That's an example of a misleading statistic. Consider a hospital. To cut costs the hospital outsources its cleaning and catering services to private contractors. So we now have a hospital that direct… (View Post)

Putin, Orban, Erdogan, Fico, etc - all the dictators and wannabee dictators. (View Post)

I would be surprised if it was Russian hackers. IT systems fail all the time, for a wide variety of reasons. Most organisations of any considerable scale will have dozens of different IT systems that… (View Post)

The Met Office does regular polling to find out how many people are aware of weather warnings, what they think of the forecasts, etc. I guess someone has argued that not enough people are hearing abo… (View Post)

You have to be careful with that sort of thing and only use it very rarely, so that it will be effective when it is most necessary. I think it's borderline in this case. The orange warning for Storm … (View Post)