Gordon Brown: Hello?… is that Charon?
Charon: Indeed… I am Charon… who is calling?
Gordon Brown: It is Gordon Brown, the prime minister…of Britain
Charon looks at his bottle of Rioja. It is three quarters full.
Gordon Brown then starts singing:
I just called to say I love you
I just called to say that I feel your pain
I [...]
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There are few who can say they were in Westminster Hall, let alone ‘High Up’ - but that, as Frances Gibb reported in the Times, is what Jack Straw, Lord Chancellor and political embodiment of Justice on British soil, is reported as saying.
Straw was,in fact, talking about how he was sitting high up [...]
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Health & Safety laws are being taken very seriously indeed by Anglia Ruskin University. The newspapers report that students have been asked not to throw their mortar boards in the air — in case they HURT someone. Bosses at a university want to stop the age-old tradition of gleefully hurling headgear skywards on graduation [...]
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The daily news podcast and news is now up on the Insitelaw newswire
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I had a “why is it necessary to live another 20 odd years” moment this evening - rain, petrol prices out of control, a government in melt down, the prospect of a Tory government in two years time…. Chiswick High Street crammed with people pushing prams - and one man carrying his child in some [...]
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I have put up a fairly extensive update (including blogs as at 27th May) on Insitelaw newswire. The daily podcast is also up.
From this week I am increasing the editorial on Insitelaw and will be producing more by way of articles.
Still keen for bloggers and others, if they have the time or inclination, [...]
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West London Man 8: Audio version
George and Caroline went to a black tie supper party on Saturday. One of George’s ex-girlfriends, the wife of another guest at the party, told George that her investment banker husband was about to be fired in the next round of credit-crunch ‘re-structures’ and asked George if [...]
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London - a place where mammon meets government, art meets youth, and the engine of modern day Britain thrives on reclaimed social wasteland - a City now governed by an exuberant, ebullient and eternally eccentic Etonian… the template of future direct rule from Notting Hill and the resurgent Tories who, without revealing any [...]
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I begin this Whitsun Bank Holiday with a reading suitable for a funeral….
Stop all the papers, cut off the net,
Prevent the backbenchers from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pundits and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the Tories come.
[With many apologies to W H Auden]
I amused myself with a glass of [...]
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Nantwich & Crewe has come and gone. It is a Bank holiday in Britain, coupled to a parliamentary recess. There is time for the men in suits to slip quietly, silently, like deadly clostridium difficile, into Downing St. to have a quiet word. The Sunday newspapers have yet to pronounce their verdicts. [...]
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Audio Version: West London Man (7) - Pre-dinner
Saturday evening 7.00 pm: George and Caroline are having a glass of wine and a dance in the drawing room of their graciously appointed West London home. They are going to a black tie supper party with West London friends. They have cracked open a [...]
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A report on the Law
On this… the last Friday before the new The Consumer Protection Regulations come into force, I thought I’d draw your attention to the fact that anyone selling a bit of wine and a wafer or relics from Monday will have to describe them accurately - i.e. no more misleading [...]
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******,
Thank you for yet another unsolicited email invitation to lunch – and follow up enquiring why I am not already lunching with you on a regular basis. The truth of the matter is that after reading about John Prescott’s difficulties, I appear to have decided that I, too, must get an eating disorder [...]
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Police Federation chairman, Jan Berry, praised home secretary Jacqui Smith, for facing the conference, but added: “I am sure… you felt like reaching for a stab-proof vest and perhaps slipping into old habits and lighting up to calm your nerves.”
AND… Bystander JP, of The Magistrate’s blog, had this to say on his blog - [...]
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The search for an Apprentice is on…. a top job in the law with a six figure salary. What is the job? Should you apply? Could you be hired?
Find out on Insitelaw newswire - where the daily news podcast and news is now up.
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George and Caroline are at home … about to settle down after dinner to look at the architect’s plans to develop their West London home.
Caroline: So you decided not to go to The Chelsea Flower Show?
George: Well… I had a fairly good tip that this year they were going to recycle the show [...]
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Apologies for being a bit inactive on the blogging front these last two days…. had to nip up to Crewe, do my bit for democracy and hand out a few leaflets for The Labour Party.
Well… obviously I have not been doing that - but I have been surprised by the crass electioneering by the [...]
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Are we walking into a surveillance society?
Daily news podcast and news up on Insitelaw newswire.
The Insitelaw newswire is beginning to take shape. If any bloggers would like to profile posts on Insitelaw - please let me know by email. I am updating the blog section on Insitelaw today - and the law reports etc.
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May 19th: Daily news podcast and news now up on Insite Law newswire.
I am doing a full update on law reports, law round-ups, news from Legal Week and what is happening in the blogs over the course of the day.
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