So do I and I’ve been reading MW‘s stuff for decades, since we read our yachting news on dead trees and he had a fortnightly column in Y&Y. He is just a gossip columnist and if he assured us the Sun was shining, I’d take a damn good look out of the window to check for myself.
"who doesn't need Dalton's paycheck"
Are you so sure of that? Why do you imagine he abandoned journalism/blogging to return to working in finance in London?
On the other hand, the dates make good economic sense for Barcelona. Get in those extra tourists outside the European holiday season, not peak season when it is packed out anyway.
I’m not sure less daylight is really an issue since the TV god fixes timing anyway. However back when Barcelona was mooted, I looked at some public weather records and it was clear that, at least for the year for which I had data, sea breeze was reliable in early October but crapping out by the...
Bummer. Similar shenanigans are going on with AirBnB bookings coinciding with the staging of Eurovision in Liverpool. For anyone who doesn't know about Eurovision, ignorance is bliss.
Changes to the calendar for staging the America's Cup and other supporting regattas were expected. The two-month racing period initially set down for May - June 2024 is now expanded to three months and is now pushed back to August - October 2024. The reasons for the change are to avoid a clash...
I appreciate many of the links SR posts. If they aren't interesting 1 minute in, I stop reading or watching. Nobody here is obliged to process everything posted. There will not be a test later.
I've also found that if facts are presented that contradict what he's posted, he generally takes that...
And UK. Government goes on about personal choice on risk, which is all very well except masks are at least as much about reducing the risk we cause to others.