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Or: sometimes the obvious answer isn’t the answer at all.

Or, the calls are coming from inside the house.

What follows is an opinion. Do not under any circumstances read it. Other opinions are available (but wrong).

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties. — Alfred Whitehead

Rishi Sunak has told people that working from home may hurt their career. Sunak, like many conservatives, is frightened, not only of the future, but of the present.

Once upon a time, when the world was younger, a young and rather foolish physics student used to debug his FORTRAN programs using printed backtraces.

Or: should you keep that tape?

It is the Abomination of Desolation, not seen by prophecy far off in some fabulous future, nor remembered from terrible ages by the aid of papyrus and stone, but fallen on our own century, on the homes of folk like ourselves: common things that we knew are become the relics of bygone days. It is our own time that has ended in blood and broken bricks.

Or: you can’t buy history, however much money you have.

All serious historians agree that the Apollo programme of the 1960s and early 1970s was the highpoint of western civilisation.