Yeah, Marber didn't say Stoppard turned down an offer to write it. Was just a film he liked.

Marber does not say Stoppard claimed to have been offered it. Just that he liked it.

Patrick Marber says Stoppard really liked Jaws a lot and watched it often. Don't know whether that also plays into it.

I read that and thought the same. It repeats the "expert" advising everyone to vacuum their entire house every day.

This is familiar from my time in Militant. We were building a mass movement (liverpool council, LPYS) but at the same time not wanting to do that because time to strike wasn't quite right.

I'd assumed "Popular" would be somewhere in that mix, but now I'm thinking of my own radical early 80s youth - no, can't remember any specific.

Apart from the Tooting Popular Front, of course.

I know it's not realistic in plenty of UK areas, but there are plenty of places that *could* be re-thought.

(btw, I didn't know about the parking on pavements ban you've got - wish we had that in England.)

Yeah, often standard in England too, especially places built up before cars a thing. However, I do agree with OP - this can be improved with the right effort, by restructuring existing spaces to favour walking/wheelchairs/mobility scooters/cycles (and now robots, I suppose!).

Taken across lots of accounts, though, likely to be a pattern which *does* tally with real world. I'd say this feature warrants investigation than outright dismissal. My phone sometimes thinks I'm somewhere that I'm not, but look at my location data over a month, discard outliers? Bang on.

"non-US fake MAGA" is well documented (e.g. "warm water port"), as is existence of bots. The location feature can't be used to confidently state origin of an individual account. But I'd be interested to see a graph of MAGA vs non-MAGA supposedly US accounts. I predict it won't be surprising.

<entire nation takes 1 step back>

I saw it recently (TalkingPicturesTV). Excellent stuff around the cathedral environs, marred by some actors getting in the shots, wittering on about stuff.