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 [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Gordon cold calls British public… Hello… is that Charon?…
Posted in Charon on Friday, May 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
“I was in Westminster Hall, high up”…
Posted in Charon on Thursday, May 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
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 in [...]
29th May: Daily news podcast and legal news
Posted in Charon on Thursday, May 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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 day.They [...]
Nihilism 101…..
Posted in Charon on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 | 5 Comments »
28th May: Daily news podcast and news
Posted in Charon on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The daily news podcast and news is now up on the Insitelaw newswire
Charon dark after dark…I am thinking….
Posted in Charon, Charon After Dark on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 | 8 Comments »
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 [...]
27th May: Daily news podcast and news
Posted in Charon on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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, [...]
West London Man (8): Legal advice…
Posted in Charon, West London Man on Sunday, May 25, 2008 | 11 Comments »
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 he knew [...]
Charon after dark…. prose… after a fashion…
Posted in Charon on Saturday, May 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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 detailed policy(ies), [...]
Weekend Review: Bank Holiday Edition (1) 24-26 May
Posted in Charon, Weekend Review / Postcards on Saturday, May 24, 2008 | 4 Comments »
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 [...]
The politics of expedience…
Posted in Charon on Saturday, May 24, 2008 | 4 Comments »
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. The Saturday broadsheets [...]
West London Man (7): Pre-dinner….
Posted in Charon, West London Man on Saturday, May 24, 2008 | 10 Comments »
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 bottle of [...]
Clairvoyant emptor…
Posted in Charon on Friday, May 23, 2008 | 7 Comments »
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 statements [...]
I can’t eat any more free lunches….
Posted in Charon on Thursday, May 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
******, 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 of [...]
22nd May: Daily news podcast and news….
Posted in Charon on Thursday, May 22, 2008 | 5 Comments »
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 – [...]
21st May: Daily news podcast and news…
Posted in Charon on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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.
West London Man (6): At home…
Posted in Charon, West London Man on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »
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 [...]
Doing my bit for democracy….
Posted in Charon on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 | 8 Comments »
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 [...]
20th May: Daily news podcast and news…
Posted in Charon on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
19th May: Daily news podcast and news
Posted in Charon on Monday, May 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
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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