Charging for plastic bags may seem to be adding one more item to the green shopping list, but with useless spending going far out of fashion, the opposite might be true.

In 1997 after the arrival of the Blair babes a joke circulated widely in political circles. “What is the difference between a Blair babe and a shopping trolley?” went the popular jest. “A shopping trolley has a mind of its own” came the reply. It was unfair then, for many of the men newly elected for Labour

It’s all over. You do have to feel for them a little bit… ITEM: You have a prime minister who everyone says is dour and humourless. People feel free to impune his mental state and say he’s out of touch. ITEM: Number 10 attempt a light-hearted and humorous video involving a popular television figure. People feel free

From The Telegraph. Carol-singing Brownies and Guides have been banned from a shopping centre because they are considered a health and safety risk. The girls, who range from children aged five to teenagers, have sung for pensioners and disabled people at a late night Christmas shopping event at the Marlowes centre in Hemel Hempstead, Herts for more than 20 years. And in all that time how many peop...

Under the traditional means of Counting "shopping days to Christmas" Sundays are excluded, which means there are 99 shopping days left. Of course if you add the Sundays back in again you get almost another two weeks of pre-christmas shopping. Just shows how figures can be manipulated for almost any purpose doesn't it.

A new report on "Barriers to E-commerce", presented today by European Commission Consumer Commissioner Meglena Kuneva shows that online shopping is increasingly popular in the EU, but warns that barriers to cross border trade are holding back its development.

A news item in today's Times provides a textbook example of the reasons why this Government has failed us so badly. A year ago Health Secretary Alan Johnson announced £286m extra health spending for palliative care (to honour a manifesto...

A Tim but not this Tim writes: A report last week was covered across the press about the environmental benefits of Internet Shopping and working from home:- Working from home and shopping online could create more carbon emissions than travelling to the office or a store, a study has found. Consumers who buy online must order

From the Hemel Hempstead Gazette: Carol singing brownies have been banned from a Hemel Hempstead shopping centre because they are considered a health and safety risk. Little girls from the West Herts guides have sung for pensioners at a special late night Christmas shopping event in Marlowes for more than a decade. But the centre's managers decided they would not be invited to this year'...

The public can get MPs to discuss an item if they can collect 100,000 electronic names on a petition on a Downing Street website, with two subjects so far hitting the trigger.