The long term plan is to build thousands of flats. Sadly, that offers no direct benefit to putting on a decent show every Saturday/Friday/Thursday (Sky will delete as appropriate).Only mistake in that article is the assumption at the end that there is some kind of strategy. Unless it's a magic invisible strategy. Nobody's plan is to throw away £250m, even if they can afford to. Imagine the good use that amount of cash could have been put to.
Not so sure, there are many (probably most) governments around the world that would rate worst than that.Any other business would have shut up shop...