Breaking News: Cameron meets man from Belize…to raise more money for sleaze….

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And they came with knives for …Cleggus….. It was not a great ‘Ides’ to go on the leader debate

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Podcast: 20 Minutes with Carl Gardner on arresting Popes, all law since 2000 null and void? and the Queen’s powers in the event of a hung Parliament

Today I am talking to Carl Gardner, ex government lawyer, writer and author of the well known Head of Legal blog. Carl and I have done well over ten podcasts together over the last two years on civil liberties issues.  Today we’re seeing whether anyone can, in fact, arrest the Pope, we look at a [...]

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Political Commentators [1]: Nick Robinson, BBC

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Rive Gauche: Spin and rioting Archbishops….

While not riveting, nor particularly sophisticated in terms of deep content, I enjoyed watching the Leader debate last night – and watching the spinners proclaiming on Twitter every few minutes that ‘their man’ had won. The spinning  started but two minutes in and continued relentlessly until the end when the face of Police, Camera, Action [...]

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Podcast: Charon after dark – Charon interviews himself, the Prime Minister and Cardinal Charoni di Tempranillo

It has been a long time since I last did a ‘Charon After Dark’ podcast with myself – but as I am doing a lot of podcasts with other people, I felt I may as well do one with myself… Tonight… I arrive by jet plane to Heathrow, take a helicopter to the Staterooms at [...]

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Tories moving Britain…. with enthusiasm!

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Podcast: 20 minutes with Emily Nomates, Ed and anchor-presenter of GuyNEWS

Tonight I am talking to Emily Nomates. Anchor, investigator, editor and producer of GuyNEWS…an ‘anarcho feminist with a tweed jacket to die for’ … and she also blogs as Emily Investigates. I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Emily Nomates when I appeared on GuyNews looking like King Lear with a barrister’s wig on… [...]

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Podcast: 20 minutes with Tom Williams

Tonight I am talking to Tom Williams, who although too young to vote in the coming election,  is clearly interested in politics judging by his prolific output of tweets on twitter. Tom describes himself thus on his twitter profile…”16 y/o Labour activist in NW, college student, prospective barrister, not quite sure yet precisely where I [...]

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Cameron runs scared of Paxo!

Paul Waugh reports “The BBC have just been told that David Cameron will NOT be going head-to-head with Jeremy Paxman on Monday.” I watched the Paxo interview with Clegg.  It was good and I thought Clegg did quite well.  Brown is, apparently, quite happy to face Paxo on 26 April. The Leader Debates are on [...]

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Broken Britain: Charon’s Guide to the Tory Manifesto

I was going to do a podcast with Emily Nomates tonight – postponed until tomorrow to allow her to complete the production of a GuyNEWS vid (an entirely worthy cause) – and this has left me with a bit of useful time to consider the events of our times with a bottle of the juice. [...]

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Dave will mend Broken Britain with Basil…. Basil Grayling, that is…

I have now read a great deal about the Tory plans. I only had a bottle of Rum in my drinks cabinet… medicinal self prescribing was required. 20 Minutes with…. series of ‘political’ podcasts Coming tonight – 20 Minutes with Emily Nomates of GuyNEWS 20 Minutes with Iain Dale 20 Minutes with Tom Harris 4MP

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Law Review: Legal Aid and MPs, Army discriminates, and Lord Justice Wall sworn in as President of the Family Division

Law Society Chief Executive Desmond Hudson says: “It is a principle of our legal system that anyone charged with a criminal offence before the Crown Court is entitled to legal representation. This is a vital part of ensuring that charges against a defendant must be fully proved in a fair trial. This must require the [...]

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EllieGate – the saga of our times!

The bloggers and the press are having fun (largely at Ellie Gellard’s expense it has to be said) about Labour inviting a young activist @bevaniteellie to help them launch their prospectus. The Daily Mail dived in with this…“A glamorous young activist who introduced Mr Brown to the crowd at Labour’s manifesto launch in Birmingham has [...]

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Podcast: 20 Minutes with Tom Harris 4MP

Tonight I am talking to Tom Harris who for some years now has been the Labour MP for Glasgow South and is standing for re-election on the 6th May. Tom is a well regarded blogger with a taste for the direct, sardonic and serious… as with my other podcasts in the 20 minutes with series… [...]

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Great British Leaders: An exposition

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InsiteLaw newswire 3 put now…

The latest edition of the InsiteLaw newswire is now available for download here The first of my political podcast series – 20 Minutes with Iain Dale is below. Tonight I record “20 minutes with Tom Harris MP” up later….

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My thoughts on the Labour Party manifesto 2010

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Law Review: Arrest the Pope?, Gold diggers, and Baroness Scotland vindicated

The news at the weekend that British national atheist Professor Richard Dawkin is planning to arrest the Pope caught my attention. I commented on this in my weekly ‘Postcard’ yesterday. What bloggers need to know about defamation A useful article: “This is a guest post by barrister James Tumbridge (pic right) following a report by [...]

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Podcast: Twenty minutes with Iain Dale

Today I am talking to Iain Dale, former parliamentary candidate, political commentator, pundit, blogger, founder of Total Politics and the managing director of publishing company Biteback Publishing. Iain is also well known for his regular appearances on BBC and Sky News commenting on the political events of our times. Today I’m not going to ask [...]

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