Thursday, 30 April 2015

Rip-off News round-up. Our pick of the last week's media (Thu 30th April)

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Network Rail's own staff 'choose to fly within the UK because it is cheaper than the train' Network Rail bosses travelling...
Tuesday, 28 April 2015

Bank scam fines to pass £60bn. That's not including the cost of global collapse, of course!

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SOURCE DAILY MAIL : Britain's biggest banks face further £19bn of fines and charges to pay for financial scandals The UK’s ‘big...
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Sunday, 26 April 2015

Graphs at a Glance: Can you judge a party by the membership it keeps? What do the memberships of the three largest national parties, the Conservatives, Labour, and the Liberal Democrats tell us about those parties?

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A report by the House of Commons Library, "Membership of UK Political Parties" , published in January 2015 provides an insight. T...
Friday, 24 April 2015

Fake supermarket “deals” end up costing us shoppers hundreds of millions more

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Fee, KJ and Chris shop for answers... SOURCE GUARDIAN : UK supermarket “deals” dupe shoppers out of hundreds of millions, says Which? ...
Thursday, 23 April 2015

Rip-off News round-up. Our pick of the last week's media (Thu 23rd April)

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UK supermarket “deals” dupe shoppers out of hundreds of millions, says Which? The consumer group Which? claims supermarkets are pushing...
Sunday, 19 April 2015

Are politicians really that despicable? Of course they are. But what made them like this? It was all of us voters!

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Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures released in April 2015, just before the May 2015 UK General Election, showed a fall of over 80...
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Thursday, 16 April 2015

Rip-off News round-up. Our pick of the last week's media (Thu 16th April)

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EU files antitrust charges against Google for skewing search results European Union regulators said they had reached the preliminary co...
Tuesday, 14 April 2015

if we don't almost double the number of new builds to the 240,000 per year we need to meet demand, rents will keep rising, house prices too

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SOURCE GUARDIAN : Tory housing association right-to-buy policy attacked by big business The Conservatives have come under fire afte...
Sunday, 12 April 2015

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me every five years - that's democracy!

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What's in a manifesto? Politicians make their careers more promising by promising more. Most of all during a closely fought general ele...
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Thursday, 9 April 2015

Rip-off News round-up. Our pick of the last week's media (Thu 9th April)

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Drug firm Novartis tried to 'scupper' trials of a cheaper version of eye medicine Avastin, which costs just $50 (£34) a dose, c...