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Or rather so-called stable coins.... I mean we have to remember they are only Stable up to a point! And of course trust - we basically tr...

Having spent a couple of years in Portugal, on the Spanish border, I am well aware of the fact that Southern Europe is drying up, and th...

More and more people in Britain are getting diagnosed with mental health problems.... NHS waiting lists just keep growing, and record num...

So We are ALMOST up to 400 plots either developed or developing in my region, that's plus another 10 in the last month.... I mean OK slo...

Labour have been trumpeting the benefits of electric cars to the masses for years now, yet the extent to which our current car-centric sy...

Despite all of our recycle and reuse campaigns, there is still a fair amount of litter out there on our streets these days... This is in ...

So here's a tasty beer I enjoyed a few days ago....a Mad Squirrel Aztec Mountain IPA, clocking in at 6.2% alcohol. It's got that hazy, go...

Happy February HPUD, I just powered up 10K Hive to bring my total HP to 185K!!! I mean it's not that happy given the state of the crypto ...

The £10 Christmas pension bonus might have meant something back in the day, but today it just feels bit patronising. The problem is - it'...

While everyone’s been busy talking about AI and chasing the next big thing, UK banks have gone completely under the Vestment radar and qu...

Labour's new plan for electric cars is to charge EV users based on how many miles they drive. This move is motivated as far as I can tell...

So I haven't done any running in almost a fortnight! Thanks to my relatively minor thigh injury, and me being cautious about getting this...

The phrase 'Civilisational Erasure' has been doing the rounds recently, but not being applied to past cultures, but to modern day Europe....

No one knows for sure whether George Mallory and Sandy Irvine made it to the top of Everest or not, and many in the 'no' crowed have wond...

Online fraud used to be just an annoying part of being digital, but it's gotten a lot worse. It's now a huge criminal operation. Online f...

I don't often go to the allotment in January, but it was nice and mild last weekend, around 10 degrees, so we headed over there for a qui...

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Most consumer-facing businesses recognise the importance of good customer service. Especially in highly competitive markets it's good ser...

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by Dave Cullen on Computing Forever View my bio on Vigilante.TV: https://vigilante.tv/c/computing.forever KEEP UP ON SOCIAL MEDIA: X: h...

So having jiggled all my cards about to get in on LAND cards which was fun, I ended up keeping only 3 of them, I was a few short of a fou...

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Governments these days seem to be hooked on 'money boosts' to fix just about any economic problem... Economy slow down? Give it a boost. ...

Flooding used to be relatively unusual in the UK, unfortunately now we've come to expect it to have major impacts across the country ever...

The term "recovery" used to have an unflattering meaning: just a combination of sleep, food, hydration, and time. It used to be...

Why 'Doge' Didn't Work Out, But Still Got People Talking The Department of Government Efficiency, or Doge was announced with big promises...

France's famous vinyards are in decline: a combination of declining consumer demand, and increasing costs of production, not helped by cl...

Ever since lockdown there has been a lot of talk about traditional offices being less relevant given the rise of working at home. However...

One thing moving to London has done for me is get me back into running again, or maybe it's not moving that's the cause, maybe it's just ...

The general idea of the Office for Budget Responsibility makes sense. When hundreds of billions of pounds are at stake annually, it makes...