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Twitter, Janet Street Porter and the myth of usage statistics
This week, Janet Street Porter became the latest journalist to jump on the twitter-bashing bandwagon. In her column for the Independent, she describes twitter as something to allow “middle aged, middle class, work weary wannaby trendies” to “exchange mindlessness”, an area in which she is well versed, judging by the body of her work.
Janet Street [...]
Furnish.co.uk launches – the finest home furniture designers and retailers in one place
Ok, get ready for some shameless self-promotion. Furnish.co.uk has finally opened to the public! Well, actually, it happened a couple of weeks ago, but I’ve been too busy being its CEO to blog about it.
So… what’s this “furnish” all about?
If you didn’t know, furnish.co.uk lets you can shop across the finest home furnishing designers and [...]
The UK tax system explained… using beer
Adapted from a post by David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D, Professor of Economics, University of Georgia:
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to £100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:
The first four men (the poorest) [...]
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