Is capitalism in crisis? Not quite the way communism was 10-20 years ago, comments author Robert Reich. Communism had shown itself as a fraud – individual greed and corruption ruined it. Capitalism has huge cracks in it, but we live in mixed economies, with a good element of social conscience. Social capitalism.
Did competition between companies [...]
The bathroom in my house is tiny. It’s full of old things – an old vanity with cracked plastic and a formica surface, manky plastic pipework around the shower, and a three-quarter sized bath (and me, when I’m in there). I would love to renovate it, but where do I start?
Planning renovation of bathrooms is [...]
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of that George Orwell’s seminal work, Nineteen eighty-four. His gloomy portrayal of a world gone mad, where children spy on their parents, and people are watched in their homes thought their televisions, which they are forbidden to turn off, has hugely influenced our language and society. [...]
If you are thinking about working from home, here are a few things to consider.
Firstly, be clear and realistic about what you can do in your home. Think about the spaces you need, and what is available. Can you use those spaces in ways that won’t intrude on others, and that will give you the [...]
My son is playing a game racing cars on our desktop computer. My daughter is looking up spelling words while listening to music videos on YouTube, on the old laptop, and I am happily, wirelessly blogging on the latest addition to the family, a lovely 13” notebook. I had to buy a third PC otherwise [...]
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There have been signs of an improvement in the UK property market, with a surprise 0.9% increase in prices in the last month. The average price of a property is up from £147,746 to £150,946, the first increase since 2007. A sign that buyers are more willing to get out there is seen in an [...]
In 2007, with the US sub-prime mortgage market bubbling away, investors in New Zealand got nervous and started pulling their money out of a number of second-tier investment companies. This started a snowball effect and the companies went bust, taking with them billions of dollars in ordinary people’s savings.
And I guess it wasn’t just [...]
The idea behind send me home dot com is to provide a way for people who find lost items to return them to their owners. The owner registers the item and gives it a unique code (provided by sendmehome.com), so that when the item is lost, the altruistic person who finds it will look up [...]