(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) During the recent hurricane Irma, a number of Tesla owners stuck in the traffic fleeing the path of the sto...

Abu Nidal (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) It is notable that the UK, in slavishly following the 'security advice' of close ally th...

(Photo credit: 401(K) 2013 ) A report in today's Gulf News quotes Omar Bu Shahab, CEO of the Commercial Compliance and Consumer P...

Image via Wikipedia It's yet another very odd story coming out of Dubai Courts and I'm not sure whether that's because Dubai Co...

Queues during the last 'fuel crisis' here in  2008, when ADNOC was selling fuel for  Dhs10 a gallon less than Dubai's filling st...

Image by touring_fishman via Flickr Quite properly, the UAE insists that products sold to consumers here are labelled in Arabic - the natio...

Image via Wikipedia The rise in petrol prices that came into force at midnight last night means that my Pajero now costs Dhs100 to fill up. ...

Image by bbcworldservice via Flickr We pay 85% more than Turkey, 85.5% more than Ireland and 83.1% more than Sweden for our broadband. Thi...

Image via Wikipedia In reporting the recent 'incident' at Dubai's Burj Khalifa today, Gulf News appears to have gone as far as i...

Image by Felipe Bachomo via Flickr I’ve talked quite a bit on the radio over the past few weeks about Internet libel. It’s an interesting a...

You’ve issued me with a new Visa card. Can I ask why? The old one doesn’t expire for two years. You asked for it. I didn’t. It’s the new bla...

Well, General Motors certainly don't think much about the treatment they've been getting at the hands of bloggers. According to a re...

VLPW Very Long Post Warning I’m sure there have been gigabytes written on this topic, but I somehow feel the need to add to the weighty wodg...

WHAT'S IN A PRINGLE? If you’ve been watching the Great Pringles Are Not Crisps controversy, you’d be forgiven for wondering what...

I have always been something of a fan of Arab News' Molouk Ba-Isa. Unremittingly grumpy, difficult and highly opinionated, her weekly te...

I was thinking about refusing to babble on about Salik, the Dubai congestion charge, any more simply because everyone's talking about it...

One of a number of interesting changes to take place hereabouts is the new Consumer Protection Law. A major move for the UAE, which has alwa...