Anyone reading this blog knows that comments are disabled. We disabled them from the outset to save having to check for spam comments. True, WordPress makes it easy to hold all comments in a queue until approved. But commenters like their comments approved quickly, and we can’t always be quick to moderate comments. We can’t…

Ofcom (the Office of Communications) is a statutory public corporation owned by the public and accountable to Parliament. It was established by the Office of Communications Act 2002 and granted its powers under the Communications Act 2003. It is funded by fees from the industries it regulates and by Government grants. As far as Royal Mail…

On April 7, 2025, the price of a First Class stamp for a standard letter in the UK will increase to £1.70. And we might wonder how that stacks up against the cost of mail in previous decades. Here’s a chronological list of First Class stamp prices since the year 2000: Chronology Of Prices Of…