2021ii24, Wednesday: freedom.
10 days of self-isolation is over, and the seaside beckons. Also: what the Emperor’s New Clothes can tell us about whistleblowing. Short thought: My personal (and family) lockdown is lifted. My symptoms are pretty much gone. A quick drive down to the sea this morning felt simply wonderful. There’s nothing like fresh air and wide […]
2021ii22, Monday: tl;dr.
Lord Leggatt is a judicial hero. And, as we now know, he understands that somethings really are too long; didn’t read. Also: creative conflict at its best. Short thought: Smarter and better minds than mine have crawled all over the Uber judgment, handed down by the Supreme Court on Friday. It’s justifiably been the centre of attention in […]
2021ii19, Friday: “Sleaze”… and a Free Man of England.
Rabbie Burns was right. We need to see oursels as ithers see us – particularly where corruption is concerned. And on another tack: a lovely court victory over a dangerously deluded sovereign citizen. Short thought: The immortal Robert Burns was right when he asked for the gift of seeing oneself from the outside. (From To a Louse, although […]
2021ii17, Wednesday: the other shoe.
So it’s four days since I took a test, three since the result. Not much in the way of symptoms. How long, o Lord, how long… Short thought: This is weird. Day four (at least) of having The Bug (again, I think). And aside from a mild headache and some fatigue: nothing to speak of. […]
2021ii15, Monday: Damn.
Positive test. Feeling OK, but probably won’t. Please forgive me, but this may not be a priority till I’m through… Short thought: It’s not even two months since I started doing this writing business on a regular basis, and I’m already taking a break. That said, I think I’ve got a pretty good excuse. A […]
2021ii12, Friday: Different ≠ worse.
Why section 3 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 has a lesson for our polarised world. And something special about the spiritual geography of offices – those places we may miss more than we know. Short thought: I’ve rambled before on the power of analogies for advocates. I was half-convinced anyway, before Edmund King QC (RIP) pushed […]
2021ii10, Wednesday: “Conspiracy without the theory.”
Some excellent, if depressing, writing on the modern prevalence and abuse of conspiracy theories. But also: fantastic new knowledge tools for Mac/iOS users. Someone is right on the internet: I remember my first argument about conspiracy theories. It was decades ago: I was in India, on a gap year, in a cafe somewhere in Rajasthan. […]
2021ii8, Monday: The intellectual dishonesty of pushing buttons.
New rule: if you use a dog-whistle, I’ll stop reading. Fair enough? And a lovely rabbit-hole for word-loving geeks. Short thought: By way of a tangential follow-on to the stuff on tools for thinking the other week, there’s been something else on my mind. And I recognise that I may be about to sound doctrinaire, narrow-minded, […]
2021ii5, Friday: Malleable memory.
The litigation process causes witness inaccuracy – and the courts are recognising that. Also: a wonderful hymn to the joy of errors. And why stories can help fight corruption. Short thought: Job one, when you’re a barrister, is to read the papers. In olden times – that is, a year ago – these would normally […]
2021ii3, Wednesday: Getting away with it.
Fraud hurts huge numbers of people, hugely – yet it’s a law enforcement also-ran. When might that change? And, staying with crime, fantastic writing about my favourite detective author of all time. Short thought: For anyone involved in dealing with fraud – as an investigator, an insurer, a lawyer or otherwise – the past couple […]
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