Haggard Hawks

(n.) a worker who only busies themselves when they’re being observed

(n.) a messenger who arrives too late to be of use, or not at all

(n.) the act of turning round or back; degeneration, the act of making worse

(v.) to talk boastfully or pompously; to talk without actually saying anything meaningful

(n.) a noisy quarrel about politics

aberglaube (n.) belief in things beyond the rational or verifiable.

(v.) to spill a liquid messily over something

Another timely Word of the Week from @HaggardHawks: broggle (v.) to make repeated ineffectual attempts at doing something

hang-choice (n.) a choice between equally unappealing options

consisting of or succeeding by underhand schemes or strategies

Calling out the paralysis that Brexit has wrought upon to our political system, Oborne, the former political editor of the Leave-supporting Telegraph, bravely broke ranks and confessed that now was the time “to take a long deep breath.” And crucially, he admitted that doing so might now entail, “rethinking the Brexit decision altogether.”

The UK, according to the latest polling, is now chiefly a Remain country. At the opposite end of Brexit spectrum, this week a handful of prominent Leavers performed a swift volte-face and decided to throw their full support behind Prime Minister Theresa May’s contentious Brexit deal.