Blog & Articles of Interest

Vicious cycle.

Recent ONS data and their report highlighted the links between parents’ and children’s mental health problems, making each other’s situation worse and, for the children,

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Listen Up!

This week I’m doing an in-person talk for the Portsmouth Association  of Wrens on Tuesday evening.  It will be good to be amongst so many

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Making Tax Digital exemptions

Making Tax Digital is nearly upon us. www.gov.uk/government/collections/making-tax-digital-for-income-tax But there are some exemptions: 1. Automatic exemptions – based on information already held by HMRC There

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DWP’s crystal ball.

Some people may be sceptical due to the Department’s distinctly patchy record of getting things right, but they are apparently going to be able to

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Choux experiment.

It took four of us: Karen the high priestess of the kitchen, Kathy the super-gardener, Will who’s another blind veteran and muggins here, to make

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Just three things …

Firstly, here’s the link to my Radio Victory interview last week: https://radiovictory.co.uk/shows/catchup Look for Sunday’s ‘Between the Lines’ (15th March ’26)  I start at about

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