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Coffee Shots: George Osborne discovers Wikipedia

On this balmy summer’s evening, George Osborne has popped over to east London to get down with some of the tech kids at the Campus Party in The O2. Judging from the above picture, the chancellor is quite impressed at what Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, had to show him:
Just don’t expect tax rates anyone can edit.

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