Comparisons fall down between Hamas and Trump because the essential situation Hamas is in relative to Israel is "The strong do what they can; the weak suffer what they must". There is no mo… (View Post)

Totally not an expert but a Google search tells me all marriages in the Netherlands were required to be civil ceremonies from 1795. You could also have a church ceremony but that had no legal status. (View Post)

In 1880s Netherlands apparently Catholics and Protestants couldn't be buried in the same graveyard. Photo of husband and wife clasping hands across the dividing wall https://bsky.app/profile/drl… (View Post)

I won't man the barricades to defend this but there's a better argument for bishops to be in the House of Lords than hereditary peers. Arguably it's part of the role, which you sign up… (View Post)

I have a recollection of hereditary peers who hardly turned up in the House of Lords from one year to the next enthusiastically voting for the Poll Tax so they could eliminate the ratable tax bills o… (View Post)