The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
Sounds a bit too racy for me ..... what about Actuaries?
Oh gosh no. They do nothing but stare at numbers. Very hard to film.
You could argue that actuaries, by creating LDI, brought down Liz Truss.
You're welcome.
A sterling service to the nation. Actuaries are great people. It's just that they're not very filmable.
Like Chartered Accountants?
It's a simplification but I'd say Actuaries are the "roundheads" to the Chartered Accountants "cavaliers".
Ben Kingsley: Do you have any money hidden away someplace that I don't know about? Liam Neeson: No. Why, am I broke? Ben Kingsley: Uh, well …
It sounds like she screwed up by trying to bring something into the country that she shouldn't have and is just using the war critic angle in a bid for sympathy.
When you wrote that, I thought "bringing drugs into the US, well, more fool her".
Then I read:
And I thought, were you deliberately trying to mislead? Because failure to declare something legal (but declarable) is not something that would normally result in a visa being pulled.
And that's the problem with having laws on the books which are not normally enforced. Ideally, we would remove them, or enforce them. In reality, of course, it suits for everyone for the laws to remain on the books - in normal circumstances.
Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov · 20h Zelensky: I told Trump that in three years there will be another president in US. Putin can break promises he makes to you. Who will be responsible then?
Possibly trying to appeal to his vanity by suggesting anyone else won't be as awesome and able to deal with the situation, but more likely to just get his back up that Putin would dare go back on his word. Being a famously on the level bloke.
It sounds like she screwed up by trying to bring something into the country that she shouldn't have and is just using the war critic angle in a bid for sympathy.
When you wrote that, I thought "bringing drugs into the US, well, more fool her".
Then I read:
And I thought, were you deliberately trying to mislead? Because failure to declare something legal (but declarable) is not something that would normally result in a visa being pulled.
Biosecurity is taken seriously by serious countries:
Visitors to Australia will soon be warned that concealing plant and animal products at the bottom of their suitcase is now grounds for visa cancellation, under new powers for the immigration minister.
New regulations add concealing goods that require a permit to import because they pose a biosecurity risk to existing grounds to cancel visas. The rules apply to visitors including international students, working holidaymakers, maritime crew and temporary workers.
You're right - when I flew to New Zealand, they were quite clear that if I brought any fruit with me from Australia I would be sent to a hostile country where I would be tortured and killed.
After this morning's revelation that Reform are planning to "counter housebuilding", a couple more gems from their new policy group:
I’m also surprised the leaked policy platform 1) does not mention immigration once 2) positions net-zero as ‘the next Brexit’, which seems way off, focus on migration or justice/public safety surely?.. https://x.com/meIisactu/status/1905561810817679501
That is potentially huge. The other parties need to bang on about this.
Oh it’s massive. Colossal. On. Par with Jo(n Major punching the Queen. Let’s vote for the same old shit we’ve had for the last 40 years because…….l Joylon 😂😂😂😂
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
It sounds like she screwed up by trying to bring something into the country that she shouldn't have and is just using the war critic angle in a bid for sympathy.
When you wrote that, I thought "bringing drugs into the US, well, more fool her".
Then I read:
And I thought, were you deliberately trying to mislead? Because failure to declare something legal (but declarable) is not something that would normally result in a visa being pulled.
Normally a $500 fine, apparently.
William seems happy for that to attract 10 to life in the gulag.
Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov · 20h Zelensky: I told Trump that in three years there will be another president in US. Putin can break promises he makes to you. Who will be responsible then?
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
Or Glasgow-based data analysts. One of my answers to an FOI request from Martin Lewis made the front page of the BBC website.
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
There's a Ben Affleck flick where he plays an accountant. It appears to be a far more violent trade than my careers advisor led me to believe.
And wasn't Marty the central character in Ozark an accountant? Looks like I was wrong and there's no shortage of tv accounting drama. Perhaps "actuaries" are the way to go after all.
Shawshank Redemption, of course.
Shawshank is currently number one rated move in the IMDB, alongside the Godfather, Goodfellas, etc.
The fascinating bit - to me at least - is that no one knows who the Director was. Every other movie, you're like "oh, that was Nolan or Scorcese or that New Zealand bloke". But Shawshank, no idea.
And then when you look him up, you discover he only directed three movies. And two of them were Stephen King prison story adapations.
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
There's a Ben Affleck flick where he plays an accountant. It appears to be a far more violent trade than my careers advisor led me to believe.
And wasn't Marty the central character in Ozark an accountant? Looks like I was wrong and there's no shortage of tv accounting drama. Perhaps "actuaries" are the way to go after all.
Shawshank Redemption, of course.
Shawshank is currently number one rated move in the IMDB, alongside the Godfather, Goodfellas, etc.
The fascinating bit - to me at least - is that no one knows who the Director was. Every other movie, you're like "oh, that was Nolan or Scorcese or that New Zealand bloke". But Shawshank, no idea.
And then when you look him up, you discover he only directed three movies. And two of them were Stephen King prison story adapations.
Looking it up I did know the name, because I knew he wrote the movie yet had no idea he directed it.
I cannot get on board with the Godfather love because whilst I like the movie, I will maintain to my dying day that Marlon Brando's performance was dogshit and I feel like society is gaslighting me by saying otherwise. He looked and sounded stupid and wasn't the least bit intimidating in the role.
It's an opinion I only dare share on the internet.
It sounds like she screwed up by trying to bring something into the country that she shouldn't have and is just using the war critic angle in a bid for sympathy.
When you wrote that, I thought "bringing drugs into the US, well, more fool her".
Then I read:
And I thought, were you deliberately trying to mislead? Because failure to declare something legal (but declarable) is not something that would normally result in a visa being pulled.
