Recently we’ve heard that some of the weekly e-mails were being blocked by spam filters. Now this is nothing new; when you send out 3.7m emails a week, you constantly have to deal with random spam blocking, email clients’ (in)ability to receive and myriad other issues. Yet this one ended up coming from an interesting source. At...

A fortnight ago I got a new mobile handset (upgrade) and for the last couple of weeks people have been telling me “I get funny music instead of a ring when I call you”. I’ve been too busy to check this out until today, but when I did my jaw dropped: instead of hearing ringing when they...

MoneySavingExpert.com has always been political (small p), but recently – as regular site users will be aware – the weekly email has gone Political, first including an email from Nick Clegg and this week from David Cameron. Both were replying to an open letter I’d written on bank charges reclaiming. While there’ve been many favourable responses from...

Walking through the centre of London last night I was surprised to be handed a free newspaper. Other london dwellers will think my raised eyebrow odd, as this is a common occurence. Yet rather than one of the normal free sheets, it was a copy of the Evening Standard, which is normally 50p. Then I spotted the...