Malmesbury’s point is really about political competence rather than ideology. If you repeatedly: - Announce controversial policies. - Defend them aggressively. - Force colleagues to defend them. - Re… (View Post)

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)