The other thing to remember is that the South Cambridgeshire project was partly about giving them a recruitment tool in an area where getting people to work for the council was otherwise insanely dif… (View Post)

Still are. Better than that, you can get shaped things that fit better and nifty elasticated clips to hold things together. (Ah, memories...) Councils like them, because they reduce landfill. Unfortu… (View Post)

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)