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Giffgaff used to be a popular option for payg to receive OTPs especially for UK financial institutions. They will post sims out to anywhere and it appears you can activate it online. You may well be right for the others.

This seems clearer regarding property income - https://www.aegon.co.uk/adviser/knowledge-centre/technical-zone/what-are-relevant-uk-earnings# To get into the site just click the advisor box if asked..........

I don't pretend to know definitively but reading this particular 'guidance' rent is not mentioned as an "earnings that attracts tax relief" - https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/pensions-tax-manual/ptm044100#ruki I find these documents often ambiguous at best so happy to be proved wrong.

You could at least get the right Shinawatra...............

For those considering moving to Win 11 from 10 or who have already done so here is a useful article about how to install with a local account (or change to) which will help reduce Microsoft's propensity to take over and bugger up your hardware........... Of course if you are happy to sync everything left right and one drive then no need to read. The comments page is also quite interesting. https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/05/set_up_windows11_local_account/ I came across the article after reading the Win 11 rant thread so was inspired to post by that. It may be useful to you @cliveshep although I think you may have sorted yourself already.

Not sure of the specific example quoted but if the wife is "non UK domiciled" and the husband is considered domiciled then they only get the 325k allowance free of tax from what I have been reading. Even if both non-domiciled IHT is potentially due on certain UK based assets (including property) over the 325k allowance. If people now meet the new domicile rules (much easier than before) and you can move investments out of the UK you can minimise potential IHT which previously you would have been liable to pay.

Unfortunately it is looking more and more like that. China also seems to be becoming generally more overt in it's attempts at stopping any and all criticism and not caring about any push back.

More to the point why would you leave your wallet out in that circumstance........ Room safe or at least take it into the bathroom with you.

Highlight the f***king link with your mouse and right click - you should get a number of options including go to that link (as long as you are using a half decent browser....)

Interesting that you have made the change to Linux but still use Google Chrome.......... Isn't Firefox the integral browser in most Linux distributions? Saying that pretty much most browsers should work.........

Are you sure about that....... Glad though I wasn't the only one who noticed

I had some good (but limited number) experiences with Ali Express on tech products. However now the stuff I have looked at comes with the obligatory you will be responsible for any taxes.........which unlike Amazon there is no way to see in advance. Reading the above makes me doubly glad that I have not ordered anything recently from them

Exactly whose version of 'justice' is this referring to? Based on the articles it's as clear as mud.

I guess the only confusion is because of the solid white lines - according to the article. In my experience however they seem to make little difference in most instances

Sorry I know little about Shizuku but I thought you had to use Developer options to start it - or you mean that is switched off and Shizuku dormant? What version of Android?