[Autosave is for Wimps]

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Contactless is crap but it could be worse: Yanks suffered magstripe up to 2015

Contactless is crap but it could be worse: Yanks suffered magstripe up to 2015

Blast from the past (sorry, that'll be last night's curry)

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Want me to flash? I’m good at flashing.

Oh, and apologies for the lateness of this week’s column: it has been one of those weeks. To make up for it, here’s a flashback.

Like I said above, I’m good at flashbacks.

I wrote the following column eight years ago about the much-belated mercy killing…

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