Lindsay Clark

I saw Various Napoleons at the Town & Country Club before they were famous

Ok so people are contacting me about this story stressed about what has happened to their pensions, asking me if I have any more information. I'll be putting together another story soon.

New Capita-run civil service pension portal full of errors : Awarded a £239M contract, outsourcer apologizes for any inconvenience to 1.5M members

The Capita-run civil services pension portal is strewn with errors and appears to be malfunctioning. Users doubt it has been tested or proofread. The outsourcer has apologised. 1/2 www.theregister.com/2025/12/03/c...

a scuba diver is kneeling down next to a large fish in the ocean Alt: a scuba diver is kneeling down next to a large fish in the ocean as fish blocks the camera

I made some fish tacos tonight.

But they just ignored them and swam away :(

you've picked the right day, it was grim on Monday

I'm trying to guess which bit. The south coast of West Penwith? Roseland Peninsula? Doesn't look like the north coast because of the sand bar, but I could be wrong

What happens when you borrow billion of dollars to build stuff for customers who don't yet have the money to pay you? Fuck around and find out.

Black Basta claims it's selling off stolen Capita data No worries, outsourcer only handles government tech contracts worth billions

The Public Accounts Committee had already raised concerns that Capita planned to cut staff after winning the £239 million contract in 2023, months after the outsourcer suffered a massive data breach. 2/2 www.theregister.com/2023/04/18/c...

New Capita-run civil service pension portal full of errors : Awarded a £239M contract, outsourcer apologizes for any inconvenience to 1.5M members

The Capita-run civil services pension portal is strewn with errors and appears to be malfunctioning. Users doubt it has been tested or proofread. The outsourcer has apologised. 1/2 www.theregister.com/2025/12/03/c...

I'm amazed this isn't a bigger story

Christopher Robin read at the North end of Pooh, and Rabbit hung his washing on the South end

Subway

I do get where you're coming from on that

Is Die Hard a German movie?

What a wonderful story - and a beautiful illustration of the power of the arts.

Great writing expands our imagination. It helps us to see the world in new ways.

And that has consequences that can never be measured by "average starting salaries" or "contribution to GDP".

small child wearing a coat and a pair of very oversized adult shoes

Little titch
Cyril Bernard

Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Beatles + Big George Martin. Ringo seated. Paul standing. Big George and John also seated. George seated (i think) pouring tea.

This one needs trumpets and crowds pf angels. Maybe the angels can have the trumpets to save time?

Its only George, in his fluffy coat, pouring tea! Look closely and he’s using a strainer. I bet he brought his own! A magical moment.

Anything by Queen. "It's a kinda Magic" or "One vision" the worst offenders.

Right, this is the thing, "the Budget is not honest", okay, sure, I'm with you, "because they made things seem worse than they are" - are you on glue?

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social I hope this finds you

"Retired construction boss"

I thought that when I saw the front page of The Sun this morning.

Kemi Badenoch - one of the many, many politicians since Margaret Thatcher to talk about learning from Margaret Thatcher who, IDK, maybe they saw a meme about her one time?

David, we've talked about this

UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B OBR says the scheme will cost £600M a year with no identified savings The UK government has finally put a £1.8 billion price tag on its digital ID plans – days after the minister responsible refused to name a figure.…

UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B

She is so profoundly intellectually incurious that I find myself fascinated how she ever learnt how to *speak*.

🙏🙏

I'm sure the revenue from flag sales will more than compensate

Morgan Stanley thinks you should short Oracle Single-name CDS are so hot right now

This is good by @robinwigglesworth.ft.com What I don't get is why investors were not a bit more circumspect when Oracle announced its Q1 RPOs ("a career event," one analyst said) when it was obvious OpenAI didn't yet have the money. It still doesn't. www.ft.com/content/d2fd...