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Mel Stride was on this AM in an opening salvo to reduce the disablity benefits bill. Personal Independence Payment is a little odd. I get some of it, so I know it's a bit unsaisfactory in at least some ways. Simplified: It's not means tested at all. There are 2 sections, "daily living", and...

Reminder. This is my knowledge/opinion, not "financial advice". It may not be 100% correct or best for you, but find out or maybe lose out. Interest and dividends and capital gains made in ISAs is tax free. Hold as much as you like in an ISA, but you can only add £20k a year, which goes to/from...

Lunchtime news - car insurance is much more expensive in one area of the W Midlands (Sandwell iirc) than one quite near. The higher-rated district has an appreciably higher immigrant population. Therefore that must be the reason and that's damned racist and....

I heard Paul Lewis on R4 Moneybox complaining that too many people don't know if their pension provider is charging them too much in the annual charge, to hold their pension. I got a little bit cross. Sure, as he said, if they're charging you 1% where you could get someone else charging you...

If you dropped a One dollar Bitcoin down there, 13 years ago this week, it's now worth $50,000.

An app I use makes a noise like that, which is too intrusive. It's loud, & goes on echoing after you've clicked to stop it. I can't find in the Windows 10 PC which noise it is. I've looked at the list of named alert noises, and played all the wav files I can find. ANy deas how I can find it?

I'm using a stock screening app and its windows don't always self- refresh as they should. Firefox and chrome both do it, but "it's only you, sir" is all I get from the people.. I don't believe it. You can show 16 windows at once, as a matrix of subwindows. You click Expand on one, and the one...

Anyone doing it? I'm doing a bit of day/swing trading on a free platform. I've had good times and boring ones! Anyone using Trading212/cfd, eToro?

I have that card, and want to use 2 or 3 4k displays. Though the third could be lower. Please Pick me a display or 2? I currently use 2 displays, but both are old. (smaller is lower res) The card has 3 different outputs: I don't know what I can do with those I don't do games; it's for...

Particularly If you work for any of the above, be aware your National Insurance Number is not secret. A long time ago, I used part of mine as a password. Make sure you don't. The Russian/Ukranian group Clop has apparently hacked in to the payroll suppliers software, through a security hole in...

Next to nothing wrong as far as I've seen reported. He put a couple of contacts in touch with each other. That seems to be about it. Nothing unusual happened in his appointment. The Cabinet or a couple from it, always makes the appointment, in effect. He was eminently suited to the job. Has...

I didn't quite believe this until I looked into it for a guy who's 81 and struggling a bit with car costs as he needs to buy a compliant one, etc. I mentioned it before but it's worth setting out. You & your partner could lose £300,000 or so + inflation, if you delay, really. It's not...

In the wine cellar, under the pool in the north wing of the palace, the wifi signal isn't so good but the phone doesn't have a problem. So I can use the phone as a hotspot to connect to the house signal. Just wifi, no bluetooth. So that's laptop==>wifi==> phone ==>wifi==> house router. I can't...

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/andy-burnham-slapped-hefty-fine-26556762 Two grand?? A victim surcharge of £541. He didn't hit anyone.. That was for 78mph on a motorway with a 40 limit 6pts. Seems heavy in the circumstances. Those motorway cameras are...

Capital Gains allowance is about to be slashed - if that matters to you. More worth reminding is that you can, even if you don't earn anything, put some money into a new (or old) SIPP and gain dosh from HMG. Up to age 75. So you can put in £2880, and HMG makes it £3600. (+ £720) I think you...

If you haven't had a go, try ChatGPT , https://chat.openai.com/chat You have to register with email and phone, but it makes for a fun answerbot. It's good where you don't quite know what to look for, etc. It's not very up to date (couple of years I think) and it doesn't know everything. I...

THIS site has done it too. I use Firefox mostly, but have seen it on Chrome. WIn 10. Have reloaded the browser, restarted the pc, cleared cache and cookies. Adblock disabled, protection disabled. Other extensions are like Translate - nothing sexy. & run malwarebytes and SuperantiSpyware. It may...

I get exactly the same screen on Chrome and Firefox. I can't Continue or Save and Continue. But not Bing, this is Bing I'm using and it's working. Only on one computer, on which I've cleared all cache and cookies. It's OK on another computer, any browser So it's This website, AND this...

Almost: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/987286?ecd=WNL_mdpls_230307_mscpedit_infd&uac=422664SV&spon=3&impID=5223098

What ARE those UFO's recently shot down? Extra-terrestrials "not ruled out".