It’ll be no surprise to readers of Swordplay that Blade and his colleagues are converts to the Web 2.0 world. We see the inherent transparency and democratic, collaborative nature of Web 2.0 as an opportunity for the professions rather than something to ignore or, worse, hide from. So we’re pleased to direct you to like-minded [...]
The Times, along with all media, has become very keen on presenting stories in list form. Everything has to be a Top 10 or a Worst 15 or a Best 25. Blade laments this trend. It may make for easier digestion of online prose, but it is inimical to good writing: the columnist’s art is [...]
There is some advice from Times columnist Gary Slapper on the business of studying to become a lawyer here. It is sound, indeed faultless, especially the suggestion that putative solicitors read The Trial, watch Twelve Angry Men and learn how to pronounce ‘choses in action’.
However, if you are so inclined there is a way of [...]
Blade has just finished reading Tim Winton’s much-admired latest novel, Breath. It explores the relationship between two teenage boys and a 36-year-old male mentor whose common bond is surfing. Sando takes his two apprentices surfing at ever more dangerous breaks until both, in their differing ways, have forever escaped the dread tag of being classified [...]
So says Jeremy Paxman, according to this story from today’s Independent. As the paper has it:
Responding to the suggestion that television had become a “man’s world”, Mr Paxman said: “The worst thing you can be in this industry is a middle-class white male. If any middle-class white male I come across says he wants to [...]
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It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.
Edmund Burke, from the Preface to Brissot’s Address.