Mrs MSE did a clear out recently and went to flog some of her old TV clothes on eBay for the first time. But under a relatively anonymous name she had no buyers. The fact she had no buyers didn’t seem such a terrible indictment of her eBay skills, until you hear… Having done a search we...

This all started with my Friday Facebook joke (1) just over a week ago, I just intervened in a lovers fight. I went for a coffee after Radio 2, as I had a meeting later. There’s a couple next to me, she was quite pretty and if I’m honest he was a bit plain. She then blasts...

It’s meaningless drivel, "If you spend £1,200 at an annual interest rate of 16.9% (variable) your Representative APR will be 16.9%" – no surprise Sherlock! Yet new rules mean you’ll now see it everywhere – we need to scrap or change this nonesense. It’s all part of the OFT’s new Consumer Credit Directive that started 1 Feb....

I strongly suspect the world is divided into two types of people, those who lovingly have personal spreadsheets and those who don’t. So let me say it once, and say it loud, I’m a nerd and I’m proud! I take a perverse pleasure in slavishly updating my three key graphs on scrabble scores, running times, and recipients...

It’s not often I cut and paste a press release, but as this one is from super-mortgage nerd (meant in the most affectionate way) Ray Boulger, and is a really nice piece digging up the gravel of differences in a subject many are interested in, I couldn’t resist it. This is a beautiful piece of research going...

I’ve now been ‘tweeting’ for five days, but today’s story on ECJ outlawing insurance gender discrimination is the first time I’ve really seen what the whole thing is all about. With a breaking story like this, to be able to interact and watch other people’s views as it develops at speed is what Twitter is all about....