Politics

I saw a FT headline earlier saying that George Osborne was sticking to Plan A despite warning lights in the economy.

I'm sorry, but what is it that critics would like the government to do, exactly? Continue running a huge deficit? For what purpose? To finance our current lifestyles? To what end? A bankrupt nation for our children to inherit?

We're already spending more every day on interest repayments for our national debt than we are on schools.

Governments ...

Ever wondered why economists and the media are so obsessed with inflation? It's a helluva lot more complicated than you might think.

Our monetary system actually requires a stable level of inflation to function, a number that our government puts at around 2%. What that means is that the amount of money in circulation is growing faster than the value of 'real things', be it food or houses, that actually exist. As a result, you need more money to equal the perceived value of a given ...

Wondering vaguely back into the territory of using song titles on my blog posts...

I've been thinking a little about some of the massive mistakes that still plague our mobile industry to this day. These mistakes contribute significantly to the status of the UK mobile market at this time.

GSM Licences

It's no secret that the GSM/PCS licences issued yonks ago to mobile operators in the UK restrict the usage of the frequency allocated. What this did was ...

We're all familiar with the eternal dilemma of whether or not to buy the latest and greatest gadget that has just hit the streets. Money spent on gadgetry, you see, is very hard to recover - you're not making a monitory investment when you buy an iPhone, you're buying it because you need/want it completely aware that it will have no real value within a few years.

Spending money in this way is less of a dilemma and more of a way of life for Talk3G regulars. Hence why the Chinese economy ...

I was over the moon when we got our 2mbps BTNET fibre Internet connection blown into our offices. Fibre, as most will know, is the holy grail of Internet access, and coupled with 1:1 contention (i.e. the bandwidth isn't shared with anyone else) 2mbps goes a long way.

The price of this, however, would make your eyes water. It made my eyes water, too, but in a business context it's easier to justify large expenses, particularly when there's not much in the way of alternatives (ADSL ...