I was recently puzzled to hear a voice in the next room, which turned out to be a teacher from my daughter's school leaving a message. Going back to listen to it, there turned out to be at least… (View Post)

I saw a busker recently who took apple pay. However, it was set up for a £2 donation, which seemed a bit optimistic. There's an interesting optimisation problem there - if you can only take dona… (View Post)

In defence of MPs, I've been watching a lot of select committees lately, and I cannot imagine where they all find the time for it all. For many (most) MPs it must be a pretty gruelling job. I gu… (View Post)

Leavers, like Remainers, are a broad church. Which is as you would expect. It would be very odd if people all had one of only two possible packages of opinions covering everything from Brexit to the … (View Post)

There is a mathematical approach to selecting the supermarket checkout with the best queue or finding a life partner. You reject the first 1/e (i.e. about 37%), and then choose the next one which is … (View Post)