Biosecurity is taken seriously by serious countries:
Visitors to Australia will soon be warned that concealing plant and animal products at the bottom of their suitcase is now grounds for visa cancellation, under new powers for the immigration minister.
New regulations add concealing goods that require a permit to import because they pose a biosecurity risk to existing grounds to cancel visas. The rules apply to visitors including international students, working holidaymakers, maritime crew and temporary workers.
You're right - when I flew to New Zealand, they were quite clear that if I brought any fruit with me from Australia I would be sent to a hostile country where I would be tortured and killed.
They're all about a proportionate response. I step on your toe, you shoot me in the face kind of thing.
Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov · 20h Zelensky: I told Trump that in three years there will be another president in US. Putin can break promises he makes to you. Who will be responsible then?
No doubt Zelenskyy will still be there
That's a half glass empty/full kind of response. Positive - the Russians still haven't managed to kill him. Negative - the Russians are still waging war on Ukrainian territory.
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The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
Sounds a bit too racy for me ..... what about Actuaries?
Oh gosh no. They do nothing but stare at numbers. Very hard to film.
You could argue that actuaries, by creating LDI, brought down Liz Truss.
You're welcome.
A sterling service to the nation. Actuaries are great people. It's just that they're not very filmable.
Like Chartered Accountants?
It's a simplification but I'd say Actuaries are the "roundheads" to the Chartered Accountants "cavaliers".
I once worked on a project where our client, a bank, employed a mathematician who complained that actuaries were "too imprecise".
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
Sounds a bit too racy for me ..... what about Actuaries?
Oh gosh no. They do nothing but stare at numbers. Very hard to film.
You could argue that actuaries, by creating LDI, brought down Liz Truss.
You're welcome.
Jack Nicholson was an actuary in About Schmidt
You have forgotten the most famous of all - Double Indemnity.
I can imagine a plot where an actuary uses his professional skills to bet on when certain people die, and tilt the odds in their favour by murdering a few.
It sounds like she screwed up by trying to bring something into the country that she shouldn't have and is just using the war critic angle in a bid for sympathy.
When you wrote that, I thought "bringing drugs into the US, well, more fool her".
Then I read:
And I thought, were you deliberately trying to mislead? Because failure to declare something legal (but declarable) is not something that would normally result in a visa being pulled.
Biosecurity is taken seriously by serious countries:
Visitors to Australia will soon be warned that concealing plant and animal products at the bottom of their suitcase is now grounds for visa cancellation, under new powers for the immigration minister.
New regulations add concealing goods that require a permit to import because they pose a biosecurity risk to existing grounds to cancel visas. The rules apply to visitors including international students, working holidaymakers, maritime crew and temporary workers.
You're right - when I flew to New Zealand, they were quite clear that if I brought any fruit with me from Australia I would be sent to a hostile country where I would be tortured and killed.
Actually New Zealand is very strict and a woman next to us was arrested for not declaring a banana in her rucksack and they have sniffer dogs everywhere
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
It sounds like she screwed up by trying to bring something into the country that she shouldn't have and is just using the war critic angle in a bid for sympathy.
When you wrote that, I thought "bringing drugs into the US, well, more fool her".
Then I read:
And I thought, were you deliberately trying to mislead? Because failure to declare something legal (but declarable) is not something that would normally result in a visa being pulled.
Biosecurity is taken seriously by serious countries:
Visitors to Australia will soon be warned that concealing plant and animal products at the bottom of their suitcase is now grounds for visa cancellation, under new powers for the immigration minister.
New regulations add concealing goods that require a permit to import because they pose a biosecurity risk to existing grounds to cancel visas. The rules apply to visitors including international students, working holidaymakers, maritime crew and temporary workers.
You're right - when I flew to New Zealand, they were quite clear that if I brought any fruit with me from Australia I would be sent to a hostile country where I would be tortured and killed.
They're all about a proportionate response. I step on your toe, you shoot me in the face kind of thing.
One of my friends forgot to clean his flysheet before we landed in Christchurch. They forced me to watch him being fed to a pod of killer whales just off Kaikoura.
God, I hate show offs, be modest and self effacing.
A new KC has celebrated her elevation by trotting to her chambers on horseback.
Jane Russell KC told RollOnFriday she rode from the ceremony appointing 105 new King’s Counsel at Westminster Hall back to Essex Court “to honour the important role that horses have played in my life and also in London’s life”.
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
There's a Ben Affleck flick where he plays an accountant. It appears to be a far more violent trade than my careers advisor led me to believe.
And wasn't Marty the central character in Ozark an accountant? Looks like I was wrong and there's no shortage of tv accounting drama. Perhaps "actuaries" are the way to go after all.
Shawshank Redemption, of course.
Shawshank is currently number one rated move in the IMDB, alongside the Godfather, Goodfellas, etc.
The fascinating bit - to me at least - is that no one knows who the Director was. Every other movie, you're like "oh, that was Nolan or Scorcese or that New Zealand bloke". But Shawshank, no idea.
And then when you look him up, you discover he only directed three movies. And two of them were Stephen King prison story adapations.
Looking it up I did know the name, because I knew he wrote the movie yet had no idea he directed it.
I cannot get on board with the Godfather love because whilst I like the movie, I will maintain to my dying day that Marlon Brando's performance was dogshit and I feel like society is gaslighting me by saying otherwise. He looked and sounded stupid and wasn't the least bit intimidating in the role.
It's an opinion I only dare share on the internet.
It sounds like she screwed up by trying to bring something into the country that she shouldn't have and is just using the war critic angle in a bid for sympathy.
When you wrote that, I thought "bringing drugs into the US, well, more fool her".
Then I read:
And I thought, were you deliberately trying to mislead? Because failure to declare something legal (but declarable) is not something that would normally result in a visa being pulled.
