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Making Tax Digital for VAT is coming – are you ready?
Businesses are reminded to take steps to prepare for Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Value Added Tax (VAT) before it becomes mandatory for all VAT-registered businesses from 1 April this year. MTD is designed to help businesses eliminate common errors and save time managing their tax affairs. MTD for VATContinue Reading
Is the party over for Boris Johnson? This polling detail suggests it could be
Alamy/Reuters The Labour prime minister Harold Wilson coined the phrase “a week is a long time in politics”, something that has certainly been confirmed by recent events. Up until very recently, it looked like Boris Johnson was unlikely to be ousted from Number 10 any time soon, largely because theContinue Reading
How Russian is Ukraine? (Clue: not as much as Vladimir Putin insists)
A political pamphlet published in 1762 described a conversation between “Great Russia” and “Little Russia”. In the exchange, the latter refused to be simply reduced to part of Great Russia and put forward its own unique history and identity. At the time, the name “Ukraine” did not yet designate aContinue Reading
Labor Department vows to protect workers from Covid after Supreme Court blocks business vaccine mandate
US Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh speaks about Labor Unions during an event in the East Room of the White House September 8, 2021, in Washington, DC. Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images The Labor Department has vowed to use its authority to protect workers from Covid, after theContinue Reading
Why Prince Andrew is losing his military titles, but staying a prince
Following rapid developments in the sexual abuse lawsuit against Prince Andrew, Buckingham Palace issued a statement announcing that Andrew will lose all his remaining patronages and military titles (such as Colonel of the Grenadier Guards). Additionally, he will no longer use his HRH (“His Royal Highness”) style. This is anContinue Reading
Tackling ageing may be best way to prevent multiple chronic conditions from developing in older people
Targeting the biological causes of ageing could be one method for better treating multimorbidity. oneinchpunch/ Shutterstock Over half of UK adults over the age of 65 live with two or more long-term health conditions – commonly known as multimorbidity. People living with multimorbidity not only have a shorter life expectancy,Continue Reading
Rogue planets: how wandering bodies in interstellar space ended up on their own
The locations of 115 candidate free floating planets in the region between Upper Scorpius and Ophiuchus European Southern Observatory, CC BY-SA We now know of almost 5,000 planets outside the Solar System. If you were to picture what it would be like on one of these distant worlds, or exoplanets,Continue Reading
The Matrix: how conspiracy theorists hijacked the ‘red pill’ philosophy
The Matrix is among the most influential science fiction films of all time. Nearly 20 years since the third film in the series premiered, a fourth chapter, The Matrix Resurrections, was released in December to great excitement. But one of The Matrix’s most enduring cultural contributions has been to conspiracyContinue Reading
Emma Raducanu hits back at England rugby coach Eddie Jones and social media trolls in defiant Nike advert
EMMA RADUCANU has hit back at England rugby head coach Eddie Jones and social media trolls in a new Nike advert. The Kent teenager became a worldwide sensation when she won the 2021 US Open title last September on her debut and in flawless fashion – without dropping a setContinue Reading
Local emergency medical charity given a life-saving start to the New Year
Two volunteer doctors secured by Bravo Medics to deliver life-saving treatment and support an overstretched NHS Bravo Medics today announced it has recruited two new volunteer critical care doctors to assist their two current responders. This milestone is a major move for Bravo Medics who only launched in 2020 butContinue Reading