Rupert Myers

Michael Weaver

Rupert Myers — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:41:35 +0000

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 [...]

A note on the ‘blog’ generally

Rupert Myers — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:00:16 +0000

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.

Huffpo: Australian product ‘blanding’ and the move to plain packaging

Rupert Myers — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:52:44 +0000

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 [...]

Writing about food.

Rupert Myers — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:35:30 +0000

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 [...]

Riot and wrong

Rupert Myers — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:26:06 +0000

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 [...]

A legal guide to the citizen’s arrest

Rupert Myers — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:26:19 +0000

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 [...]

Huffington post on Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Rupert Myers — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:12:05 +0000

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 [...]

Huffington post on Sally Bercow

Rupert Myers — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 07:08:25 +0000

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 [...]