Go to Ireland. England is a short, cheap flight away and they’re not criminalising abortion any time soon here (thank you Stella Creasy). If you want a place to endorse good policies and/or politicians, you could go to Canada, Germany, France, Sweden, etc. In the Americas, you could go to Colombia, Mexico and/or Peru.…
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The article summarises (poorly) a talk he gave for NT Live, which has been linked earlier in the thread. RuPaul’s Drag Race was certainly not the only source he used to prepare for the role, and the reference to it was both respectful and somewhat tongue in cheek. I promise you, he’s not a bad actor (especially in…
And the character he’s playing (Prior Walter) is a former drag queen. I’ve seen this production and Garfield is incredible in the role.
Agreed. Lady Hale’s judgment (of the UK Supreme Court) is worth reading: https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/charlie-gard-190617.pdf
I’m sure the reason is medically related (the hospital is understandably refusing to comment). Probably they couldn’t transfer him (it’s a long journey from central London to Kent) or keep him at home without pain. It wouldn’t be about fleeing the country; they wouldn’t be able to do that.
The hospital and Charlie’s Guardian have decided upon the treatment that is in the best interests of the child. They have, very sensibly, decided not to comment on the specifics to the media.
It’s not like that. Great Ormond Street Hospital has acted entirely appropriately. They concluded that his epileptic encephalopathy was such that his brain damage was severe and irreversible, and that the experimental treatment in the US was potentially painful but incapable of achieving anything positive for him. The…
I’ve been pissed for a solid year now, since the Brexit vote. It did get worse after the US election, that’s for sure. There’s no hope now, y’see.
Well, Trump wears an American flag pin.
I think we may be talking about different hats - if it’s top picture middle woman I agree. (If it’s roses hat by the flower wall I could go either way but am skeptical).
It’s all about shapes and flourishes. Novelty hats, like the spaghetti one, would never be worn by aristocrats. They might splash out on a tilted hat, like the octopus hat (which is clearly the most expensive hat featured here) but that hat could be worn for another 5 years.
I love my hats, but they take up so much space. We live in a small country.
Oh hell no. Flower hat is new money. First picture, woman on the left, she’s properly posh. That hat was bought from Peter Jones in 1997 and it’s still perfectly good.
This is a common misperception - the Crown Estates have always belonged to the Crown. George III surrendered control of the revenues to the state in 1760. In return, he was relieved of the obligation of personally paying for the obligations of the state and was promised an income.
They don’t own most of the land from which they derive an income (they own properties like Sandringham privately). The Crown Estates and the Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster belong to the Crown, which is not the same as the monarch and is best thought of as the state or the people.
The Crown Estates belong to the Crown. The Crown is not the same thing as the Queen. The Crown is a very complicated concept, but is best thought of as the state or the people. If we got rid of the monarchy, we would have to pay them off, but the Crown Estates (and the Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster) belong to the…
Yeah, I don’t think I could handle seeing Blasted. I was actually kind of bored by Cleansed, even though it was much gorier than 1984. I just didn’t like the production as it never explained why Tinker was doing what he was doing, and without that it pretty much became torture porn.
Yes, indirectly. Until the Victorian era, it was called the First Gallery, but they renamed it the Dress Circle because you were expected to wear evening dress. In some theatres it’s called the Royal Circle (especially if there’s a Royal Box) but that doesn’t matter much any more, since our royals are all philistines…
Most theatres in the West End have at least three levels: the stalls (orchestra), dress or grand circle (mezzanine) and the upper circle (balcony). It looks like theatres on Broadway are split between two and three levels: http://www.broadwayworld.com/seatingcharts/