News Archive 2025

It was wonderful to read in the Jersey Evening Post that Deputy Montfort Tadier, who chairs the Jersey Economic and International Affairs Scrutiny Panel, is interested in pursuing a referendum on Jersey to let the public decide if Jersey businesses should be legally obliged to accept the publics cash. PCA Chair Ron Delnevo was delighted to appear before Monforts panel recently. Ron urged the pane....

The Bank of England is holding an event about payments that doesn’t have cash on the agenda - and invites prominent members of the anti-cash mob to participate. Not worthy of two minutes attention, let alone two days. This agenda is dictated by fear. The fear of being left behind. The headlong rush sparked by such fear has characterised the insane inflation of all the economic “Bub....

The important point is that J D Weatherspoons DO accept cash, in over 800 pubs, unlike so many other businesses. Particularly disgracefully, many public-funded not-for-profits and charities who are members of the Association for Cultural Enterprises do NOT accept cash. The Payment Choice Alliance is pressing the UK government to make the provision of public funding conditional on the British pub....

The power misguided governments gave to the “Big Five” Banks - those banks rescued by the British public in 2009 - has left us today with community financial services in TATTERS, as Dan Vevers highlights in his excellent Scottish Daily Record article. Edzell, a community of 800 residents, had a bank branch for 150 years before Lloyds Banking Group closed it in 2016, removing the ATM a....

This article in The Times is meant to be mildly amusing. It is simply rather patronising. Frankly, it is boring to have such commentators supposedly “sympathising” with those who need or want to use cash, as if such people are somehow outliers. Whatever such commentators think, say or write, the UK is NEVER going to be “cashless”, whether or not businesses, banks or the ....