Palaver

Amid the recurrent palaver about Australia needing a high-speed rail service, we lose sight of the fact that our conventional railway services are still operating to 19th-century standards.

And Kathy isn’t the only comedian to comment on the palaver, with Little Britain star Matt Lucas sharing a satirical video in which he impersonated the Prime Minister.

There might have been some justification for the palaver in Parliament had it been about sending foreign criminals home.

Boy George however is a real boon, enjoyably irreverent in the stagey inter-panel banter (repeatedly calling Faith “Palaver” is a nice touch) but eloquent and sensible when dealing with the contestants.

The Guardian had a chat with an affected female journalist with one of the private TV stations in Lagos at a Lagos court premises, where she just swore to an affidavit of change of name, saying she did it because of BVN palaver.

The participants in the Palaver tree process considered themselves equals.

In his 1934 pageant play The Rock, Eliot distances himself from Fascist movements of the thirties by caricaturing Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts, who 'firmly refuse/ To descend to palaver with anthropoid Jews'.

I. That all old palaver are considered to be settled up to this date, and cannot be again brought up, to the detriment of trade.

Palaver in Pyongyang doesn’t signal a northern manufacturing itch from Korea’s conglomerates.