Consider a grid with a million homes. Put photovoltaic (PV) panels on 20 per cent of them. What happens to the costs of maintaining the grid? Nothing; at best. Typically, a bill is made up of about 30 ...

I live and work in London in the creative/art sectors; wearing sandals with well maintained feet never seems inappropriate. My preferred sandal is the Nike Calm, £74.99. Tremendous value and very ...

However, Koos Polak (aka JJ Polak, in his spare time economic councillor to the managing director of the IMF), who often played Scrabble with his wife (although he lost most of the time), published an ...

Camilla Cavendish hits the nail on the head when she cites empty office blocks and department stores as potential refurbished accommodation to ease the housing crisis ( Opinion, May 16).

An assumption is that those who travel do so as investment, to broaden themselves, build relationships and deepen their understanding of others. If, however, we view travel as pursued for consumption ...

In your magazine article, Bosun Smee, a life-long restaurant worker, asks: “Where did all the career waiters go?” ( Spectrum, Life & Arts, May 17). In ancient times, I worked in a restaurant kitchen.

Why pay all that on a move when you could spend it on extending your existing home? And the consequence is to move your house up a rung on the housing ladder and make it even less affordable for those ...

In, “Am I boring you? Good”, Tim Harford writes “success leads to boredom” ( Undercover Economist, FT Weekend, Life & Arts, May 24). “Boredom leads to neglect. Neglect leads to failure. Failure is no ...

Another bugbear of mine is the (mis)use of the hyphen and the dash: hyphens join (words) and dashes separate clauses or create pauses, similar to semicolons but not quite. I still remember being ...