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There has been an enormous take up of E-bikes over the last few years, with E-bikes replacing car journies at a rapid pace in inner cities. This is no surprise given the ease of …

Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana (MP) recently announced the creation of a new left-wing political party. In a nutshell the new party is.... Socialist, anti-war, pro-welfare, pro-…

The Velvet Sundown'S Their debut album Floating on Echoes hit the top of Soundcloud's download charts a few weeks back, to much aclaim, with them being likened to Crosby, Stills a…

Of all places in the UK The Yorkshire Moors are now at the heart of a bitter fight over the future of renewable energy. Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, based a couple of hundred m…

Those in the market for a new EV can now benefit from a £3750 UK government subsidy over the next five years. Total funding runs to £650 million and is designed to nudge consumer…

I haven't personally read it, but I've seen a fair few friends and colleagues having a go at 'The Salt Path', Raynor Winn's 2018 'true lif'e story of how she and her husband overca…

There’s a growing feeling in the UK that things simply don’t work anymore: roads full of potholes, rising crime with little consequence, weeks-long waits for GP appointments, and a…

Private equity is acquiring UK-listed firms at premiums that make the public markets seem ridiculously cheap. To cite an extreme example industrial firm Spectris, whose turnover …

The Labour Party [promised to end the freeze](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg1p1pwxn6o) on income tax thresholds in their election manifesto by the 2028/29 tax year, howeve…

On 5 July 2025 Elon Musk made the formal announcement of the creation of the America Party, introducing it as a response to President Trump's just-signed "One Big Beautiful Bill", …

There is a chronic shortage of housing across Britain, particularly in London, where demand just keeps on outstripping supply.... Official ambitions to build 80,000 homes a year a…

So not so many runs but it has been holiday season and that's OK because I've done enough... 4 runs in the last 12 days or thereabouts... Split between Hereford and London... ##…

I'm not entirely sure of the mechanisms whereby so many of us get addicted to ultra-processed food, but there is an undeniable negative feedback loop between getting into the stuff…

Somehow I'm now a member of well over 20 Whatsapp Groups... about a third of them are related to my main job, but I keep getting added to various social groups too, increasingly li…

Nigel Farage's Reform UK party has been making waves in recent weeks with its radical proposals to transform the way the Bank of England runs the UK economy. At the centre of their…

Rachel Reeves has signalled that changes may be coming to the ISA market. The potential change that's grabbed the headlines is potentially reducing the cash ISA savings limit, to e…

Something of a political and diplomatic crisis seems to be emerging over China's bid to build a massive new embassy compound in the centre of London. The proposed "super-embassy"…

I just Powered Up 100 Hive in honour of August 2025 HPUD... ### HP progress... Well not too good last month as I did a couple of Powerdowns to have some liquid Hive given the pos…

Marks & Spencer recently its own version of the Japanese "sando" – a strawberry cream sandwich that's whetting social media's appetite. While most consumers are focused on the rich…

I was happy enough with the Labour Party's 'non-win' last July, but they haven't exactly had an easy ride in their first year. The Labour Party leader Kier Starmer has had an esp…