News broke before Christmas that the Office of National Statistics have revised their figures for July to September to show a tiny fall in GDP. Come the next announcement Britain looks likely to climb out of recession. Even as you read this the recession might …
Want to make money while you drink? Those folk up at the Boogaloo in Highgate have come up with a clever scheme to get you spending your pennies by actually giving you some of theirs. Tonight is the launch of ‘Recession’, a club in a …
People can get in lots of trouble for saying that good things can come out of recession, but no doubt about it, the legacy of the last was not all bad. Here we start 2009 with the first of our uplifting investigations into the silver …
Blogging, much like joining a convent, is a noble tradition of sacrifice. We write for your education, fulfillment and the small furtherance of the misguided belief that our opinions matter. We were excited, therefore, to discover a new breed of bloggers: they are called journalists. …
The terrible stomach churning uncertainty that has embraced our fair city is only slightly tempered by the satisfaction that we called it right – the Office of National Statistics has spoken and the initial estimates for the third quarter of 2008 are that we dived …
For a minute there it appeared we were on the brink of apocalypse. Then it seemed OK. Then we were back to searching for clean underwear. And repeat. It’s been a busy few days for London’s financial markets, and it might not be over yet. …
After the usual screams of anguish from the Evening Standard editorials have died away there are some more ominous signs in last week’s traditional September bundle of joy: the TfL new year fare package. “Tough choices around some unfunded transport projects” are to be made, …
Since time immemorial people have cried out – ‘what we really need is a 23,000 seat multi purpose arena somewhere near Woolwich’. Of course this dream was finally attained last year with the reopening of the Millennium Dome O2 – back in the day, however, …
Like the Edmonton IKEA, a recession is something that only reveals itself when you’ve zoomed passed it, shouted yourself blind at the map reader and urged a fiery hell on whoever designed the nonsensical road system. However, we’re taking a leap in the statistical darkness …
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