Biosecurity is taken seriously by serious countries:
Visitors to Australia will soon be warned that concealing plant and animal products at the bottom of their suitcase is now grounds for visa cancellation, under new powers for the immigration minister.
New regulations add concealing goods that require a permit to import because they pose a biosecurity risk to existing grounds to cancel visas. The rules apply to visitors including international students, working holidaymakers, maritime crew and temporary workers.
You're right - when I flew to New Zealand, they were quite clear that if I brought any fruit with me from Australia I would be sent to a hostile country where I would be tortured and killed.
They're all about a proportionate response. I step on your toe, you shoot me in the face kind of thing.
One of my friends forgot to clean his flysheet before we landed in Christchurch. They forced me to watch him being fed to a pod of killer whales just off Kaikoura.
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
The three part set of episodes where someones pen leaks because another accountant took their pocket protector for their own?
This seems like an interesting new book which features idead mentioned on PB:
Despite being the richest country in the world, the US has a problem of scarcity, particularly in Democratic-run metropolitan areas, where the costs of housing and other basic needs have spiraled out of control. This is exacerbated by the traditional progressive solution of giving people money or vouchers to help them pay for finite resources such as housing, healthcare and food, the book argues, which increases demand and merely makes those things even more expensive.
“The problem is that if you subsidize the cost of something that there isn’t enough of, you’ll raise prices or force rationing,” Klein has said. He and Thompson have described themselves as “supply-side” progressives, borrowing a term usually associated with conservative economic theories.
What the US badly needs to do is build, they argue – build more houses, public transportation, power plants and other infrastructure – but that isn’t happening.
One obstacle is nimbyism, the tendency of people to support public works and development in the abstract but fight them when they affect their own neighborhoods. Another is “everything bagel” logrolling that complicates what should be narrowly focused legislation by layering it with other social and political objectives, such as diverse hiring requirements or climate crisis goals, in order to appease interest groups or political constituencies.
In an example Thompson recently discussed on a podcast, then president Joe Biden signed legislation in 2021 providing $42bn of funding to expand access to broadband internet in rural America. As of this December, according to Politico, the program had “yet to connect a single household”. Critics told Politico that this was partly because of a “suite of federal conditions” that required states “accepting the money to make sure providers plan for climate change, reach out to unionized workforces and hire locally”, as well as guarantee affordable broadband plans for people with low incomes.
“I don’t want the state of Virginia taking, say, federal money to build broadband internet and then charging poor rural folks, like, $200 a month to go online,” Thompson said. “But by holding those values so closely … we accidentally built just about nothing.” A “confusion of process versus outcomes” meant that “very little was actually done on behalf of the Americans for whom we wanted to raise their living standards”.
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
The three part set of episodes where someones pen leaks because another accountant took their pocket protector for their own?
It sounds like she screwed up by trying to bring something into the country that she shouldn't have and is just using the war critic angle in a bid for sympathy.
When you wrote that, I thought "bringing drugs into the US, well, more fool her".
Then I read:
And I thought, were you deliberately trying to mislead? Because failure to declare something legal (but declarable) is not something that would normally result in a visa being pulled.
Biosecurity is taken seriously by serious countries:
Visitors to Australia will soon be warned that concealing plant and animal products at the bottom of their suitcase is now grounds for visa cancellation, under new powers for the immigration minister.
New regulations add concealing goods that require a permit to import because they pose a biosecurity risk to existing grounds to cancel visas. The rules apply to visitors including international students, working holidaymakers, maritime crew and temporary workers.
You're right - when I flew to New Zealand, they were quite clear that if I brought any fruit with me from Australia I would be sent to a hostile country where I would be tortured and killed.
Actually New Zealand is very strict and a woman next to us was arrested for not declaring a banana in her rucksack and they have sniffer dogs everywhere
Not a joke with the Kiwis
Yes they are the only country I have ever visited where they x-ray all your luggage once you've gone through immigration ON ARRIVAL. They also have dogs to sniff out illicit foodstuffs (and presuambly drugs). The last thing you need at 5am is something sniffing round your crotch.
The checks are carried out by Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) staff.
This seems like an interesting new book which features idead mentioned on PB:
Despite being the richest country in the world, the US has a problem of scarcity, particularly in Democratic-run metropolitan areas, where the costs of housing and other basic needs have spiraled out of control. This is exacerbated by the traditional progressive solution of giving people money or vouchers to help them pay for finite resources such as housing, healthcare and food, the book argues, which increases demand and merely makes those things even more expensive.
“The problem is that if you subsidize the cost of something that there isn’t enough of, you’ll raise prices or force rationing,” Klein has said. He and Thompson have described themselves as “supply-side” progressives, borrowing a term usually associated with conservative economic theories.
What the US badly needs to do is build, they argue – build more houses, public transportation, power plants and other infrastructure – but that isn’t happening.
One obstacle is nimbyism, the tendency of people to support public works and development in the abstract but fight them when they affect their own neighborhoods. Another is “everything bagel” logrolling that complicates what should be narrowly focused legislation by layering it with other social and political objectives, such as diverse hiring requirements or climate crisis goals, in order to appease interest groups or political constituencies.
In an example Thompson recently discussed on a podcast, then president Joe Biden signed legislation in 2021 providing $42bn of funding to expand access to broadband internet in rural America. As of this December, according to Politico, the program had “yet to connect a single household”. Critics told Politico that this was partly because of a “suite of federal conditions” that required states “accepting the money to make sure providers plan for climate change, reach out to unionized workforces and hire locally”, as well as guarantee affordable broadband plans for people with low incomes.
“I don’t want the state of Virginia taking, say, federal money to build broadband internet and then charging poor rural folks, like, $200 a month to go online,” Thompson said. “But by holding those values so closely … we accidentally built just about nothing.” A “confusion of process versus outcomes” meant that “very little was actually done on behalf of the Americans for whom we wanted to raise their living standards”.
