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That looks like it could (partially) be an artifact of a policy change:

>Note: We have changed how we publish advisories. We no longer roll all internally identified memory safety vulnerabilities into a single CVE and are now issuing an advisory for every individual bug.

Either that or it's running PHP

>and likewise England play international rugby, including against Wales and Scotland.

Except when they play as part of the British & Irish Lions!

Style Assist is mainly for articles written by journalists that are employed by third-party news organisations (who own the UK's local news outlets) but are subsidised by the BBC - these people are "local democracy reporters".

LDRS articles are made free to everyone in the scheme (including the BBC), but because the content is written primarily for their home news org the articles that end up being published by the BBC need to be modified to comply with the BBC's editorial guidelines and for style reasons.

Hence, Style Assist.

>There's even some talk of a potential Loony-Bin alliance.

Nah, never going to happen. There's history between Binface and the Loonies... and they're a lot more right-wing than people often think they are

>Ultimately, whether he would be allowed to write "Count Binface" as his name on the registration documents would depend on what the Electoral Commission decides. I had a look last week, but couldn't find their rules.

One can stand for election using any name that one is "commonly known by".

>If he goes into the parliament building without his costume, it would be a bit awkward if, say, they were required to address him by his Count Binface alias.

Members of Parliament aren't allowed to address each other by name in the Commons chamber.

All debate must be addressed to the Speaker (or Deputy Speaker if one of them are chairing the debate).

References to other members are made in the form of "the X member for Y constituency", where X is:

- "honourable" (the default);

- "right honourable" if they are sworn of the Privy Council (i.e. they've been a minister in the past);

- "learned and honourable member" (a qualified lawyer); or

- "gallant and honourable member" (somebody who has served in the armed forces).

>Only applies to EU citizens' personal data

That's not true.

The GDPR applies to the personal data of anyone physically in the EU, to the extent that the data are processed[0] while they are in the EU.

It also applies to the personal data of anybody anywhere in the world if the data controllers are based in the EU.

The reason why it's different to US sanctions/export controls is that the GDPR doesn't say you can't work with certain people in certain circumstances because of who they are in order to punish those people for whatever reason. It's fundamentally to protect the data subjects.

[0] which includes collection of said data

Mid-thirties Brit here. I've never owned a credit card, neither has my partner.

All of our card transactions are with a debit card.

I've never needed instant-access debt so it's not really an attractive proposition. Perhaps the added consumer protection rules could be worth it, but it's not been an issue to date.

>judgment vs. judgement

In British English "judgment" without the 'e' is generally only used for talking about judicial rulings, whereas most other uses of the word contain the 'e'.

>We'll see. It's not like police unions are making life better for citizens.

The police aren't allowed to join a union

The author is a former civil servant. I think it's safe to assume he knows that writing to his MP is an option...