Blogs

Economics is one of those subjects that few of us lay-people really understand. Instead we rely on commentators, journalists and actual economists to make sense of it all for us.

I make absolutely no apology for the huge number of stories about charity fund-raising that we've been featuring recently.

Hmm. Do I sense a degree of rearranging the deckchairs on The Titanic here?

Normally, I'd say I'm quite pro-Europe. It has a lot going for it.

For once, the headline isn't actually referring to my good self as such as headline would do normally.

A story that one might have expected to hit the headlines as a result of 'silly season' - when newspapers (by which I mean all kinds of news media, printed and online) resort to writing any old rubbish, just to get the pages filled - was doing the rounds this week.

It's a particular bug-bear of mine (yes, I know, another one), the fact that too many people don't really seem to know what a builders merchant is.

If something's worth doing, it's worth putting a bit of extra effort in and getting it right.

E-Day minus 1. Fewer than 24 hours to go until the polling booths open, the retired civil servants and constituency party faithful sharpen their pencils and get their rulers ready.

Those of us who grew up in the 1970s will remember the excitement - depending on your age - of going to bed by candlelight because there was no electricity that evening.