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Are there at all similar discussions about this in say Basque as with the passive voice in English?

Helen Whately says on Question Time we should be focusing on having the pandemic under control, not Dom Cummings. Yes. The reason this, as Alex Massie put it, moved from a story to a scandal, is that the government is demonstrating day after day it cares more about saving Dom Cummings' skin than get...

The Mail is asking what planet Boris is on and saying Cummings must go.

I think this is the first time we've seen Keir Starmer angry.
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Apparently, the First Secretary of State is de facto Deputy Prime Minister. So the UK would get Dominic Raab. Ah, thank you, interesting to know. Not sure how the Tories would run a leadership contest right now, though. Sure, Labour just completed theirs, but they've got different rules for leaders...

With the world on fire, the Labour leadership election finally finished yesterday, according to highly unreliable rumours. Today the Scottish deputy leadership election result was announced, with Jackie "Bomber" Ballie defeating Matt Kerr 58-42 in what is seen as a victory for the right ov...

Well that certainly sounds interesting.....

There's a couple of references to a rebellion by the Duke of Šerian, or a Barons' Rebellion (which seem to refer to the same event) a few years before the present. Was this originally backstory for something in the D&D campaign?

The first round of the Labour leadership and deputy leadership elections are over. Leader: Starmer 89 Long-Bailey 33 Nandy 31 Phillips 23 Thornberry 23 Lewis (OUT) 5 Deputy Leader: Rayner 88 Murray 34 Butler 29 Allin-Khan 23 Burgon 22 Mahmood (OUT) 3 Mahmood withdrew a while back, Lewis earlier toda...

der Moel Hebog Not an example I was expecting to see! Anyway, how much of this is to do with familiarity with the languages? I wouldn't have thought that that many Germans, even those who visit Snowdonia, know how to tell the gender of a Welsh noun. (I'm entirely confident that most English people ...

Since universal and women's suffrage, the Tories have won the support of the majority of the voters exactly once - Baldwin in 1931, when Labour had led the country into the great depression and Labour had split in two and the Liberals had split in three. And Baldwin didn't actually become PM then e...

And it looks like May doesn't even have enough support to resign.

One thing I am finding increasingly amusing in the abstract is that, in my feed at least, amongst people who are political activists, those who make anti-Brexit posts and those who make pro-Corbyn ones are basically two discrete categories, with the latter indeed tending more to say that those calli...

Yesterday, Corbyn spoke at a rally complaining that the media were hostile because they didn't ask the questions he want them to (uh-huh, you can't tell he's more used to being interviewed as the rogue backbencher than the leader, can you), and used as an example a Sky News interview lasting fourtee...

In other news, Shamina Begum has questionably legally been stripped of her British citizenship. Whatever I think of her, this strikes me as a very bad precedent, and one I suspect is mostly intended by Javid to boost his cred for the Tory leadership race by throwing red meat to the right, knowing it...

More interestingly, papers are reporting that three (named!) Tory MPs may join the IG in the next day or two. That would put them at par with the Lib Dems, which doesn't say much for either group. Also, if my calculations are right (that May needs 322 votes and would have 324) it's kind of moot unl...

A third is a cause celebre, Luciana Berger. She's been in the news recently fighting for her inalienable right to be a Labour MP - her local party attempted to hold a VONC in her due to her refusal to support any Labour policies and suspicion that they was planning to leave the party, but the VONC ...

Ryan of Tinellb wrote: ↑Sun Feb 03, 2019 7:24 am I've not heard of the Welsh one, but german in this sense has nothing to do with the German people. It's cognate with (wheat-)germ and germinate.

Ah, thank you, that makes more sense. My mistake.

A while back, I learned that it used to be a practise in English to indicate more, uh, complex relations by prefixing "Welsh" to simpler ones - eg a "first cousin once removed" who was a parent's cousin would be a "Welsh aunt" or "Welsh uncle". Yesterday, whil...

And ultimately there being no parliamentary majority for something other than no deal isn't particularly different to having one for no deal.