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Just when you thought you were safe from French Connection UK (known for some years now as fcuk), there is a trend identified by the New Yor...

The news that HMRC is preparing to s ell our anonymised tax data has made me wonder a little at how we will remember this decade when it is...

All good things must come to a temporary hiatus, and I'm afraid it is the same with this blog - for a little while.  I'm working at ...

This is rather a late acknowledgement of the government's recognition of the great computer pioneer Alan Turing in the budget.  In short...

I am fascinated by the announcement of three new garden cities by the government yesterday.  I'm aware that this was finessed by Nick Cl...

The co-operative sector is having a tough time at the moment.  Not because the 6,000 or so mutuals in this country are in any difficulties -...

I was at an internal Liberal Democrat meeting at Westminster some weeks ago - I won't say which, but there was a minister there - and it...