Rising fuel prices, the ongoing effect of the COVID pandemic, the war in Ukraine, Brexit… many factors have combined and continue to influence the upward spiralling cost of living in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the world. This issue affects everyone, but it can be particularly worrying and debilitating […]
The other week I was doing some digital decluttering when I came across an August 2015 receipt from Tesco for my online shopping. I thought it would be interesting to do a totally unscientific comparison of how food and household item prices have changed in the decade since. This isn’t […]
The scope and breadth of content available on the BBC’s flagship online education service, BBC Bitesize, has certainly increased in the past few years, seeing students and parents through various lockdowns and educational disruption. Now the BBC is launching the first ever BBC Bitesize revision podcast to help students revise […]
The BBC has announced a major initiative stretching into the summer as it seeks to encourage both children and grownups to transform drab, dreary locations into wild, colourful, nature-filled places for all to enjoy. Inspired by the BBC’s Wild Isles programme, Radio 2, CBBC, CBeebies and BBC Teach will piggyback […]
“Never trust a Tory” seems more apt than ever before, as after a few weeks of complete incompetence from the Conservative government, the newest chancellor (the ever-annoying Jeremy Hunt) has decided to scrap the universal Energy Price Guarantee from April 2023, meaning further uncertainty, particularly for Britain’s poorest citizens, after […]
A glimmer of hope as the government has finally begun setting out plans for tackling the energy price crisis, including the announcement that consumer energy bills for mains gas and electricity customers in England, Wales and Scotland will be frozen at a ‘typical’ £2,500 annual cost for the next two […]
The Tories have been in limbo for weeks now, awaiting a new leader and Prime Minister to be elected. Now Liz Truss has been inducted into that role, we’re still waiting for some tangible action and concrete plans to be set out in response to the impending price rises in […]
Domestic abuser Jonathan Edwards MP, who still represents the Plaid Cymru party in his constituency of Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, is publicly playing himself as ‘victim’ despite having been cautioned by the police for physically assaulting his wife. Previously, a carefully concocted statement suggested that Emma Edwards, soon to be […]
As if the recent energy price hikes weren’t bad enough to handle on their own, smart meter customers of British Gas are struggling to see their up-to-date energy usage graphs due to glitches in the online account management system. The latest episode has seen energy usage graphs halted since mid-February, […]
Today’s mind-boggling leap of crass stupidity comes from one Andrew Hessel, a geneticist who has tried to make a comparison between cloning animals and adopting children. Say what? It comes as an almost throwaway quote in a recent BBC news article about the rising popularity of pet cloning. It seems […]
The BBC has announced the two presenters for The Toddler Club, which airs from Monday 4th April on CBeebies. Nigel Clarke, who already presents The Baby Club, will present on alternate days with Gemma Atkinson, most known for her roles in various soaps including Hollyoaks, Emmerdale and Casualty. Each 14-minute […]
The BBC’s annual plan for 2022/23 has been published, including its ongoing commitment to children’s programming in the year ahead. The Corporation’s ‘strategic and creative plans’ include: creating more British animation, with the commission of three broadcast-quality pilots in the Ignite initiative, as well as acquiring more existing animated content […]