Yes, heard that in the oil/gas sector but in that case they really are delivering molecules whereas nobody is delivering electrons. It’s just pedantry but it’s a hill I would die on.

I know it’s never going to happen but indulging ourselves in good solutions to big problems which are politically impossible is always fun…

And who knows, maybe somebody at the Treasury will read this and think…<a single shot rings out>

This ☝️

It might if you switched the *whole* of NI into Income Tax. Shifts burden a little off “working people”, a small step along the road of simplifying our tax code and has the requisite shock and awe effect?

We can but dream…

Watched it in real time.

Hot wings and gravy have much to recommend them.

A minor functionary working for Oswald Mosley.

The costs of the UK’s Global Talent Visa looks a trifle high in comparison to competitor countries - largely through the Immigration Health Surcharge (which critics say is a form of double taxation as they contribute to the NHS through normal tax on their earnings)

This may be a use of the word "resilience" with which I am not familiar.

If I was someone senior in Microsoft I would be saying "wait, what?".

Good spot!

In a very previous life, I spent a summer taking data from reel to reel tapes and converting it onto these (removable) disk drives. Made be DEC IIRC.

A hard drive. Probably <5mb storage.