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Lateral with Tom Scott

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The Death of the National Archives

I feel like there wouldn't have been a public protest from another branch of the government. There would have just been angry memos sent back and forth between civil servants on really thin tracing paper, typed written by some hardworking secretary somewhere. My parents run a small business that is all about digital record management so they go to big companies and government workplaces to get them to do these things properly. I assure you, they might be meant to. They don't always. And I guess we haven't actually established whether which records it was, have we yet either? We got close. Okay, it's music records, right? It's like vinyl records. It is nothing to do with music and

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