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Good morning. Researchers have discovered that 54% of new parents choose a name for their little cherub which they come to regret (Robin Banks, Terry Bull). A surprisingly modest 22% had their first preference vetoed by their partner, although only last week Mrs Papademos refused to allow their baby daughter to be called Angela.

With Christmas now just a distant memory, what do we have to look forward to in the coming months until the Easter rabbit calls? But if you've already had too much of crème eggs and chocolate bunnies, how about looking forward to making use of your unused tax allowances.

The dream of Sir Tim Berners-Lee is to have a World Wide Web that is“free and open” and which extends its “benefits to all people on the planet”. It is a dream which means everyone benefits from being connected, learning from each other and sharing in that new-found knowledge. A natural extension of such a dream is that we all live in closer harmony as we understand more about each other. Indeed, that is often touted as one of the benefits of social networks and the wider web.

This week numerous media outlets gave plenty of coverage to the pension crisis. Many of the figures quoted were taken from various research papers published in the last week. Although not surprising to us, the numbers will have shocked many.