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  • Review of Crunch Accounting

    Crunch Accounting provides me with an amazing accountancy service and superb web app for me to manage my everyday business accounts. Yesterday I went on one of my regular “diversions” down an online rabbit hole, and ended up on the website of accountingreviews.co.uk who seem to provide detailed reviews of accountancy software and services. I […]

  • On the Microsoft Pro-EU position – how not to write a letter

    I wrote in a previous post that I have a gut feeling about the EU referendum. In fact I have a gut feeling about most things, which is all the more reason I like to subject myself to criticism. Come and knock spots off me, show me how I’m wrong. In fact I’ll go out to […]

  • Open Letter to Nick Clegg: please re-stand at our party’s leadership election

    Dear Nick, “He had to go”; a very British leadership response that shows humility in the face of defeat. Where, in other countries, leaders of defeated parties cannot help themselves but try to hold arrogantly to power, the expectation of a party leader in this situation is to fall on the sword. Swiftly. Graciously. With […]

  • I have discovered a new use for chocolate

    As an “extreme owl” I often stay awake working in the night time. Mornings are therefore not enjoyable for me. Even when I have a lie-in I can feel grumpy until the coffee flows. I’m not sure if this is because my senses are heightened or if they are asleep. Either way, I reckon I […]

  • An open letter to my Facebook friends

    Facebook, it seems, has become a front-end for cheap, baiting, advert-laden websites like Buzzfeed and apparently my Facebook friends are falling for it by the droves by posting links to “Top ten tatoo fails”, “8 reasons you are single”, “10 things you can do to be nice to a single person”, etc. I thought Facebook […]

  • One week today

    The last seven days have been a blur. I have eaten and slept, but only because of the efforts of my nearest and dearest. One week ago today, a kind man – a man I may never meet – was walking with his dog through an open green space in South London. At first this […]

  • Surely nobody thought “Fiscal Union” was really a good idea?

    Far from being an Orwellian nightmare, I love the idea of greater fiscal and political union with our neighbours. Maybe it could even work… in 100-500 years? But right now, as long as different countries within Europe teach different versions of history, value different types of trade, have different climates that affect their vastly diverse […]

  • Clicktivism or Slacktivism?

    I know, I know; the Kony 2012 subject has been done to death. I don’t plan to weigh-in too heavily on the debate, except to make a small comment on what the media has termed “clicktivism”. Or indeed what sceptics have termed “slacktivism”. Before I go on: my viewpoint on the campaign. Naturally it goes […]

  • The Pluralist Paradox

    Deep down inside of me, there is a swing voter waiting to get out. A true British I-don’t-really-know-what-I-think voter, someone who could go both ways. Hell, I could go three or four ways. I know, dear imaginary reader, you are thinking, “but how can someone so … so – political – how can you not […]

  • How Sociable is Facebook towards Developers?

    If Facebook wants to be the social ‘platform’ on which the web resides – a grand vision, but an attainable one – it had better start being nicer to web developers. That’s because the new algorithm it’s developed no longer grants access to particular sections, disabling marketing experts from companies like The Marketing Heaven to […]