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Carol Ann Duffy is the Poet Laureate of Great Britain- a royal post awarded for a ten year period by the Queen on the advice of the Prime Minister. She has just written the following poem in response to the news that David Beckham has snapped his Achilles tendon, though I’m afraid some of the [...]

I know what you’re going to think “Rob, you’re always hammering the BBC, I actually quite like them! Their coverage of Glastonbury is boss, for a start (sic)!” – so before we get in to this, I will come out and say that I enjoy much of the BBC’s coverage, to the point where I [...]

The World’s Greatest Blog has been raising concerns for some time regarding the privacy infringements potentially being committed by Phorm and its clients; BT, Talk Talk and Virgin broadband.  It seems now that the EU is the only body capable of  defending UK citizen’s right to privacy. UK privacy law is so broadly drawn, its [...]

I read with some consternation the account of a staff journalist at the Guardian who had taken up the challenge of Chinese businessman Wang Hao to live on 100 Yuan (about £10) for a week. The challenge does not include direct debits such as rent or council tax. The writer, Stuart Jeffries, then goes on [...]

Today is “Safer Internet Day 2009″ according to the Internet Watch Foundation. The day is organised by the European Commission and Insafe, the European network of e-safety awareness nodes. It focuses on risks to children online. Anyone who saw Watchdog last night will know that Ebay has changed its policy on the sale of knives [...]

Thanks to Deal85, our latest online project, you’ll be able to save money on your next online or offline shopping spree using deals & special offers, vouchers & coupons or sales information from the site. Those of you who are real marketing mavens can submit deals to the site too – thus helping everyone else [...]

George Bush, cheese-hater. That’s how the outgoing 43rd President will be remembered by generations to come. According to the Times, One of George Bush’s final acts in office was to slap duties on all sorts of EU imports from chocolate to chewing gum but none was as punitive as the 300% increase in duties on [...]

Now that people have stopped calling the recession a “credit crunch” we can get on with the business of treating this thing seriously. But what is the actual result of the complex financial systems breaking down? What is the net result for the man on the street? Well we’re going to start listing it here [...]

Countryfile recently had their 20th anniversary and took the opportunity to appreciate the stewardship of the upper moorlands provided by grouse gamekeepers. The money provided by game shooting during the season generates enough income to pay for heather burning and management of the birds. Most of the endangered peat and heather hilltops would be covered [...]

Looking for the cheapest places to live? Assuming that you still earn a normal UK wage, you will want to compare Cost of Living Surveys and Quality of Living Surveys. Mercer, the Economist and some large governmental organisations compile these. We have picked out some titbits of relevant information and put all of the useful [...]