“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

I think it's explained in their policy document: Beer Gardens Count As Outside

They also haven't reckoned on the impact of their last round of headcount reductions and long term pay cuts. Huge amounts of expertise was driven out and now they need more people than before to try and be as effective

It's all "logistics are gay" until your paycheck is late or rations are low.

Only if he couldn't find a handy Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal

TBH I think Dunking is perfectly approriate for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, provided we also Egg them on.

Oh oh Bear! Oh! Oh Bear!
Won't you spare me over for another year!

Oregon's stubborn resistance to Texas National Guard troops invading reflects the elitist and closed-minded belief that the people of Portland have nothing to learn from the people of Texas

--Ezra Klein, tomorrow in the New York Times

I had a text from the gp earlier asking me to phone to make an appointment. At whuch point i then had to deal with a receptionist who seemed personally offended by the idea that i had a job and couldn't be available all day to wait for a phone call from the Dr.

So it was *her* who put that grafitii in the toilets at homocide?

Is this your first watch through of The Wire? I'm so envious!

Re Short Money: how much does x charge these days?

She would certianly never say please

A work of art

People who write about politics had their brains properly broken by the madness of the latter days of the various Tory governments, and now are addicted to writing about gossip and conjecture. And it's not helping the already low-quality information landscape we live in.

The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.

It's fascinating how there are still replies on this, and indeed on every post about the decline of the Tories, with people on the left and centre-left people going 'good'. Honestly, I don't know how big of a warning sign you need that the death of the Tory party is bad for your politics!

People going "America was always fascist" or "it's been like this since the 1980s" or making related claims don't seem to realize it, but they're telling everyone that nothing different is happening, nothing worse than usual, so if you weren't up in arms about eg 2013, you shouldn't be now either.

In 8 months time we *need* Badenoch and Truss to start a podcast covering the arguments that neither of them has *ever* made even the most minor of errors.

"Hordes of overseas workers still in government employ" Not difficult to see where this is going.

It makes sense if you see them as being part of The Birds Mythos

That 37bn figgure refered to the entire NHS budget for covid testing etc- it wasn't the app, despite what the media made out.
There have been 2 detailed national audit office reports into the programme. Their findings, and criticisms are very different from the media story