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IR35 is a ridiculous law. "If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then we treat it like a duck." I can walk and quack rather convincingly like a duck, but I'm not a duck …

As someone who lives in the UK, this is news to me. Can you substantiate this please?

Long time UK contractor/freelancer here, I've also done a lot of hiring in the UK. The problem over the past few years has been IR35 which has effectively gutted/killed the UK cont…

List your salary/renumeration/offer, or at least the range. I have issues with some of the steps listed but by far my biggest issue is that companies don't list their offer. Which …

This is simply not true. One could naïvely say the same for ANY country where it has not been explored. It can't be all rollercoasters and silicon geography everywhere all the time…

When people say that monopolies stifle innovation, this should surely be held up as the poster-child of that mantra. Will this be a flash in the pan? Yes Was this wasted money? Yes…

And replace it with? Perhaps we can create a system whereby one exchanges skills for products and services? But then how do we scale such a system... money might work, unless you'r…

There is no quick and easy solution to this. You just have to remember that the interruption is not aware of your state of mind, and also that a bad response (from you) will probab…

Hi, I'm a real English person, from England (not from London) . I totally agree about all of this, and all of the sentiments expressed by Salvatore. We say that "English is easy to…

Amongst others, there's fine work being done at DVLA, DVSA, MOJ, DWP and Home Office Digital are in good shape too

That's the DWP, and they know about it and will eventually get to fixing it but it'll take a while

I think this is likely due to some kind of skewed market internally and probably that many countries hold US assets and debts that are being engineered in to a position of a new no…

Oh boy, I used to work at GDS and I met some people from HMRC about their Childcare voucher system thingy. And it used similar techniques to this, I raised it directly with them bu…

It's interesting that no one here has yet mentioned the UK government system "Verify". Fundamentally there are different authentication mechanisms and idealogies at work, but it's …

I'm really surprised this hasn't hit the UK news, but the government department that regulates welfare (the DWP) just discovered a £350 Million deficit that is proactively not bein…