Fair. Maybe one of the lesser-known Norse deities maybe?

Stephen’s an admirable guy in many many ways but god-like maybe goes a bit far.

Not disagreeing at all !

“There aren’t many of ‘them’ but there are too many of ‘them’ “ is a pretty solid racist position though. Logic and rationality (and honesty) be damned.

It stands up to rewatching now.

It’s just so gloriously warm with a dash of politics.

“I’m going to walk out of here a free man.

I do impressions you see.”

Big Al.

Thanks. I need to think about that distinction some more but it’s a useful point.

Are you making Holmes’s “simplicity on the other [far] side of complexity” point or do you have something else in mind?

Quite. That Starmer is allying with Trump agains the EU is a ridiculous argument. I don’t agree with Starmer’s rhetoric or policies on a lot of things but to say that he’s closer to Trump than he is to, eg, VDL is just not serious.

People who bleat on about the DMA should keep this in mind 3/3

So telecoms regulation recognises that we’re not going to have 50 companies putting wires into every home so we put access requirements in place. Energy is similar. 2/x

He may need to revise his self-description as a “former” criminal quite soon.

You’re celebrating being a citizen of nowhere surrounded by other citizens of nowhere. Nick Timothy would turn in his grave. (That last part is just wishful thinking.)

Don’t you know? Maybe go and ask a nice policeman.

I’ve lived through a couple of those. I like to think of it as the email evolving to keep itself alive.

The willingness of some lawyers to wander gleefully out of their lane with a “well how hard could it be?” look on their face is a regular source of both joy and terror to me.