It's an unpleasant story, but the name of the Barrister conducting an independent review into emotional and spiritual abuse at a big church in the UK is called Fiona Scolding.
https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/ne...-come-forward/
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Originally posted by Duncan Gardner View PostNobody here hates golf...
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Appears to run in the family (from a long FT piece on a remarkably obvious fraud)
Tingo’s founder also enlisted the services of Chris Cleverly, a barrister in the UK with experience working on “white-collar fraud and organised transnational crime cases”, according to his chambers. The cousin of UK Home Secretary James Cleverly became Tingo’s president and board member.
Bilal Brahim, chief executive at Fame, a farmers network in Nigeria, said Chris Cleverly had approached him to buy software, offering to trade about £20mn of Tingo shares. Chris Cleverly declined to comment.
Hindenburg’s Anderson said he had “never seen anything like” Tingo. “For a decent fraud case, there might be a couple of material misrepresentations where management will try to lie about a big thing or two,” said Anderson. Here what was faked was “an entire conglomerate”.
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Our new Home Sec continues to live out the counter example life, this time with his drink spiking "joke".
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Get well soon Charlie and all that, but I'm obviously hoping for the involvement of a taser: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67804344
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Originally posted by Balderdasha View Post
This is like the sham vote to rename the polar scientific research vessel in 2016. By far the most popular choice was "Boaty McBoatface" but those in charge instead named it the RRS Sir David Attenborough. In a slight nod to democracy, one of the attached robotic subs is now called Boaty McBoatface: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaty_McBoatface
Anyway, we should also have a thread on nominative determinism near misses. (Observation of pedantically logical stand-up comedian I heard once: that expression should actually be "near hits"). Because I've just discovered that the music of Grover Washington, Jr is really groovy.
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Originally posted by Amor de Cosmos View Post
Why not? What sort of humourless factotum decides these things?
https://stories.swns.com/news/sir-mi...rd-lord-10641/
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Originally posted by Amor de Cosmos View Post
Why not? What sort of humourless factotum decides these things?
Similarly some years ago, here in Canada, residents of the western North West Territories had a referendum to choose a new name — the eastern NWT had recently become Nunavut. They decided it should be called Bob. But, yet again, the wishes of the public were overruled so, boringly, it remains the North West Territories.
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Originally posted by Walter Knight View Post
This chap could have been Lord Lord, but was told he couldn't be, disappointingly...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lord
Similarly some years ago, here in Canada, residents of the western North West Territories had a referendum to choose a new name — the eastern NWT had recently become Nunavut. They decided it should be called Bob. But, yet again, the wishes of the public were overruled so, boringly, it remains the North West Territories.
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Originally posted by Gangster Octopus View PostWith the recent death of Judge Judge (latterly Lord Judge), has there ever been a Lord Lord or a Baron Baron etc.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lord
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As an aside: a former agent of mine rejoiced in the title of 'Baron Young' - which made for one or two obvious earworms.
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With the recent death of Judge Judge (latterly Lord Judge), has there ever been a Lord Lord or a Baron Baron etc.
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