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Middle daughter to me:

7.41am: Ahhh! Quick! Make me some breakfast!!!
7.42am: <sarcastically, as leaving for the school bus> Thanks for making me breakfast

"Make a note Darling, to send a memo to the new Archbishop: More slot machines and Ladbrokes popups for the churches and community centres."

Yeah, I also don't think saying 'man talk' and slapping a women on the rear gets you very far these days either.

(Nor should should it, just to be clear)

It could be either, both, or even he's not sure. What he's sure about is that it's Alpha, or it ain't worth it.

Our plan for this quarter:

1) Listen to Penguin Classics on 1.25x speed, for the Alpha
2) 😐
3) Mars!!!

I think you're right - it also smacks of longtermism as well. Your mind, body, soul and time on this planet has been bought out by some cosmic private equity firm and your purpose in life is to maximise your EBITDAR contribution to the portfolio.

Annoying people does seem to be one of the main effects of the FOI Act.

I think that if it will calm everyone down they should just say sorry.

There's ways of doing it...

The trouble with getting more than one person in for balance on Trump and Jan 6th is that the ones who think Hilary Clinton is one of the Lizard People 'fight like hell' with the ones that think she's a cannibalistic satan worshiper.

Patriarch Kiril is a shocking figure in many ways, but my only point was that it could be a lot worse within historic precedents. At least he's not declaring us all anathema and saying it's the duty of all true Christians to bathe in the blood of the heretical Catholics, Anglicans and so on.

Certainly the leadership of the ROC are pro-war, but not all are, and at least Patriarch Kiril sent a congratulatory note to the new Pope...so even on that front things are better than the norm.

From memory a full FTTP rollout was expected to cost £16Bn in 2010, which is a lot, but is (also from memory) roughly what the UK public sector spent on Internet connectivity per year. If you think how fast, reliable Internet affects healthcare, education, commerce, the arts... 🤦

The trouble with Being John Malkovich is that he's often In the Line of Fire over such Dangerous Liaisons. It's an offer he clearly should Burn After Reading; I can totally understand why people are seeing Red about this (or indeed, Red 2), because it is a bit of a Con....Air...

I should say that I have no insider knowledge. Their position was public, but the reasons behind it I was only able to infer at the time and confirm much later in quiet conversations with people. It was 15 years ago, a lot of water has passed under the bridge.

Yes, broadly. FTTC was, from a technical perspective, obviously a stop-gap, and from a corporate policy perspective a useful one for other reasons. However, the main aim afaict was to set the pace of transition to fibre to decades rather than years.

It's painful, and totally against the national interest (but on the campaign efficacy, no notes).

The real issue was that the value of the copper network underpinned BT's balance sheet. If you put in fibre then you reduced that value to the copper - minus the cost of getting it out the ground / off the poles - i.e. bog all. BT as a group set out to confuse anyone who thought this was a good idea

As Director of Corporate Affairs for BT in 2010 I wonder how much role he played in their (admittedly, wildly effective) campaign to confuse politicians and civil servants about whether fibre to the premises was a good idea.

Key message: "Nobody knows what people would do with more bandwidth"🙄

That's BBC training for you...