For the past five years, I’ve been “working from boat”, sailing in a crystal Mediterranean sea, with turtles nibbling at my anchor. Sounds fun. It’s not. I miss the office. Read More
More homes have been provided with full fibre broadband in recent years as companies like BT expand their plan for Openreach in a bid to improve access to rural areas. Read More
Five payment companies including Mastercard have been fined a total of more than £33m for operating illegal cartels when providing prepaid cards for local authorities to distribute to vulnerable people. Read More
Britain’s hard-pressed households face a fresh threat to their living standards after fears of Middle East supply disruption sent the price of oil to its highest level in seven years. Read More
A cursory glance at the latest jobs market figures suggests the economy was in good health as the end of 2021 came into sight. In the three months to November Read More
Having personal conversations at work, in the days before mobile phones existed, could be perilous. Usually, you had to duck into an unoccupied desk space or wait until everyone was Read More
On 21 December we completed the purchase of a home but were unaware that SSE had, a few days earlier, gone into the house and installed a prepayment meter because Read More
Soaring energy bills could eat up more than half of some UK households’ incomes, a leading poverty charity has said, amid warnings that vulnerable people will be left unable to Read More
