There’s an intriguing survey over at the European Banking News Network. You’ll have to subscribe to read it in full, but, in a nutshell, it reports that three quarters of British women no longer believe the traditional male role as ‘breadwinner’ is relevant in today’s society. The research was conducted by private bank Cater Allen. [...]
Law.com’s newsletter arrives with a curio: the 100 most creative moments in American law. The idea of compiling the list came from the palpably creative brain of Robert Blomquist, a professor at Valparaiso University School of Law. Blomquist surveyed American law professors for their views, and came up the following by way of a Top [...]
David Pannick QC writes trenchantly on the Mosley story here. His argument – that Mosley’s penchant for whips, chains and whatever else went on in the Chelsea dungeon – is no one’s business but his own, is hard to resist. Mosley’s wife presumably has some thoughts along the lines that well, actually, what my husband [...]
An interesting piece on blogging appeared in Sunday’s Observer. Click here to read it in full, but the primary point appears to be one of blogger beware, after dedicated blogger Emily Gould published a lengthy recantation in the New York Times. Gould wrote that “I had made my existence so public in such a strange [...]
Currently doing the rounds on Fleet Street are two orders in the case of Max Mosley v News Group Newspapers Limited (the publisher of the News of the World). The combined effect of the orders is to prevent any identification of the five prostitutes who were present with Mosley in the Chelsea dungeon. Mosley has [...]
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After a raft of phone-hacking admissions and allegations, we are no longer seen as the gruff but dependable watchdog. Neville Thurlbeck, formerly of the News of the World (part of his Damascene conversion; to be continued).