Having someone uninvited turn up to a private fight can be disconcerting - and expensive American TV court dramas usually involve crime, and their system is rather different to ours, including…
Should TPR have the power to snoop? Even the cops occasionally exceed the speed limit. Because they’re only human, all authorities can make mistakes (see eg Maria Espadinha, HMRC admits errors…
URGENT AND IMPORTANT WIKIleaks has just made available this leaked draft memorandum from TPR which is intended to be published at the end of March. Full text is as below.…
Remember Mrs Trellis of North Wales? The mythical and misguided irregular writes in to I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue (the comedy series on Radio 4) from time to time, with…
Shaugna Phillips, a contestant on Love Island, unsurprisingly has 17000 admirers on Instagram, mostly reflecting on her skills in her day job as manager of the minutes for the Lambeth…
There are crocuses, daffodils and snowdrops in the garden. It’s sunny (for the moment). And the joy of a forthcoming spring has now been further elevated by an announcement by…
There are two small wars about to start in Parliament Square. One is about the proposal for its partial pedestrianisation. That might be fixable through an armistice. The other is about…
Schadenfreude has a bad name; it is not usually gracious to delight in another's misfortune. But a broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (Something understood, 26 January 2020) on the topic suggests…
You can rarely beat the house when betting, and there may not be many takers, but if there was ever a sure thing (and very low odds) it is that…
Inflation looks to be a dragon that was slain a while back. But its partner, indexation, still causes trouble; we don’t know when the Treasury consultation document on the abolition…