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2021iii10, Wednesday: Will the press ever change?
Another instalment in that popular game, "Questions to which the answer is no."
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2021iii8, Monday: even the wisest can stumble.
A small and humble disagreement with the UK's best commentator on the law. And the joy of newsletters: a welcome return to pre-Web habits.
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2021iii5, Friday: look closer.
Why taking the time to let the details sink in is critical to good advocacy. And a confession about football.
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2021iii3, Wednesday: data, privacy and the Golden Rule.
If people talk about changing data protection laws, always ask for their philosophy; if they won't say, be suspicious. And two great tales about the file format that makes remote working possible.
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2021iii1, Monday: One person to read re The Bug.
A US publication has two writers I revere. One is simply the best reporter on Covid-19 that I know of.
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2021ii26, Friday: the small things.
The big things are critical. For sanity's sake, the small things are still more so.
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2021ii24, Wednesday: freedom.
10 days of self-isolation is over, and the seaside beckons. Also: what the Emperor's New Clothes can tell us about whistleblowing.
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2021ii22, Monday: tl;dr.
Lord Leggatt is a judicial hero. And, as we now know, he understands that somethings really are too long; didn't read. Also: creative conflict at its best.
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2021ii19, Friday: "Sleaze"... and a Free Man of England.
Rabbie Burns was right. We need to see oursels as ithers see us - particularly where corruption is concerned. And on another tack: a lovely court victory over a dangerously deluded sovereign citizen.
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2021ii17, Wednesday: the other shoe.
So it's four days since I took a test, three since the result. Not much in the way of symptoms. How long, o Lord, how long...
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2021ii15, Monday: Damn.
Positive test. Feeling OK, but that may well not last. Please forgive me, but writing this may not be a priority till I'm through...
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2021ii12, Friday: Different ≠ worse.
Why section 3 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 has a lesson for our polarised world. And something special about the spiritual geography of offices - those places we may miss more than we know.