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A floppy filled with software worth thousands of francs: Techie can't take it, customs won't keep it. What to do?

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Re: The trouble with the British...

> The latest ruse seems to be to start waving the Union Flag at every opportunity as a means of pacifying the populace.

It's far more banal than that: it's copying the Americans. Some media PR pipsqueak with zero imagination has finally noticed - only 30 years after the fact - that most American politicians have a flag in their offices and has decided for 'reasons' that ours must do the same.

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