Flamethrowers are really stupid when you are firing 3000 people

Every Wednesday I stroll past the news editor’s desk in SBP Towers sometime in the afternoon and he asks if I’ve got a column for him. I’ve never failed to deliver yet he still doesn’t trust me. Yet, for this week’s column, it felt particularly good because I got to say:

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