Definitely concur on housing and impacts UK too. Housing benefit has risen very sharply and is a now a significant tax burden, but doesn't house extra people, it just changes the allocation very slightly and pushes market prices upwards for everyone else. A complete waste of money. Few on either the left or right accept this but it seems obvious to me.
It sounds like she screwed up by trying to bring something into the country that she shouldn't have and is just using the war critic angle in a bid for sympathy.
When you wrote that, I thought "bringing drugs into the US, well, more fool her".
Then I read:
And I thought, were you deliberately trying to mislead? Because failure to declare something legal (but declarable) is not something that would normally result in a visa being pulled.
Biosecurity is taken seriously by serious countries:
Visitors to Australia will soon be warned that concealing plant and animal products at the bottom of their suitcase is now grounds for visa cancellation, under new powers for the immigration minister.
New regulations add concealing goods that require a permit to import because they pose a biosecurity risk to existing grounds to cancel visas. The rules apply to visitors including international students, working holidaymakers, maritime crew and temporary workers.
You're right - when I flew to New Zealand, they were quite clear that if I brought any fruit with me from Australia I would be sent to a hostile country where I would be tortured and killed.
They're all about a proportionate response. I step on your toe, you shoot me in the face kind of thing.
One of my friends forgot to clean his flysheet before we landed in Christchurch. They forced me to watch him being fed to a pod of killer whales just off Kaikoura.
It's exactly how I want to go.
And people think the black sand is just its colour.
It sounds like she screwed up by trying to bring something into the country that she shouldn't have and is just using the war critic angle in a bid for sympathy.
When you wrote that, I thought "bringing drugs into the US, well, more fool her".
Then I read:
And I thought, were you deliberately trying to mislead? Because failure to declare something legal (but declarable) is not something that would normally result in a visa being pulled.
Biosecurity is taken seriously by serious countries:
Visitors to Australia will soon be warned that concealing plant and animal products at the bottom of their suitcase is now grounds for visa cancellation, under new powers for the immigration minister.
New regulations add concealing goods that require a permit to import because they pose a biosecurity risk to existing grounds to cancel visas. The rules apply to visitors including international students, working holidaymakers, maritime crew and temporary workers.
You're right - when I flew to New Zealand, they were quite clear that if I brought any fruit with me from Australia I would be sent to a hostile country where I would be tortured and killed.
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
It's notable (to me anyway) that about 15 years ago cop procedurals had obviously gotten stale since most new shows were about various 'consultants' solving crimes as we'd clearly gotten bored of cops doing so. Legal dramas I don't think are so ubiquitous so may have lasted longer.
British TV shows are usually pretty bad anyway so in fairness it may be different now.
There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.
The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.
For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.
The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.
Etc etc
(with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
The three part set of episodes where someones pen leaks because another accountant took their pocket protector for their own?
Good point.
Back to the software engineer thrillers then?
Hey accountants are only allowed to exist to make software engineers appear relatively attractive and interesting
It sounds like she screwed up by trying to bring something into the country that she shouldn't have and is just using the war critic angle in a bid for sympathy.
When you wrote that, I thought "bringing drugs into the US, well, more fool her".
Then I read:
And I thought, were you deliberately trying to mislead? Because failure to declare something legal (but declarable) is not something that would normally result in a visa being pulled.
Biosecurity is taken seriously by serious countries:
Visitors to Australia will soon be warned that concealing plant and animal products at the bottom of their suitcase is now grounds for visa cancellation, under new powers for the immigration minister.
New regulations add concealing goods that require a permit to import because they pose a biosecurity risk to existing grounds to cancel visas. The rules apply to visitors including international students, working holidaymakers, maritime crew and temporary workers.
You're right - when I flew to New Zealand, they were quite clear that if I brought any fruit with me from Australia I would be sent to a hostile country where I would be tortured and killed.
Actually New Zealand is very strict and a woman next to us was arrested for not declaring a banana in her rucksack and they have sniffer dogs everywhere
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
It's notable (to me anyway) that about 15 years ago cop procedurals had obviously gotten stale since most new shows were about various 'consultants' solving crimes as we'd clearly gotten bored of cops doing so. Legal dramas I don't think are so ubiquitous so may have lasted longer.
British TV shows are usually pretty bad anyway so in fairness it may be different now.
There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.
The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.
For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.
The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.
Etc etc
(with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
In real life Jessica Fletcher would be convicted based mostly on the statistic of being at the venue of 238 separate murders and pb would then be discussing whether those stats were safely presented to the jury or not.
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
It's notable (to me anyway) that about 15 years ago cop procedurals had obviously gotten stale since most new shows were about various 'consultants' solving crimes as we'd clearly gotten bored of cops doing so. Legal dramas I don't think are so ubiquitous so may have lasted longer.
British TV shows are usually pretty bad anyway so in fairness it may be different now.
There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.
The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.
For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.
The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.
Etc etc
(with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
The central detective always has a shedload of personal issues and is fundamentally unable to form any meaningful romantic relationships.
@TSE: "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
What?
Architects, surely?
Refuse disposal operatives.
"Shuggy, the rat catcher in Glasgow´s glamorous east end faces a dilemma when his pal Jamesie from his days at high flying Springburn Academy announces in the glittering surroundings of the Lauriston Inn that he is set to leave the cutting edge world of rodent control and join a new elite squad of refuse disposal operatives working to rid the city from a recent plague of cockroaches. Tension mounts when Robina, who has a past with both men, as well as quite a few others in Blytheswood Square, tells Shuggy that they´re out of Buckie and White Lighting. Friendships are put to the test as Jamesie goes on a bender to celebrate but the Corpy announces a further round of cuts to the recycling budget."
