All this keyboardery reminds of the time I was there, in front of an eager audience of around 1,000 Japanese folks at the University of Tokyo and the presentation laptop decided that, yes, now is the time to request a password. Inputting these vital details wasn't helped by the keyboard having gone kanji-fied. Before I knew it, there were about 100 people on stage trying to save me from a terrible conjunction of IT and language. Eventually a small chap emerges through the crowd and gives it a good poke and, forgive my Japanese – voilà, the desktop. He bows a little and exits stage left. I'd supposed the guy who fixed things to be a very well-dressed IT guy, it turned out later he was actually the Minister for Something Grandiose. Imagine, on the other hand, what would happen, if Liz Truss tried to do IT support.