The original plan back before 1974 was to completely scrap the administrative counties for local government, and have a single system of unitary authorities across England which would not map very cl… (View Post)

It deliminates string literals in some programming languages, most notably Javascript. IIRC back in my IBM mainframe days it had some important usage there. (View Post)

So what happens when all the UK's non-EU trading partners start asking why the rules that are applied to them aren't being applied to the EU as well? (View Post)

My doc put me on metformin when he diagnosed me, and took me off it when I next saw him with back to normal numbers! (View Post)

That is exactly why my employer was reluctant to embrace fully-remote working as an option prior to being forced to by the pandemic. After a year of mandatory WFH, while it's clear that many staff fi… (View Post)