A Man’s a Man for A’ That is one of the most egalitarian poems in the language. Burns’s point is that dignity comes from common humanity, not titles, wealth or social standing. If anything, it’s a te… (View Post)

If you choose to do something automatically at enormous scale, you arguably bear more responsibility, not less. In software engineering we’ve spent the last decade automating deployments through CI/C… (View Post)

Regarding the proposed social media ban for under 16s... The devil is naturally in the detail, particularly around enforcement, but the intent is hard to argue with. Allowing social media companies t… (View Post)

Completely agree. For those wishing to read the poem to see what we're on about: https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/mans-man-0/ (View Post)

Not really. Burns had Scottish patriotic and reformist sympathies, but the poem itself is fundamentally about human equality and the worth of ordinary people over rank and privilege. It’s one of the … (View Post)