I mean, I’m pretty sure we *know* the Russians are conducting influence operations on all these platforms and on all sorts of topics.

It’s very sad but I was so pleased when I saw my first Tibetan one I took a photo.

These are the ones they use on the car number plates. Fun for seeing/judging how far people have travelled: a 黑 in Yunnan, a 粵 in Inner Mongolia, or suchlike.

Since it has been formally announced we have moved to the far more important story, did it hurt the lobby's feelings?

The inherent difficulties in projections, and the government's actual policy decisions, somehow spun into "did you lie to me? Laura K/Bobby P/Chris M, The protagonist of reality?"

I think this is quite common for a lot of people. Some have gone to university here, many have come to work here, but they have never had cause (or the opportunity) to learn the equivalent words in their native tongue, to the extent that, e.g. using a computer in that language is “weird”.

A colleague of mine has a similar problem, having left at a similar age: he finds it very odd to be back in France, being the one who is “vousvoyed”, so to speak, and who should, er, “tutoy” everyone else.

Until anything changes, this OCaml PR will live rent-free in my head as a case against the programming "power" of these tools

The lesson of British infrastructure investment for decades has been that it's stuck in a toxic nexus of the treasury paying for it and then private developers reaping almost all the property value gains

Letting the railway share the gains as with HK MTR or post privatisation JR should be the norm