grammar school!!!! 😜

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@John_Stepek The Blair Which Project?

[Annie Shaw @CashQuestions]

@John_Stepek Great headline in the Mail, which somewhat sums up the situ: "If bringing back Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman is Starmer's answer, then what on earth is the question?"