Slipper of the Yard

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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. Elizabeth II was regularly referred to as "Brenda" and Charles III as "Brian". Historically, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh was "Keith", Princess Margaret (Brenda's younger sister) was "Yvonne", and Diana, Princess of Wales, was "Cheryl"–a satire on the perceived nature of Royal affairs as a soap opera. [22] [23] 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.

McVeigh, Tracy (15 August 2015). " 'Bachelor of Fleet Street' Andrew Neil marries in secret". The Guardian . Retrieved 8 June 2022. Private Eye enjoyed parodying Neil as 'Brillo', a reference to his hair In London the Foreign Office Latin American department noted: "Scotland Yard now realise that they were wrong to take it upon themselves to send their officers to Rio de Janeiro without first informing and consulting the appropriate departments in Whitehall. Numbered lists are usually shorter than stated and include two final entries of "Er..." and "That's it". 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.The Brazilians offered to hand over Biggs in exchange for Timothy Ross, who they said was a terrorist who had returned to Britain;

Peter Paterson, Tired and Emotional: The Life of Lord George-Brown, Chatto & Windus, London, 1993, pp. 147–164 passim. The family of Ronnie Biggs, one of the robbers he hunted, paid tribute to the man known as Slipper of the Yard.The robber, however, successfully argued against extradition because he had a Brazilian dependant - a young son, Michael, by his girlfriend Raimunda. They obtained financial approval although it was not clear whether the exact purpose of the journey was made plain. The other part of the Home Office replied that there were no extradition arrangements. Sullivan, Andrew (5 October 1997). "God Help the Queen". The New York Times . Retrieved 14 August 2019.

Prime Minister Harold Wilson was always named as "Wislon", a name also later applied to A. N. Wilson. Occasionally he was referred to as "Lord Loinwash" an anagram of Harold Wilson. Dale, Iain (10 May 2010). "In Conversation with Andrew Neil". Total Politics. Archived from the original on 13 June 2013 . Retrieved 7 September 2012. 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.In the event Biggs, now a father of a Brazilian child, successfully fought the deportation attempt. I had to adamantly insist that any question of the repatriation of a British criminal from Brazil must be a matter for the federal police authorities of Brazil to decide."