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About Gerald Ingolby

Formerly a consumer journalist on radio and television, in 2002 Gerald published a thriller novel featuring a campaigning editor who was wrongly accused and jailed for fraud. He now runs a website devoted to consumer news. More Posts

A thumbs-up for a musical idol

According to reports in the media overnight, fears are growing for the health of former Beatle Paul McCartney, 71, now hospitalised in Tokyo by some form of virus that has caused the cancellation of four gigs in the Far East in advance of a 19-date US tour planned to begin next month. Despite this, [...]

May 23, 2014 // 0 Comments

Who would have guessed it?

Yesterday my father and I lunched on the edge of the Goodwood estate in West Sussex in a party of four. Whilst I was driving him to the engagement he recounted a story that I had not heard previously. On the occasion in question, in the late 1960s, as a relatively youthful partner in his [...]

May 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

Betting shops

Interested by the story that betting shops face closure because of a new tax, I visited one in Marylebone High Street. The high street is a combination of stores like Waitrose,Tesco and Boots and smaller shops  like Fromagerie  for cheese and Ginger Pig for meat, as well as numerous restaurants. [...]

May 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

Boring but important

It’s tough to make any article on pensions interesting, but I’m going to try by relating a cautionary tale. A  friend of mine, who just reached 60, was minded to take his pension which was guaranteed by the provider at 10% of the fund. This seemed too good to be true and like most [...]

April 18, 2014 // 0 Comments

Public perceptions

Now that we have begun having full-on same-sex marriages, one would have thought that the whole issue of revulsion at the very concept of homosexuality in British society might have disappeared, if not been swept under the carpet or buried altogether. After all, that is presumably what all those [...]

April 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

Another scene from modern life

Yesterday I collected my father from the south coast and drove him to Oxford and back to attend a function, a round trip of just over 200 miles. On the journey, he told of the frustration of going to his local supermarket earlier this week and bumping into someone he had known for over forty years, [...]

March 27, 2014 // 0 Comments

All’s well that ends well – even if it was short

It all started at a raucous dinner party for eight in Camden town last December. In the middle of an animated and hilarious conversation comparing our youthful theatre and stage performances, exhilarating and embarrassing, I found myself accepting a dare from a West End producer. I had better [...]

March 17, 2014 // 0 Comments

Leave me alone!

As regards ‘junk’ contacts, physical mail has long been overtaken – in my view – by telephone calls. There is nothing in this world more calculated to raise my blood pressure and hackles than the experience of sitting down in my favourite armchair to watch a long-awaited ‘live’ [...]

March 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

Give me strength!

The newspapers today are full of the news that the BBC has received over 300 complaints about their commentators’ performance at the Women’s Slopestyle Final at the Sochi Olympic Games, during which Jenny Jones became Great Britain’s first-ever medallist on snow at a Winter Olympics. [...]

February 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

You won’t catch me doing that!

Yesterday I made a personal breakthrough of a kind. Being a television sports addict – and faced with a Saturday schedule including Liverpool v Arsenal at lunchtime, followed by two Six Nations matches fascinating in prospect – I had made a deliberate strategic decision to avoid all coverage of [...]

February 9, 2014 // 0 Comments

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