Slipper of the Yard

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Mr Madeupname. Sometimes used when referring to an improbable interviewee (often) in a tabloid newspaper article.

The Tony Blair Faith Foundation was similarly known as Drawing All Faiths Together, abbreviated to "Daft".

Dave Spart is a parody of a stereotypical left-wing agitator who featured in editions of the 1970s and from time to time since (for example, after the 2011 England riots and following the split in Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet over the bombing of Syria and military intervention against ISIL). Occasionally, his sister, Deirdre Spart, has offered her views. Private Eye often refers to real-life leftist activists as "Spartists", itself a parody of the left-wing Spartacist League. Ken Livingstone is sometimes lampooned as Ken Leninspart. 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.

a b Riddell, Mary. "Non-stop Neil, at home alone". British Journalism Review . Retrieved 14 March 2006. 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; Natukunda, Carol (28 April 2013). "Princess Bagaya was fired for refusing to marry Amin". New Vision. Uganda . Retrieved 13 January 2014. Later that day, Amin announced that he had fired Bagaya for embarrassing him. He told his cabinet that while on her way from New York, Bagaya had a sexual escapade with a white man in a bathroom at an airport in Paris. He did not mention who this man was. 'This was both an insult and a deliberate lie, but it was also comically nonsensical. One may, I suppose, have sex anywhere – but a public toilet?' asks Kyemba, adding that they all 'laughed to tears' at Amin's absurd action. Bagaya's dismissal came on 28 November 1974 The Brazilians offered to hand over Biggs in exchange for Timothy Ross, who they said was a terrorist who had returned to Britain;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. He was involved in the investigation of the Shepherd's Bush murders in which three unarmed policemen were shot dead in Shepherd's Bush in August 1966, for which three men were later convicted. 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] The robber, however, successfully argued against extradition because he had a Brazilian dependant - a young son, Michael, by his girlfriend Raimunda.