Yep, a link to something more descriptive would be more useful.

My suggestion to you is to study your craft. :)

Access to a tool is a small portion of being able to use it effectively. I can give you a free table saw but you'll just cut your hand off if you don't learn how to use it.

It only seems moronic if you don't know how it's done and the only training you have is how to write code. Study design pattern for testing and deployment. Jez Humble is a good source.

Evolutionary database change takes planing. Rapid deploy doesn't mean there's no thought given to planning outcomes.

Layers and layers. Many small batches do not prevent defects, they make them faster to find and correct. You are correct that many small releases are required to complete a feature, but that means early feedback from E2E test and requestor testing if that was the right future anyway so that you can stop working on a bad idea. Just because a feature is requested, it does not follow that it should be blindly implemented.

What's your offsite backup method to protect against fires?

Any uncontrolled animal may pose an immediate risk. The police do not need ANY help from "small over reaching laws". They have all of the resources of the government behind them. If this law was inacted in the States, I would just hope that the SCOTUS would kill it off. Of course, the UK has many laws that we American would probably chafe under. That's the difference between being a citizen and a subject. The difference between having a Bill of Rights to hold the government in check and only THINKING you have rights. As the great poet Johnny Rotten once said, "God save the queen!"