I seem fated to encounter Damien Lewis every few years. The first time was in the rain outside a service station (he looked very pissed off which might have been the rain or my staring). The second t… (View Post)

Prosecuted alone and without a leader (View Post)

When I worked in the Civil Service we used to joke that all of HMRC's big programmes sounded like Borg motivational posters. 'Securing Our Technical Future' and 'One Login for Government'. (View Post)

I had a similarly uncomfortable evening there where somone insisted on telling me how the COVID vaccine was an international mind control conspiracy. Thankfully I managed to palm her off to George Os… (View Post)

When I worked in a bookshop, the first two Harry Potter books had just come out and weren't quite the massive phenomenon they became. I recommended them to a mother who wanted something to help a chi… (View Post)