Barclays Business Savings rates!

We've recently opened a Business Savings account with Barclays. Today we received a nice letter from them telling us about the fantastic feature they offer: a tiered savings rate that pays a larger percentage if we have more money in the account.

Sadly, it appears that we need to deposit £1million before our rate will rise from the current 0.05% to the impressive 0.15%!

The horrible effect of Big Business

Recently had this interesting post about how Royal Mail (now a big commercial enterprise, and no longer a public service) is treating its staff and customers:

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n18/maya01_.html

Sad to see a so-called "left wing" government presiding over the death of another public service that the UK used to be so proud of.