Find out what Julie Meyer said about series 8 of the Dragons' Den for the BBC here.

TO a fascinating lunch on Friday at Lombard Odier with Paul Marson, its chief investment officer. He believes that sovereign debt levels will force European welfare states to downsize. Is this a good thing? Martin Varsawsky, founder of FON, one of Europe’s largest Wifi communities, and a serial entrepreneur, is proud of the fact that Europe has “the world’s richest poor people”.

I am also interested in social justice, but I am always amazed at what the human spirit can achieve when you remove the soft bigotry of low expectations. Instead of assuming that we need a massive social welfare net, why not engineer a society where most people exceed expectations of what they can or should achieve.

There are myriad ways that viruses, trojans and other types of malicious code can get into your business and it pays to be up on all of them.

Did You Know:
• Forty percent of companies allow access to social networking technology but only 23
percent have specific security policies
• Seventy percent of the top 100 web sites have hosted malicious code or linked to
malicious sites
• War driving is the practice of hunting and exploiting unsecured wireless networks