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Wherever the blame is ascribed for Whitehall’s deficiencies, the frustration is beginning to spill into public view.

A majority of respondents ascribed consciousness to a broad taxonomic breadth of animals, although at slightly lower majorities as compared to emotions.

India’s foreign ministry, in bruising remarks on Monday, ascribed Canada’s allegations to the “political agenda of the Trudeau government that is centred around vote bank politics”.

For their part, Republicans ascribed a long list of ills to Biden and his vice president: crime, unchecked immigration, declining educational standards.

Calling herself demure and cutesy — words not often ascribed to women who are fat or trans — is her being a touch tongue in cheek.