AWS profits

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Make work pay by changing the benefits system from income for nothing to income for something, including pensions. There's plenty of work just a lack of willingness to organise for it and do it. Some sort of national service is required even if its education based and local government has to expand...

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Yes, however we have leaders who don't have the ability or foresight to do this. Instead they're increasing the population and driving down productivity through misplaced and inappropriate policies.

Impoverishment is coming to the UK as with most Western societies and our response is to...

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No. I think last year was the last we'll be sending Christmas cards which is the only stamped messaging we do....

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Hmmm, my neighbour gave us some along with a pepper sauce made from them. We learned to use a tiny amount as the full on version is scorchio. I put a couple of fresh ones chopped up in a crab linguine, big mistake, we were sweating cobs and removing clothes to cool down before the meal was finished,...

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Yes, when's the great dictator getting done for insider trading?...

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My cosec is a qualified barrister and strangely I've never been called for jury service, no insurance necessary ...

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That's why I said that. If we spent less on getting outside shonky doing the business we could invest more on inside shonky and perhaps get more for our money and systems that fit the requirement.

A long time ago in the 1950's the government built its own data centres and trained its own...

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HMRC hands £473M Fujitsu migration deal to AWS

There was a time when we invested in our own infrastructure and I can't believe we've lost the skills to still do so although the government is intent on deskilling the UK. Half a billion is a lot of money for some disk space and a few servers...

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I might be out of date but I thought you have to keep original records for 6 years as the revenue could ask for the evidence going back that far and further for fraud investigations. In any case keeping original documents in a box file is little effort and can be a life saver if you lose the digital...