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Heads Of State - All Lawyers?

Just thinking out loud, and briefly. Heads of State who were lawyers. Most Presidents of the USA?, Castro, Ghandi, Thatcher, Blair etc. Is there any other profession that contributes so many people to...

hiflier

The Midwich Cuckoos

The film of this book ended with the schoolteacher setting off a suicide bomb which blew up the 'cuckoos'. But I recall a story in which the cuckoos set up a sort of parallel universe which was a...

johntywino

OPENING BONNET

My Son in Law's gone to Thailand for a few weeks. I want to charge his car battery. How do I open the bonnet of a VW GTI 02 model? Sitting in the car is a lever just below the right knee,which I...

berniecuddles

1st smartphone??

i'm thinking about getting my 1st smartphone but i can only afford at the moment £10 a month pay monthly any ideas please don't know where to start and what phone is half decent! thx for any...

mcaffep

Earphones

I wonder if anyone can help with this question. I seem to go through sets of in ear earphones very quickly. Each set will work fine for a while then the sound will go in the right one followed some...

Creatorexists

When you sit away from the computer, with the t.v and radio off in a quiet and serene place, what exactly do you really truly believe happens when you die?

Do you think that like sleep you just slip into a peaceful darkness? Do you believe that somehow and somewhere we are resurrected in a new shape and form? Do you believe that as the books have said we...

divegirl

Rights of the self employed

Hi. I registered as self employed earlier this year (worse move ever, but that's a different story). Since I started my job my employer has, in the last few days implemented a new 'points and fines'...

flump1

What ever next ?

I don't think teachers will be very pleased at becoming unpaid tax collectors will they ? Who will be next to spy ?

Khandro

'Atheist Alliance.'

The Anglican and Roman Catholic churches have been getting a rather bad press of late, at best confused, and at worst corrupt. Meanwhile atheism pursues its bloodless purity. The most determined...

hiflier

Self-employed or limited company

My wife is working freelance as a nurse advisor available to the NHS and privately. She has been advised to set herself up as a limited company, by an agency that finds her such work. Is there any...

mawby5

Income Tax

Instead of people paying more income tax as they earn more money why not charge everybody £3,000 regardless of their income. Everybody uses the services so everybody should pay the same amount....

smurfchops

Inheritance Tax

Can I get any info about leaving a house to a person's child seven years before they die (!) so the child doesn't pay inheritance tax?

beccifloss

Legal Private Hire Driving Hours?

My boyfriend is a private hire driver. He is being forces to work stupidly long hours without breaks, For example this weekend hes been forced to work from 05.30 untill 01.00 on the saturday and then...

xud

Learning French

After a recent trip to Paris to visit family I returned pretty frustrated at not being able to speak French very well. I am well aware that the best way to learn is to go and live there but...

squidgelet10

Paper Folding Question.

Greetings each. Can any genius please tell me exactly why it is impossible to fold even the thinnest sheet of paper in half, in half, in half more than eight times? Be good! Cheers....

AB Editor

Favourite opening lines of a novel?

I can't think of mine. Maybe "This is not for you" printed on a blank page at the beginning of Mark Z Danielewski's "House of Leaves"? Or maybe any of McCarthy's run-on lines, like...

Tom Braider

Cats and carpet

We've recently laid a new carpet and our two cats are exercising their claws on it - just in one spot, so far. What's a good way to stop them? They desist when we shout but even a few seconds of...

robbieswife

Has anyone been to DisneyLand Paris?

Thinking of going in August but think that flying may be the best option but how would i get from the Airport in Paris to Disneyland ?

Hamfan

Help needed asap regarding tax repayments from H&M Revenue and Customs

Hello. I have recently received a cheque from h&m r&c and read it and realised that i had received cheques previously which I had thought were junk mail but hadn't thrown out. I've just fished...

pdq1

Have we used up the revenues of north sea oil on Afghanistan?

It was quoted in the paper that come 2014 we would have spent £20bn in Afghanistan. How do the figures compare and was it money well spent?

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