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I'm pretty sure he would have explained what the law was in 2013, not what the law was in 2024. This is the latest version of the law, which has been mentioned several times by vets in letters to the Daily Telegraph. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-cascade-prescribing-unauthorised-medicines...

No. Certain products such as antihistamines are suitable for both human and animals. It used to be possible for a vet to prescribe the human version which is chemically identical but vastly cheaper. Now it isn't. The law has changed in the EU and in the UK to mean that not only can a vet not...

That article was false. (I know this post was a good while ago, but I hate bogus statistics.) The Lib Dem vote went up by 0.6%, the Reform vote went up by 12% (compared with Brexit Party last time). If three quarters of the LibDem vote went elsewhere and if the Lib Dems made no gains from...

I don't see how the Tories can move further to the left. They are already in favour of higher taxes than any Labour government has ever dared (though that record won't last long) and higher immigration than any Labour government has ever dared (that record may stand for a while, though probably...

North Sea oil is currently taxed @ 75%. The government is getting far more than the shareholders. If the government has failed to set up a sovereign wealth fund with the proceeds, that's not the shareholders' fault.

I'm not really sure how the frequency AND ferocity can both increase. The ferocity will surely only increase if there is more material to burn, but more frequent fires would mean there is less material to burn because it hasn't had time to grow. At least part of the problem is that as we get...

I would expect them to charge IHT on the surplus in pension pots, incidentally. Frankly, I don't see why (if we must have IHT) pension pots shouldn't be included.

I apologise for confusing you. The suggestion (near certainty IMO) is that houses will be taxed at 40% or more from the next finance act, and that charge will cause many inheritors to be forced to sell and rejoin the housing market at the lower end, thus cluttering up the scramble for property...

Stoneman is specifically latching on to Farage's alleged comment about the UK to make his sneer about Scotland and the rest not being England. The article does not say that Farage mentioned the UK. He is quoted as talking about "the country", which by the context presumably means England.

Probably not.

Which is why I said "(or they can't afford to keep the house they've been left)" in line 3.

I realise that truth isn't consdiered important by Farage's opponents, but even so it might be pointed out that Farage didn't say that some parts of the UK are not recognisable as England, and nor does the article claim that he did. Andrew Stoneman and others have read a sensationalist Daily...

Surely the problem with ensuring that children' can't inherit parents' homes is (1) the multi-millionaire rich will still avoid it with family trusts and so forth, so it will be primarily aimed at the middle class, and (2) - and this is the biggie IMO - that there are already many millions of...

She would have done the right thing by telling him she wouldn't play so he could get another partner. Having agreed to play, she shouldn't have backed out when it was too late.

Not to decry the choice of Becker, but the reasoning is flawed. Becker in 1985 didn't play any of those players mentioned, in fact he didn't play anyone who ever won a grand slam singles. Kevin Curren was the best he played, and Curren reached just one other final in his career. Becker was...

From memory of a history of the Globetrotters, the matches were played competitively and their regular opponents were allowed to win if they could, but part of the show was that the Globetrotters had about 10 "set piece" routines that had to be allowed to score. So the other lot were heavily...

Yes, but if you're self employed and drive a Lamborghini half for work reasons and half for private reasons, you get half the running costs allowed against tax. (You get half your chauffeur's wage, too, if you have one.) An employee gets 45p per mile. Anyone willing to claim they are...

Employees can claim expenses which are wholly, exclusively, and necessarily for the purposes of their employment. Self-employed people and companies can claim expenses which are wholly and exclusively for the purposes of their work. "Necessarily" is the difference. It means a self-employed...

Or move to a lower tax regime, if only for a year, and take out all the money as a dividend there.

Nope. I should have said it would be easy to assess Lineker's worth, because those calculations of viewing figures would be easy to make for those who have access to the numbers.