It does seem amusingly as though the prime minister may have neglected to tell the Queen that ‘her’ Crown Prosecution Service is to be renamed the Public Prosecution Service.
This implies with, as Ogden Nash would have it, shoddy flim and flam*, that as the service’s job is to prosecute the members of the public, its job under the old title may have been to prosecute the Crown.
Ah, if only we’d realised before it was too late.
* I struggled to find a copy of the version of Nash’s poem to link to, so here it is:
In mortal combat I am joined
With monstrous words wherever coined.
‘Beefburger’ is a term worth hating,
Both fraudulent and infuriating,
Contrived to foster the belief
That only beefburgers are made of beef,
Implying with shoddy flim and flam
That hamburgers are made of ham.
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