Thanks to Bernie Mitchell for the link.
We currently get fewer public holidays (8) than just about everywhere else in Europe. Although, to be fair, we do get a bonus day if one of them (e.g. Christmas day) happens to fall on a weekend.
So, if you fancy an extra day off, have respect for the achievements of our forebears in keeping Britain free**, or just feel hard done by, add your support to the 291,000 people who have already signed this petition. At least it's a rather more sensible suggestion than this one 
The holiday would also, I hope, serve (at least to some extent) to postpone the beginning of the Christmas ordeal until mid-November: still waaaaaay too early for my liking, but a lot better than seeing Christmas-related retail pollution in September/October as we currently do.
*Scotland sets its own holidays, just to be awkward
** One could argue that it's now actually a virtual police state, but that's a different discussion
If auto manufacturers approached safety the same way that software makers handle security, we'd all be driving Ford Pintos and Yugos. And airline security would resemble the "systems" that buses use to catch fare-dodgers. Now that we've built a digital world on an insecure foundation, the solutions for security are really hard – maybe too hard. We may just need to live with the fact that computer technology is largely unsecure, so caveat utilisator.But then, judged a greater failure than DRM, or even the 'paperless office' joke, is, well, guess which operating system. Did you guess right?
