Articles for category: Business & Finance

Woman in office working on laptop.

Writing a good submission

Someone on a forum asked for assistance with putting in a complaint to a regulatory authority. I gave them my tips. So I put them up here as well to help anyone and for my ease of reference. This is absolutely not a ‘one size fits’ all. Read that again – slowly this time – ...

Coffee mania

No – this is not about mania caused by coffee. You spotted some words and something jumped into your conscious mind, driven by the Labyrinth of your unconscious! This post is about the cost of coffee. In a previous post I am so cheap, I made some calculations based on price of a cup at ...

Change is hard but could be good

Right – so I moved out of Northern Ireland a few weeks ago. That was not an easy decision. Eventually the ‘pain’ of staying in that job exceeded the ‘pleasures’ of Northern Ireland. Calm down – in case your imagination based on some script begins to run wild. Overview on NI experience Northern Ireland is ...

Given the chop!

Well, in solidarity with everybody who is struggling with energy and food bills, I decided to give English Heritage the chop – thus saving £66/yr. Some will not understand. I should attempt some mind reading, of those who would judge me. I’ll call for help! Here comes ‘help’. Stupid: Oh come off it! You can ...

Musk threatens to go thermonuclear!

Wow! I’m just loving Musk for what he is doing with Twitter. It is world changing! See what the WSJ says (link may not survive forever). Of course not everybody will understand or appreciate. My bias has always been for freedom of expression. I nor Musk never said unrestricted free speech! FFS! So what happened? ...

The big game and you are not in it.

I can bet a few quid and I’d win that some who click on these videos below will go, “Who he? Never heard of him. I’m not a financial analyst. I need to get back to Netflix – sorry.” That’s lovely! Your world is being ruled by forces that you don’t have time to know ...

Banned by Amazon (updated)

The following email was sent to Amazon tonight. ============== I got this message tonight on the Amazon.co.uk platform. (2022-09-01 around 23:00). >>We apologize but Amazon has noticed some unusual reviewing activity on this account. As a result, all reviews submitted by this account have been removed and this account will no longer be able to ...