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Hi all
I've just joined this forum as I really need some help and advice. Back in 2016/17 I was given (very bad) advice and joined an umbrella company who a few of my colleagues were also with and the company advised everything was above board and it was just another way to get paid.
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Fair warning, whatever your views it looks like you may have to start renaming your master branches in Git.
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/EasilyRenameYourGitDefaultBranchFromMasterToMain.aspx
“ Mr Hodges says the figures show a broad increase for all taxpayers will be needed to raise significant funds. He speculates the chancellor could add 1 per cent for basic rate payers, scaling this up to 3 and 5 per cent for higher and additional rate payers (creating new rates of 21, 43 and 50...
UK furlough scheme extended until end of October | Sharecast.com
If you include the public sector, the State is now paying the wages of well over half the working population.
No wonder they're keen to relax the lockdown.
Just taking a step back and looking at the basics of where we're going with the lockdown, what we're trying to do, what we want, etc.
Boris has confused the nation on Sunday and is still struggling to explain it all, and what it all means.
However, 'Getting the R down' to control the virus and...
Should be interesting: UK-U.S. trade talks to start on Tuesday - Reuters
The follow-up Brexit talks are going crap so prepare to suck up to the swamp in DC
UK unemployment to double and economy to shrink by 25%, warns Bank of England | Business | The Guardian
The Remoaner gloomsters in the BoE just won't give up trying to talk the country into a depression.
Brexit has been got done and now the country can enjoy the economic sunlit uplands!
According to this, which suggests 47,000 dead. It takes into account non-Covid deaths that are caused by Covid (e.g. cancer pats who are not treated or stroke patients who are afraid to go to hospital and die). The data suggests these non-Covid excess deaths are quite a substantial proportion of...
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/nigel-farage-flouts-coronavirus-rules-to-film-migrant-rant-1-6630177
I just bet he has the recipe for the vaccine too along with all the answers on how to fix the problems, just waiting for his best mate to call...
Exclusive: inquests into NHS staff coronavirus deaths told not to look at PPE shortages | Society | The Guardian
That's the spirit! Nothing a round of applause once a week won't fix.
Germany buys extra flu jabs to avoid double hit to healthcare | The Star Online
Why? To stop their health system being overwhelmed in a 2nd wave of Covid if it coincides with the flu season.
The idea being that by vaccinating as many people as possible they reduce the flu burden.
So that means...