Category: The Wind Down
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Wind Down 27th Mar 2023
Repopulating a cityWould you go do your job abroad with a concierge service to help repopulate a city? Venice needs you. The city is actively looking to entice digital nomads, the totally remote workers and freelancers to move to the city to help bolster city population, fill vacant properties and office and boost spending in…
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Wind Down 20th Mar 2023
That’s going straight in the CPI basketThe current CPI basket of goods and services is a whopping 743 items long, with 26 items added and 16 items removed in this update. Apparently e-bikes are in, surveillance cameras, frozen berries and infants dresses, the new additions reflect categories where there has been significant growth in consumer…
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Wind Down 13th Mar 2023
Dormant Asset Scheme Pay-outUnder the Dormant Assets Scheme £76 million from dormant accounts are to be released by HRMC this week to support people with the costs of living. The money is being distributed to individuals to support getting out of debt and to social enterprise schemes to support energy saving solutions. The main aim…
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Wind Down 6th Mar 2023
“Time’s Up!” Betty BoothroydWhat a women, the first and only women speaker of the House of Commons, a formidable politician and a Tiller Girl. Never married, despite many offers and no children and her legacy is no poorer for that. Boothroyd had worked as a political secretary in both the UK and the States, on…
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Wind Down 27th Feb 2023
Four-day working week results are inA whopping 92% of UK firms who took place in the 6 month trial say they will keep it, that’s 56 of the 61 firms who took part in the study. The study shows that results were fairly consistent over all workplaces regardless of size, the trial included big business…
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Wind Down 20th Feb 2023
How do you listen to audiobooks?I hope my other half never finds this, he has bought me many an audiobook that I’ve requested and to date I have listened to absolutely none of them. I’m just not sure I’m an audiobook person, and it turns out I might have been correct. I used the Borrow…
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Wind Down 6th Feb 2023
The Paperchase Saga Continues…In out, in out, has Paperchase in Administration again? The news almost isn’t news anymore. It’s been a week for Paperchase, whose last decade has not been without scandal from plagiarism, advertising in the Daily Fail and the wake of creditors it’s left in the last 3 years. Since the early 2000’s…
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Wind Down 30th Jan 2023
Burgernomics: The Big Mac IndexThe Economist bi-annual update to the Big Mac Index has dropped this week which is one of the best pieces of data analysis in the world, bar none. The Big Max Index is a price index established in 1986 as tongue in cheek way of explaining the purchasing power parity of…
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Wind Down 23rd Jan 2023
Jacinda Ardern “I no longer have enough in the tank” Jacinda Ardern this week announced she will stand down as New Zealand Prime Minister on 7th February, during her really authentic speech in Wellington she explained she had hoped to remain in post over the summer until the next election but had not been able…
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Wind Down 16th Jan 2023
The good in social mediaI’m too old for TikTok and really should delete it, but occasionally it throws up a brilliant thing that is so many things. This week an 82 year old Navy Veteran managed to retire after a GoFundMe raised £89,000 ($108,682). Imagine working till you’re 82? The GoFundMe was set up by…
Rachael McKelvey 