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Fool’s Gold

I would like to think of myself as an optimist but there is a difference between optimism and gullibility. Maybe we are so used to good news that we have lost the ability to ask questions. Why did no one...

No news from Heathrow

Yesterday was the first day of arriving Olympic athletes at Heathrow. The news channels had their reporters stationed on the Bath Road (with nice views of the runway but nowhere near the terminals) ready to give non-stop action reports on...

Can you visit the Maldives with a clear conscience?

It is not just Premiership footballers who get into trouble using Twitter. The Maldives tourism ministry thought it would be a great idea to publicise their country on Twitter by getting users to share stories of their stay using the...

Very clever, Air China

It is a fairly regular occurrence for an airline or hotel chain to make a minor error with its website and end up selling tickets or rooms at ridiculously low rates. The companies normally discover the error within a few...

And now OLT Express suspends all flights

After our earlier post, we can hardly say we were surprised to hear this morning that the fast-growing Polish airlines, OLT Express had suddenly suspended all its flights. Earlier in the week they had announced that they would return all...

Fool’s Gold

I would like to think of myself as an optimist but there is a difference between optimism and gullibility. Maybe we are so used to...

No news from Heathrow

Yesterday was the first day of arriving Olympic athletes at Heathrow. The news channels had their reporters stationed on the Bath Road (with nice views...

Very clever, Air China

It is a fairly regular occurrence for an airline or hotel chain to make a minor error with its website and end up selling tickets...