Maybe this link will explain how “the Government” is defined in the UK system: https://www.parliament.uk/about/how/role/relations-with-other-institutions/parliament-government/.

She’s been wearing skin-covered gloves for years, either fingerless or with the tips cut off. I think these ones have the tips cut off; the nails aren’t attached to the gloves. Speculation has been that it’s to conceal tattoos or scars.  

Parliament isn’t the Government though. Parliament comprises Government members and Opposition members. Members of the opposition are not part of the government. 

Ugh, double post. 

I was wondering the same thing. Clicked through to the Guardian article and did some searching, and apparently Iván Diaz Mathé worked with Lee Scratch Perry on a record released in 2019? The cursory parenthetical way Scratch is mentioned in this article is so odd, and it confused me rather than adding clarifying…

I’m in Barbados and we started the new year with the surge after months of zero local cases. Since the start of 2021 we’ve had more cases that we had in the whole of 2020. It’s really quite infuriating. 

The squirrel considers herself to be super-sweet, y’all. She didn’t mean to make anyone feel as if she was hurting their feelings.

I was thinking the same thing. It’s not Clooney telling the story that irks me even, it’s the hyperbolic (to borrow their own expression) Jez has conveyed it.

About two thirds of the mango usage this season has been due to Dave. Dave really really really likes mango.

Genuinely curious: if a store sells food and household items (paper towels, household cleaners, that kind of thing) does that tip it over from grocery store to supermarket, or is it the inclusion of the additional services that does that? 

Awesome! it’s been a while since Jez had a design update that everyone could complain about. You know what? I don’t hate it. There have been past redesigns that were much harder to get used to. This one is fine. It’s fine.

Looking forward to this movie even more now after this review. 

I just want to thank you for that delightful and evocative use of the word “lumbered”.

Their work wasn’t submitted this year and won’t be submitted in future. What I gather from their Twitter thread is that after what happened with their longlisting last year, the furore around it, and the statement re a new policy “around gender fluid, transgender and transgender non-binary writers”, their publisher,…

Umm, let’s not.

I was appalled when I saw that clip and further appalled when the [initial] news coverage I saw reported it as “President Trump refuses to condemn white supremacists” as opposed to, say, “President Trumps tells white supremacists to get ready for action”. That’s not even a dog whistle, it’s a fucking bullhorn, and it…

I find Adriene’s personality in her videos charming (and it felt like the personality she shows in her videos definitely came through in this interview). I’ve tried a few other YouTube yoga instructors and the one who really hit the sweet spot for me is SarahBeth of SarahBethYoga: https://www.youtube.com/user/SarahBet…

Clover, I’m going to miss you on Jez so fucking much. 

This was a delightful read in every single way.

Pettiness.