Foodies Fight Back
Following my recent comments on salt, I’ve been contacted by folk in the USA who have been facing the same assault on salt. Dear Longrider, […]
Consumer Matters
Another Pinch of Salt
Via Samizdata, I see that the puritans are at it again. Once more, salt is in the firing line. The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) welcomes […]
Orange iPhone
Apparently Orange are to enter the iPhone market and end O2’s monopoly. That’s a good thing. Orange has reached an agreement to sell Apple’s popular […]
YouTube Royalties Agreement
Google has reached an agreement to pay royalties to performers whose work is distributed via YouTube. One of the complainants was Pete Waterman who felt […]
File Sharing TV Programmes
Apparently people are using file sharing to illegally download their favourite TV programmes. Yes, really… Millions of television viewers are now using illegal file-sharing services […]
Scottish Boycott
I suppose that it was inevitable that there would be calls for a boycott of Scottish goods and services – much like the pathetic French […]
The French Say “Non”
The French tend to have something of a reputation when it comes to saying “no”. Sometimes they are wrong-headed in so doing, which is why, generally, […]
Taxing Savers
From today’s Times. The question, of course, is what to do about the recession. Specifically whether the way out is “to spend, spend, spend or […]