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Critics point out that the newly appointed Cabinet is dominated by Islamists, with some ministers espousing a hard-line interpretation of Sharia law.

But, in a judgment on Monday, she said "all relevant evidence" to determine whether or not Mr Hancock "genuinely espoused the opinion he expressed" in the post was not available.

There’s a throughline between the girl power you espoused as part of the Spice Girls and now in writing this story about a powerful young girl for a whole new generation.

Janice, who is unwilling or unable to open up, is not nearly as needy as her spouse, who starts espousing biblical platitudes with the desperate certainty of a drowning man grateful for any life raft.

I think of all this with my thoughts punctuated by the grim onslaught of transphobic — and broadly queerphobic — legislation promised to be delivered from Congress and the cultural vitriol espoused by our nation’s sitting president.