John Bercow has apparently hired an expert to come up with ideas for making the new, refurbished Houses of Parliament more 'gender-sensitive' and 'gender-neutral', and this transgender toilets suggestion was one of the less palatable ones speculated about by the media over the weekend.
He blamed the popularity of "cultural ventriloquism" in fiction, where white authors write in a "palatable" way about countries and cultures of which they have no experience.
You want to be personable, but then give a very understandable, palatable story about something that's tangible".
Now we're approaching middle age, most of the girls of the 1970s I know are competitive teetotallers, whether to lose weight, enhance fertility or simply because the mix of hangover plus small child is about as palatable as a Jägerbomb.
Katherine Eyres at LexisPSL says: The reforms proposed by the Leveson report are about as palatable as the press and the politicians could have hoped for: a more formidable regulator underpinned by legislation, with self-regulation remaining intact and checks and balances to maintain independence from parliamentary and press interference.
While for many people the idea of dining with one's hosts and fellow travelers is about as palatable as day-old sushi, the Hunts manage to pull it off well enough to warm all but the most misanthropic guest to the evening ritual.
But many hacks' hackles rise when you talk about how Lagerfeld revolutionised a trade they hope will die, At Chanel, however, what Lagerfeld does is palatable to just about everyone – today, at least.
There's also (again, finally) enough lack of American tub-thumping to make it just about palatable to European audiences, though possibly not Middle Eastern; and now delicious Berlin settings, and clever roiling sub-plots, though I certainly didn't see that Saul bed scene coming.
Reviewing the first episode, one insisted that the drama only mirrors what goes on every day in the real world ("Every three days, on average, a woman [in England and Wales] is killed by her current or former boyfriend or husband), accusing those of us who flinch from the show of wimpishness, even of irresponsibility ("There's no way to make palatable the truth about what men do to women").
I should think these are just about palatable in a frost touched mountain top castle, but in Zimbabwe?
