I missed President Obama's speech Tuesday (had a prior commitment and how dare he not plan his speeches around my schedule?) but apparently he claimed only 2% of Americans will be getting a tax hike (income tax, that is, we're all getting his carbon tax hike). But according to the Wall Street Jour...

I need not point out the current economic climate to any one of you; the news is bombarded with stories highlighting the latest business failure, another stage in the economic down turn, and how it’s getting frightfully worse. Then, Mr. Darling the UK’s Chancellor for the Exchequer announced yet...

Today Britain’s biggest and longest discount sale will begin. Unlike other popular sales like the Next sale or the Debenhams Blue Cross sale, the shops will NOT be opening at some silly hour of the morning, they will not be filling the shelves with crap that has never actually been sold in the...

As you may have read in the Pre-Budget report this week, the standard rate of VAT will be reduced from 17.5% to 15% on Monday 1st December. This has a positive affect on donations made through Justgiving because the VAT charged on our transaction fee (5% of a donation plus Gift Aid), will now go dow...

Much as I appreciate an extra 2.5% in my pocket, I am slightly afeared of how many places the value 17.5 will have been hard coded in any of the computer systems I may now have to reprogramme. Not to many I hope. This new VAT change will not change the price we're paying for everything of course, th...

This post is more of a question then an actual post. Those of you based in the UK will know that VAT is being lowered to 15% and your mobile service includes VAT. Will the networks be recaulating bills in regards to the drop automatically from the 1st of December? I certaintly will be contacting by ...

Image via Wikipedia Well whadda ya know. After waiting almost two decades for it to happen, there are at long last some real differences starting to appear between the two main British political parties, if only in how they would each manage the country’s finances in recession rather than in s...

Everyone and anyone is this morning talking about how the Government will reduce VAT tomorrow to 15% from 17.5%. This was of course proposed by Ken Clarke earlier in the week. Crucially though this will only be temporary and will be clawed back at a cost of around £12.5 billion. However, I personal...

Huge article with new pics at PSM3, some ideas collected by NMA: So, the first hands-on preview of Fallout 3 is generally available, and is big. Quite a bit of it is repeating info from previous demos and explaining what the Fallout franchise is, but there’s more than just that. Some bits: - T...

I already talked about the piece on Fallout 3 published in the last issue of Edge, now you can read it online on the Next Gen site: “War never changes,â€� grumbles ubiquitous voiceover favorite Ron Perlman in Fallout 3’s opening cinematic. Of course, the one major bugbear among diehard fans ...