She has a reputation as one of New Labour's most disciplined loyalists, the scourge of off-the-record briefing, which stands a little at odds with the idea that this is Jowell uncensored, or that she ever is.
Step forward Haringey council, which hopes it can bring an end to this sorry saga and free tenants from the "the scourge of rip-off fees and charges".
At the same time, NATO is countering the scourge of piracy off the coast of Africa, and conducting counterterrorism activities in the Mediterranean.
In late April California Democrat and corporate scourge Henry Waxman fired off letters to AID, the Pentagon and the General Accounting Office demanding to know why standard open-bidding processes were skirted.
Since winning the Carling Cup in 2011, off-the-field turmoil at St Andrew's has been the scourge of the club, leaving the fans feeling frustrated and short of anything to shout about.
Mantel draws a contrast between the fanatically devout Thomas More and the worldly wise Cromwell: the one settling in for a day's scourging, the other off to get the day's exchange rate in the City's Lombard Street, where all the big banking houses had their home.
The conditions that create the scourge of "fake news" online are also those that have driven respectable print newspapers to lay off reporters and close foreign bureaus, and that continue to make the National Enquirer a successful enterprise.
On Wednesday afternoon, hordes of pissed-off London cabbies gathered together in Trafalgar Square to rage against TfL and the scourge of Uber, a smartphone taxi app that they say is ruining their lives.
Off the roads, Nibali said he expected questions about doping, a scourge of much of the last generation, for whom performance-enhancers such as blood-booster EPO or human growth hormone, and methods like blood-doping were common.
