AndrewPaulWood

Much as it turns my stomach to say so, yes Trump deserves a modicum of credit in getting the Gaza peace process to this point, strongarming Bibi to the table and using Egypt, Qatar, Türkiye, and Saudi Arabia to lock in Hamas. But that is all.

Breaking news: Academy Award-winning actress Diane Keaton has died at age 79.

Keaton may be best known for her 1977 starring role in the rom-com classic “Annie Hall,” directed by and costarring Woody Allen. She won her first Academy Award for the performance. https://wapo.st/4nIx6D7

No. NZ doesn't have a liberal party (that's Australia) and while there is a conservative party it's never made it anywhere close to Parliament. The National Party is Neolib centre-right but more or less socially liberal, however it's currently in coalition with minor libertarian and populist parties

Um, no. You're in the middle of the full-blown fascist overthrow of democracy. We've just got a case of garden variety conservative neoliberalism that probably won't survive the next election.

This perplexes me given that, with the exception of NT, Australian speed zones are similar. 100 on the open road, 50 in built up areas, 40 for school and high pedestrian areas, 10 in mixed zones, and variations for specific road types. What is she on about?

It gives me Germania vibes, and I'm fairly sure I could guess the short list of tenders. Architectural traditionalists get a bad rap but a handful of them are opportunist jackasses.

Sure Jan

No, Noel Leeming. Either you need it to be perfect or you need it to be done perfectly. English grammar has enough bullshit to put up with.

You're fine. It's absolutely ok to make a gentle joke about it, especially under the circumstances. Some of the responses though - urgh! They must be young enough that funerals are still relatively unusual events.

Government mulls sell-down of investment in Chorus debt Nicola Willis says the Crown no longer needs to own these securities.

They never learn and will be goneburger next election www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...

With a bayonet

I'm so intrigued, but I know my Spanish probably isn't up to it.

Did the Holy Father also get chronic diarrhoea? Asking for a friend.

Error leads to $7000 painted mayoral portrait of Tory Whanau, rather than photo A mistake by council staff led to a portrait of Wellington's outgoing Mayor being painted, rather than photographed.

$7000 for a high-quality portrait that supports an artist strikes me as much more of a bargain than $2000 for a photographic portrait (that's the real scandal if you ask me) www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

In fact, it was the company owned by the obsessively micromanaging couple, so that's completely different, obviously.

Perhaps not contradictory, but definitely historically and contextually simplistic.

Or indeed, what's the point of getting exercised about the fact that someone terrible likes the same thing you do, because all it means is that it's good and you agree it's good. Unless you're Jonathan Jones dismissing Pratchett as not being literature and then you're just an irideemable twat.

I find this sort of thing utterly pointless. People usually don't see themselves the way you see them. Books aren't magic and don't make anyone a better person ever. People can enjoy things without agreeing with all of it. If it's well-written you might not even notice the politics of the writer.

Same. And there's all the gross stuff about the "niece"

I think they started out earnestly enough, but once they became high profile the grift started.

As passive-aggressively as possible

Dammit God, don't take Dolly and leave us that asshole Trump

I have my suspicions that by analogy to the similar hair of the "gorgoneion" at Bath and the Bocca della Verità that it's more likely some kind of water deity than Medusa per se. Perhaps associated with Rhenus Pater.

Well, not entirely. The Medieval English "chewet" sometimes included soft curds with minced beef, the Medieval French "tourte de viande" sometimes included grated Gruyere, and the German "Fleischpasteten" sometimes included Emmental or Limburger with shredded beef or veal.

I mean, it was literally invented in Scotland.

Then may I suggest visiting an optometrist

I mean, yeah, we predominantly kinda are. Although probably more Anglo-Celtic than Anglo per se.