Oh, that's the subtitle, title "Braver New World"?

Maybe "The Countries Daring to Do Things Others Won't" by John Kampfner

Comic of the beetle from the cover of Massive Attack's "Mezzanine" meeting the crab from the cover of The Prodigy's "Fat of the Land".

Hi this joke is for me

You have to understand I am far too old to know either way.

Instagram? It's all Tiktok in the toilets now! Get with the programme, Granddad.

(Unfortunately I think any moderate view on such matters has long been overtaken by "anxious generation" panic).

Phones turned off and in a bag would not achieve the goal of saving kids from having any exposure to "screens". (But more pragmatically, a simple draconian policy is more enforceable. A phone turned off and in a bag can be turned on in the toilets.)

We are told (obviously I only have one school to go on) that they are having to make their policy even stricter in the light of new government guidance, and that other schools are following suit. And that parents are mostly very supportive of this approach.

I'm not saying it's the only way to implement the policy, just that it's the one we're experiencing.

...which is why the school have to do spot searches to make sure the policy is being followed.

Which schools interpret as "You can't have one on your person in school, in case you turn it on" which then becomes "You can't have one on the way to or from school" because the alternative is a whole system of checking them in and out or pouches or something.

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

115. How do they pass from the cellars to the wall of the house?--There (pointing to the Plan) is the opening in the cellar wall through which the pipes are put. A man from the subway cannot get into the cellars of the houses there. One workman comes into the cellar, and the others meet him on this side and he receives the pipe; it is put through the 9-inch wall. This shows it (pointing to another Plan). Here is the subway coming up to the wall of the cellars; a man coming down into that cellar would receive the pipe here. The Committee can walk up the subways and see the things in operation. 116. That shows exactly the state of things in Covent Garden. That is taken from the Covent Garden Subway, is it not? Yes, it is. 117. Have you had experience of pipes being laid in that Covent Garden Sub-way?-Yes, there are pipes laid there, 118. What Company have pipes there? -The New River Company has a 6-inch water pipe. and the Equitable Gas Company has two 6-inch gas pipes.

Could be what this is describing? (from archive.org/details/repo... )

1 ‘There follows a public safety message from the Ministry of Taps.’ 2 [Show a moustachioed man in a white coat, standing next to a sink with two taps.] Hello. 3 Here are two beautiful, British taps. 4 Don’t they make you proud? Cold and hot, divided in modesty, as God intends! 5 But in recent years, more and more Britons are using ‘mixer taps’ - a highly addictive form of foreign tap. 6 The great British tradition of washing one’s hands via a weird sort of hot-to-cold dance is under threat. [Show someone doing this dance] 7 The 'mixer' is a gateway tap. One minute you're dabbling with a dual faucet. Next thing you know, you're 'dancing with the fisherman's hose'. [Show one of those big bendy fishmonger’s hoses that people have these days] 8 See here the brain of a healthy, two-tap using Briton: [Show diagram of a brain with two thirds of it devoted to ‘WASHING HANDS’] 9. And this... is the brain of a ‘mixhead’: [Show same brain diagram, but the Washing Hands section is replaced with ‘FOREIGN THOUGHTS’] Remember: Mixing can lead to foreignness and fishmongery. BRITONS: DON’T MIX YOUR TAPS [Ends]

TAPS

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You've probably already found it but in case not: there's some correspondence about the 1964 Covent Garden scheme, earlier than the pamphlet but including an "artist's impression", in UEA's archives.

Yeah, very much a tangent to the CG story but deeply odd. Looking forward to the book!

...and then one thing led to another, and the next thing you know they're trying to blackmail the Prime Minister after throwing ink at him in Brussels.

You'd think it would be in GLA, Camden or Westminster archives - maybe it's buried in a planning file somewhere (or perhaps they preferred not to preserve it). Scheme author George Martin and his acolytes seem to have been mad as a box of frogs!

You can buy removed ones, though, from BT's official reseller. Or "adopt" some still on the street for £1. I wonder what's different about this one.

Ah ha! The first one is the "Endnote separator". The other pages are the "Endnote continuation separator". You want to delete both of them (by going into View Draft, double clicking on an endnote, selecting e.g. "Endnote continuation separator" from the dropdown).

Argh. Have you tried sacrificing a chicken?

"basement, ground plus 6 storeys" - that's seven, then?

A magazine advertisement for Bodyform towels, January 1981. "At last, a towel that doesn't think you're shaped like this." A woman is dressed in a blocky outfit making her look somewhat like a Minecraft character.

The rollerblading "Whooooooooooah" ad was, of course, groundbreaking — but few realise how ahead of their time Bodyform were in targeting the still niche Minecrafter audience as early as 1981.

(I only found this out recently for Footnotes, I'm just assuming Endnotes is similar.)

You have to change the View to "Drafts". This is literally documented as a required step before you can change the separator.

Great, now I have to reverse engineer from the posts I can see which posts it might be that need reverse engineering to whatever it is that might have happened.

And Whittaker.

He's in Softly Softly: Task Force. But Softly Softly did have Hartnell, Troughton and Hurndall.

(probably not so much to do with Empire, though)

Well, we could quibble over what constitutes "mid-century" but still certainly Victorian.

But also the time of a big rise in unorthodox religious beliefs, notably Spiritualism.