23rd May 2022 Some of the best lawyers in the country work for those who often state publicly their disdain for lawyers. Some of the best media
19th May 2022 Partygate, again. Today the Metropolitan Police announced the end of their investigation. This means that, in small part, the Partygate
18th May 2022 The “Wagatha Christie” case is currently adding to the gaiety of the nation. And as the wise Marina Hyde avers in her Guardian
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27th April 2022 Yesterday’s I newspaper had this interesting front page about the upcoming Queen’s Speech: The article supporting the front page
26th April 2022 There is a standing joke among social historians that the middle class is always rising, and the gentry always declining, in whatever
22nd April 2022 As the cliché of American political reporting has it: what did the president know, and when did he know it? Applying this same sort
20th April 2022 A ‘policy’ can be understood as a means to an end. In a political context, a policy is the means by which various elements of the
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18th April 2022 The home secretary has issued ‘a ministerial direction’ for her proposal for a ‘migration and economic development
31st March 2022 Some people who care about these things are upset when they don’t have a ‘blue tick’ verification mark on their Twitter
23rd March 2022 I was born and brought up in the Birmingham of the 1970s, and like many others I had family and family friends who could well have
22nd March 2022 Sometimes I give blogposts the wrong titles. Yesterday, the post here had the title: Is there a SLAPP problem in the English
21st March 2022 SLAPP – strategic litigation against public participation – is a new-ish name for an age-old problem. Here is L. Ron Hubbard in
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15th March 2022 Being an experienced Twitter user is like being what comedian Jasper Carrott once said of Ed Doolan: “world-famous in
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10th March 2022 On 9 March 2022 the following was stated by Bob Seely MP in the House of Commons: Bob Seely – A number of lawyers, representing
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8th March 2022 Today’s post will be just a short one, so as to link and draw attention to this judgment. Paragraphs 38 and 39 are beautiful and