Martin Lewis

A decade ago, in June 2012, MSE joined the Moneysupermarket Group and I pledged £10m to go to charity. As that was a public pledge and I feel I’ve a duty of transparency, every year or two I bash out a blog report to explain where I’m up to, and who’s got what money.

Martin Lewis dissects how much energy bill credit is too much, and when it’s best to ask for it back

On Friday, the Chancellor, regulator the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), and bosses of the UK’s major mortgage lenders agreed a new package of forbearance measures to help some with mortgage troubles (this was updated on Tuesday 26 June with the mortgage charter).

Outrageously, most people will pay £300 per year just for the facility of having gas and electricity, even if you don’t use any. This is due to the high energy standing (daily) charges. These are a moral hazard and should, at the minimum, be substantially reduced – something I am, again, campaigning with the regulator Ofgem to change. So I wanted to bash out this blog to run you through it.

Great pictures of the ringed planet start as video, before stacking and processing. Find out how in our astrophoto guide.

The 2023 academic year is about to start, and it’ll see the biggest shake-up to student finance in England for a decade. The changes are both subtle and massive. On the surface they look like a tweak, in practice they will increase the eventual cost of going to university by over 50% for many typical graduates.

The joy of good salt ‘n’ vinegar is you bite them, and they bite back – the flavour needs to be strong, sharp, and leave your tongue feeling like sandpaper. So it’s time to focus MSE’s data-Crunching expertise (honed on finding top savings, cards, and discounts) on to the ultimate investigative challenge... finding the UK’s best salt ‘n’ vinegar crisps (of 46 brands tested).

If you’re planning to shop this Black Friday week or beyond, then I’ve a simple message for you, given on my show…

In 2016 I set up the Money & Mental Health Policy Institute charity, and I’ve chaired it and provided core funding ever since. Last week I was in a trustees’ meeting, and got a summary of some of the year’s activities from the acting chief exec Conor D’Arcy. It made such good reading, I wanted to share some of it to show exactly how many pies the team there have their fingers in (and how they improve the pies, which is probably where my analogy breaks down).

Martin Lewis appears to be unstoppable as nearly half a million people have used his help to file a complaint over his warning to car buyers before 2021.