It is all part of the culture wars as you say and the Telegraph laps this sort of crap up. I’m convinced now the Torygraph is no longer a Tory paper but a Reform paper.
And talking of bitcoin grifters. 25 years in jail for this character
https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2024/mar/28/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-sentencing-live-updates
Strange comment given the FTSE hit an 11 month high today. I can say that the UK stock market is unexciting and cant see sustained growth as we have seen in the last 20 years but its non volatile and I would rather be in that direction than hight risk assets and punts.
As somebody who has grown up with the county game and have always supported the county team being asked to follow a franchise side with whom I have no empathy is a non starter. The 100 therefore for me is not an option.
The Hyderabad v Mumbai game was incredible. 277 played 246!
I remember when 170 was a good score in the John Player League (40 overs) and 240 was a winning score in the Gillette Cup Final (60 overs)
Finished it at the weekend. We really enjoyed it and as you say an ending to discuss. Our only beef was that sometimes it was difficult to hear the dialogue but that might be our ears ageing.