Posted in Criminal Legislation, Humbug, Politics on November 27, 2007 | 18 Comments »
Dear Diary,
The juvenile who is President of the Oxford Union - that home of lost causes - has achieved his 15 minutes of fame. Luke Tryl (a name that sounds very like a pseudonym) has invited one criminal racist and one criminal holocaust-denier to speak. Dear diary, it would be nice if some of Oxford’s [...]
Posted in Criminal Legislation, Human Rights Act, Humbug, Oppression, Politics, Terrorism on November 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Legal Profession, Politics on November 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Ruthie has twice been locked in a cell; on both occassions she was (allegedly) forgotten whilst taking instructions. She has yet to be locked up for for misbehaviour, the kind of misdemeanors that she might be locked up for having long since ceased to be criminal offences.
Not so in Pakistan, where lawyers are getting an [...]
Posted in Human Rights Act, Humbug, Oppression, Politics on November 4, 2007 | 10 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Corruption, Events, Human Rights Act, Oppression, Politics, Terrorism on October 29, 2007 | 7 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Oppression, Politics, Ruthie, this site on October 28, 2007 | 4 Comments »
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, [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Human Rights Act, Legal Profession, Politics on October 18, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Dear Diary,
Mrs Justice Dobbs is in charge of encouraging diversity in the Judiciary. I am all for diversity and I wish Dobbs J would encourage Judges not to say, “Ms Maiden, I have seen a better case in the packing department of Ikea“. At present there is no diversity at all on that score. But [...]
Posted in Human Rights Act, Legal Profession, Politics on October 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Dear Diary,
Jack “Avego” Straw is determined that the legal aid bill should come down. Leaving aside, for the time being, the intellectual quality of his arguments, I have been interested to see the control being exerted by the Legal Services Commission. Its Commissioners are a rag, tag and bobtail collection of ‘the great and the good’ which [...]
Posted in Environmental Law, Politics on October 1, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Dear Diary,
Good news from Norfolk, where aged DJ Christopher Farrow, alias DJ Shazam, has been given an ASBO aged 63 for organising illegal raves. The man is a star. At a time of life when his fuddy-duddy contemporaries are sitting in bath-chairs, shooting burglars or, in the case of Norfolk, inbreeding with their own relatives, [...]
