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Mundane, draconian bureaucracy is about as British as beans on toast. HMSC is just keeping the time honoured tradition alive.

I’ve been to a lot of .gov offices in the US.

It’s always surprising to me. The most intense over the top security process I ever ran into was an agency that disbursed grants to artists.

I had to get a pass to go to the bathroom as a guest at a Google office once too.

Both institutions with nation state level security threats.