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Just wondering if the Daily Mail still thinks judges are the ‘enemies of the people’, now that a judge has been attacked by a baroness and a prince.
The golden age of Channel 4 commissioning. By Cranach the Elder.
Rare example of gavel being used (accurately) to illustrate a non-law story. What is the world coming to?
Wait! What? A tourist hit some nuns. Because of Emily? www.thetimes.com/article/def5...
Night with the nuns a tourist hit thanks to Emily in Paris
The hit Netflix series has moved to Rome and one character’s stay in a convent guesthouse has highlighted the benefits of these well-located, cheaper rooms
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Should refugees be allowed to stay if they convert? Refugees from the C of E, I mean. The Times: Hundreds of Anglican priests have converted to Catholicism. www.thetimes.com/article/03dc...
Hundreds of Anglican priests have converted to Catholicism
Bishops have been surprised by the scale of the exodus, which is partly driven by the ordination of women in the Church of England
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How long before this person is described as a “Walter Mitty” character? Article from The Times: 'Fake' rear-admiral charged after attending remembrance parade. www.thetimes.com/article/faa4...
‘Fake’ rear-admiral charged after attending remembrance parade
Jonathan David Carley, 64, laid a wreath at a Remembrance Sunday ceremony in Llandudno wearing a uniform adorned with 12 medals
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Fake admiral exposed by wearing ‘wrong sort of shirt’. Of course. Knew he was a bit of a rum cove as soon as I saw his dodgy collar. I thought you would be interested in this story from The Times: 'Fake admiral' accused of gatecrashing Remembrance Sunday parade. www.thetimes.com/article/a35d...
‘Fake admiral’ accused of gatecrashing Llandudno remembrance event
Jonathan David Carley, a former teacher, who has attended at least three other parades, wore a rear admiral’s uniform and 12 medals
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Because swearing to do so isn’t apparently enough? www.thetimes.com/article/f5a1...
Hillsborough law will force officials to tell the truth
The government, prompted by the infected blood and Post Office scandals, is putting forward legislation that includes a legal duty of candour for public officials
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How badly informed do you need to be not to know that Supreme Court Justices are not styled “Lord Justice” (which relates to judges of the lower Court of Appeal)? Shoddy subbing as usual from the Times. (since corrected, but astonishingly let through initially)
Why are large sums of money always described as "eye-watering"? Why not "throat-clenching" or "scrotum-tightening" or some other redundant formulation? What makes your eyes water is sadness, or pain, or a howling wind on a cold day. Talk some sense, please, journalists.
This must be galling after twenty years of pandering to Farage and his gang - BBC plans to win over Reform voters who have 'lost trust'. www.thetimes.com/article/18fe...
BBC plans to win over Reform voters who have ‘lost trust’
Some 85 per cent of Reform voters said they did not trust the BBC much or at all, according to a YouGov poll
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In what sense can anyone be 'handed' a suspended sentence? Sentences are issued or ordered or given. They're not a handout. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Man handed suspended sentence over role in Blenheim Palace £4.8m gold toilet heist
Frederick Doe, 36, convicted of conspiring to transfer criminal property after 18-carat toilet was stolen in 2019
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