You're a splendid chap Max, but really? How many professors even talk to undergrads if they can help it, let alone about this sort of thing? Not that it doesn't happen at all, but I rather … (View Post)

How many should it take, though? 70k HMRC staff is 1 per a thousand people in the country. So that's about 2 staff-hours per head of population per year. And whilst most of us don't take up… (View Post)

Didn't Zia Yusuf get in a tizzy about a similar contract with Kent County Council involvement? The path from "here's a number I neither like nor understand" to national outrage is… (View Post)

And we haven't really moved on from that- hence the continued "there must be some other Special Deal under the counter, we just need to discover the secret codeword that releases it" s… (View Post)

All sorts of things are medium-term inevitable. Starmer leaving before the next election is one, full-fat Rejoin looks like another. Boris becoming PM was another one, as was collapsing due to his fa… (View Post)