Yeah this is my life basically. My wife is indian, her parents immigrants to the UK, and yet they vote Conservative, and pro-Brexit. Also they’re awful homophobes. It’s taken a long time for my wife to shake her guilt and stop attending every family function they tell her to show up and “save face” at, but we are all…

I did not know this was the origin of that sentence, thanks for sharing.

Solid advice. I am a seasoned toker but I switched to vapes a while back and they definitely offer a more controlled high, both oil and flower. I ponied up for the Firefly 2 after Gizmodo’s stellar review and it’s nice to be able to choose between being super baked and actually just having a good restful sleep…

This is not factually accurate, although the largest percentage of religious state schools in the UK are Church of England (22%) the majority of state schools in the UK are not affiliated to any religion at all (65%). This particular school is a private school, and the numbers on those aren’t as readily available,…

Thank you, as a Londoner it’s good to hear some genuine perspective on this issue.

This. I have worked across the Middle East, including Saudi, Kuwait, Qatar etc, and as a Brit who grew up in IRA times with a dad serving in Northern Ireland in the military, I’ve never quite been able to shake the “face covered = threat” feeling. I live in London now so I see veiled faces all the time and I’m…

Yeah all of this. And also the fact he mentions his wife’s kid from a previous relationship is “nerdy” but doesn’t do well in school, but his own biological kids are super smart? Totally unnecessary information to the rest of the story/question. Guy sounds like a jackass honestly. Get into therapy pronto. For yourself…

I live next to a professional garage that does servicing and MOT’s. It’s open 6 days a week 9 - 5pm and doesn’t bother me at all. And I work from home a lot. So no, I can’t imagine it’s that big of a deal, especially if he’s not an asshole about the hours he’s in there.

cladding is external, insulation is internal. So what you see is the cladding, and behind that is the insulation.

Truth be told it’s a Labour run council that’s initiating this program of cladding removal in Camden, in part as a posturing maneuver to shame the Conservatives for their appalling inaction (not that I’m opposed - I’m pro-Labour and it’s disgraceful social housing has been allowed to slide in standards for so long in…

This.

I also believe this conversation needs to happen, as a trans ally and gay lady. I absolutely see this kind of privileged labelling happen in the queer community in London, in a selective, tokenistic way. For lots of people, gender non-conformity isn’t a choice you can slip in and out of in the right setting for…

In the U.K. it’s still illegal but we’re hoping Canada might change that, what with the old Monarchic ties and all ;)

Wife and I made it our Christmas movie last year, we plan to make it a tradition!

But he’s read Jezebel since 2009! Clearly you’re the problem ;)

Thanks for having the patience to write exactly what I was thinking. I can’t really imagine much worse in a partner than someone who spent their entire 20's erasing any semblance of selfhood, individuality or frankly personality to become some ideal “woman catcher”. Live for yourself first or not at all, guy.

What. The. Fuck.

It’s predicted that 85% of internet traffic will be to video within the next 4 years. This isn’t a new phenomenon - it’s a byproduct of news being consumed within the confines of social media rather than on the home page. The guardian and Al Jazeera’s AJ+are great examples of this trend with their Facebook video…

I don’t know about all these celebrity “bearding” rumours in this day and age but Harry Styles is at least bisexual and in certain circles in the UK it’s very well known he was dating British DJ Nick Grimshaw. I also thought I’d heard somewhere Kendall might be gay, but I feel like the Kardashians would encourage her…

I was 40 miles away, in Manchester, filming Jo’s friend and former Labour party leader Gordon Brown this morning. Honestly, I’m pretty shaken up that she was so brazenly targeted.