A collection of some of my old articles and thoughts written for union magazines and the like.
As well as some ongoing thoughts in this weird world we now live in!
"Mortgage rules could be eased"
We know where this ends... 2008 recession!!
Sorry but that's not the answer to anything - build homes so the price drops and folk can afford them under the current rules without getting into even more massive debt.
Also the building activity itself is financial actively that will boost the economy!!!
Well now anyone of a diversity different to White straight Male should consider boycotting "Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp"
The argument for Farcebonk and Whatapp go back a lot further of course. In 2021 a huge backlash and much downloading of other apps (even encouraged by Musk at the time) created an apology from Meta about the way they had explained their TandC changes then
"The phrasing of the warning in the initial push led to widespread fears that it was going to share large amounts of WhatsApp data with Facebook."
And the BBC article said "In reality, very little had changed in that area - and almost all users had previously accepted the type of data sharing involved."
And a lot of folk said that they understood that the EU Law stopped a lot of what Whatapp/Meta were going to do and it only really applied in the US...
Well of course we had left the EU but a lot of the law remains ... but for how long? With the noises the Government keeps making towards the US I doubt the UK will be protecting anyone in a way Trump doesn't like for long! You know that ..."person" that's besties with all the Tech Billionaires.