It’s that time of the year again, when the clocks go forward, we’re back in British Summer Time and everyone who has managed to keep some cash aside (not easy in these straitened times) is being bombarded with adverts for ISAs.

Though it’s undoubtedly a good idea to save for a rainy day if you can, ploughing your way through the different rates, the introductory offers, and the confusing terms and conditions makes you sometimes want to stuff your money in a box under the mattress rather than face the prospect of choosing.

When we launched Keep Me Posted last year, it was a UK-only campaign. Now it seems we raised the flag for European consumers to follow too, some of whom, ironically, seem to be on course for getting the choice we are fighting for before we do here.

We received an interesting – and worrying – email this week, asking if the campaign would please expand to include communications from the Government.

Our correspondent had attended a meeting in Hull, where a speaker from the Department for Work and Pensions had been engaged to explain the various benefits available to people with long-term medical conditions. All was going well, until the speaker mentioned, in passing, that the DWP intended to move to online-only application forms for people under 65.