Talking about the NHS can drive anyone up the wall, mostly because the conversation always turns political before anyone even asks the obvious: what actually helps people get better care? Camilla Cavendish

Britain’s high electricity prices are turning into a real problem for its manufacturers. Energy here just costs a lot more than it does for competitors overseas. The Guardian recently pointed out how bad

We tend to think that New Tech means using less energy, at least if we're swapping like for like - such as with using LED bulbs compared to the old bulb-bulbs - I mean a few watts compared to 60....it

I do love an honesty box and a few jars of jam or boxes of eggs, or plants, or whatever, outside someone's house on a rickety old table, sometimes you even see baked goods for sale, and there's something

Britain’s housebuilders used to be about as safe a bet as you could find on the stock market. An apparent chronic housing shortage and every government promising to build more homes meant demand always

I managed four runs in the last week! Sunday's Run Longer - just! Headed out on Sunday for a nice gentle slightly longer than usual run, at 7.2K - a slightly different route along back roads and another

Most people never notice when public health actually works. We only really hear about it in the news when it goes wrong.... if people start dying from this new disease and if hospitals start to overflow,

It's a standard of leftist newspapers: when a company posts record profits it gets lambasted, usually contrasted with the struggles of ordinary people feeling the pinch. But many people have a pretty warped

The Laffer Curve describes the sweet-spot with the tax rate where the government maximises revenue without creating too much of a disincentive for people to invest... Too low a tax rate and the government

So it's still bleak out there, BTC going lower, Hive dancing around that $0.05 cent mark.... But I've just been selling off my HBDs and buying some more Hive. Another 25K or so added in the last month!

The UK economy is struggling in many respects, but the Premier League is a real success story.... it is one of Britain’s biggest cultural and commercial hits. Premier League games reach people everywhere,

There’s a line in Michelle Goldberg’s New York Times piece that sums up what plenty of people in Silicon Valley still refuse to admit: more and more Americans aren’t just uneasy about AI they’re sick of

Oh man it's looking good down the allotment this June... We are harvesting lettuce, broad beans and baby courgettes and soon we'll have tomatoes too! Sunflowers and corn Getting there! Brocoli... The good

I had a bit of spare time this morning to experiment with voice to text, I'm so used to tyhping but I've long felt that voicing thoughts would be quicker than typing, although this is a massive habit shift

Rishi Sunak's showing his true blue colours in The Sunday Times by arguing that we've reached the limit with the minimum wage... Politically this is not popular.... most politicians love to boast about

Park Run... It was quite warm and I wasn't feeling in a PB mood at all so I headed out at an even 4.40 pace to start... Then a slightly slower second K and then faster for Ks 3 4 and 5 - happy enough with

If you’ve got a mortgage in Britain, or you’re trying to get one, things are looking pretty bleak... Even though the Bank of England has stopped hiking interest rates, mortgage costs haven’t come down,

Have we gotten a bit too hooked on “geniuses” in the world of investing? These days, markets seem quick to put founders and visionary CEOs on a pedestal: not just for what their companies do, but because

Politicians love to big-up their country's GDP growth - at least if it's increasing - productivity up = good news. But GDP growth doesn't tend to matter to ordinary people - who are more concerned with

Who doesn't love a list, I certainly do! And in this post I am thinking about areas I can focus on of an evening working on a side hustle.. I think what used to be my main blog has become a side hustle