Exact Change Please: Walmart, Kroger, CVS Are Feeling The Coin Shortage Stores around the U.S. are struggling with an unexpected shortage. (No, not toilet paper — sorry, we’ve already made that joke.) They’re running low on coins. Supermarkets and gas stations across the U.S. are asking shoppers to pay with a card or produce…
When I started the blog I decided that I would add at least one post a day (except weekends) but in my naiveté I did not factor in Eskom and its planned power failures, Telkom (whom I have now needed to phone for the third Monday in a row) and the disappearance yesterday of all my folders…
New York-born London mayor Boris Johnson refuses to pay US tax bill Boris Johnson walks around Times Square in New York City. Photograph: Ramin Talaie/Getty Images The Guardian, Thursday 20 November 2014 15.24 GMT I doubt that it will be too often that Books Etc beats The Guardian to a story, so I’m making the…
Boris Johnson | The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History | Hodder 9781444783025 ‘The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.’ On the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of Winston Churchill’s death, Boris Johnson explores what makes up the ‘Churchill Factor’ – the singular brilliance of one…