Visit So how did Santa visit on 25 Dec despite Covid restrictions? He secured priority classification (essential work). He reassured (social-distancing). He used allies (NORAD), tech (online delivery) & experience (past pandemics). He ensured the Team was briefed (time/quantity targets) and fit (elves/reindeer). His paperwork was correct & complete (no quarantine/delays). UK firms – apply…
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Victim Covid-19 victims include those succumbing to current online scams. Why do we fall for the con? Because we want it to work. Wishful thinking & greed lure us into trying to get rich by making a small advance payment. Fear of missing out bounces us into accepting offers which are too good to be…
Vegetables A 40ft x 60ft plot can grow most of the veg needed to feed a family of 4. UK allotments go back 1,000 years to the Saxons, who held in common a field cleared from woodland. Peak: 1.5m allotments, today only 330,000 left, with >90,000 people on waiting lists. Fewer car parks & more…
Value-added tax Lower VAT rates reduce the ‘black economy’. Self-enforcing VAT is 1950s French invention. Instead of a levy on final sale of a product/ service, it’s imposed at every step of production, with a refund for the tax paid at the previous step. Each firm reports the VAT the previous firm in the chain should’ve…
Vortex Plastic ends up in a giant vortex (gyre) of rubbish in the sea. The Great Pacific garbage patch, with 1/3 of all plastic in the oceans, is twice as big as the UK. There are 4 other gyres: in the S Pacific, N Atlantic, S Atlantic and Indian Ocean Guessed the Word? …
Video > 80% of the content on the internet is Video and Audio, none of which is searchable. The goal must be to shed light on this cloudy data and make it easily accessible Guessed the Word? Series 13 (1/5) [photo: 422737]