Categories Insights Once more with feeling Uncategorised Post author By Don Hunter Post date 19 November 2021 No Comments on Card sharp Card sharp Trust Amazon to be disruptive. The seller of everything to everyone told UK customers yesterday that it will no longer accept Visa credit card payments on account of the latter’s “high” transaction processing fees. Some of the 9 out of 10 consumers in the UK who shop with the firm will now have to change […]
Categories Insights Post author By Don Hunter Post date 20 September 2019 Private schools Issue: As school fees soar beyond the reach of the middle class, private education is becoming a taboo topic at dinner parties, with paying parents being positively bashful about where Oscar and Florence are studying for fear of arousing resentment. That fear appears justified. Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has backed an “Abolish Eton” motion due […]
Categories Insights Post author By Don Hunter Post date 24 August 2019 Yesterday It is a sign of how revered Radio 4’s Today programme is that Government ministers being advised not to appear on it itself makes the news. That reverence seems to be evaporating. Boris Johnson’s director of communications, Lee Cain, has told colleagues to ignore the show, branding it a “waste of time”. Dominic Cummings, the […] Tags Boris, Media
Categories Insights Post author By Don Hunter Post date 17 May 2019 Reality TV “Humankind cannot bear very much reality,” said TS Eliot in Four Quartets. Events this week appear to confirm this, at least in relation to reality TV, with ITV’s axeing of The Jeremy Kyle Show following the suicide of a guest. Steve Dymond’s death has acted as an uncomfortable reminder that winding up members of the public […]