Misfits

Data specialist recruited to civil service after Cummings’ call for ‘weirdos and misfits’ is sacked

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Data specialist recruited to civil service after Dominic Cummings’ call for ‘weirdos and misfits’ is sacked after posting on social media that police should use live rounds against BLM protesters Will O’Shea, 57, data architecture and governance specialist, was sacked in July Data specialist lost job in the Cabinet Office, which he had from April, … Read more

Misfits floating on a sea of booze: It was the notorious Soho hangout

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SOCIETY TALES FROM THE COLONY ROOM by Darren Coffield (Unbound, £25, 464pp)   The Colony Room was a shabby and cluttered little space at the top of a dingy staircase in the heart of Soho. It was founded as a drinking club by a lady called Muriel Belcher in 1948 and, during its 60-year existence, exerted … Read more