Andrew Orlowski

3 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Andrew Orlowski

Consumers still have layers of legal protection from capricious decisions - and even if you're in desperate financial trouble, disconnections are very rare: you're far more likely to be switched to a prepayment or credit scheme than be cut off. Ofgem rules state that a supplier must make at least ten visits before installing a prepay meter, and asses the vulnerability of the user, particularly if they are elderly or have young children.

4 days ago | yahoo.com | Andrew Orlowski

The world is returning to nuclear energy, and of course America has to be the first, the biggest and the best. “Swift and decisive action is required to jump start America’s nuclear energy industrial base,” President Trump wrote last week, to “ensure our national and economic security”. Trump is turbocharging what Biden tentatively began in his Advance Act by simplifying licencing and speeding up the building process for nuclear infrastructure.

4 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Andrew Orlowski

"We were told that we won't put all our eggs in one basket," says one industry insider. "Very few nations have chosen just one". Bureaucrats delayed the competition using the election as an excuse, and then once again. Astonishingly the only design capable of putting spades in the ground, NuScale, was rejected last year, as I reported at the time. NuScale had been Rolls-Royce's original partner before they divorced, had a head start, and would not be asking the taxpayer for subsidies.

1 week ago | spiked-online.com | Andrew Orlowski

‘Buy now, pay later’ lending is a crisis waiting to happen. Share Topics Politics Science & Tech UK USA Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Could stoners craving their midnight munchies – say, a pizza or a burrito – be behind the next global financial meltdown?

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Andrew Orlowski

But this may be beyond the talent of any designer, even one as accomplished as Ive. The Chingford-born knight did his best work long ago; once he was put in charge of all design at Apple, after Steve Jobs's death, the trouble began. For example, his determination to make laptops even thinner was costly - avoid if you can any Apple laptop made between 2015 and 2019. It began an era of costly repair programmes and class action lawsuits. "Got my $395 [class action payout] today.