PIRA terrorism did bother me more. I was once on the opposite side of Shaftesbury Avenue, when a bomb went off. Islamists have not achieved much here, for twenty years. (View Post)

Yes, Starmer’s problem is that he needs the support of the batshit crazy left, but they now have the Greens and Your Party to vote for. But, if he tries to win them back, by revenge socialism, overtu… (View Post)

For many solicitors, the direction of travel is the same. Far more time is devoted to box-ticking compliance, and serving as an amateur tax collector, than in the past. (View Post)

A very fine header. Yes, indeed, the powerful do pick and choose which laws they wish to obey. (View Post)

Essentially the point made by Bulla Felix, the brigand, to Ulpian the jurist. “Why are you a brigand?” “Why are you a magistrate?” (View Post)