Looks like the rowing club in reading, opposite the Warren?

ironically this would be higher resolution if cloudflare were letting google handle redirects

I think this speaks volumes about how cynical some people have become across the board. Believe nothing, question everything, read Pravda.

And those making the financial decisions can't write or understand code anyway.

I think the best explainer is Private Eye's perennial "person decides against buying a copy of the daily telegraph" joke. Kind of sums up why a media owner wouldn't want to either.

Hallmark really have scraped the bottom of the barrel for this year's Xmas films haven't they

Huh, there I was (a Brit) thinking the US protected free speech in one of the many amendments to its constitution, I forget which one it was though...

When The Cranes Fly South. Also picked up a slightly foxed copy of Moby Dick in homesense for a fiver, which I'm promising myself I will definitely get around to reading at some point

I agree totally, I'd love to live in a country with working hospitals, schools, high quality high speed trains, utilities that didn't pump shit into the waterways etc. But I think our system is geared to short term election cycles rather than big-vision long-term stuff.

No, but it's easy to say that in the knowledge that they did win. No election is in the bag - remember the "ming vase" everyone couldn't stop talking about