Dear listener

Willy nilly. It means it will happen whether you want it to or not, from an old saying ‘will ye, nill ye’. And that 17th century phrase sums up two of the 21st century proposals in the Government report Digital Britain.

The report, by the new Department for Business Innovation and Skills (DBIS for short, pronounced Dee Biz). It plans to tax many of the people who don’t have a computer and won’t use the internet so that those who do can have a superfast service.

The tax will start in 2010. And a few years after that it plans the compulsory obsolescence of most of the radios currently tuned to Money Box and other radio programmes (are there any?)on Radio 4 and other stations (never heard of them) when digital broadcasting replaces the current analogue services on FM, AM and long wave.

The changeover could come by 2016 if enough digital radios are sold over the next three and a half years. If only Dee Biz doesn’t shilly shally.

Two weeks ago I published all my expenses on my website. They included ----- and --- as well as the ------- where I ----. However, it has been drawn to my attention that I might have left in details of ------- and -----.

So in the interests of privacy and national security I have taken out all references to my --- and my ------’- ------- -- ----- and of course the exact nature of the ---- which I used for ------.

And before you complain please note that although the ----- and --- have been kept confidential most of the amounts and all the decimal points have been left in. That’s what I call fr---om of inf---at--n. (to read the unexpurgated version put my name into any search engine).

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Every week 23,000 people are made redundant. It’s the highest figure since records began in 1995. What are your rights when that unwelcome news arrives?

And what if your boss says to avoid redundancy you must cut your hours? Or take a pay cut? Or just asks you to work for nothing for a month, like staff at British Airways? And if you do lose your job, what can you do to protect your pension?

Are retailers outside the UK breaking the rules laid down by Visa and Mastercard when they offer to let you pay in Sterling rather than the local currency?

Are consumers being forgotten in the recent discussions of bank regulation? One group thinks major changes are needed to protect consumers at this difficult time.

And Aviva offers one million customers an average payment of £500 if they give up their rights to share in £1.2 billion forever. Should they take it?

That’s four tales and we may squeeze in a bit more.

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Best wishes

Paul

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