Archive for October, 2009
I may be overdoing the Buckfast….
Posted in Charon, Charon after a glass Pics on Wednesday, October 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Ant & Dec say “Britain’s Got Taxes”
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Charon reports: From the Tory conference…
Posted in Charon, Charon after a glass Pics on Tuesday, October 6, 2009 | 12 Comments »
I bring news from the Tory Conference. For some of you, the news I bring will be welcome… for those of you planning a career at the BBC as a public servant, or, indeed… as a public servant in another sector… this is time for you to get back behind the sofa because the Daleks [...]
Don’t put your grandparents out to grass…. GRASS ‘em up and win MONEY!!
Posted in Charon, Charon after a glass Pics on Tuesday, October 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In an astonishing development, our political masters have come up with the ultimate absurdity in a vain attempt to control crime and turn this once proud nation into a nation of snouts, narcs and grasses. I checked the date. it is not All fool’s Day. The Times reports… Crimespotting: the new way to make money [...]
Three mute Tories…. see how they run…
Posted in Charon on Tuesday, October 6, 2009 | 5 Comments »
It would appear that prospective parliamentary candidates made fools of themselves on Newsnight last night when Michael Crick appeared to ask them about Tory policy on Europe. Dizzy Thinks reported on his blog: One of them just kept saying “no comment” as if he had been arrested with a pocketful of Columbian marching powder. Another [...]
The 2010 election may be won on the playing fields of Eton…
Posted in Charon on Monday, October 5, 2009 | 6 Comments »
It occurred to me, as I sat on a five hour train journey from Truro in Cornwall to London yesterday that if the Tories win we shall be governed again by chaps from Eton…. I was detained for some years at a public school in Scotland – which I enjoyed, as it happens – but [...]
Ideas…a bad one… and a poetic one…
Posted in Charon on Monday, October 5, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I had just eaten a very late breakfast (at 6.30 in the evening) of brown toast, creamy scrambled eggs cooked to a ‘method’ prescribed by Gordon Ramsay (It appealed to my sense of the surreal to use a top Chef’s cookbook to make scrambled eggs) and smoked salmon – when I read that the Tories [...]
College of Law Inside Track Podcast: Lynn Johansen, Graduate Recruitment Partner – Clifford Chance
Posted in Charon, Charon Podcasts on Monday, October 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Lynn Johansen, Graduate Recruitment Partner – Clifford Chance I talk to Lynn Johansen – graduate recruitment partner at Clifford Chance, about the qualities needed by prospective applicants to Clifford Chance (which are applicable to most City firms), the application process and the training given to young lawyers. She also discusses the Clifford Chance Pro Bono [...]
Postcard from the Mattresses from Don Charoni
Posted in Charon, Weekend Review / Postcards on Friday, October 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Don Charoni is in his office at The Staterooms. The room is dark. Charoni is wearing a Tuxedo and there is a glass of Rioja to his right and a pack of Camel to his left. It is an ‘Anniversary’ for him. On this day he is happy to see people and, if he can, [...]
Insite Law Free resource project: Criminal law
Posted in Charon on Thursday, October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Insite law FREE resource project: Criminal Law Andrew Keogh, Barrister, is the author of our new free resource (text, lectures, case analyses) on Criminal Law. The project is being built from scratch and Chapter 1 and 2- are now up. Weekly instalments will follow.
1st October: The Supreme Court is open for business
Posted in Charon on Thursday, October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
1st October: The Supreme Court is open for businessThe highest court in the land opens its doors to the public What lawyers think of Blair’s legacy – the Supreme Court Jenny Rowe, the CEO of the new Supreme Court Today, as part of my series of podcasts for The College of Law Inside Track I [...]
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