Once again, the High Court is being asked to quantify ‘enjoyment of life’. This time the vanishing point has been moved forward from the ‘futility’ of the Bland case.
I am at a loss, as
Continue reading →Once again, the High Court is being asked to quantify ‘enjoyment of life’. This time the vanishing point has been moved forward from the ‘futility’ of the Bland case.
I am at a loss, as
Continue reading →I freely admit I didn’t watch the Terry Pratchett documentary on the Right to Die. At the last minute I voted in favour of a quiet glass of wine with Mr G in the setting sun. It
Continue reading →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
Continue reading →There is nothing so likely to induce a murderous rage in the most mild mannered of people as sibling rage over a last will and testament. Many a family can cite feuds
Continue reading →Magna Carta, Ch 39: ‘No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we
With what aplomb did Jack Straw throw back the cloak of secrecy over proceedings in the family court last year? How we did cheer. None louder than myself.
Straw, the
Continue reading →The past week has seen one mother, Frances Inglis, jailed for life for murdering a son who was
In the era of what we are told is the revolution in journalism – blogging – this becomes what we call, “a story“.
Nick Robinson 6th January 2009.
Nick Robinson’s
Continue reading →Back in Victorian times, death was never far from people’s thoughts thanks to the diseases and poor medicine of those times. You can see evidence of this in old sepia photos of sombre matronly women
In June this year The Sunday Times reported the death of Cari Loder who, rendered housebound by the progression of her Multiple Sclerosis and fearing that she would be sent to
Continue reading →There is a sense in which publication of this letter in the Daily Telegraph was as inevitable as death itself.
I have been waiting for it, or
Continue reading →Nick Palmer, Labour MP for Broxtowe, and long time supporter of animal rights, yesterday took time out from worrying about the economic chaos facing the UK to fret about my poor little pussy.
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(Una )Musings has an excellent piece on the Contact Point database, Labour’s Orwellian plan to regulate every aspect of the way in which a child is raised, including chilling statements such as ‘refusal to