Make money online and in business with Les Armitage

UNBELIEVABLE
Yes it has finally happened, although I thought it would be a while yet before these ‘dramatic’ measures started! In conversation with a company this morning, he made me aware that several household name high street retailers have been recently approached by multiple professional level job seekers offering their services for free. They offer to work [...]

Feeling gloomy this morning. That budget – oh dear…
The last time interest rates were closest to where they are now and incidentally that was before living memory, two years later the interest rate was 25%. The last time they were at 5% (not to long ago), two years later they were at 15%…
The general election is next year. Things; [...]

A review of arguments for and against raising the value of Job Seeker’s Allowance (JSA).
With unemployment rising steadily for the first time since the early 1990s, the adequacy of JSA (the social security benefit paid to people who are unemployed and looking for work) is a matter of acute importance. Taking account of inflation, its [...]

Four men behind the Swedish-based file-sharing website The Pirate Bay have been found guilty of breaking copyright law. Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde were each sentenced to a year in jail. They were also ordered to pay 30m kronor (£2.4m) in damages.
The Pirate Bay founders have said they will appeal [...]