There's a brilliant piece by Marina Hyde in the Grauniad today all about 'fauxlanthropy' (I don't know if she coined the term, but it's a perfect piece of wordplay! The other main reference to fauxlanthropy on Google seems to be Youtube's announcem..

You’re right Fiona, to shop or not to shop is definitely the question – read her excellent frugal but fun Christmas blog here. At such times who better to deliver a shopping decree than a re-hash of Lord Kitchener’s 1914 finger-po..

Economy in trouble? Financial stability on the rocks? Scrabbling for solutions? I know! How about we try and spend our way out of the madness! In the same vein as 'Dubya' and Tony urged us to right after the planes hit the towers on 9/11, it seems ..

As the post-mortem as to what went wrong with the global financial system progresses (How many times can you point the finger at the rotund wunch of bankers who have clearly consumed all the meat and pastry delicacies?) I learnt another new word to..

Salience is the state or condition of being prominent, at the front of our mind or easy to visualise. When things are easy to visualise, they are more likely to come true. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy - things that are false become true be..

Excerpt from Shades of Green (Nyree’s wonderful column which appears in the Peterborough Evening Telegraph every Saturday).The question of the hour…Will sustainability stay at the forefront of minds with the credit crunch looming?Where..