He was due to give evidence in the civil case the family have initiated against the state

I love that it’s been like 10 years since I read the books but seeing that monkey ignited something visceral in me (as did Iorek but for the opposite reasons!)

Yep, forgiveness =/= redemption. It is possible for someone to forgive the murder of a loved one as part of *their* grieving process without absolving someone of their crime. Yet reading the whole sequence of events of this courtroom it’s like everyone saw forgiveness from one person and said “yes, this is an easy…

The issue is when the tabloids interfere with your life, i.e. publishing private letters or, I dunno, chasing your car into a horrendous collision leaving your sons without their mother.

What I love is that clearly she’s a bit nervous in front of the camera hence the talking at a million miles an hour, but as soon as she talks about her job she’s down to business and clearly she can handle the pressure. I found her annoying up to now but this episode I was like #teamRosie

I look forward to the next instalment of “I’m an adult and I can do what I want, I no longer live under your roof MOM so no longer have to live by your rules”

Approaching 30 I still have recurring nightmares about having to resit the British equivalent of the SATs so this is literally my worst nightmare.

Congratulations! Thank you for your service 😊 sounds like they commemorated it in true NHS style by giving you the wrong badge!

I would not expect someone to have a full grip on their new job 2 weeks in, my company didn’t even have my name correct on the system at that point! As for being talked down to, people forget they were once the newbie, try not to take it to personally.

My boyfriend and I were discussing this, especially having binged the entire show from season 1 last Christmas when we had the flu, it’s noticeable how much less of a dick he is these days. I get the feeling that he really didn’t like Mel and Sue (and they did not like him) so there was some animosity there. And to be…

I bet he writes “definitely” as “defiantly” as I often see on my Facebook feed

As a teen I had a lot of neurosurgery, and at one point got an infection in my brain fluid which tested positive for p.acnes (another name for the bacteria you mention). It was caused by general contamination from my skin but my teen self was like “ugh I even have acne in my brain”

She's like Catherine in Veep, stood in the corner recording everything and everyone's forgotten she's there.

Remember when Michelle Obama ruined everything by wearing a sleeveless dress?

The opioid crisis is a whole other kettle of fish with many factors involved, mostly to do with America’s fucked up healthcare system. I’m not here to defend the pharma industry I’m just speaking from my experience with drug trials and the regulations we’re supposed to follow. 

Sure, maybe, but I imagine theres also data we don't have access to publicly, because I can't see them reacting this way (execs resigning) if there was nothing wrong with their branded product. 

Ok, but as someone who works in pharma, specifically in the drug development side of things, this is a pretty standard response to unexplained deaths and serious adverse events directly linked to a product. Just because vaping is cool* doesn’t mean that industry caution should be thrown out of the window at the…

Except the nutters are now frothing at the mouth and calling for a US-style appointed supreme court system because merit-based systems are big meany dumb dumbs and it’s not fair!

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Lady Hale! State-educated, 1 of only 6 women in her class at Cambridge, top scorer when she took the Bar.