If somebody said to you; ‘how much do you spend on groceries in any given week’ or ‘how long does it take to walk to your local bus, train or ferry stop’, the odds are you would be able to provide a reasonably accurate response?
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For one of the world’s major cities and an important financial centre, the choice of candidates in the London mayoral elections next week is distinctly uninspiring.
The incumbent Ken Livingstone, first came to prominence as a left-wing leader of the old Greater London Council (GLC).
The GLC was …
According to Oscar Wilde – who knew a thing or two about ending things badly having died in a small room in France complaining about the wall paper soon after his release from jail – living in the lap of luxury is fine, until luxury stands up.
So today we …
The French crisis-hit bank, Société Générale is displaying signs of desperation as it pulls out all stops to deter the circling takeover wolves from attacking.
In a strange move on Friday the bank ran full page ads in major international newspapers, including The Financial Times and The South …
As investment markets were gyrating wildly last week burningpants spotted this outlandish symbol of modern day excess in Sydney’s central business district.
Now burningpants wouldn’t normally write a posting based purely on the sighting of a car, however in this instance we felt given the car was in the …
A scam of Oceans 11 proportions led to UK Barclays Bank high-profile chairman being impersonated and having £10,000 stripped out of his account British media reported last week.
The embarrassing episode was a reminder that identity theft is still a huge problem and not just something resulting from …
