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Don’t get me wrong. The UK’s Companies House website is a clean, fast, and well-organised website. However, it suffers from a particularly bad example of cookie officiousness. Say you want to research a company, and you head along to their website. Click once in your Google results to open their page: Click twice to “AcceptContinue reading “When you mix cookie warnings with civil servants:”

“I also think it’s crucial that people are in the office for part of the time otherwise we lose that camaraderie, the bonding that you get from a team of people working on something.” Taken from this <article>. As a lawyer in private practice, I worked on multi-party, multi-jurisdictional deals, as part of extended teamsContinue reading “Cults (i)”

2010: Audi’s new A8 limo has a screen.  In 2010, it was considered to be ugly and distracting.  Audi went to great lengths to engineer a retractable mechanism that enabled you to hide it (just watch until it retracts, remainder of video is irrelevant): 2025: Audi’s forthcoming A8 limo has a steering wheel.  It isContinue reading “Retract, retract:”

Offices: <“… Companies now have mobile apps and e-commerce platforms for customers to order anytime, anywhere, instead of before the doors close at five o’clock at the brick-and-mortar shop of days gone by. Why can’t companies think the same way about their employees?“> <“She calls face time “a mirage, the symbolic appearance of working (goingContinue reading “Obsolete things”

I’m not great at blipping the throttle on down-shifts. I get it right about half the time. Recently, as the revs flared to match the road speed as I engaged third on a tight corner, it struck me that, relative to modern and future generations of drivers, I’m close to an expert on such arcaneContinue reading “Carpe currus: why now is the time to buy an idiot car”

When I was a child, in the 1970s, had you told told me that, by the time I was middle-aged, we would live in a world where sane people would stand up in public, and, with a straight face, (i) announce that women have penises, and (ii) insist that leaving the world’s largest trading associationContinue reading “The triumph of hysteria”

In the social media age of individual “truths” and consensus bubbles for the weak-minded and make-up-your-own facts to suit your mental health issues, it’s a truism to note that being an idiot who talks shite nowadays is no impediment to participating in politics. Remember Lord Frost, failed whiskey salesman and useless Brexit spoofer who ranContinue reading “A career in politics? Being an idiot helps”

All armies do it, but the Russians took it to new depths.  In WW2, the front-line Russian troops reportedly were OK, but the drunken rabble that came in afterwards essentially were looters and rapists, on an industrial scale. This is harrowing testimony from a Russian WW2 veteran, describing the actions of his platoon in theContinue reading “Russia’s rape machine”

In February, the Bishop of Leeds, Nick Baines, noted that “it was unequivocally true that the Russian Orthodox Church had encouraged Putin in his campaign …[and that there was] … collusion and corruption between the Russian government and the Russian Orthodox Church.” Patriarch Kirill, a former KGB agent, has described Putin’s reign (and I use the wordContinue reading “The Tories want a sock-puppet bishop”