A megawave of tsunami proportions is slowly backing up and preparing to wash over the judicial system. Today there are a scant couple of regional journalists standing on what used to be the shore line, scanning the horizon and
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Not in front of the children! Limerick contest…
Educating children is a delicate affair, not for the feint hearted.
The Lord Mayor of Leicester did his best at a ‘Global Educational Summer Showcase for Schoolchildren’.
The decidedly ‘global’ Lord Mayor
Continue reading →A good day to bury bad news?
Today Ken Clarke will make a major speech on the subject of the prison population. As is considered normal these days, we already know what the speech contains before it is heard in parliament.
He
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The Thick-tank.
The Raccoon Economic Thick-Tank (RETT) has reported on its representations to the government, on potential additional taxation. A precis of its
Continue reading →Not exactly “Crocodile Dundee” these cuts, are they?
My attention was drawn to an article in the Spectator, well, not so much an article as a graph, really:
And
Continue reading →It is just not going to happen!
Why are the Comrades from UNITE not storming Whitehall, taking to the streets in protest at the ‘Cuts’. After all, the rhetoric from Con-Dem is that they are taking action to stem Government spending by ‘savage
Continue reading →The Welfare State we’re in
Gearing up for their share of Gordon's profligacy
When you think of welfare and poverty, what comes to mind? Do you think of people down on their luck? Perhaps
Continue reading →The Sacred ‘Cow’ & ‘Gate’.
When Frank Field told a Sunday newspaper:
“I will always put the interests of my country and constituents before my party. I have never refused to speak to people on
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The Baker’s Dozen.
Blimey, not only but also; past present and a few future UKIP members have been roaring around the blogosphere in hysterical outrage following the Mail’s predictable anti-European blast that ‘the EU is planning to ban
Continue reading →Heads are Rolling!
France crashed out of the tournament with
Continue reading →Superheroes on Saddleworth Beer Walk.
An interesting week culminates with me resigning from my former place of work, and starting a new practice on Tuesday next. Generally stressful and difficult, so we shall park that. Basta Adesso. Enough already.
Meandering thoughts.
20 odd years ago I was sitting at home, chaffing; the Doctors had stopped me driving whilst they tried to sort out my eye, and long days free of work is a tough billet for a dyed in the
Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
Anthony Vickers does politics on the football field brilliantly. Angry Teen demolishes the ‘footballers are overpaid’ argument. Jo Marchant in search of a Continue reading → The dulcet tones of God…
Over at the Hadron Collider – haven’t heard of that for a while have we? – they are still playing ‘let’s find God’, shooting beams of proton particles 27 miles under the Swiss mountains in the hope
Continue reading →The British civil service, eh? Makes you proud…
Image taken from Civil Service Recruitment Ad – http://www.prospect.org.uk/sectors/CVL/
Tom Harris must have expected some shtick when he wrote these words, he disabled his comments temporarily.
I
Continue reading →In Praise of Unpaid Amateurs.
I knew a Solicitor once, a solid respectable man. His child was of a class of person about to be seriously disadvantaged by forthcoming legislation. He lobbied hard against the legislation; he wrote letters, made
Continue reading →Having Your Cake and Eating it.
With the announcement today that State Retirement age is to be raised to 66, this ‘snip it’ (sic) may be of interest to the gentlemen amongst our readers.
Christopher Timbrell was 58 years old,
Continue reading →A History of the World in 100 Objects.
THE GREAT STONE MAN OF FIFE
Last week, A History of the World in 100 Objects examined the Death Pottery of Batsu–Batsu and its images of human ritual sacrifice, cannibalism, and voodoo.
Continue reading →You cannot be serious !
I have been otherwise engaged battling the forces of darkness in Court, the subject of a more considered post mid July.
So I have only just got round to George’s efforts at sorting the insolvent
Continue reading →Aloo Vera!
Our Vera at Pontypridd Magistrates Court.
Long time no here (sic)
Those were the days eh? When you were Solicitor-General and late at night the mood took you to try
Continue reading →A thought on making sandwiches
Oh no! I forgot the mayonnaise!
Yesterday’s discussion about sandwiches got me thinking. Every once in a while, I get tired of pre-bought sandwiches and decide to start making them myself.
Continue reading →Tugboat Harrie.
You have to admire the woman’s Dunkirk spirit. Totally unsuited for the voyage, bravely fighting her way to the front, can’t actually do anything useful when she gets there, too small, too insignificant, too unbalanced,
Continue reading →Nick Nack Paddy Whack……
The Northern Ireland Prison Service has paid £1m in salaries to suspended staff since 2005, with over £440,000 paid out in the last financial year.
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Ask Your Local Pensioner!
Late last night I turned on the English TV in time to catch the inevitable whinge about the budget. There is always a whinge; the only matter of note is who is doing the whinging.
This
Continue reading →Welfare “reforms” are a nonsense
I see the Labour Party’s bête noire, Frank Field is having a field day (!) with “welfare reform”:
FATHERS should be paid up to £2,000 a year in tax credits to stay with
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A Con-Dem-Nation
The new Filly in Chris Huhne’s Stable.
The Caroline ‘Bit-of-Noakes-on-the-side’ story is showing the Con-Dem party officials in their true light.
Conservative MP Caroline Nokes, found a camera on
Continue reading →Why does it feel so different?
Is it really a new dawn?
It shouldn’t really feel different, but somehow it does.
The facts are this: while the coalition government is talking about freeing us from the yoke of the
Continue reading →The English Cuisine.
Many years ago I consulted Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management on the subject of Broccoli and Stilton Soup.
‘Take a head of cauliflower’ she starts, ‘and turn it upside down, drop it into boiling broth’.
Donkeys Fed by Lions.
Whilst the sight of 30 healthy and superbly fit men charging round a field in hot pursuit of an oval ball continues to captivate me, and shows every sign of continuing to do so well
Continue reading →Live and Let Die.
In the beginning there was Adam and Eve and a big rock.
Adam was much stronger than Eve. He could lift the big rock and drop it on her head. He didn’t need to
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