My post of 23 March 2023 noted that the UK Passport Office website included the “X-Clacks-Overhead” header referencing Sir Terry Pratchett’s “Clacks”, a technology in the fictional Disc World much like the telegraph (or internet) of our world.
I noticed today that the independent Passport Office website has now been swallowed by the all encompassing “gov.uk” mega site. A pity. Neither the gov.uk site itself, nor any other HMG website I can find, now appears to include the header. So, some humourless bureaucrat in the Cabinet Office (for I suspect the fault lies there) has decided that the reference is frivolous and unnecessary.
Wouldn’t have happened on my watch……