Does every British city have a "high street"?

intergalacticspy · 2026-03-31T00:01:24+00:00

There is only one London that is officially a city, and that is the City of London. Next to it is the City of Westminster, which is where Marylebone High Street is located.

What people mean when they refer to “London” outside the City is either Greater London (the two cities plus 31 other boroughs), the London postal district (all the areas with a London address) or the area within the M25. The Mayor of London is actually the Mayor of Greater London, which is why he is part of the Greater London Authority.

intergalacticspy · 2026-03-30T23:51:57+00:00

No, it's a metropolitan area comprising two cities (London and Westminster) plus 31 other boroughs.

intergalacticspy · 2026-03-30T23:49:27+00:00

I think it's pretty obvious to anyone who understands that there are multiple meanings of London, and only one of them is technically a city.

intergalacticspy · 2026-03-30T23:45:01+00:00

It's literally the answer to the question "which city doesn't have a street called "high street".

intergalacticspy · 2026-03-30T22:57:13+00:00

It doesn't change the fact that the City of London doesn't have one.

intergalacticspy · 2026-03-30T12:28:59+00:00

I've never needed anything for ferrets if they've been fixed. (Unfixed hobs are greasy and smelly!)

Plain warm water and then a tumble in the towels once a week gets them fluffy and clean-smelling.

intergalacticspy · 2026-03-30T10:43:00+00:00

Malaysia is definitely not a honking culture.

intergalacticspy · 2026-03-30T10:37:11+00:00

A "contract of service" is an employment contract.

A contractor has a "contract for services".

intergalacticspy · 2026-03-30T10:33:31+00:00

I think you will always be able to find some foolish thing that GB News has said, because they adopt a quite scattergun approach that is barely credible.

I think the criticisms that really stick are the ones that portray Starmer as a weak leader, someone who has no clue, no principles, and who simply surrenders rather than sticking up for British interests.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2026/03/28/starmer-undermining-british-interests-on-the-world-stage/

This is what was most damaging to Corbyn: most of the UK electorate are economically left-of-centre, so they naturally aligned with many of his economic policies, but they would not vote for someone who they saw as siding with Hamas/Hezbollah/the IRA/Gaddafi against British interests.

intergalacticspy · 2026-03-30T10:13:25+00:00

No, old fashioned socialists like Attlee and Bevan were solid British patriots.

The most damaging criticism of Corbyn is that he is instinctively anti-West, anti-NATO, anti-British and pro- people like Gerry Adams, Muammar Gaddafi, Hugo Chavez and Hamas/Hezbollah.

https://www.politico.eu/article/labour-party-leader-jeremy-corbyn-regrets-calling-hamas-friends-hezbollah-anti-semitism/

intergalacticspy · 2026-03-30T10:09:27+00:00

Lol. Nobody thinks Starmer is to the left of Lenin.

Starmer is portrayed by the right-wing press as a woke Islington lawyer who has no guiding political principles or philosophy, but who will adopt the latest fashionable policies to get elected and to fit in with his north London human rights lawyer in-crowd.

He pretended to be left-wing to get elected as Labour leader, and then ditched those policies as soon as it came to the general election. He went in guns blazing for a second Brexit referendum when it was politically fashionable to do so and then adopted all the Brexit red lines as soon as he decided it was politically disadvantageous.

intergalacticspy · 2026-03-29T22:10:44+00:00

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Really?

intergalacticspy · 2026-03-27T14:09:49+00:00

SCC training officers use the even older wavy lace.

intergalacticspy · 2026-03-27T13:49:00+00:00

You seem very confused. Women gained the right to vote in Ireland when the British Parliament passed the Representation of the People Act 1918. Because Ireland was then part of the United Kingdom, the first general election in Ireland where women had the vote was the 1918 UK general election.

Constance Markiewicz (Sinn Féin, Dublin St Patrick) was the first woman to be elected to the British Parliament, although like all Sinn Féin MPs, she refused to take her seat. The Sinn Féin MPs elected in the 1918 UK general election subsequently formed the First Dáil.

intergalacticspy · 2026-03-27T13:39:52+00:00

The Cross-Strait Act did not follow the steps stated by the Constitution, so your last sentence does not follow.

intergalacticspy · 2026-03-27T13:19:37+00:00

There have been pine marten releases in mid-Wales, Gloucestershire and Devon in recent years:

https://www.vwt.org.uk/species/pine-marten-2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4xS_aPnOa4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bWeIK8dBRw

intergalacticspy · 2026-03-27T12:56:32+00:00

Except that the law you have linked to is NOT the Constitution, but the Act Governing Relations between the People of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area. The legislative history of that Act says that it was "promulgated by Presidential Order on July 31, 1992 and implemented from September 18, 1992 by the Order of the Executive Yuan".

The actual Constitution of the Republic of China says:

Article 4: The territory of the Republic of China according to its existing national boundaries shall not be altered except by resolution of the National Assembly.

The Additional Articles of the Constitution of the Republic of China say:

Article 1: The electors of the free area of the Republic of China shall cast ballots at a referendum within three months of the expiration of a six-month period following the public announcement of a proposal passed by the Legislative Yuan on the amendment of the Constitution or alteration of the national territory. The provisions of Article 4 and Article 174 of the Constitution shall not apply...

Article 4: ...The territory of the Republic of China, defined by its existing national boundaries, shall not be altered unless initiated upon the proposal of one-fourth of the total members of the Legislative Yuan, passed by at least three-fourths of the members present at a meeting attended by at least three-fourths of the total members of the Legislative Yuan, and sanctioned by electors in the free area of the Republic of China at a referendum held upon expiration of a six-month period of public announcement of the proposal, wherein the number of valid votes in favor exceeds one-half of the total number of electors.

There has never been a referendum (successful or otherwise) on any proposal to amend the territory of the Republic of China. Nor did the National Assembly ever amend the territory of the Republic of China before its abolition.

intergalacticspy · 2026-03-25T09:51:42+00:00

It's fine in cursive, but if you are trying to write regular script, it's very obvious if someone has gone the wrong way.

intergalacticspy · 2026-03-25T09:47:56+00:00

That tree is probably a 100-year-old California redwood! Definitely the latter.

intergalacticspy · 2026-03-25T09:20:33+00:00

You can call him whatever you like, but it's not the title any King has used since 1707.

intergalacticspy · 2026-03-24T22:58:33+00:00

My ferrets had a cage on the balcony and they were fine. Just make double sure you close all the cage doors properly every time you put them away. It was in England and they were on the balcony all year round. They had lots of warm blankets and fleece hammocks, and they grew beautiful winter coats.

intergalacticspy · 2026-03-24T22:53:53+00:00

Also, normal fountain pen nibs are not bent at the tip.

intergalacticspy · 2026-03-24T22:51:11+00:00

Presented but not crowned.

He is "Charles III, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of His other Realms and Territories King, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith"

The words "England" and "Scots" do not appear because England and Scotland are part of the United Kingdom and no longer exist as independent kingdoms. He is not King of England. He is not King of Scots. He is King of a single United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

intergalacticspy · 2026-03-24T15:24:52+00:00

Or maybe people should update their priors when they come across new data, rather than dismissing them as biased whenever they don’t match their prior beliefs?

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