Banks not free after all

Unsurprising, really. Just like free minutes and texts on mobile phones are anything but. Banks make more out of personal current accounts than they do out of savings and credit cards combined

Big Picture: Tour de France

While they have "that" photo with the sunflowers, they also have the photographers lining it up and a lovely one of the riders looking at a horsewoman. Genius.

Livingstone on fire

Charles Arthur links to a brilliant note from Ken to a seemingly Conservative-dominated committee. To cooperate in any way with your purely Conservative Party dominated body would be to lend it a facade of independence and objectivity which it clearly does not...