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Wednesday, 19 March 2025
What is disability?
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We are all sympathetic to the disabled. All of us. right across the political spectrum. And we are all agreed that those who are disabled d...
Sunday, 2 February 2025
The enemy of growth
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Preface I am now an officially retired lawyer, having decided to give up my practising certificate on 31st October last having spent 44 yea...
Friday, 6 December 2024
Scottish Labour: Waiting for May 26 is not a viable strategy.
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On 31st October, after practising the law for 46 years, I fully retired. I had various plans for my time but in truth, so far, have realise...
Wednesday, 18 September 2024
Ten years on
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Since just about everybody else involved at the time of the independence referendum has had their say, I suppose I had better have mine. Th...
Sunday, 7 July 2024
About Reform UK
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And so it is over. I hesitated to say anything much about the election, not least because I was out of the Country for much of it, visitin...
Friday, 5 April 2024
One woman and her thumb.
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In the Summer of the year 2000, Maureen, my wife, and I went on holiday to central Italy. We stayed just outside the hilltop village of Pac...
Monday, 1 April 2024
Useless has criminalised himself (accidentally).
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I have just finished two well read blogs about the Hate Crime Act concluding that it doesn't, in truth, materially change the law at al...
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