Dear Diary,
It is encouraging to note that decent things seem to be happening, and even more encouraging to see most of them emanating from the Courts.
In a Judgment of remarkable terseness, the Divisional Court (Moses LJ and Sullivan J) have comprehensively demonstrated that the Government gave in to Saudi Arabia and was, effectively, complicit [...]
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Scottish taxpayers are doubtless delighted to have funded the £15,000 prosecution of Sergeant Eros aka Stuart Kennedy a student trying to fund his education by performing striptease acts. Whilst his buff butler and hunky handyman have been a big hit with the ladies, it seems two female police officers were less than impressed with his [...]
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Dear Diary,
The penalty for naming a teddy-bear has now been set at 15 days imprisonment, followed by deportation. At present this sentencing guideline is only applicable in the Sudan, but I expect the Government to attempt to implement it here as soon as they can. Plainly, there will have to be some deference to national [...]
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Dear Diary,
I am quite recovered now, due largely to Mistress Ruthie’s devoted nursing. Really, I have been nursed as if I were a baby.
I have also been much uplifted by the proof that this diary is now required reading in the heart of government. I understand that the Law Officers have cold feet about locking [...]
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Dear Diary,
I am struggling with a particular problem. Plainly, no Maiden has ever voted Conservative. The terms of Great-Grandfather’s peerage preclude it and the Maidens are people of their word. Moreover, betraying one’s class is wonderful fun and Grandfather’s friendship with the Stansgates has endured down the generations to this day.
Of course, until recently there has [...]
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Dear Diary,
As the Conservative Party goes through its traditional autumnal (and alliterative) auto-de-fe the entire body politic seems exercised about immigration. Why?
It seems to be taken as read that immigrants are a bad thing, especially the non-pinky-orange ones. Yet any proof of that proposition is strangely lacking. Certainly, the UK has a net gain in terms of [...]
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Dear Diary,
Apparently, the terrorist attacks on London could have been avoided if only British law enforcement agencies had acted on information supplied by Saudi Arabia. This information, which exists entirely in the imagination of King Abdullah Ibn Saud, has been put front and centre as the noble monarch of the mutilated hands visits London on a [...]
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Dear, dear Diary,
Only now, after a decent interval has elapsed, can I face your soft, creamy pages again. Even though my eyes are red from weeping, I cannot see any rosy tint. Mistress Ruthie has decided that she prefers a hot, rigid, full-on machine to the more delicate joys which I could offer. Dear Diary, [...]
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Posted in Oppression, Politics on October 19, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Dear Diary,
I have often been asked, usually by Judges in a tone of wonder, why more Barristers cannot be like me. The view I have taken, that serendipity has much to do with it, has been taken reflexively. Now, Dr James Watson has unleashed a storm of protest by suggesting that difference might go as [...]
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Posted in Oppression, Politics on September 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Dear Diary,
Newcastle is a place where crime is at above average levels. That must be why the Northumbria police have spent so much time going to the Baltic Exchange and looking at the show on in the gallery there. Ever alert to the threats to their fair city the constabulary have seized a photograph as [...]
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