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
It's notable (to me anyway) that about 15 years ago cop procedurals had obviously gotten stale since most new shows were about various 'consultants' solving crimes as we'd clearly gotten bored of cops doing so. Legal dramas I don't think are so ubiquitous so may have lasted longer.
British TV shows are usually pretty bad anyway so in fairness it may be different now.
There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.
The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.
For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.
The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.
Etc etc
(with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
The central detective always has a shedload of personal issues and is fundamentally unable to form any meaningful romantic relationships.
(((Harry Enten))) @ForecasterEnten · 4h Just 6% of Greenlanders want to join the United States. There are more people who think we faked the moon landing (~10%).
85% of Greenlanders are opposed.
Meanwhile, less than 30% of Americans want Greenland to join the U.S.
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
Sounds a bit too racy for me ..... what about Actuaries?
Oh gosh no. They do nothing but stare at numbers. Very hard to film.
You could argue that actuaries, by creating LDI, brought down Liz Truss.
You're welcome.
A sterling service to the nation. Actuaries are great people. It's just that they're not very filmable.
Like Chartered Accountants?
It's a simplification but I'd say Actuaries are the "roundheads" to the Chartered Accountants "cavaliers".
I once worked on a project where our client, a bank, employed a mathematician who complained that actuaries were "too imprecise".
Ah well true pure mathematicians, they are top of the intellectual foodchain. There's absolutely nowhere to hide there.
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
It's notable (to me anyway) that about 15 years ago cop procedurals had obviously gotten stale since most new shows were about various 'consultants' solving crimes as we'd clearly gotten bored of cops doing so. Legal dramas I don't think are so ubiquitous so may have lasted longer.
British TV shows are usually pretty bad anyway so in fairness it may be different now.
There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.
The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.
For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.
The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.
Etc etc
(with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
The central detective always has a shedload of personal issues and is fundamentally unable to form any meaningful romantic relationships.
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
It's notable (to me anyway) that about 15 years ago cop procedurals had obviously gotten stale since most new shows were about various 'consultants' solving crimes as we'd clearly gotten bored of cops doing so. Legal dramas I don't think are so ubiquitous so may have lasted longer.
British TV shows are usually pretty bad anyway so in fairness it may be different now.
There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.
The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.
For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.
The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.
Etc etc
(with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
The central detective always has a shedload of personal issues and is fundamentally unable to form any meaningful romantic relationships.
I know you need sources of dramatic tension sometimes, and there's tropes which work just fine, but it's actually more interesting now if they don't have such issues. And if one more copper in some programme whinges about a personal life being impossible, despite examples in their own universes, I will roll my eyes so hard they will fall out.
Reminds me a little of how in the Sharpe books it was obviously important for Cornwell that Sharpe not be loaded, so every time he did get hold of a comfortable level of wealth in a book he had to contrive a way for him to lose it.
(((Harry Enten))) @ForecasterEnten · 4h Just 6% of Greenlanders want to join the United States. There are more people who think we faked the moon landing (~10%).
85% of Greenlanders are opposed.
Meanwhile, less than 30% of Americans want Greenland to join the U.S.
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
The three part set of episodes where someones pen leaks because another accountant took their pocket protector for their own?
Good point.
Back to the software engineer thrillers then?
Anyone watched Halt and Catch Fire over the years? I think now series 3 or 4.
This seems like an interesting new book which features idead mentioned on PB:
Despite being the richest country in the world, the US has a problem of scarcity, particularly in Democratic-run metropolitan areas, where the costs of housing and other basic needs have spiraled out of control. This is exacerbated by the traditional progressive solution of giving people money or vouchers to help them pay for finite resources such as housing, healthcare and food, the book argues, which increases demand and merely makes those things even more expensive.
“The problem is that if you subsidize the cost of something that there isn’t enough of, you’ll raise prices or force rationing,” Klein has said. He and Thompson have described themselves as “supply-side” progressives, borrowing a term usually associated with conservative economic theories.
What the US badly needs to do is build, they argue – build more houses, public transportation, power plants and other infrastructure – but that isn’t happening.
One obstacle is nimbyism, the tendency of people to support public works and development in the abstract but fight them when they affect their own neighborhoods. Another is “everything bagel” logrolling that complicates what should be narrowly focused legislation by layering it with other social and political objectives, such as diverse hiring requirements or climate crisis goals, in order to appease interest groups or political constituencies.
In an example Thompson recently discussed on a podcast, then president Joe Biden signed legislation in 2021 providing $42bn of funding to expand access to broadband internet in rural America. As of this December, according to Politico, the program had “yet to connect a single household”. Critics told Politico that this was partly because of a “suite of federal conditions” that required states “accepting the money to make sure providers plan for climate change, reach out to unionized workforces and hire locally”, as well as guarantee affordable broadband plans for people with low incomes.
“I don’t want the state of Virginia taking, say, federal money to build broadband internet and then charging poor rural folks, like, $200 a month to go online,” Thompson said. “But by holding those values so closely … we accidentally built just about nothing.” A “confusion of process versus outcomes” meant that “very little was actually done on behalf of the Americans for whom we wanted to raise their living standards”.
(It's a weird piece from Nate - over long, and poorly focused. A rare example of him not producing amazing copy. Even though I think I basically agree with him.)
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
The three part set of episodes where someones pen leaks because another accountant took their pocket protector for their own?
Good point.
Back to the software engineer thrillers then?
Anyone watched Halt and Catch Fire over the years? I think now series 3 or 4.
I watched the first season. I remember enjoying it ok but it was one of those 'Oh, i'll catch the next season' but then never remembering do so situations.
