Cookies

This site sets cookies only if you let it.

Cookies are small files a website stores on your device to remember you or to track how you use it. The one thing on this site that uses them is Google Analytics, which we use to count visits and see which pages are read. We only switch it on if you say yes in the box that appears on your first visit. If you say no, or do nothing, no analytics cookies are set and the site works exactly the same.

The cookies Google Analytics sets

If you say yes, Google Analytics sets these cookies on your device.

• _ga. Tells one visitor apart from another with a random ID. Lasts two years.
• _ga_NG7SZ5DSTC. Keeps track of a single visit, so that a visitor reading five pages counts as one visit, not five. Lasts two years.

These cookies do not hold your name, email address or anything you type into the site. The information they help collect, such as the pages you view, how you reached the site, your rough location from your IP address, and your browser and device type, goes to Google LLC in the United States. Google does not store your full IP address. We use the reports to understand which articles are read and where visitors come from. We do not use them for advertising. Our privacy notice has more on this.

Remembering your choice

Whichever way you answer, we keep your answer in your browser's local storage so we do not ask again on every page. That is not a tracking cookie, it only records your choice, and it clears itself after 12 months, when we will ask again.

Changing your mind

You can change your answer at any time. Press the button below and the question will appear again.

Change your choice

If you had said yes and now say no, we stop collecting from that moment, but the cookies already on your device stay until they expire or you delete them. Your browser's settings let you delete cookies and block them altogether; the ICO explains how at ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies.

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