The Patriot needs YOU!

David Cameron has played the ‘Patriot’ card…. it is our patriotic duty to vote for him… to save the country we love.  Where the F**k did the Laurel & Hardy Institute of Policy come up with this idea?… in a crack den? Well… all I can say in response… after cracking open the Photoshop to [...]

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Police exceed their powers…again? Excellent video film

If you have not seen this short film yet – please do have a look.  It is an excellent film… Hat Tip to blogger Old Holborn…who writes: “I am sick to death of being told what the law is by people who have no idea of the law yet are being paid by me to [...]

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Tories have finally cottoned on that they could lose the election

In a week when prime Minister Gordon Brown has been mocked and ridiculed for his ‘bully boy’ ways and parodied in the Taiwan news – the Tories face the prospect that they could actually lose the election and their change of stance to put the focus squarely on a choice between Cameron and Brown and [...]

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Postcard from The Staterooms-on-Thames

Dear Reader, I have taken up smoking Marlboro Lites – a health kick thingy to supplement my return to the noble art of Smokedo this weekend. I was rather taken with the knowledge that there are now 1440 references on Google for Smokedo which I invented for myself (and others)  last Spring. Pictured left is [...]

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Law Review: Judges will not be cowed by government, time to rein in the law schools? and an ‘arse from elbow’ guide

Labour government Home Secretaries spend a great deal of time expressing disappointment with the judiciary – largely because because their department and those for whom they are responsible do not comply with the law.  The latest opportunity for a Home Secretary to express disappointment came last week when the Court of Appeal decided to reinstate [...]

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The Bar Standards Board report on BPP Law School oversubscription on the BVC

The Bar Standards Board has published a report on the ‘Triggered Visit’ to BPP Law School. The report states, under ‘The Rationale for The Visit’: “The visit was held to discuss the over recruitment of students by BPP onto the full time and part time course for AY2009-10. An informal ‘fact finding’ meeting was held [...]

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Law Review: Farage, Falklands, and King Lear

Listening to Nigel Farage of UKIP being rude about the new barely visible President of Europe (Herman Von Rumpoy) – a pretty poor attempt to do a Dan Hannan and go viral -  I was struck not only by the astonishing ‘crudeness of the  rudeness’  (Rather un-British) but also by the poor quality of the [...]

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Mr Justice Elephant in the room

‘Choose women, gay and disabled judges over white, middle-class men’ The Times reports: “Women, gays, ethnic minority and disabled applicants for jobs as judges should receive preferential treatment over white men in an attempt to make the judiciary reflect modern Britain, an official report recommended today. The proposals said the “positive action” should apply where [...]

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Minor problem

I managed to pour tea over my laptop yesterday afternoon.  This was not a ‘homage’ to Gordon Brown’s temper – but an accident. The laptop appears to be working intermittently.  Perhaps it is drying out? I shall post later, if I manage to fix it!

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Hong Kong TV news reports on Gordon Brown – A must watch!

How the Hong Kong TV news reported on Gordon Brown’s ‘dificulties’…. absolutely wonderful stuff – a must watch.  Hat Tip to OboTheClown for this… his finger is often on the pulse!

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The Fall of Gordonus Caesar by the sword of Maximus Rawnsley on Newsnight,

Watching former deputy prime minister  Jabba The Hut Prescott last night on Newsnight, blustering away, clearly furious that the Rawnsley ‘Revelations’ were about to assist in the immolation and final burial of Gordonus Caesar’s disastrous period of rule, was a surreal experience. I started to imagine Andrew Rawnsley, dressed like Maximus in the famous film [...]

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Bully… the Game!… Truth stranger than fiction?

There is a remarkable and curious resemblance between Gordon Brown and the character in this computer game Bully: The Scholarship Edition. It may be time for me to take some pills….

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Law Review: Bullying, skirts, projectile vomiting and torture – a tale of life in modern political Britain.

Gordon Brown hit by fresh bullying allegations Pressure mounts on cabinet secretary to launch inquiry into claims prime minister abused Downing St staff – The Guardian Yesterday, being a Sunday and my mood frivolous, I wrote about the Andrew Rawnsley allegations against Gordon Brown.  I also engaged in a bit of nonsense on Twitter with [...]

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Rawnsley impugns integrity of British Prime Minister and Labour twitter Tzar says – too silly for Brown to deal with?

Andrew Rawnsley – who I always enjoy reading on Sundays – has extracts of his new book The End of The Party in the The Observer today. He makes a number of serious allegations about Gordon Brown – summarised in The New Statesman. The main five allegations: 1. The cabinet secretary Sir Gus O’Donnell – [...]

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Another fine mess of an idea from The Laurel & Hardy Institute of Fiscal Studies

The Tories are on a roll.  Another ripper of an idea has just entered the astonishing  mind of George Osbore and his team at the Laurel & Hardy Institute of Fiscal Studies. The BBC reports: The public could be offered discounted shares in state-owned banks under a “people’s bonus” plan outlined by Tory shadow chancellor [...]

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Postcard from The Staterooms-on-Thames: Outsourced and ‘Ghost written’

Dear Reader, Twitter is awash with social media mavens who think they know more and think better than others.  The fact that many of the social media mavens may be American is inevitable. But the Brit ‘marketers’ are catching up fast with their snakeoil.  They have set themselves up as ‘mavens’ or ‘gurus’. Most of [...]

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Saturday hangover….

Although the sun is shining, I may have overdone the juice after clearing rubbish and completing my move from kent to London yesterday…  tea with toast is improving things… I shall go and read the papers at a nearby cafe and plan my next blog posts.  I gather that Labour is relying on the ‘submerged [...]

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A quick trip to Kent

To Kent to clear the rest of my furniture and dispose of things I no longer need or wish to keep – very liberating.  Back later to do Rive Gauche late pm.

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Thankfully.. not all Tories are like Sir Nicholas Winterton MP

I return from a most enjoyable trip to find that Sir Nicholas Winterton MP has managed to make himself look a bit foolish. I do hope he did not mean to appear snobbish – but he certainly managed to get himself into a mess when talking to the BBC about travelling First Class on trains. [...]

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Law Review: Judges baffle juries

Courts overhaul planned to help juries baffled by judges A fascinating piece in The Times this morning by Frances Gibb… Two thirds of jurors do not understand what judges tell them about the law when they retire to consider their verdicts, according to a ground-breaking study into the secrets of the jury room. The findings [...]

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