Oh, I see now. What a poor sweet naive child I was . I thought the Meghan Harry thing might eventually end. But it won't, will it. It's going to be wrapped up and bundled into the culture war.
It's made for it really. Young metropolitan international couple vs traditional national establishment, turbocharged by celebrity.
Fuck my fucking life mate. This will be so tedious.
Amazing that they found something even more boring to wrap the culture war around than trade rules.
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If anything more absurd now, in the middle of the pandemic, than it would have been anyway. So in some scenarios you'll have to cover your face and in others you may not.
Switzerland has, in effect, given up on the concept of freedom of religion.
Thank heavens Labour U-turned on this. Now in the right place, despite the unseemly wobble. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
I'm baffled by why it happened though. The party has built a clear position on austerity measures, so why did it falter? Points to a troubling lack of confidence.
Laughably naive I know, but the pro-Corbyn lot might also like to have a little chat with themselves about why they spent the last two weeks demanding the leadership support a Tory austerity narrative.
Sunday Telegraph here, loyally transcribing the latest Downing Street-approved lies from a half brain-dead David Frost. I hope its journos get a government pension.
The government chose the arrangements whose effects we are currently seeing. It is the precise consequences of the actions it has taken, of which it was repeatedly warned. Whining about his own deal make him looks deranged and inadequate.
There is so Brexit connection to the vaccine. We authorised *while in transition*, when EU law still applied. And EU law allowed us to act before EMA authorisation.
Oh yes. The ship of Theseus bit in Wandavision was terribly beautiful. It did a right little number on me.
Also: I got Scarlet Witch in costume. Incredibly pleased with this. Everyone should always wear their costumes, they're design classics. It irritates me when they don't.
I do however feel a little let down by the Pietro stuff.
Brutal batch of front pages for No.10 this morning. Fucking up right across the spectrum of news.
A lot of the responses to this are 'but the polls'. The polls do not exist irrespective of events. When the govt was catastrophically fucking up the pandemic response, they were very tight. When they delivered the vaccine effectively, they were not.
They change with events, which is why events and the coverage of them matters.
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Still time to sign up for the event. Too late, unfortunately, to get the wine to go with it - but if you've a bottle stashed away, break it open.
Wine and I had rather a disagreement yesterday, following an overly enthusiastic embrace on Tuesday night. But we have now mended the relationship and will be eagerly engaging with each other this evening.