On an eight-hour train ride I could work for six, at a conservative estimate. Preaching to the converted, I know, but recently I had to fly for reasons and it really brought it back home to me. All that waiting, queueing, walking to gates, lack of space making work impossible on the flight itself...
It's about time (no pun intended)! What a lot of these kinds of people don't understand is that it's all about *productive* time. Berlin-Paris may take 4hrs city centre to city centre by plane, but you'd be doing well to do any kind of work for more than, what, an hour of that?
Like father like son!
Wenger
Uttoxeter? I hardly knew her!
Absolutely! I am going back through my Asterix collection right now (great toilet reading). Some wonderful jokes, puns and plays on words in there that obviously went right over my head as a 10-year-old. And an amazing skill to translate them and retain the humour.
Absolutely bang on by @jonathanliew.bsky.social
The Mail calls out racism on its back page, while promoting unsubstantiated, outright racism on its front page.
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Wild!
Need a VAR check on that Marcus interjection today (he definitely said "fuck me Ben")
It‘s not, because you need certified translations of birth certificates. You also require the birth certificates of the applicant‘s grandparents. It takes time. For my children it took three months (each), and that was before what I assume will now be a massive rush.
And you don’t think there are millions of British citizens with children born abroad?
Not if you’re a citizen but you‘ve never had one before!
The JK Rowling Effect
I do wonder what the objective here is? I suppose millions more British citizens will ultimately decrease net migration by simple maths alone while also filling the coffers a little through all the applications.
There must be millions of people out there who are British citizens without even knowing. It's not like the rules are simple either (depending on when you were born, whether parents were married, etc.).
Oh wow I wasn't aware of that, sorry. Yeah so the options are lie or fork out and go through all the stress. Although I do wonder how all this will work in practice? The UK would never have known my children even exist if I hadn't applied for passports.
If you wish to exercise rights as a British citizen, e.g. live and work in the UK without restriction and stay there beyond six months, then you and your children will need a UK passport. Otherwise, it doesn't really matter.
Ah I see, yeah it does seem very unnecessary. Although the way I interpret it, you will still be able to travel to the UK on your EU passports, just you will need an ETA. You won't be blocked from entering.
Oh good, that‘s fortunate. I must say the process was excellent, and relatively quick (although, you‘re right, there may be a backlog now). HMPO did lose our original marriage certificate though! Not a massive deal but kind of annoying.
Are you British by birth, as in were you born in the UK to British parents? If so your child is automatically a British citizen and always will be. No reg. needed. You just need to prove it through birth/marriage certificates, etc. They‘re surprisingly easy to get online and sent to you by post.
If this is their first one, be ready to order your parents‘ birth certificates (actually surprisingly cheap and easy) and certified translations of their birth certificates and your marriage certificate (provided they‘re not in English). We did all this last year and it took some time!
You know you‘re in trouble when someone uses the word "numbnuts" in your replies
...assistant suggested that, on top of an all-expenses-paid trip to the FA Cup Final and meeting members of the Royal Family(!), the ACTUAL FA CUP should be named after him. Oh yeah and he wanted a knighthood too. He voted for Russia in the end.
I don't think the hubris will ever not be astonishing. You think they can't be so brazen, but they just always are. Another (tangential) example from football was when the English FA were hunting for votes from the FIFA ExCo to host the 2018 World Cup. The Paraguayan FIFA delegate, or rather his..
Absolutely. Particularly Hugo who seems compelled to provide running colour commentary on his own Traitors appearance.
In the middle of Covid I travelled to the UK and had like four hours to kill before my night train to Amsterdam. Watched No Time to Die in Nuremberg - needed to be double-vaxed and same-day-tested. Only person there, it was bloody great.
Ah man, I LOVE nights like that. Same happened to me for Casino Royale on opening night. Huge multiplex, every seat was taken, ushers at the doors showing you to your row. Massive buzz.
Yeah the Danes did this (under a far-right populist government). Or at least said that they would do this, to deter asylum seekers.
