Well, except for constant ads for their own programs/BBC radio/Red nose day etc...

I'm assuming you don't work for the Met. The London Metropolitan police are notorious for all kinds of borderline (and in some cases outright illegal) behaviour.
Personally I think that all police officers should have a camera built into their tac vest wirelessly streaming back to a secure server at all times when they are on duty. It would eliminate a lot of "he said, she said" by providing a video record of what happened from the officer's point of view. After all, if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear...

Oh what a surprise, we both got Troll mods. I love how rabid Apple fanbois get when they believe their darling is under attack. It's such a beautiful mirror of Apple's extremely agressive defensiveness - no dissent can be permitted under any circumstances.
And trust me, if I was trolling you would know about it.

Having been picked on at the start, Apple has become one of the biggest bullies on the block. It's as if the Ugly Duckling rather than go swanning (heh) around saying "Look how pretty I am" decided "Right, now I'm 4x the size of those bastards who picked on me. Time for some payback" and went on a revenge spree.

Sucessive UK governments have become addicted to legislating increasingly petty levels of people's behaviour. Rather than looking at and tackling the root causes of mass levels of anti-social behaviour they have been focussing on the headline-grabbing band-aid solutions of making each and every specific incident illegal. The net effect of this is a web of at times contradictory laws. For example - if an emergency services vehicle is behind you with its sirens on you have a duty to move ot the way if at all possible. Last year a man was taken to court because his only safe option to do so involved driving through a red light. He was quite literally faced with a situation not of his own making where there was no legal option - he either "ran" the red light, drove across the pavement or obstructed and emergency services vehicle in its duty.

No useful Google results on this - can you elaborate? Might be relevant to me as I love wandering round old disused places.

Sure, which one do you think will do better, Camilla or Kate?

It's relevant because the MAFIAA have been trotting out their junk statistics to prove why they should be allowed to destroy peoples' lives for downloading a song. They have made it relevant, you don't get to just dismiss it as soon as it's turned back on them.

^^ This, a thousand times this. DLC used to be a way of extending the lifespan of a game you loved with content developed after the release, now it's either unbalanced "blag packs" or things that should have been in the original game and were very obvously kept back for post-sale double-dipping. DLC already on the disc, and all you download is an unlock code anyone? . Oh, and let's not forget the "Hose the game resale market" component that's crept into DLC - the current trend of having things like the online component non-transferable are a blatant attempt to destroy the doctrine of First Sale.

So you've missed the trend over the last few years of people digging up decades(and in some case centuries)-old incidents and demanding apologies (and of course reparations) for them? None of the people involved are still working (or even alive in many cases) but somehow we're expected to go down on one knee and apologise for their actions... The poster child of this of course is the "Reparations for slavery" industry that has grown over the last decade. Nobody alive was involved in those horrific crimes - hell nobody's parents were involved - yet still activists (and their well-fed lawyers) keep banging on that drum, keeping old wounds from healing.