Slipper of the Yard

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The Tony Blair Faith Foundation was similarly known as Drawing All Faiths Together, abbreviated to "Daft". The Daily Express newspaper has been lampooned as the Daily Getsworse. In previous years, it was called the Daily Titsbychristmas, referring to how it was increasingly copying the style of The Sun, before Express Newspapers launched the down-market Daily Star in November 1978. Since the 2016 UK EU referendum, in which the Express supported Leave, it has also been dubbed The Daily Brexpress. Tired and emotional" is a euphemism for drunk, used in the British press to avoid libel laws. It was coined by Private Eye [3] after a BBC report [4] which used the term in describing 1960s Labour Party Cabinet minister and Deputy Leader Lord George-Brown (who was an alcoholic). It first appeared in a parody memo supposedly informing civil servants how to describe George Brown's conduct and state of mind. Due to the near-impossibility of proving intoxication without forensic evidence, journalists came to use the phrase as a way of describing drunkenness without inviting libel charges. In 1957 a trio of Labour politicians, Aneurin Bevan, Morgan Phillips, and Richard Crossman, successfully sued The Spectator over just such an allegation, which Crossman admitted in his diary was true of one of the three. [5] The phrase was allegedly first used by a BBC press officer in November 1963, as a description of Brown's condition when interviewed at very short notice on the night of the assassination of John F. Kennedy; the magazine subsequently borrowed the phrase. [6] Doubt must be cast on this claim because the programme on which Brown appeared was not broadcast by the BBC but by Associated-Rediffusion. [7] The Defamation Act 2013 introduced a number of important defences. Lord Gnome is purported to be the proprietor of the magazine, and is an amalgam of various different media magnates. Originally modelled on figures including Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Thomson of Fleet, first appearing under the name "Aristides P. Gnome" in the early 1960s, Lord Gnome has since accumulated other characteristics to encompass the likes of Rupert Murdoch. He is portrayed in the magazine as a man of great wealth, greed, unscrupulousness and vulgarity. Lord Gnome rarely writes under his own name, but issues his proclamations, editorials and threats through a fictional underling named Emmanuel Strobes, with reference frequently made to his lordship's "assistant", Miss Rita Chevrolet. Rita Chevrolet's name is a parody of French exotic dancer Rita Cadillac. After being sentenced to 30 years imprisonment in 1964, Biggs escaped from Wandsworth Prison in 1965. Biggs travelled via Paris to Spain and then Melbourne, Australia, where, despite plastic surgery to alter his appearance, he was identified by his dental records after visiting a dentist.

Biggs finally returned voluntarily to the UK in May 2001. He was accompanied by Bruce Reynolds on a private plane. Slipper believed [ why?] that Biggs should not be released, and regularly appeared in the media to comment on any news item connected to the robbery. It would appear therefore that Scotland Yard got its wires crossed with disastrous results as the news is that Biggs is being held because the proper Interpol arrangements were broken by Scotland Yard." Peter Paterson, Tired and Emotional: The Life of Lord George-Brown, Chatto & Windus, London, 1993, pp. 147–164 passim. Wilson, A. N. (2016). "5: Brenda". The Queen. London: Atlantic Books. ISBN 9781786490681. OCLC 937454213. After the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Robert Mark, initiated an "interchange" policy, which required CID officers to return to uniformed work, Slipper ended his career as a uniformed chief superintendent as head of X Division in Ruislip.Capita, a long-term favourite target of Private Eye, is frequently called "Crapita" and "the world's worst outsourcing firm". Sullivan, Andrew (5 October 1997). "God Help the Queen". The New York Times . Retrieved 14 August 2019. Even though my father and Mr Slipper were on different sides of the fence there was a very high and mutual respect. Slipper was born in Ealing, west London, and educated at Little Ealing School. He left school aged 14 and worked as an electrician's apprentice until 1941, when he enlisted in the Royal Air Force. He served as an electrician with a nightfighter squadron at West Malling, and was then posted to the Rhodesian Air Training Group in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) in 1943. Having grown to 6'3", he became light heavyweight boxing champion of the Rhodesian combined services. He was demobilized in 1946 and returned to work in London as an electrician. He was diagnosed with cancer in 1999 and died 6 years later, aged 81. He was survived by his wife, Anne, and two daughters.

The fortnightly British satirical magazine Private Eye has long had a reputation for using euphemistic and irreverent substitute names and titles for people, groups and organisations and has coined a number of expressions to describe sex, drugs, alcohol and other aspects of human activity. Over the years these names and expressions have become in-jokes, used frequently in the magazine without explanation. Some have passed into general usage and can be found in other media and everyday conversation.

Numbered lists are usually shorter than stated and include two final entries of "Er..." and "That's it". a b Riddell, Mary. "Non-stop Neil, at home alone". British Journalism Review . Retrieved 14 March 2006. The Evening Standard is called "The Evening Boris" for its support of Boris Johnson, particularly during his term as Mayor of London; and possibly also in reference to the paper's Russian owners, Alexander Lebedev and Evgeny Lebedev. Wilby, Peter (17 April 2019). "More than a spectator: the rise of Andrew Neil". New Statesman . Retrieved 8 June 2022. He hated Private Eye calling him "Brillo" because his wiry hair resembled a scouring pad. Slipper joined the Metropolitan Police in 1951. He trained at Hendon Police College, and served briefly as a police constable in Brentford before moving to Chelsea. He undertook traffic duties, and guarded the residence of the US Ambassador in South Kensington.

Former Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne is generally called "Gideon" by the magazine. Osborne was indeed originally named "Gideon", but disliked the name and changed it to "George" as a young man. [38] In the event Biggs, now a father of a Brazilian child, successfully fought the deportation attempt. Mary Ann Bighead, a parody of journalist Mary Ann Sieghart, often writes columns trumpeting her own brilliance and that of her daughters Brainella and Intelligencia. Nigel Rees (28 May 2002). Cassell's Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins. Sterling Publishing Company. p.292. ISBN 0-304-36225-5.Had he had gone through informal Interpol channels Biggs could have been handed over to Scotland Yard "within a short period without little or any publicity", avoiding complex extradition attempts; verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ Shome mishtake, shurely? Ed)" is supposedly a blue pencil by the editor, who is slurring a little after lunch. It may have allusions to the late Bill Deedes (Lord Deedes), who did slur that way. He was also the eponymous "Dear Bill" that the fictional Denis Thatcher was forever writing to while his wife Margaret was in government. These articles were actually written by John Wells. The British diplomats were told by Inspector Garcia of the federal force that it had seen the Interpol circular put out several weeks before by Scotland Yard: "It is, I am told, the drill that if the criminal Biggs had been arrested by the Interpol officers here he would have been automatically handed over to the Interpol officers of New Scotland Yard within a short period without little or any publicity," Neill told the Foreign Office in London.