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In the UK, 'partner' is a spouse. You need to say 'business partner' if you want to avoid the confusion.

Misled is a political euphemism for lied. Politics is full of that sort of indirect language.

I think you need really high margins to do well with Groupon. Their first client was a pizza outlet, which is about as high a margin as you can get in food.

Sounds like one of those game theory side effects. If you pay and measure people by targets then expect them to use dubious techniques to win the game.

I assumed from the title that it would be something other than a boilerplate, or at least a follow up, but it's just a commentary on said boilerplate.

Also, if newer generations are more independently minded, i.e. less influenced by patriotism and the like, then I guess they are likely to support a David over a Goliath. Pressurin…

It would be good to at least indicate when an editor has rewritten a submission, so that responsibility for the headline can be pointed to the correct user. Like a '/ editorsuserna…

I would like to see the insurance industry reduced in size, rather than be further bolstered by legislation.

It's similar for Scotland's rural routes. Some councils don't have the funding to maintaining their roads properly, so they focus on the important roads. It can be quite jarring cr…

I rarely fly. I have used British Airways, Cathay Pacific and Easy Jet.

It's not so much stealing the customer as it is rescuing the order. It may not be the most ethical of techniques but they are claiming a bounty for converting abandoned carts. Like…

I think one advantage of air travel is it's distracting. Busy flight attendants, announcements from pilots, plane moving to the runway, taking off... so there's less reason to conc…

You can get up and walk around on a plane.

The way things are going, I wouldn't be surprised if they bundled it in as a secret requirement for international trade deals.

It depends on the type and quality. If you purchase a can, then I would hope that it is mostly animal based ingredients. If it is dry food then it will be mostly cereals.

Yep. Whenever you work in an industry that involves churning out software as quickly as possible, it's easy to appreciate that commercial pressures are often too great to test prop…

I don't know what pet food was like in the past, but today it seems to be dominated by flavoured products made of cereals, rather than meat or offal.

Historians pull their information from sources of all kinds. For example, a piece of propaganda from WW2 (which is likely to be almost completely untrue) could be an invaluable ins…

He's an artist who uses archive footage to tell a story. The story is often so simple that it isn't strictly true, but it's still worth a watch. I think his films will be treasured…

There's also the 'engineer' baggage, in that engineers probably don't think software engineering is engineering.

In ad sales lingo, 'brand' is pay per view or sponsorship advertising. These people will be looking after the big clients, think music labels, movie studios, TV networks...

'Exorbitant' is a bit too loaded, whereas 'ambitious' is too forgiving. I would say 'unrealistic', given Indiegogo's previous records.

Even if most users had subscriptions, it shouldn't be linked to. The other day I was thinking the same thing about The Sun. It got a high placement on Google's search results, yet …