{"id":91130,"date":"2026-03-25T10:17:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T10:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=91130"},"modified":"2026-03-25T10:21:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T10:21:53","slug":"my-apologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/03\/25\/my-apologies\/","title":{"rendered":"My apologies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Please accept my apologies. I made a mistake this morning. The video on banking<\/a> was made in April last year. We reissued it because I am on holiday and we did not have enough time, partly because both Thomas and I were just too tired, and we had major IT issues last week, to make sufficient videos before I went away on holiday this week.<\/p>\n

The four reissued videos to be published whilst I am away were amongst those that were popular the first time round. This one included a reference to the government\u2019s guarantee on bank deposits, noting that the figure was \u00a385,000 at the time that it was made. It is now, of course, \u00a3120,000.<\/p>\n

Rarely has such an issue ever been the cause of so many comments on the blog this morning. I have deleted many. I am sorry that I got this wrong. At the same time, could I ask that you accept that I can make mistakes and, in this case, the mistake was in reissuing an old video without checking the details?<\/p>\n

I have now spent a lot of holiday time addressing this.<\/p>\n

There are three ways to deal with this.<\/p>\n

One is that there is no material published when I want to take time off.<\/p>\n

Another is that I turn off the comments on the blog.<\/p>\n

The third, given that I have repeatedly flagged issues around comments and being away, is that more care is taken before posting comments. You are asking to use my time<\/p>\n

Right now, it seems to me that the future of this blog, with comments turned on, is increasingly unlikely.<\/p>\n

Might I please ask for just a little tolerance and understanding? The alternative is that I will give up.<\/p>\n

And please do consider whether your comment is necessary before commenting on this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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