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Some years ago, iHerb (in the USA) set up a system which allowed prepayment of VAT. One advantage being that the carrier would then not apply customs clearance charges. Another being you would know exactly what the effective price was. Never worked properly. (Although I have bought quite a bit...

From another direction, it appears that every single person/company that wishes to send anything to the UK resulting from an online order really will be expected to register with HMRC. The consequences of that could be huge. Companies around the world refusing to supply the UK because of the...

Push your (former) allies over the other side of the Irish Sea border abomination and wonder when they vote against you. We have yet to see the impact of the distancing of NI. I suspect it will not be pretty.

Yet another new year in detention. Anyone remember Johnson's role in this? UK ‘beginning to look weak’ over Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s detention in Iran, Jeremy Hunt warns Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been detained in Iran since 2016...

It might appear a better return. But it is a continuous loss - drip, drip, drip. Shares at least have the possibility of a rise on the horizon. Even if that potential rise can only be seen through the rosiest of glasses.

Remember that for the big boys, we are round about the point of having to pay banks to keep our money.

Just heard from a journalist by email about brexit and post. Royal Mail said: “For items under £135 (with the exception of gifts), VAT will be collected directly when they buy the goods online. For goods with a value over £135 (and gifts over £39), Royal Mail may collect the VAT and customs...

Lack of alternatives kicks in. Would you rather trust your money in a bank?

Again, this might well have been widespread behaviour. But just the other day I heard about someone who was bombed out and ended up in hospital - and everything was looted. Bar one solitary item which was somehow retrieved. I think we tend to put on our rose-tints...

Just hit the buffers re brexit and medicine. Someone needed information about a medicine - one which was approved by the EMA for use across the EU. The EMA website is plastered with: The United Kingdom (UK) withdrew from the European Union (EU) on 31 January 2020 and is no longer an EU Member...

PM or mouse?

That would require a U-turn and you could even imagine this government shower doing one of them....

Well, they weren't going to read it all until OG plastered it over this forum! :)

What did the 22sph do that was so terrible they should be banged up with "these people"?

This sort of thing? During the years of the Second World War, there was a marked increase in crime. This was due to a combination of different factors. Some were opportunistic crimes, in which not only criminals but also members of the public took advantage of the chaos during air raids and...

You might have expected Johnson to know something about being in the club. Or doesn't it apply to pudding clubs?

Do we have that right if it is our fault? (Leaving aside the lack of any mechanism for determining fault prior to doing anything at all!)

I wasn't aware of this termination clause: The Agreement can be terminated at any point with nine months notice. If the Agreement is terminated, any obligations of the Parties will continue until the end of the year.

Makes a fella proud to be British: Hundreds of British holidaymakers ‘flee Swiss ski resort’ despite being told to self-isolate Many left ‘under cover of darkness’ said a local official Hundreds of British holidaymakers who were meant to be self-isolating at a Swiss ski resort have reportedly...

The fish have to be there in order to be caught. If, by some miracle, UK waters are chock full of fish, we just might get what we need/want. The best way to move in that direction is to preserve stocks and protect spawning and growing regions. Which somehow don't appear to line up with UK/EU...