Today I'm making a maqluba. Normally I make way too much, so I need to be careful not go go overboard
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Yeah. Funny how just when we all thought Farage had been forgotten, he returns like a bad smell
RE: https://mstdn.social/users/EmmaKennedy/statuses/110779453082419331
RE: https://mstdn.social/users/EmmaKennedy/statuses/110779453082419331
Emma Kennedy (@[email protected])
Again, I am left flabbergasted that one man's beef with his bank has become a matter of national importance. Farage is like the Pied Piper when it comes to the News Cycle. Whistle and they follow.
@IHPower that's your just desserts
This country is a problem to visit for international academics.
We recently heard about an African academic who struggled to get, and then finally obtained after a lot of hassle, a UK visa to attend a conference
It turns out that they change planes in Paris - so they need a transit visa. Which can only be obtained in advance.
So they need a whole new set of interviews to get a visa to France when they're not even leaving the airport.
Because, predictably, #Brexit.
We recently heard about an African academic who struggled to get, and then finally obtained after a lot of hassle, a UK visa to attend a conference
It turns out that they change planes in Paris - so they need a transit visa. Which can only be obtained in advance.
So they need a whole new set of interviews to get a visa to France when they're not even leaving the airport.
Because, predictably, #Brexit.
@neil I thought a super injunction was where we all deny the Rule of Law
Someone many years ago told me that the whole of Coventry city centre is a piece of art, with many different places themselves being pieces of art and containing pieces of art. Fractal art, in a way
I didn't understand what he meant. I think I do now.
I didn't understand what he meant. I think I do now.
@mikemathia I happen to believe that there are many people like me - who are unable to open tins of peaches without belting out the words to that song
Apparently Sunak thinks there is somehow a "proportional and pragmatic" response to climate change.
The man is a menace.
The man is a menace.