Dec
17
First Utility is Officially Cheaper than British gas . . . according to British Gas
December 17, 2013 | Leave a Comment
If you’re not from the UK this post won’t mean much to you. Here though, the 2013 news agenda has been very much concerned with the UK’s power companies (Gas/Electricity) and how competitive they are and whether they’re abusing their dominant market position. Prices for gas and electricity have shot up drastically over the past […]
Jun
18
Treasure Trove
June 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Today the British Library launch an online digital archive of 2 million pages of newspapers from the 19th century. That’s a tiny fraction of the 750 million pages they have from that golden era of newspapers. It’s well worth the £6.99 daily access fee: http://newspapers.bl.uk/blcs/ Here’s two snippets of miscellany I found from a casual […]
May
31
Learning from the past
May 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment
On my journalism course they gave us a bunch of books on a list to get . . I eagerly purchased got a few before I realised that most were way, way out of date. In a quiet moment the other day I picked up ‘the British Press: A Manifesto’ for the first ever time. […]