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They say freelance life is one big rollercoaster. Personally, that’s never felt truer than over the past nine months. Let me backtrack a bit: I am ...

Copywriters live or die by their portfolio. Whether sent speculatively out into the ether or in response to a tender, your portfolio will make or b...

Everyone knows securing press coverage has the potential to rocket any business’s income, but how can you guarantee yours won’t get deleted as soon...

Third of freelancers plan to stop contracting in UK due to IR35 (Workplace Insight)  Nearly a third of freelancers are planning to stop contracting...

If you’ve heard of Universal Basic Income, chances are you’ll have heard somebody dismiss it as ‘free money for everyone’, a misguided policy that ...

A peck on the cheek will sometimes suffice. Some prefer a handshake, a wave, a referendum or a conscious uncoupling, whilst others simply vaporise ...

Going through 100 emails is a soul-destroying task at the best of times. For me, getting to the famed inbox zero feels like being the lone firefigh...

When people transition from full-time work to freelance, they might expect to see a drop in their savings or free time, at least for a little while...

HMRC softens tax rule changes for freelancers following ‘contractor chaos’ (The Telegraph) HMRC has decided to reevaluate the changes to their tax ...

There is bad news on the way for some of the UK’s army of self-employed workers, with the imminent changes to the rules governing tax and national ...

Last week, an older woman came into the shop, looked me square in the eyes and demanded that I order in a copy of the instructional S&M manual,...

Photography is everywhere and it seems everyone is a photographer. But while there are more platforms than ever before to share your work, the digi...

Starting a family is, in many ways, trickier for women who are self-employed. For one, it’s up to us to plan our schedule, negotiate time off with ...

Nearly one million miss tax return deadline (BBC News) A total of 11.1 million did hit the deadline of the end of Friday to complete their self-ass...

I was at an event at the BBC recently where aims to be inclusive were presented neatly in a PowerPoint presentation before the talk began. The spea...

I can remember clearly the first time, as a woman, I had to shout to get my voice heard. I was never a quiet child, but it took until I was 12 year...

For fifty-two Sundays, I’ve Googled everything from “CBD for Dogs” to “Brain Hemorrhage shots”. I’ve written about the Edinburgh Fringe, Punk, Robo...

So you’ve bought a domain name, set up your fancy new portfolio website and responded to more requests for proposals than you can count. But there&...

 IR35: The End Of Freelancing As We Know It? (Forbes) April 2020 sees the expansion of IR35 from the public sector to all businesses. Does the regu...

It has not only been work opportunities that have been the driving force for Brits emigrating to Spain. Along with the TV documentary fodder of tho...