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Ellie Bly

AJ Bell

AJ Bell Review 2025 AJ Bell Youinvest stands as the UK’s third-largest direct investment platform, with £90.4 billion in assets under administration and over 500,000 clients as of March 2025. It strikes a balance between value and functionality: cheaper than…

eToro

eToro Review 2025 Over a 12-week hands-on review, a lone tester placed around 50 real trades—about one trade every few weekdays—across eToro’s Invest, ISA and CFD accounts on the web platform, iOS 17 and Android 14. Each order executed at…

Hargreaves Lansdown

Hargreaves Lansdown Review 2025 I’ve just put Hargreaves Lansdown (HL) through its paces. The Bristol‑based giant now safeguards about £142 billion for 1.8 million investors, so you’d expect polish—and you get it: in‑depth research notes, slick mobile and web apps, and every mainstream…

Freetrade

Freetrade Review 2025 Freetrade landed on the UK investing scene back in 2018, shaking things up by ditching trading fees and making shares accessible through a user-friendly, app-only approach. Fast-forward to March 2025, and it’s managing about £2.5 billion in…

CyberGhost VPN

CyberGhost VPN Review in 2025 CyberGhost VPN is one of those services that’s been knocking around for ages, building a reputation for solid privacy and unlocking a decent chunk of global content. In this CyberGhost VPN review, I’m giving it a thorough…

Proton Vpn

Proton VPN Review in 2025 We’ve put Surfshark through its paces from a UK perspective—stress-testing local and long-haul speeds, verifying its AES-256 encryption and Deloitte-audited zero-logs policy, unblocking Netflix, iPlayer and more on P2P-optimised servers, and tallying up the true…

Windscribe VPN

Windscribe VPN Review in 2025 We’ve put Windscribe through its paces from a UK angle—hammering its download/upload speeds, probing its AES‑256 security and strict zero‑logs promise, stress‑testing Netflix and BBC iPlayer unblocking, and crunching the true 2025 price tag (VAT included). Read…

Surfshark VPN

Surfshark VPN Review in 2025 We’ve put Surfshark through its paces from a UK perspective—stress-testing local and long-haul speeds, verifying its AES-256 security and Deloitte-audited zero-logs policy, unblocking Netflix, iPlayer and more on P2P-optimised servers, and tallying up the true…