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I think it is now known as the Australian Gambit. Go away and stay away regardless. (Unfortunately, he will return at some point.)

Let the examinations start at the top. Of course, we need competent civil servants. But there is always going to be a problem in that the easier it is to get rid of those who are deemed incompetent, the more replacements you need. Eventually, the supply might simply not be there. If for no...

Profumo - a member of the Bullingdon club. Anyone see any other parallels?

I think that is Mogadon (rather than Moggmentum). :)

The really sweet and nice party: Britain First says 5,000 of its members have joined Tories Far-right defectors ‘support Boris Johnson’s stance on radical Islam’ Further down, it says: Simon said Britain First members wanted to form a movement of far-right activists within the Conservative...

You remind me, one of the good things that the political people managed this year was ending tolls on the Cleddau bridge. The route avoiding the bridge adds up to 28 miles so could be very much worth it, but it rankled when the second Severn bridge became toll-free but this much older, and...

Like the Tyne Bridge being a practice for the Sydney Harbour Bridge?

Something inside me wondered what would happen if Scotland goes indy and joins the EU. Just who would be paying for a bridge then? Other than NI itself, the beneficiaries would substantially be EU embers. (Not to discount NI but, in volume, possibly not sufficient to justify the bridge.) And...

I see BJ is still going on about a bridge between Scotland and Northern Ireland. Furthermore, is saying the EU should/will pay for it. To me, it sounds as viable as a garden bridge and even more expensive.

I wasn't for a moment meaning that those who struggle with literacy are unable to perform many roles. Just that the way organisations like Network Rail recruit seem to suggest that literacy is an absolute requirement. And, given the need to receive instructions and report issues, that might be...

Is it actually possible to pass the mandatory railway safety training and basic skills while being illiterate?

I thought they usually claimed a thousand years for these regimes?

Looks like even the pope is thinking about our PM: Pope: God loves even those who make 'a complete mess of things'

It strikes me as disingenuous not to consider the size of the electorate in that claim. So I have collected a little information showing turnouts as percentages. Quite a number trounce the 2016 referendum in percentage of turnout terms: 2016 referendum 73.0% 9 April 1992 John Major...

Going to Lebedev's do set the direction quite clearly.

If that was the program I think it was, it was made in 2017. Probably all made redundant since then...

Hasn't got time for workers' rights at the moment. He's far too busy visiting flood-hit areas and supporting those suffering. Sorry, belay that, of course he's not. Far too busy with his feet up in front of the TV at No. 10.

Five consecutive days of going down.

But I remember working with 6 bit characters which, under some circumstances, were referred to as bytes. And we do use the term octet quite widely. I have always considered a byte to be aligned whereas an octet could, at least in principle, refer to any sequence of eight bits of arbitrary...

There was a time when the word byte did not strictly refer to 8 bits. So the word octal would not have been appropriate (assuming it does retain the meaning associated with its root).