Because the software stays on the key you can use it in any Internet-connected computer and you’ll stay connected until you close the software, even if you unplug the key. A bundled VPN client to get you the rest of the way (the Veritoken just provides the connection) would be an improvement, but the Veritoken is a good start when even logging on remotely is so convoluted.

You’d expect the creator Adam Reed just wrote down whatever left-field idea came into his head, but the scripting is as tight as a drum. From the one offs to the running gags, no joke overstays its welcome and aside from a few core characters, you have no idea where the story’s going to go next. Subversive, underground, razor sharp and hilarious.

Coverage of September 11 would undoubtedly have set new records in editorial volume, but have you read anywhere that the now 15-year-old bombing in Iraq has resulted in the destruction of ruins and artifacts from the Mesopotamian era — the rise of human civilisation?