“ransomware is an extortion racket, and the people behind it are as caring as the kray twins”

Are you tired of next month’s Budget yet? Governments fly so many kites these days it feels as though we have been through the whole thing twice in slow motion already. No wonder: last year the chance

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If there’s one aspect of IT management that ticks me off, it’s the weird world of subscriptions. I’m frequently amazed by what businesses will tolerate when it comes to restrictive contracts, and by t

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Controversy of the week Farage’s economic pitch When ...

The past may be a foreign country, but it often feels very familiar. The first edition of MoneyWeek appeared 25 years ago this week, on 4 November 2000, just as a huge stockmarket boom based on a pote