Yes, sorry, forgot that the July earnings figure is used for the April increase the next year. But the points stands that the anomalous rebound in July 2021 from 2020 can be avoided by using a compar… (View Post)

I’m still puzzled about the apparent aversion to “grade inflation” and why Williams demanded that it be avoided. This year’s cohort are the first to have taken the new, more rigorous GCSE specificati… (View Post)

We are finding out who of the PB contributors are particularly gullible... claiming the Israel-UAE deal as a consequence of Trump’s involvement somewhat ignores the collaboration between Netanyahu an… (View Post)

The view from my window right now... and we get 1,000 Mbps upload and download and latency of 1ms... all thanks to our FTTP community project at an investment of £600per property... for which we pay … (View Post)

If you want to know why FTTP is scarce in the U.K., read the PAC report into BDUK. Spoiler: the recently ennobled Ed Vazey got well and truly played by BT. The original objective was 100% coverage of… (View Post)