GuidoFawkes reports that there were cheers in dealing rooms throughout the City today at the rumour that Brown had resigned… the rumours were false and Downing Street had to put out a statement that the Prime Minister was ‘getting on with the job’. Cabinet shuffle coming… will anyone want to be in it?.. and how long can Brown last? Friday? Sunday night / Monday morning?
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Dealing room cheers at Brown going… but false rumour!…
4th June: News up on Insite Law
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4th June: News up on Insite Law
It is Towel Day on Monday 25th in memory of Douglas Adams and his timeless classic Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . I met him briefly in the early eighties – his wife, Jane, was a good friend of mine – a barrister and a very good law teacher. So… I have no difficulty at all in supporting this worthy memorial. CyberLaw Central is hosting Blawg Review on that day – and it will, I am sure, be a good one! If you are a blogger - get your pics with towels over to CyberLaw Central . If you aren’t a blogger but would like to send me your towel pic… I’ll put them up on my blog for the edification of the known universe. I do apologise for my pic – I had had a few the night before and ‘just out of the shower’ is not one of my best angles. This is why I do AUDIO podcasts and not vids. Email pics to me?
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Towel Day in memory of Douglas Adams
OK… OK… I’ll stop all these expenses based Charon after a glass pics soon… but I just could not resist this… or the appalling pun in the title. My friend @Sobk13 on twitter with whom I play Scrabble online will groan and threaten excommunication with this latest one. It has been a day for bizarre interviews. First we had Stephen Fry telling us that the expenses fiddling didn’t matter ( below ), then we had Lord Foulkes, the Eversheds consultant, asking the BBC news presenter how much she earned and revealing that he couldn’t count when he discovered that she earned £92,000 and gasped that ” she was being paid nearly twice as much an MP – to come on and talk nonsense”. MPs earn a basic £62k. I was rather surprised that Lord Foulkes could not count because he was certainly able to do so when the Times reported in January that he was being paid to “effect introductions” for one of the largest law firms in the world ( Eversheds ) And finally, my favourite expense claim interview: About Douglas Hogg apparently claiming expenses to dredge his moat. Douglas Hogg stridently denied this as he strode down the street followed by a BBC reporter who was almost running to keep up. Wonderfully surreal. The film interview is cut with footage of Douglas Hogg’s moat; the camera operator lovingly panning in from the helicopter above Hogg’s estate, lingering on the moat, as Hogg explained his position – agreed, of course, by The Commons Fees Office.
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It’s a moat point…
BBC – Ministers defend expenses claims
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MP expenses… what a Carry On…
I unashamedly modify my friend The Fat Bigot Opines’ “There’s a goat, let’s scape it”. . for the title of my latest post. It seems that I may be losing the plot. Many years ago, until I was about 35, I was fairly fit. A couple of years ago I had an unpleasant illness which I survived and, fed up with the advice of doctors and pills, I decided three weeks ago to dispense with both and that loads of fruit, vegetables and a lot of strength training was needed. So… I developed a taste for doing press ups while taking a cigarette outside on the top floor of a building. This graduated to push ups, squats, calf lifts, abs and with a 5Kg dumbell purchased a week ago, the repertoire increased to all the things one can do with a dumbell. My muscles grew, the fat started to burn off and now… I have two 20kg dumbells…delivered this very morning by Mr Amazon who was not happy about lugging 100lbs worth of weights up several flights of stairs. He muttered about lifts when he arrived at my door. I smiled and said that the lack of a lift (or elevator for my american friends) was a bore, thanked him and waved goodbye. He looked a bit pale. I am a 30aday Dan… so each time I smoke, alternating days for upper body and lower body, I do sets of eight to ten exercises with reps varying from 20-50 depending on the exercise. I noticed that my stomach was getting bigger. The thought dawned on me that I should burn off the fat on the waist before doing abdominal crunches! So that is what I shall do. Unfortunately, gentlemen drinkers will know that men put weight on around their gut and it is the last fat to get burned off. Gentlemen drinkers will only know this, of course, if they have a taste for exercise. Not all do. I do not exclude women, of course, but I am advised by a very fit woman friend of mine that with women the thighs and the bum is the most difficult to keep under control. This conjured up images in my mind which I shall not dwell on in this serious law blog. I have also noticed that I appear to have started walking like an australopithicene. I am told that when the muscles get used to the assault I am putting them through I shall start to walk normally again provided I don’t overdo the thigh exercises. I won’t. I have a rowing machine arriving - a cheap one - to get a bit of cardio done and I’m toying with the idea of getting a bike so that I can exercise and smoke as I go to interesting places on the bike… or even to collect my supplies of cigarettes. As I am now a wine reveiwer, and I am receiving a fair number of bottles to review, I am in exccelent spirits… so… I am going for the burn… possibly, literally…
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Smokedo: There’s a plot… let’s go and lose it.
News is up on Insite Law. Chinese ordered to smoke more to boost economy Telegraph: Local government officials in China have been ordered to smoke nearly a quarter of a million packs of cigarettes in a move to boost the local economy during the global financial crisis. VOTE IN THE POLL PLEASE: If you have the time/inclination, please scroll down and cast your vote in the Poll on whether you think it is a good idea or a bad idea to merge the Inner temple and Middle Temple libraries….
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6th May: News up on Insite Law
I was looking at my Insite Law Netvibe page for political blogs and decided to visit Boris’s blog. I just could not resist taking a ‘Snip’ - foie gras delivered to your door said the advert… love it! Happy Birthday Mayor Boris … indeed. Curiously… the advert seems to have disappeared when I looked next… perhaps it is on a javascript cycle?
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Happy Birthday Boris…
News up on Insite Law - also major update to Law reports, Profession, Blogs Gordon Brown warned over meltdown of trust after expenses U-turn Loyalist Blunkett joins critics of prime minister over ’self-inflicted wounds’ Guardian: Gordon Brown was warned last night by a loyalist former cabinet minister to fill the void in government policy, avoid self-inflicted wounds and recognise there had been a “catastrophic meltdown of trust” in politics. Police ‘terror searches’ treble BBC: Police stopped and searched three times as many people under anti-terrorism powers in 2007/8 compared to the year before, Home Office figures reveal. Some 124,687 stops and searches were conducted in England and Wales under anti-terror laws, but only 73 - 0.058% - ended in arrests for terror offences. More law news….1st May… US education provider floats £300m BPP acquisition Legal Week reports: ” The parent company of top UK law school BPP looks set to be taken over after a US education provider made a preliminary approach for the company worth £303.5m.” I give a rather sardonic view and plan to write about this in more detail over the next two days….
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1st May: News up on Insite Law
