Since the 1st of August 2005 you're no longer allowed to protest without permission outside the Houses of Parliament. MPs wanted to get rid of a protester named Brian Haw, who had been making a nuisance of himself in Parliament Square since June 2001, and apparently they also said that the noise made by protesters was distracting them from their ( Read more... )

For most graduates who are paying back student loans, the Inland Revenue takes payments directly from your employer each month. Apparently, however, the Inland Revenue doesn't pay this directly each month to the Student Loan Company, but waits until the end of the financial year in April and then pays the entire year's amount to the SLC ( Read more... )

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Do you want to see a really, really lovely stop-motion Christmas card? It's visual Prozac like Totoro, so it is. It's Richard's Christmas card from last year. And you know Richard's good at these things...

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