Yes, I should have clarified that we've made it optional. I don't bother myself. About half the office has done it. (View Post)

I can confirm the generational difference from some personal experience - younger office colleagues, not into party politics as far as I know (and not all graduates), pressed vigorously for all email… (View Post)

I largely agree (though I do think unconscious bias is a thing for most people including me) - my point was that young people feel the matter's settled, in the same way that climate change used … (View Post)

Yes, that half of the family, though I only discovered it recently, when a very elderly relative passed me the family history - turns out that granddad was very active in Jewish charitable work for m… (View Post)

Idle anecdote to round out the evening: my grandfather knew Trotsky. My granddad was a thoroughly apolitical civil lawyer in Moscow during the revolution; an affable man, he got on with everyone (and… (View Post)