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‘Elon and Jeff best watch their backs’: British man built a £288 million fake medicine empire after winning a £2.4 million lottery

A £2.4 million lottery winner, John Spiby, transformed his windfall into a massive counterfeit medicine empire. His operation, spanning multiple sites, produced fake prescription pills estimated to be worth £288 million. Spiby’s delusion was evident in his boast that tech titans should ‘watch their backs’. The judge condemned his disregard for public safety.

Random Musing: A brief history of the Church of England (as it gets its first woman Archbishop of Canterbury)

It begins, inevitably, with Henry VIII, who married Catherine but couldn’t produce a male heir. The Pope refused to annul the marriage because Catherine was the aunt of Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor whose armies effectively controlled Rome — a man at whose snook the Pope could ill afford to cock. So, Henry decided […]