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
It's notable (to me anyway) that about 15 years ago cop procedurals had obviously gotten stale since most new shows were about various 'consultants' solving crimes as we'd clearly gotten bored of cops doing so. Legal dramas I don't think are so ubiquitous so may have lasted longer.
British TV shows are usually pretty bad anyway so in fairness it may be different now.
There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.
The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.
For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.
The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.
Etc etc
(with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
The central detective always has a shedload of personal issues and is fundamentally unable to form any meaningful romantic relationships.
Well that describes most of humanity
Speak for yourself!
The average person probably meets 1000+ people on a fairly regular basis during the course of their life The average person has an average of 3 to 5 close friends
A conversion rate of people I interact with regularly to close friend therefore is at best 0.5%.....this suggests yes people on the whole have an inability to form close personal connections....romantic ones even less so as told by the divorce rate....the number of people reaching 50 years happily married to the same person is tiny
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
The three part set of episodes where someones pen leaks because another accountant took their pocket protector for their own?
I bet you've never been inside a big ticket accounting firm. It's a high octane environment that tests every facet of your character.
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
It's notable (to me anyway) that about 15 years ago cop procedurals had obviously gotten stale since most new shows were about various 'consultants' solving crimes as we'd clearly gotten bored of cops doing so. Legal dramas I don't think are so ubiquitous so may have lasted longer.
British TV shows are usually pretty bad anyway so in fairness it may be different now.
There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.
The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.
For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.
The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.
Etc etc
(with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
In real life Jessica Fletcher would be convicted based mostly on the statistic of being at the venue of 238 separate murders and pb would then be discussing whether those stats were safely presented to the jury or not.
Personally, I can't work out how she has 87 nieces and nephews.
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
The three part set of episodes where someones pen leaks because another accountant took their pocket protector for their own?
I bet you've never been inside a big ticket accounting firm. It's a high octane environment that tests every facet of your character.
Thankfully no else I would have probably had to apply for retrospective abortion
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
It's notable (to me anyway) that about 15 years ago cop procedurals had obviously gotten stale since most new shows were about various 'consultants' solving crimes as we'd clearly gotten bored of cops doing so. Legal dramas I don't think are so ubiquitous so may have lasted longer.
British TV shows are usually pretty bad anyway so in fairness it may be different now.
There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.
The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.
For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.
The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.
Etc etc
(with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
In real life Jessica Fletcher would be convicted based mostly on the statistic of being at the venue of 238 separate murders and pb would then be discussing whether those stats were safely presented to the jury or not.
Personally, I can't work out how she has 87 nieces and nephews.
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
It's notable (to me anyway) that about 15 years ago cop procedurals had obviously gotten stale since most new shows were about various 'consultants' solving crimes as we'd clearly gotten bored of cops doing so. Legal dramas I don't think are so ubiquitous so may have lasted longer.
British TV shows are usually pretty bad anyway so in fairness it may be different now.
There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.
The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.
For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.
The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.
Etc etc
(with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
The central detective always has a shedload of personal issues and is fundamentally unable to form any meaningful romantic relationships.
And quite often the case has one of the detectives returning to their small sleepy home town after many years away in the big city.
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
It's notable (to me anyway) that about 15 years ago cop procedurals had obviously gotten stale since most new shows were about various 'consultants' solving crimes as we'd clearly gotten bored of cops doing so. Legal dramas I don't think are so ubiquitous so may have lasted longer.
British TV shows are usually pretty bad anyway so in fairness it may be different now.
There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.
The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.
For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.
The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.
Etc etc
(with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
In real life Jessica Fletcher would be convicted based mostly on the statistic of being at the venue of 238 separate murders and pb would then be discussing whether those stats were safely presented to the jury or not.
Personally, I can't work out how she has 87 nieces and nephews.
Clearly not actual nieces and nephews, but her trusted lieutentants in her crime syndicate are called that to be respectful to the Godmother.
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
It's notable (to me anyway) that about 15 years ago cop procedurals had obviously gotten stale since most new shows were about various 'consultants' solving crimes as we'd clearly gotten bored of cops doing so. Legal dramas I don't think are so ubiquitous so may have lasted longer.
British TV shows are usually pretty bad anyway so in fairness it may be different now.
There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.
The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.
For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.
The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.
Etc etc
(with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
In real life Jessica Fletcher would be convicted based mostly on the statistic of being at the venue of 238 separate murders and pb would then be discussing whether those stats were safely presented to the jury or not.
Personally, I can't work out how she has 87 nieces and nephews.
Fun fact. Angela Lansbury's real-life niece Felicia appeared in a couple of episodes.
Thanks to a certain johnathon creek episode I imagine all postal workers lying naked in a bath full of cold baked beans....that series has a lot to answer for
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
It's notable (to me anyway) that about 15 years ago cop procedurals had obviously gotten stale since most new shows were about various 'consultants' solving crimes as we'd clearly gotten bored of cops doing so. Legal dramas I don't think are so ubiquitous so may have lasted longer.
British TV shows are usually pretty bad anyway so in fairness it may be different now.
There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.
The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.
For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.
The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.
Etc etc
(with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
The central detective always has a shedload of personal issues and is fundamentally unable to form any meaningful romantic relationships.
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
It's notable (to me anyway) that about 15 years ago cop procedurals had obviously gotten stale since most new shows were about various 'consultants' solving crimes as we'd clearly gotten bored of cops doing so. Legal dramas I don't think are so ubiquitous so may have lasted longer.
British TV shows are usually pretty bad anyway so in fairness it may be different now.
There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.
The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.
For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.
The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.
Etc etc
(with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
In real life Jessica Fletcher would be convicted based mostly on the statistic of being at the venue of 238 separate murders and pb would then be discussing whether those stats were safely presented to the jury or not.
Personally, I can't work out how she has 87 nieces and nephews.
