Allegedly a real stock photo. London genuinely can look that ludicrously British on a coronation or similar day.

The default position in any successful British venture is to sell it to overseas investors who will turn it in a shadow of itself to milk the residual goodwill.

The number 88 bus should go to Nuremberg.

Are the “clear and effective safeguards” another secretive internal process, by any chance?

If you travel halfway to your destination, then half of that, then half of that and so on, you will never get there because the police will arrest you for drink driving.

I honestly thought this was a shopping centre. If I was a shopping centre I’d ban her from the food court.

No, that’s just the privately owned water utility companies dumping untreated shit in the rivers to save money for dividends. It’s free market efficiency, we’re told.

In Manchester around Piccadilly Gardens the only remaining public toilets are in the Arndale Centre, so when the pubs empty out and that’s all closed up there are no public toilets. But there are the glass fronts of corporate offices in quiet backstreets.

The dev I know who’s most into home automation using cloud services has also fallen the hardest for “AI will build all systems and nothing will go wrong with that”. Honestly, I should become a cyber criminal in this climate.

Used to know a guy who had a Holly & Jessica shrine in his living room. Getting that para-socially obsessed with a news story is never going to be healthy.

So we were actually given the option to not leave this in the first place, but the Tories turned it down because they are vindictive cunts who probably still send their kids to Swiss finishing school to get them out of the house.

I love the sunglasses and hat on an overcast day look too. Such manly.