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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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