I consider myself a very frugal person.

Up until a few days ago I had not bought a single item of clothing in three and a half months. Count them. Three and half months; that's 14 weeks or 98 days or even (approximately) 2352 hours.

Now this may make...

Way back in the dark days of the Thatcherite eighties, Bob Geldof and Midge Ure got together with a group of friends to speculate about whether the famine stricken populations of Africa knew it was Christmas. However they never thought to ask the hungry residents of the UK.

A report...

I admire the Occupy London protesters in an odd sort of way. Despite what anyone thinks about who they are, where they sleep and their choice of hot beverages, nobody camps out all day every day in St Paul's Cathedral unless their committed to their cause.

However, that does not...

It's that time of year again. The days are starting to get shorter, the weather is getting colder (sort of) and the mad rush to secure a graduate job is looming for every final year university student or perhaps even school leaver in the country. However, the mad rush for...

Last year, we saw the introduction of the English Baccalaureate that showed British school children that any skill or talent that they have that lies outside traditional academia is essentially worthless.

We have the ongoing drive to set up 'free schools' and give pushy, blinkered parents power over the education...

Yesterday during the House of Commons debate over the recent riots across the UK, Mike Gapes pointed out that David Cameron had been speaking for an hour and a half without saying anything positive about 'youths'.

Inevitably, over the coming days when various members of my generation are wheeled out...

So the very questionable e-petition website, where a paltry 100,000 people (a small percentage of the electorate) can dictate what parliament debates, has finally found an issue to force under the nose of the political classes.

Of course their first choice is as typically draconian and unworkable as you...

Undoubtedly, you will have heard by now that the News of the World is no more and the first of its many heads has rolled. However, the hounds at the door of Murdoch's crumbling print empire show no signs of abating.

A boycott campaign has risen up on social media...