Story confirmed by the Times of Israel and the (UK) Mirror.

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It’s better-led now, though, of course.

Isn’t it?

That’s incredibly cool.

I’d love to see a map of Ireland showing placenames and county names as translations into English.

So, Mayo (Mhaigh Eo) would show as “The Plain of the Yew Trees”, Cork (Corcaigh) would be “The Marsh”, and so on. Would restore beauty imho.

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Anyway. I've partnered with @decolonialatlas.bsky.social to distribute their incredible map of North America from an Indigenous perspective with all placenames in the native language. Paper ones sold at cost. www.mapcenter.com/store/p/turt...

“… the same man, the Privy Council judgment has stood the test of over a century of scrutiny and is regarded as a model of sound judicial reasoning.”

… He is equally excoriating of the judgment of Alfred Purvis in the court of first instance. He is incandescent about “manifest legal error” in the leading judgment of Sir Alfred Purvis for the Bahamian Court of Appeal.”

“Notwithstanding that the decision and judgments were all made by …”

And by the way: if it’s any consolation, learning English law is just as bad.

“‘In re The Arquebus’ is a seminal decision in English constitutional law. The speech of Lord Purvis, president of the Privy Council, excoriates the original decision of the Lord High Admiral in impounding the vessel….

Huh! Another weird massive outage of some critical national infrastructure! I guess this must be completely unrelated to the previous incidents.

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I can feel a book brewing: “How British Naval History Sounds to Foreigners”

An acquaintance was showing me a funny video on his phone yesterday and I noticed that his WhatsApp had two interestingly-named groupchats:

The Lads
The Lads (No Declan)

“These findings follow previous research which concluded that the more people learn about how AI works, the less they trust it. The opposite was also true — AI’s biggest fanboys tended to be those who understood the least about the tech.”

Sorry if I spoiled “The Ballad of the 3 Cs” for you (I assume everyone has read it).

Also, I see that I myself have mixed up Lord Kilbogget for Lord Kilbeggan. A stupid mistake given that they were known rivals since their schooldays.

And I forgot to mention was that naval victory was. Oops.

… The other two Cs agree to cohabit with Imelda, which resulted in scandal, a happy life for the three of them, and the invention of the torpedo. /end

… Argentina at the same time. Both fell in love with the same woman, Imelda, who was already betrothed to Augustín Cochrane, a lowly shoemaker. Tragedy unfolds, when Augustín, delivering shoes *to the wrong Cochrane*, throws himself into the path of K&K’s carriage and dies. …

Another nautical Cochrane confusion was immortalised by the magical-realist novelist Consuela Collingbosco in her book “The Ballad of the Three Cs”.

“Lord” Kilbogget and Kilbeggan, by then a Commodore, was wintering in Buenos Aires. A George Herbert Cochrane III was US naval attaché to …

… slight that he went on a four-year killing spree, pausing only occasionally to run up huge debts at his London club, which resulted in him being simultaneously bankrupted and appointed Grand Admiral of the Uruguayan Navy, until news of the former resulted in cashiering from the latter.

One of the most spectacular and unexpected victories in British naval history occurred as a result of the Admiralty’s accidentally assigning the Lord Kilbeggan (ironically, nicknamed ‘Mary’ at school) to a vessel intended for the “Lord” Kilbeggan and Kilbogget. So incensed was he by the perceived …

Thank you.

Of course, a common error is to mistake one of the Cochranes junior, Lord Kilbogget, for another, who was styled Lord Kilbogget and Kilbeggan. The former landholdings are Scotland while the latter are in County Mayo, Ireland. And the latter “Lord” was in fact a woman, Martha Glendonning

Pah! You’re talking about the same man, old boy! Cochrane senior, or ‘Biffy’ as he was known at school, was Viscount Twalltubbeh (you *must* pronounce it correctly) until the death of his uncle, who died without issue. Biffy then inherited the earldom of Dumbledore

He later won the dukedom in a bet

Thank you. I felt like a High Court judge for having to ask. “What exactly is this popular music known as ‘the rap’?”

Thank you. That must have been fun for Prof R.

Prof Roberts I recognise, of course, from books and the telly. But who is Rylan Clark?