This week, Halifax’s standard variable rate (SVR) increases from 3.5% to 3.99%, hitting 850,000 customers. Co-op SVR‘s up 0.5% points to 4.74% and Clydesdale/Yorkshire from 4.59% to 4.95%. RBS’s One account jumps 0.25% points to 4%. Did I miss something? Has the bank rate jumped? No? So how come they’re blaming the "increased cost of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘cost’
Banks eh? Doncha just love ‘em?
Posted: 2nd May 2012 by Martyn in Bankers, Capitalism - the End, Corporate purgatory, Economics for idiots, Industrial Class Irony, Satire and HumourTags: Clydesdale Yorkshire, cost, Don, pop, SVR
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Why has Labour taken a significant lead in the polls and can they sustain it?
Posted: 28th March 2012 by Martyn in Britain - the great, Capitalism - the End, Democracy - the End, Ed Miliband, Labour Successes, Left of Center Politics, Mushroom Theory, PMQs: The Dormitory Bun Fight, Politics, Tax Talk, Tory LiarsTags: CON, Conservative Party, cost, Dormitory Bun Fight, economy, fact, government, Granny Tax, LAB, Labour, Labour Party, LDEM, News Corp, SO, Sun, Trade Unions, US, Whether Labour
Has Ed got it right? Can the man who the Conservative media are at great pains to paint as a poor leader be manoeuvring Labour into a winning position? Or are the Tories shooting themselves in the foot now, then hoping they can reap the benefits later? As of today Labour are ten points clear [...]
Is there a fat pill on the way?
Posted: 16th November 2010 by Martyn in LifeTags: Chris Church, cost, DNA, economy, FTO, lie, lies, Mammalian Genetics Unit, Medical Research Council, MRC, Nature Genetics, NHS, Oxford University, Professor Frances Ashcroft, Professor Frances Ashcroft In, Professor Roger Cox, read-write, UK, Wellcome Trust
Scientists have gained strong confirmation of the direct connection between the FTO gene and obesity, obtaining the first direct evidence that over-activity of the gene leads to overeating and obesity in mice. The research team from the University of Oxford and Medical Research Council (MRC), with funding from the Wellcome Trust and MRC, have published [...]
Why should the BBC pay its own way?
Posted: 10th July 2010 by Martyn in Britain - the great, Capitalism - the End, Digital Britain, Industrial Relations, Mushroom Theory, PoliticsTags: BBC, bbcbroadcastinghouse, British Gas, British Telecom, Broadcasting House, Building Societies, caption, cost, day, does-bbc-pay-for-programmes, government, happy, Internet, Internet Advertising, ITV, Licence Fee, lie, SKY, TV, who-get-the-most-revenue-sky-or-bbc1
There’s an idea being floated in the ranks of power that the BBC should be made to pay its own way. The concept is that through its own endeavours, the BBC should fund its activities and perform as a commercial organisation would have to. I disagree and I’ll tell you why. If the BBC had [...]
Sorry about the fish…
Posted: 17th February 2009 by Martyn in Life, TravelTags: Banyan Tree, Caribbean, cost, England, fact, game, Goa, happy, Henry Ford, Herr Benz, Holiday Inn, holidays, Le Mans, letter, long haul, New York, Northern Goa, Romford Crew, Seven Dwarves Miserable, Snow White, Top Gun, Travel, use
Goa is full of ancient monuments and the terminal building is the first.