Sarah Coles

After three and a half months of war between the US and Iran, there is progress on a peace deal that would include an extended ceasefire and reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.

The impact of Brexit in the 10 years since the referendum is hard to untangle from everything else that has been going on over the past decade.

My family are apparently eating like millionaires. After every shop, once I’ve checked my supermarket receipt and recovered from the shock, I try to persuade them to give up lavish habits – like eating fruit – but they’re not keen.

The lottery of birth has a massive impact on Junior ISA (JISA) and Child Trust Fund growth over the years.

Under new leadership, the Government is moving fast. John Healey barely had time to close the door of Number 11 behind him before the VAT cut on electricity and the bus fare cap were announced. However, not every pledge that Andy Burnham has made in recent weeks is likely to be such an overnight sensation – not least his hopes to reform social care.

Self-employed people are so busy running their own businesses that they could be sleepwalking into a pension nightmare. Only around a fifth of them pay into a pension and even when they do, they pay in less than their employed counterparts.

My son has returned from his year in Australia to live at home and we’re going through what might be generously described as an adjustment period. If any of us had interviewed potential candidates for a house share, none of us would have picked the others - especially if there had been any questions about fridge etiquette.

Saving is hard work. With prices rising on all sides, we're going all-out to squirrel cash away to protect us from the unexpected and build towards the things we really want in life. So, when we're putting a shift in, it's disappointing if our savings aren't working as hard on our behalf.

We tend to make assumptions about what life will look like in future, and while in our 20s and 30s we might have been prepared for setbacks, most people expect to have their lives reasonably on track by their 40s and 50s. Alarmingly, there’s a growing number of people in mid-life who have seen their lives derailed entirely.

Andy Burnham has pledged to fix the social care system. It's clearly a personal mission, driven by his own experiences, but he's not the first prime minister to make that promise. When my dad first needed care in 2018, it was a year after Theresa May had announced plans for reform, and a year before Boris Johnson promised to solve the issue once and for all.