Posted on Aug 5, 2026 · by Gordon Achebe · in Financial 3 min read
A document that has not arrived by the filing deadline has three possible answers, and the one most people pick is usually the most expensive of the three.
Continue reading Extension, rush the deadline, or amend later. Three ways to handle a missing form →
Posted on Jul 30, 2026 · by Gordon Achebe · in Financial 4 min read
The line between storm damage and an old roof is where most residential property claims are actually decided, and it is decided on paper rather than on the roof.
Continue reading A roof claim denied as wear and tear, and the three documents that reopened it →
Posted on Jul 28, 2026 · by Gordon Achebe · in Technology 4 min read
The most expensive fraud a household is likely to encounter arrives as a routine message from a person they have been corresponding with for weeks.
Continue reading The email that changes the wiring instructions, and why it arrives on closing day →
Posted on Jul 14, 2026 · by Gordon Achebe · in Enterprise 4 min read
The mechanics of finding somebody have changed almost completely in twenty years. The part that decides whether it works has not moved at all.
Continue reading Hiring a first crew member then and now. What changed, and what did not →
Posted on Jun 29, 2026 · by Gordon Achebe · in Financial 5 min read
Nobody is withholding anything on your behalf anymore, and the bill arrives on a schedule that does not match the way the money came in.
Continue reading Your first year self employed? Set aside the tax before you spend the money →
Posted on Jun 2, 2026 · by Talia Winshaw · in Financial 4 min read
Exclusions read like a list of ways to be refused. Most of them exist because the risk they name behaves in a way ordinary insurance cannot absorb.
Continue reading Seven exclusions in a homeowners policy, and the reason each one ended up there →