Most people who are reading this post will be paying tax and
national insurance or would have done, in the past. Most of us pay our tax willingly enough.
However, for high earners or those with businesses subject to corporation tax
on top of income tax, it sometimes feels like a perpetual dishing out of money
to the HMRC.
Personally, I don’t pay huge amounts of tax because I don’t
really work hard enough these days. However, as a ...
Through my business, I have been hearing various tales of
pandemic fraud. These have generally come from sources close to contractors or
businesses taking advantage of self-employed grants and government backed
loans.
Some of these tales have a whiff of bar stool bullshit about
them, whilst others get me feeling agitated. A pandemic, you might hope, would
be a collective effort, not a moment of opportunism where hastily put together
rescue ...
I was speaking to a chap who carries out work for my company, the other day. We got onto the subject of racism and the recent abuse of England’s black footballers.
I have known him a long time, so he admitted to me that
until he started running projects in London, he had always carried inherent
racist attitudes. It was when he started working in London that he realised to
himself that he had a head full of stereotypes. These had been ...
As I looked around the dejected faces of the cricket club on Sunday night, I felt sad for the young people feeling what I did 31 years ago after a dramatic night in Turin. The sick part of me also felt glad that these people should be subjected to the misery I once endured. But mostly, I felt empathy.
I felt miserable too, but like many of my age group, I am
battle hardened, so it didn’t last more than an hour. I have witnessed no fewer
...
I was speaking to a chap I know the other day and I mentioned our cricket club had been showing football on the TV if he wished to watch the final there.
He told me that he would like to, but because he had watched previous games in the same the pub, he didn’t want to put a curse on the team by changing now. How bonkers is that?
Can you imagine the scenario? Gareth Southgate is on the training ground. He is going through various systems ...
