Although there is always a fig leaf of deniability that anything supernatural is occurring, things get very weird. Freya seems to have totally changed personality, Pierre starts preaching dark ...

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Finish with a shortbread chocolate tart with crème fraiche whip and fig leaf oil, Oliver’s sourdough doughnut holes with roasted strawberry mascarpone, or an affogato with brown sugar ice cream.

WHATEVER THE SELF-REPORTED AGE IS. AND YET, THEY ARE UNWILLING TO DO THAT SO TO SOME EXTENT, THEY ARE TURNING A BLIND EYE AND USING IT IS A FIG LEAF. TO ANOTHER EXTENT, THESE ARE SOME SIGNIFICANT ...

Why, you ask? For their “pro-Palestine work” through Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV), a group that’s less about Jewish voices and more about providing a flimsy fig leaf for some of the most ...

Offaly host Galway after suffering an agonising defeat in Parnell Park We've often said the Munster championship is the fig leaf that covers the GAA's embarrassment at their inability to spread ...

He will own DOGE forever, of course, but he would now have a fig leaf of deniability the next time it cuts thousands of jobs or destroys an entire agency or department. This may lessen the ...

You know something is up when the longtime deeply conservative establishment pundit David “Aw Shucks” Brooks calls for a “a comprehensive national civic uprising” against Trumpism, as he ...

If you already own your favorite perfume in three sizes—and maybe all the variations (called flankers, by the way) too—it might be time to invest in a new format altogether. Solid perfumes are ...

Perhaps this fits into the fig leaf issue I describe above? Many universities have wanted to tighten these rules and regulations after the protests of 2023 and 2024. Quite a few have. Later Update ...

With this, Trump is offering Putin a frail fig leaf of respectability. But that is not, in of itself, surely enough? So what of deal that freezes the frontlines? This may also not be in Moscow’s ...