Fun fact. Angela Lansbury's real-life niece Felicia appeared in a couple of episodes.
Fun Fact 2: Her grandfather was the leader of the Labour Party before Attlee.
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
It's notable (to me anyway) that about 15 years ago cop procedurals had obviously gotten stale since most new shows were about various 'consultants' solving crimes as we'd clearly gotten bored of cops doing so. Legal dramas I don't think are so ubiquitous so may have lasted longer.
British TV shows are usually pretty bad anyway so in fairness it may be different now.
There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.
The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.
For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.
The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.
Etc etc
(with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
The central detective always has a shedload of personal issues and is fundamentally unable to form any meaningful romantic relationships.
Trump just posted a glitzy film segment on X about how US helped Greenland in WW2 and now they must stand together because of "Russian aggression".
I mean WTAF??
NOW he cares about Russian aggression?!
But Vance was suggesting it was due to Chinese aggression? I don't want to put my ESTA at risk, but perhaps they are just making stuff up to justify a territorial conquest?
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
It's notable (to me anyway) that about 15 years ago cop procedurals had obviously gotten stale since most new shows were about various 'consultants' solving crimes as we'd clearly gotten bored of cops doing so. Legal dramas I don't think are so ubiquitous so may have lasted longer.
British TV shows are usually pretty bad anyway so in fairness it may be different now.
There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.
The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.
For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.
The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.
Etc etc
(with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
In real life Jessica Fletcher would be convicted based mostly on the statistic of being at the venue of 238 separate murders and pb would then be discussing whether those stats were safely presented to the jury or not.
Personally, I can't work out how she has 87 nieces and nephews.
Fun fact. Angela Lansbury's real-life niece Felicia appeared in a couple of episodes.
Fun fact: Angela Lansbury used to shop at my local supermarket.
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
The three part set of episodes where someones pen leaks because another accountant took their pocket protector for their own?
I bet you've never been inside a big ticket accounting firm. It's a high octane environment that tests every facet of your character.
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
It's notable (to me anyway) that about 15 years ago cop procedurals had obviously gotten stale since most new shows were about various 'consultants' solving crimes as we'd clearly gotten bored of cops doing so. Legal dramas I don't think are so ubiquitous so may have lasted longer.
British TV shows are usually pretty bad anyway so in fairness it may be different now.
There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.
The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.
For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.
The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.
Etc etc
(with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
In real life Jessica Fletcher would be convicted based mostly on the statistic of being at the venue of 238 separate murders and pb would then be discussing whether those stats were safely presented to the jury or not.
Personally, I can't work out how she has 87 nieces and nephews.
Fun fact. Angela Lansbury's real-life niece Felicia appeared in a couple of episodes.
Fun fact: Angela Lansbury used to shop at my local supermarket.
The celebrated American theorist, Francis Fukuyama, in his book 'The End of History and the Last Man' argued that US-style liberalism was the ultimate destination for all mankind, 'the final form of human government'.
John Gray explains why he believes his prophecy has been turned on its head.
'As in the past, many human beings will live under tyrannies, theocracies, and empires of various kinds,' John writes. 'Failed states and zones of anarchy will be common. Democratic nations are likely to be rare, and often short-lived.'"
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
The three part set of episodes where someones pen leaks because another accountant took their pocket protector for their own?
I bet you've never been inside a big ticket accounting firm. It's a high octane environment that tests every facet of your character.
I think you mean "faucet".
Accountants aren't known for turning on the waterworks.
The celebrated American theorist, Francis Fukuyama, in his book 'The End of History and the Last Man' argued that US-style liberalism was the ultimate destination for all mankind, 'the final form of human government'.
John Gray explains why he believes his prophecy has been turned on its head.
'As in the past, many human beings will live under tyrannies, theocracies, and empires of various kinds,' John writes. 'Failed states and zones of anarchy will be common. Democratic nations are likely to be rare, and often short-lived.'"
Both theories suffer from a lack of imagination and extrapolation of the present to the future. We are about to enter unprecedented technological and biological changes. No-one knows how society will be structured after those.
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
The three part set of episodes where someones pen leaks because another accountant took their pocket protector for their own?
I bet you've never been inside a big ticket accounting firm. It's a high octane environment that tests every facet of your character.
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
The three part set of episodes where someones pen leaks because another accountant took their pocket protector for their own?
I bet you've never been inside a big ticket accounting firm. It's a high octane environment that tests every facet of your character.
Thankfully no else I would have probably had to apply for retrospective abortion
Well they wouldn't let you in anyway. You'd be stopped at the door.
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
It's notable (to me anyway) that about 15 years ago cop procedurals had obviously gotten stale since most new shows were about various 'consultants' solving crimes as we'd clearly gotten bored of cops doing so. Legal dramas I don't think are so ubiquitous so may have lasted longer.
British TV shows are usually pretty bad anyway so in fairness it may be different now.
There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.
The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.
For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.
The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.
Etc etc
(with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
The central detective always has a shedload of personal issues and is fundamentally unable to form any meaningful romantic relationships.
Well that describes most of humanity
Speak for yourself!
The average person probably meets 1000+ people on a fairly regular basis during the course of their life The average person has an average of 3 to 5 close friends
A conversion rate of people I interact with regularly to close friend therefore is at best 0.5%.....this suggests yes people on the whole have an inability to form close personal connections....romantic ones even less so as told by the divorce rate....the number of people reaching 50 years happily married to the same person is tiny
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
There's a Ben Affleck flick where he plays an accountant. It appears to be a far more violent trade than my careers advisor led me to believe.
My wife is in the sequel. So going to see it is mandatory for you all 😁
The celebrated American theorist, Francis Fukuyama, in his book 'The End of History and the Last Man' argued that US-style liberalism was the ultimate destination for all mankind, 'the final form of human government'.
