Charles Dickens began his novel, A Tale of Two Cities, with the words: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Although a little out of context – Dickens was referring to the simultaneous excitement and horror of the unfolding French Revolution – it’s a quote I often come back to…

There seems to be an app for anything and everything – from random cures for boredom – turn your smartphone’s touchscreen into a virtual bubble wrap popper – to the most ingenious and useful – Google Translate – which provides real-time, spoken translation into a language of your choice as you speak. But for every…

We all understand that our energy suppliers are businesses. As businesses they have costs and must price what they sell at a level that allows them enough to cover these, re-invest and make a profit. Energy costs are further complicated by the growing need to cut emissions and find smarter ways of generating energy. The…

In a perfect world I wouldn’t be writing about this, because in a perfect world it would never have been allowed to be the case anyway. But then again I suppose in a perfect world we wouldn’t have the need for credit cards at all… From 1 January 2011 some changes are coming into effect…