Yeah, it just seems like a bog standard set of modern HR policies. You'd expect a relatively young organisation, like HS2, to be a bit more progressive than the average, but none of the stuff complai… (View Post)

what?! How have we got ourselves into a situation where individual officers are responsible for handling the footage from their own cameras? It should be being being sent automatically to a central s… (View Post)

Interesting! I could have sworn that I'd read about it being used around the time of the Second Reform Act, which would obviously be before that Australian usage, but can't find any reference to it o… (View Post)

That's the policy that was followed by Ukraine before 2014, of course... but I'm not sure that it worked out too well for them. Are there any other recent European examples? Azerbaijan, I suppose. Th… (View Post)

Yes! Even the ones that advertise having extra-large slots (oo-er) just mean that they're wide enough to take muffins and scones, not that they're long or deep enough to take a normal slice of bread.… (View Post)