John Gray explains why he believes his prophecy has been turned on its head.
'As in the past, many human beings will live under tyrannies, theocracies, and empires of various kinds,' John writes. 'Failed states and zones of anarchy will be common. Democratic nations are likely to be rare, and often short-lived.'"
Both theories suffer from a lack of imagination and extrapolation of the present to the future. We are about to enter unprecedented technological and biological changes. No-one knows how society will be structured after those.
What unprecedented tech and biological changes....please don't say ai for tech because its really not true.....its just a more sophisticated rules engine its not aware, it cant think, its not sentient
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Liam Neeson: No. Why, am I broke?
Ben Kingsley: Uh, well …
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=monty+python+lion+tamer+sketch#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:f8357692,vid:-8I5TtNfjBI,st:0
William seems happy for that to attract 10 to life in the gulag.
Two reasons to hate someone in one. I might punch him during any turbulence while everyone is distracted
The fascinating bit - to me at least - is that no one knows who the Director was. Every other movie, you're like "oh, that was Nolan or Scorcese or that New Zealand bloke". But Shawshank, no idea.
And then when you look him up, you discover he only directed three movies. And two of them were Stephen King prison story adapations.
I mean, I hate them because I'm crap at them, but that's on me.
I cannot get on board with the Godfather love because whilst I like the movie, I will maintain to my dying day that Marlon Brando's performance was dogshit and I feel like society is gaslighting me by saying otherwise. He looked and sounded stupid and wasn't the least bit intimidating in the role.
It's an opinion I only dare share on the internet.
With you on deck shoes, mind.
@TheScreamingEagles, please note that an unanomynised version "THE MATTER OF BRITAIN4" (without the "- Copy") was sent to you by accident: please delete it unread.
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I'm quite a fan of puzzles in general actually.
Not a joke with the Kiwis
(Perhaps it's different in urban areas?
Despite being the richest country in the world, the US has a problem of scarcity, particularly in Democratic-run metropolitan areas, where the costs of housing and other basic needs have spiraled out of control. This is exacerbated by the traditional progressive solution of giving people money or vouchers to help them pay for finite resources such as housing, healthcare and food, the book argues, which increases demand and merely makes those things even more expensive.
“The problem is that if you subsidize the cost of something that there isn’t enough of, you’ll raise prices or force rationing,” Klein has said. He and Thompson have described themselves as “supply-side” progressives, borrowing a term usually associated with conservative economic theories.
What the US badly needs to do is build, they argue – build more houses, public transportation, power plants and other infrastructure – but that isn’t happening.
One obstacle is nimbyism, the tendency of people to support public works and development in the abstract but fight them when they affect their own neighborhoods. Another is “everything bagel” logrolling that complicates what should be narrowly focused legislation by layering it with other social and political objectives, such as diverse hiring requirements or climate crisis goals, in order to appease interest groups or political constituencies.
In an example Thompson recently discussed on a podcast, then president Joe Biden signed legislation in 2021 providing $42bn of funding to expand access to broadband internet in rural America. As of this December, according to Politico, the program had “yet to connect a single household”. Critics told Politico that this was partly because of a “suite of federal conditions” that required states “accepting the money to make sure providers plan for climate change, reach out to unionized workforces and hire locally”, as well as guarantee affordable broadband plans for people with low incomes.
“I don’t want the state of Virginia taking, say, federal money to build broadband internet and then charging poor rural folks, like, $200 a month to go online,” Thompson said. “But by holding those values so closely … we accidentally built just about nothing.” A “confusion of process versus outcomes” meant that “very little was actually done on behalf of the Americans for whom we wanted to raise their living standards”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/28/what-is-abundance-liberalism
Back to the software engineer thrillers then?
The checks are carried out by Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) staff.
Build, build, build.
The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.
For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.
The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.
Etc etc
(with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
It is now Blanche Summer Time
(((Harry Enten)))
@ForecasterEnten
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Just 6% of Greenlanders want to join the United States. There are more people who think we faked the moon landing (~10%).
85% of Greenlanders are opposed.
Meanwhile, less than 30% of Americans want Greenland to join the U.S.
I've rarely seen anything so unpopular.
https://x.com/ForecasterEnten/status/1905634237639688413
Reminds me a little of how in the Sharpe books it was obviously important for Cornwell that Sharpe not be loaded, so every time he did get hold of a comfortable level of wealth in a book he had to contrive a way for him to lose it.
(It's a weird piece from Nate - over long, and poorly focused. A rare example of him not producing amazing copy. Even though I think I basically agree with him.)
The average person has an average of 3 to 5 close friends
A conversion rate of people I interact with regularly to close friend therefore is at best 0.5%.....this suggests yes people on the whole have an inability to form close personal connections....romantic ones even less so as told by the divorce rate....the number of people reaching 50 years happily married to the same person is tiny
I mean WTAF??
The US pushed for sovereignty post WWII too. Suspect Trumps father and/or Roy Cohn were big fans of that and annoyed it didnt happen.
https://apnews.com/article/9d4a8021c3650800fdf6dd5903f68972
https://x.com/trump_repost/status/1905689925892407329
A Point of View
The celebrated American theorist, Francis Fukuyama, in his book 'The End of History and the Last Man' argued that US-style liberalism was the ultimate destination for all mankind, 'the final form of human government'.
John Gray explains why he believes his prophecy has been turned on its head.
'As in the past, many human beings will live under tyrannies, theocracies, and empires of various kinds,' John writes. 'Failed states and zones of anarchy will be common. Democratic nations are likely to be rare, and often short-lived.'"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00290fh
I'm planning to go back to the same restaurant I had my final dinner at on my last big walk. The menu promised those anchovies, but they'd sold out
The oysters were amazing if they've run out again
I fly out four weeks tomorrow