I don’t care what people get up to in their private lives, subject to the usual caveat of adult consent -  so Mr Mosley’s private amusements over the past 45 years, pruriently reported in graphic detail with video in the News of The World, is to my mind a matter between himself and his ...

Lawcast 116: Professor Geoffrey Alderman on standards in UK Universities. Today I am talking to Professor Geoffrey Alderman, a historian with many years of distinguished academic service including a spell as Chairman of the Academic Council of the University of London and (1992-93) Pro Vice-Chancell...

Dear Reader, I write, this week, from somewhere in the South of England.  I bring news of many things; some serious, some not so serious… The more I read and think about the issue of the  London Law Schools raising their Legal Practice Course fees by nearly 10% the more absurd I find it in t...

There is, of course, no truth in the story reported in The Telegraph that Her Majesty has taken to Twittering.  I am grateful to Ed of Blawg Review for passing this information to me from across the Pond. When I saw the email from Ed I wondered if my brother, Charon QC, was on a one way trip down T...

So… what pleasures were to be had today from our political masters?  What twists of fate and amusing political and other pretzels brightened my day? Several, as it happens.  Let me kick off with one of the pleasures of my week - Prime Minister’s Questions in the Commons.  Today, of co...

Harriet Harman QC, MP, Deputy Leader of The Labour Party speaks to The People of Britain. “I’ve been speaking to our ‘current’  leader, The Prime Minister,  and he has discovered that quite a lot of people in this country don’t vote in elections and don’t like t...

MPs shocked by Boris Johnson expletives… The Independent: “Boris Johnson launched an expletive-laden attack on the chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Committee after he was criticised for giving confused evidence, it was revealed today.” London Mayor Boris Johnson cycled through ...

Listen to Podcast 99: Bonfire of more vanities…Charon reports… Yesterday the Select Committee in The Commons grilled the HBOS and RBS mob and ran amok to great effect; illiciting expressions of ‘profound and unreserved regret’…. with one exquisitely groomed and suave ti...

Daily news update and news podcast up on Insite Law. Well… it is unlikely to be *Sir* Jeremy Clarkson at any time in the near future after Clarkson began his State Visit to Australia by slagging off the Prime Mentalist, Gordon Brown.  Clarkson, a national treasure who drives fast cars like a ...

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