So, inflation is up. The retail price index is up. Train fares are going up. Tragically, the price a of beer seems to go up daily too. (Routinely £4 a pint in London these days…)

About the only thing that isn’t going...

Music makes the world go round, apparently, so we reckon that puts www.shuffler.fm somewhere near the centre these days.

In this age of the all you can download and listen to musical feast, some kind of guidance is key, or you could end up...

It’s that awkward time of the summer, where parents are running out of ideas, money and sanity thanks to the long holidays. So anything that can help with any of those is surely welcome.

Fronted by diving wunderkind Tom Daley, this is...

Life is full of choices.

Tea or coffee? Cats or Dogs? Stay in or go out?

When you think about it, everything you do is a choice, in one way or another. Every aspect of our lives is dictated by the little choices we make every day. Do...

An interesting week to launch a new social network. Especially if you live in one of the many UK cities that have been torn apart by the feral behaviour of the disaffected masses, allegedly fuelled by social networking...

Hey...

To browse. It means something entirely different than from say, 15 years ago. Back then, it wasn’t about surfing the worldwide whatchamacallit. It was almost exclusively heard in only one context:

“Can I help you sir?”

“No...

The myriad ways we communicate with each other these days means that we’ve pretty must lost all control of standards. If you use email, text, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, BBM, Google+ and (heaven forbid) the good old-fashioned phone, it’s...

This is one of those projects that makes you realise that, despite the ever-increasing pace of technology, the human desire to challenge the achievements of the past is still alive and well.

When you think about fast cars, some might think...

You know you’ve made it as a brand when other people start cashing in on variations of your name. Don’t get me wrong, derivation is a good thing, so I’m not knocking pitchify.com one bit. But it has to be more than a little heartwarming...

Once upon a time there were many, many things that us Brits did that were the envy of the civilized world. Shipbuilding, for instance. Even our cars were once the models the most style conscious wanted to be seen in.

Not much of that is left....

Whether you like it or not (and we don’t really) celebrity gossip is big business. With the print media justifiably having their methods scrutinised at the moment, it’s no real surprise that online is now where you’ll find the latest...

If you've been in the UK over the past day or so, you'll have noticed some big news. No, not the phone hacking, or the latest on Cheryl Cole's domestic arrangements, not even another royal wedding. Nope. The big news is that summer has...

Lots of things from the eighties have made an unwelcome return lately. Leg warmers, deely boppers, Rick Astley, and the economy heading for the toilet faster than last night’s chicken vindaloo.

One thing we’ve quite enjoyed seeing...

Once upon a time, if you met an attractive young maiden who’s toothsome charms tickled your fancy, you’d say to her "write to me”. A few hundred years later, that became “call me”.

Not that long ago, it turned...

Here’s one for anybody who’s ever sat on their sofa watching sport and declared that they could do better with one hand tied behind their back / one leg in plaster / both eyes closed etc, etc. You know the type.

All you armchair...

Once upon a time, man built a mud hut when he couldn’t find a cave to shelter in. Then he carved a window to let some light in and a chimney to let the smoke from his fire out. He painted scenes of his life on the wall (with woman choosing the...

Your friends are important. They are the random collection of special people you collect and nurture over your lifetime. You have a shared history. You’ve been through the good times and you’ve been through the bad times. You’ve weathered...

I went to a very fashionable party at the weekend. Full of lots of effortlessly glamourous, successful people, all looking like they’d walked off the style pages of the glossy magazines.

Then I arrived, looking more like something a sheepdog...

This weekend, if the weather’s good, I might reorganise my shed. Sad, I know, but you get to a certain time in your life and these things matter.

I might take out all the tools, all the bikes, all the toys, all the pots of paint and rusty...

While the western world focuses one eye on the alleged misdeeds of their newspaper publishers, their politicians and their police, and the other eye firmly on the state of their collective bank balances, the message that some people in the rest of...

As the boy turns into the man, there are usually a few good pieces of advice that he will be given, sometimes by a parent, sometimes by somebody else he admires or trusts.

These are likely to include things like, always play fair, always be...

The London Underground is known for many things: crappy service, decrepit trains, stale air, anti socialism, litter, moronic behaviour and random acts of violence. There's not much doubt that, given an alternative, the millions of people...

We don’t care if you’ve bungee jumped off Sydney Harbour Bridge, skied down the Hubbard Glacier, or climbed up the sheer façade of the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur - there’s no greater adventure than becoming a parent.

If...

There is one online activity guaranteed to steal time from you, leaving you dazed and confused when you surface from what seemed like minutes but were actually hours.

No, not that. I’m talking about online...

There is a new superpower and it's set to take over, not just the world, but almost every aspect of our lives.

I'm talking about the smartphone. It was announced yesterday that in a year's time more than half the...