I'll go for mistake. But it's the reaction to someone pointing out the mistake that is revealing and important. People make mistakes all the time. One of the main advantages of a democracy … (View Post)

The more flags the merrier. (View Post)

No. A more mundane reason to do with binary truncation. There are some good arguments for moving to a base 12 system, but it would make a lot of computer arithmetic simpler if we used a base 16 numbe… (View Post)

There is, yes. I haven't looked at it in detail to judge how well it works. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/averaging-for-creators-of-literary-or-artistic-works-hs234-self-assessment-… (View Post)

I'm not making an argument about the politicians, but about wider society. I'm picking up on your statement that, "Your man in the street wouldn’t normally be that bothered by somebody… (View Post)