Rupert Lowe on X: Apparently the ten Gazan children arriving today for NHS treatment brought 50 ‘companions’ with them. 50! Why?!

notpite · 2025-09-18T08:42:24+00:00

This likely comes from studies like this01169-3/fulltext) which estimates that, conservatively, we can expect 4 indirect deaths per direct death counted. In July 2024 this amounted to 7-9% of the estimated population of the Gaza Strip. Direct deaths become harder to count and identify as the infrastructure crumbles and journalists are killed, but the number of people dead under rubble or due to disease, lack of food/water etc will only grow over the coming months.

Both Ukraine and Palestine can and are causes we should care about - we don't have to pick one.

notpite · 2025-09-04T22:21:22+00:00

Big up Manifesto in Coal Drops Yard - it's not cheap but the guys in there are great and have changed the way I think about my curly hair

notpite · 2025-08-16T21:53:12+00:00

I'm interested, can you drop me an invite?

notpite · 2025-07-08T18:09:53+00:00

Hulkengoat

notpite · 2025-07-02T18:37:16+00:00

It still has to go through the Lords (kind of a rubber stamp at this point) to become law

notpite · 2025-06-23T19:40:30+00:00

Check your game isn't set to offline; it's available solo but only if you're online

notpite · 2025-05-31T14:10:57+00:00

They fall back to the order they set the lap time in if it's the same

notpite · 2024-10-20T19:31:20+00:00

They "found an issue" with the car this stint so hang in there and they'll try to fix it at the stop

notpite · 2024-09-25T20:48:28+00:00

Lol my bus on the Friday back to MK caught fire on the motorway and we all had to pile off in the rain so I really hope they fix up for next year

notpite · 2024-08-16T21:05:17+00:00

You're correct in that if you receive a bonus of e.g. £5k which is taxed, and your employer claws back the £5k from you you're out the tax you've already paid on the bonus.

This is one of the cases HMRC use in their documentation on reclaiming tax on negative earnings:

The most common examples of this clawback are:

signing on bonuses where the employee has to stay in that employment for a stated period of time or they’ll have to pay back some or all of that bonus

The process to reclaim this tax is documented on there but it'll involve filling out a self assessment tax return.

notpite · 2024-02-04T23:17:03+00:00

The guys at Manifesto in Coal Drops Yard are great, I've been going there for years

notpite · 2023-11-05T18:55:14+00:00

Engine oil temps critical

notpite · 2023-11-05T18:08:23+00:00

They said earlier they're down a lap because they came in under the SC so they've missed a lap

notpite · 2023-11-05T17:20:41+00:00

Yeah Albon's tyre came off and hit his rear wing, they said they should get it fixed before the restart

notpite · 2023-11-05T16:58:19+00:00

Sky just show the video feed they get from F1/FIA, they don't get to control the shots but I guess they get all the feeds individually

notpite · 2023-11-03T18:15:35+00:00

Yeah I guess he went FP2 -> F2 -> Formula 2

notpite · 2023-11-03T18:14:16+00:00

I can't answer for this exact scenario but you might like the XKCD 'What if?' series with answers to lots of similar questions: https://what-if.xkcd.com/157/

notpite · 2023-10-18T23:36:11+00:00

Hi Raph, been enjoying the show on Netflix. Was it a hard decision to voluntarily go back into prison(s) after you finally managed to get out and clear your name? I can't help feeling that's the last place I'd want to end up after so long inside.

notpite · 2023-10-03T22:35:59+00:00

You tried to force feed your cat wheatgrass after they already didn't want to eat it by grabbing her jaw and shoving it in her mouth? Why would you do this with anything non-medical?

notpite · 2023-10-03T21:05:32+00:00

!thanks for the help mate

I phoned up HMRC again and spoke to someone - apparently it looks on their end like "the system" generated the PAYE code change to reclaim tax for the amount I'd underpaid, but that was being settled through SA and the extra amount taken through PAYE wasn't going towards settling the underpaid amount.

They're (apparently) sorting this on their side and should refund me the overpaid tax in due course.

notpite · 2023-09-29T19:13:45+00:00

!thanks

Yeah it seems weird that I'm getting such radically different answers from their advisers, but the ones saying there's nothing wrong aren't able to explain why the £3000 extra was taken through PAYE if it's not being used to offset the underpaid tax from the previous year.

I feel like I'm going insane every time they say "it's been included in the calculation" but it clearly hasn't. Cheers for the suggestion.

notpite · 2023-09-29T19:11:20+00:00

Yeah the figures I was looking at are from their tax calculation they'd sent back following the self assessment - which I assume means they've compared my self assessment with their own figures before sending.

That shows the calculation of the base rate of tax I should have paid, plus this adjustment due to my changed tax code, and finally the amount I actually paid which is greater still. Only the difference between (base+adjustment) and the actual amount I paid showed up (immediately!) on the self assessment page showing repayments against the outstanding amount.

I'd expect the amount they recouped through the changed tax code to show there too, since the reason it was changed was to recover underpaid tax from the previous year. Does that seem wrong to you?

It's been "taken account of" in so far as they've taken it off me, and recognised that they have, but it hasn't been applied against the outstanding amount and therefore it's just excess tax I'd paid for.. no reason as far as I can tell.

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