Fascinating! I found it in Oliver Twist as ‘covey.’ It was indeed the Artful Dodger. Thanks 😊

I must look up the etymology when I have the time. I wonder if it was primarily an English elite term or more a London underclass thing. I’m wondering now if it perhaps popped up in Dickens somewhere. I can imagine the Artful Dodger saying it.

I’ve never heard that word ‘cove’ used to represent a person before. Where does it come from?

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So. Tory MP Esther McVey tweet fail of the day. Thinking a 17th century nude by Diego Velazquez was ‘depicting the Suffragette movement’
Aye. They were well known for time travelling and getting their kit off for painters in the name of women’s rights were those suffragettes.

… by their belief systems. Some (many) probably wilfully so.
Regardless if we take Braverman at her word then she is unfit to practice due to incompetent levels of ignorance.
If we don’t she is unfit to practice due to being a person completely lacking in humanity.

Potentially it was both. I worked in homelessness and addictions for many years and I’m not at all convinced that the powers that be believe what the experts and the science tell them. I seriously doubt that many of them even read the information.
I’m inclined to think they are in the main blinded..

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