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• A trip to Number 10… Inside Downing Street.

  23 October 2009

  Walking through the gates of Downing Street is a bizarre experience. Before you get there it’s all hustle and bustle, but then once through it’s an old-fashioned London street that seems bizarre as there’s no traffic or people. Yesterday afternoon, MSE Wendy and I went to meet two of the PM’s special advisors to chat about the...

• Thanks to the cabbie who stopped me being such a loser

  20 October 2009

  I’m a loser. I’ve a history of losing mobile phones. This isn’t the first time I’ve admitted it though, in fact there’s a whole chapter dedicated to it in the Money Diet. Last Thursday night was another classic example. I’d been kindly invited by GMTV to the London Press Ball, which is in aid of the journalists’...

• The name’s Bond, overseas Bond. Shaken and stirred by the Post Office’s ads.

  19 October 2009

  The Post Office has decided to pump serious money into advertising its savings products – using former James Bond Roger Moore – he of the effervescent eyebrows. And international espionage is exactly the right theme, for unlike the vast majority of savings accounts, Post Office savings are NOT protected with the usual £50,000 per person UK guarantee...

• The Premier League Table Redesigned: Making mid-season tables more effective.

  19 October 2009

  Whenever I look at the premiership or any other football table mid-season it occurs to me that the display is mismatched according to the amount of games teams have played. This is more prevalent later in the season when there’s a bigger discrepancy between games Now of course you can simply look at the “games played” and...