11th May: News up on Insite Law

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Editor pick of the day 11th May 2009 MPs’ expenses and the great national sneer LabourList.org ” The Daily Telegraph has undeniably pulled off a great coup in getting hold of the details of MPs’ expenses claims and publishing them. It’s doing it in dribs and drabs, starting yesterday, thus pre-empting the official plan to publish them all together in July, after the elections in June to the European parliament and the county councils.” More… The Slackoisie Fight Back Scott Greenfield of Simple Justice… ” Adrian Dayton, blawger and tweeter , is a great young man.  Happy, smiling, smart and engaging.  It was great to meet him on the way out of the Gen-Y Panel discussion at SuperConference. But poor Adrian, one of the small vocal group of millenials at the conference trying to defend their honor against the rash of senior lawyers (with one curious exception), suffers from the same disease that infects the Slackoisie: the inability to see life in terms of anything other than “me”.

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On this day… 1812 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons , London 1820 – Launch of HMS Beagle , the ship that took young Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage.

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