It was Micro-B USB that was proposed as the standard and widely adopted, Mini-B USB was rarer and even worse. But imagine devices being stuck on Micro-B because it is the law, and that introducing de… (View Post)

Standards are good things, but mandatory standards less so. I'm all in favour of USB Type-C replacing things like Micro-B USB on devices that have held off changing, but I do wonder how somethin… (View Post)

Cameron is a much better politician than Starmer, probably second only to Blair in living memory. Frankly I'm starting to think Sunak is a better politician than Starmer, and political nous was … (View Post)

I think you may well be wrong. I suspect that a lot of those jobs you listed involve people working in the private sector on contracts for the public sector. (View Post)

I agree with what you are saying, but the technicality does matter because as you say the people doing the worst paid "public sector" jobs don't even get the benefits of the public sec… (View Post)