Good grief. No sooner do we annouce that we seldom venture into politics than along comes a decidedly political press release from the Law Society. It’s timely, too, and the target of the Society’s ire – planning processes for major infrastructure projects such as nuclear power plants – is one of those things that needs [...]
At Swordplay we rarely enter the political fray, save when an opportunity to lavish contempt on the BNP presents itself, but we find outselves unable to refrain from a gentle comment about today’s story in the Times about the ‘Tory A-lister in distress‘. The comely Joanne Cash (for it is she) seems to have survived [...]
It was impossible to digest each morsel of the fascinating John Terry story on the weekend, so, rather as a pair of star-crossed lovers are wont to delay revisiting memories of an exciting tryst, especially if it wasn’t captured on film by any reporters, we decided to defer ingestion for a day or so. That [...]
There’s a new voice at Legal Blog Watch. Former litigator Eric Lipman has taken over from Robert J. Ambrogi. The latter did a sterling job for the past few years; the former seems to have a nice style, more down with the kids than up with the judges. Though, if you check out the comments [...]
No! It isn’t – and here’s why. We couldn’t, even if we wanted to, infer that anyone is a fool, in the sense of directly accusing them of foolishness, because to do so is grammatically incorrect. What we could do is imply that some people are fools. We might even infer this, too, particularly when [...]
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Memo to would-be hacks: good writing is no longer a tool of your trade
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This bank is so well designed that many of its staff never go home (allegedly)
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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).