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There are other projects which need managers, separate from development. E.g. if a company has a bunch of Windows 2016 servers which are approaching EOL (Jan 2027) so they need to migrate to a newer OS....
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The main issue you've got is that Crunch use a proprietary system. If you were using FreeAgent with accountant X, it's pretty straightforward to continue using it with accountant Y, and you can look for comments/reviews about which accountant is best. However, in this case you'll need to move to a new...
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Is it practical to have monetised YouTube videos? I.e. they'd appear as free to the viewer, but you'd still get paid. (Maybe only pennies though.)...
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Read it again.
"Around 55% of social security expenditure goes to pensioners; in 2025-26 we will spend £177.7 billion on benefits for pensioners in GB. This includes spending on the State Pension which is forecast to be £146.1 billion in 2025 to 2026."
If £177.7...
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You said "now", which is technically correct, but it's not a recent change. It's also worth noting that this specifically applies to income tax (as opposed to all tax income that HMRC receives, e.g. corporation tax and dividend tax).
Full Fact did an article about that recently:...
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Just to be clear, I'm being completely sincere in this post. I'm not being sarcastic in the slightest.
When I read your previous post, it genuinely didn't occur to me that you were referring to Rachel Reeves. I think it's fair for you to say that she had an influence on the economy (as...
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If you're referring to Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer, both of their surnames start with an S, not an R....
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I see it quite often, although maybe not for Azure. E.g. here's one from JobServe:
Network Engineer | Cisco | Arista | Python | Network Automation | Hybrid | UK - London - July-14-2026 (gfJQx)
I found that by searching for "Cisco", and the blurb includes this section:...
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In terms of recycling, your council should have household recycling centres. These take extra items that can't be collected at the kerb, including electrical items. So, if these computers belong to you personally then that's the simplest option.
If these computers belong to your company...
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