We write about money, tax and risk, where being wrong costs the reader something real. This page explains the standards we hold ourselves to and how you can hold us to them.
Last updated 1 October 2026
This page explains how we put our content together, where we get our facts, what we will not publish, and what to do if you think we have got something wrong.
We write about money, tax and risk. Those are subjects where being wrong has real consequences for the person reading, so we hold this content to a higher standard than we would a blog about films.
We do not publish anonymously. Every article on this site carries the name of the person who wrote it, and that person is accountable for what it says.
Where an article covers tax or regulation, it names the person who checked it as well as the person who wrote it.
If you cannot see who wrote something, that is a fault on our side. Tell us and we will fix it.
We start from the source rather than from other people writing about the source. That means going to the regulator, the tax authority or the legislation itself.
Where we summarise a rule, we link to the place it came from so you can read it yourself and check we have represented it fairly.
For anything to do with regulation, tax or the law in the UK, we use primary sources only. A blog post or an article summarising the rules is not good enough, no matter how well it is written.
For background, history and explanation, we may use reputable reporting and academic work. Where we do, we say so, and we do not use it to support a claim about your rights or your obligations.
We are open about this rather than quiet about it, because you are entitled to know how what you are reading was produced.
Software tools may help us with research, structuring a draft and checking our own writing for clarity. They are tools, in the same way a spell checker is a tool.
What they are not is the author. Every article is reviewed by a named person before it goes live, and that person is responsible for every claim in it.
We do not publish a statement about regulation, tax or your legal position that a person has not checked against the primary source. If a tool produces something we cannot verify, it does not get published, however plausible it reads.
We aim to be accurate, and we accept that we will sometimes get things wrong. When we do, we correct it rather than quietly removing it.
If a correction changes the meaning of a page, we say at the bottom of that page what was changed and when. Small fixes to spelling and grammar are made silently.
We do not rewrite an article to make it look as though it always said something different.
Rules change. Content that was right when it was written can become wrong without anyone editing it.
Pages covering tax and regulation are reviewed on a schedule and carry the date they were last checked. If a rule changes before the next review, we update the page ahead of it.
Where a page is out of date and we have not yet corrected it, we would rather mark it as out of date than leave you to assume it is current.
Money must never decide what we say. If we ever earn money from advertising, affiliate arrangements or sponsorship, that will be disclosed clearly on the page it relates to.
A commercial relationship does not buy a favourable write up, and it does not buy the removal of an awkward fact. Where we compare products or platforms, the comparison is based on what we can verify and we say where the information came from.
There are things we will not do, even where they would perform well or bring in more readers.
In a subject like this, an invented figure is not a small thing. It is the difference between somebody making an informed decision and somebody losing money they could not afford to lose. We would rather publish less and be trusted than publish more and be doubted.
If you spot a mistake, find something you think is misleading, or see a claim we should not have made, tell us. You do not need to be polite about it and you do not need to be certain you are right.
We will look at it, tell you what we found, and correct the page if a correction is due.