My lad is a month into his first job as an analyst at a private equity company in London after graduating from the other place this summer with a degree in Economics and Managment. It pays well, but … (View Post)

That's exactly how I bought my last car: base model with cash, using Carwow to find the lowest price in the country, and in the full knowledge that the dealer was making very little from the sale. I … (View Post)

I had a discussion of exactly this kind with my step-daughter yesterday about her driving lesson price increase. The price of a lesson is going up from £30 to £33, but she can get 10 lessons for the … (View Post)

They are, of course, simply a way for people to advertise their wealth and sophistication (in the eyes of the beholder), like any other unnecessary item. We humans have a wide range of equivalents of… (View Post)

Yeah, I know the term best with reference to, for example, copying and pasting a bunch of code in order to get a new version out the door fast, but knowing that it needs to be properly refactored at … (View Post)