For the entire time that I was at secondary school there was one teacher who shone brighter than any other as a source of passion, inspiration, energy and wit. That man was Michael Weaver, former Woodbridge Mayor, published historian, and one of the greatest teachers you could possibly imagine. He died in December 2011, it [...]
Dear reader, this *blog* is not a rapidly updated journal of my opinions & views, but rather my attempt to have a single place where some of my more recent writing output can be archived. I am working on something equivalent to a blog, but it isn’t quite ready. When it is, it’ll appear here.
New piece over at the Huffington Post by me on Australian moves to change the packaging of cigarettes:
…Supporters have reduced the debate to one of life versus profits: the president of the Australian Medical Association has urged senators to get behind the Tobacco Plain Packaging Bill 2011 and the Trade [...]
In my most recent piece of writing, I got to go and review the Chiswell Street Dining Rooms for The Lawyer:
The gin & tonic delivered to the table was everything a first drink should be – cold, strong, and made with good gin. Only then could I begin to get my [...]
My article appeared over at TheLawyer.com here today. They asked me to provide a comment piece on the riots, which I was only too happy to give them. I’ve been a bit fed up with all the instant analysis proffered by people giving their own theories, but in this piece on the rule of [...]
But a short introduction to the right to arrest someone for indictable offences/a breach of the peace, just published over at the Guardian here.
Following the revelation that the TV historian Dan Snow rugby-tackled a rioter in London it seems timely to produce a basic guide to the citizen’s arrest. I’ve [...]
My take ’a spy for our times‘ on the release of the new movie next month starring Gary Oldman as George Smiley.
LeCarré’s circus deals with the realities of espionage, the difficulties of balancing morality with efficacy, exposed nowhere more clearly that in the current dilemmas exposed by British policy on [...]
I have written my first blog for Huffpo, entitled ‘Oh no, Bercow’ – rather than attempt a work of masterful political insight, it is a bit of fluff, the sort of thing one expects to read on a Saturday, maybe at a cafe in the sun, or at the breakfast table.
Of late [...]