More than a nation of dog lovers, the British love their cars. Third largest car in the EU, 2.4m new cars registered in 2007 and 850,000 employed by the industry. But more even than cars, I’d say we love a bargain.And what a bargain online car dealer, Broadspeed.com, was offering this week: £20 grand worth

I am indebted - we are all indebted - to Dizzy for alerting us to the ultimate in feelgood merchandising; the "official Obama pleasure toy", Head O State (tagline: "You love your President... Let him love you back!").

What masquerades in this country as intelligent debate is a joke. I am not a fan of the NHS, but I am a fan of universal healthcare. I wouldn't wish the American system on Britain and likewise, I wouldn't wish the British system on America. I don't love the NHS, as I find it impossible to love a healthcare system. I love my family, not an institution. I am not a right-wing ideologue...

Thinking of Bill Bailey, as per the previous post, and as an antidote to all those ghastly over-emotional so-called "love songs" that are ten-a-penny and otherwise completely unoriginal (it has all been done a thousand times before), here is Mr Bailey's ultimate answer to the genre, after a few short examples of other styles. This involves the three Ds: a Duck, a Dog and a Deer…Quite frankly, if

When Dr Who returned to the BBC I really didn't expect to become such an avid fan, but thanks to David Tennant I am not just a fan, I love it!  So I was very sad, but not surprised, to learn this morning that he is retiring from the role and will hand over to someone else for the 2010 series. I suppose it's too much to hope that Catherine Tate might take over, but whoever does has a...

I'm no fan of Dizzee Rascal's music, but I love his business model. Hard work, treating fans decently and building up a fan base. Dizzee Rascal's manager on filesharing. Even more interesting is he's not had any major label involvement, this is all his own work.

There’s nothing like a mysterious or semi-forgotten musician, to bring out the romantic jazz fan in me. Buddy Bolden,  Emmett Hardy, Boyce Brown, and -the ultimate jazz Jack o’ Lantern - the enigmatic and outrageous  trumpeter Jack Purvis , all fulfill the required fascination quota for an old-time jazz fan. Cladys “Jabbo” Smith very nearly fal...

Duncan asks whether there is going to be a long-term, structural fall in the number of cars in the UK. Annual sales of cars have fallen to 1.72m, less than is needed to replace 1/14 of the existing stock every year. This could be due to cars being better-built and able to last longer. It could also be, though, that financial and environmental considerations are making people less keen to buy cars ...

There's love that declares itself quietly, love that speaks poetically, love that is longing, yearning, desperate, heartbroken. But this, here, is love soaring, triumphant, shouted to the rooftops; it's love that won't be denied. Does she love you? You better...

Today let's think about subsidies and tariffs, specifically on cars. In round figures there are twenty million cars on the road in the UK that are on average ten years old, so we were buying two million cars a year. As it happens, we also produce nearly two million cars a year - the UK is only a modest net importer of cars. In a recession, people cut back on major purchases like this first - ...