2011

So yer Djanogly and his legal aid bill and his insurance companies. Something I’d love to know more about is his rather odd statement that his kids had “non-interest bearing non-voting shares” in these companies and that they were “of no value”. This is of course another case of the principle that lawyering a statement…

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It’s a truth universally recognised that if you find one security exploit you’ll find another. Something called CivilServiceLive has published a really excellent rundown of Tory and Lib Dem special advisers and – what is the word? – non-adviser advisers, here. I note that super-neocon journo William Shawcross’s kid has been placed with George Osborne,…

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So, I managed to get to watch the Grand Final on Saturday night! The first pub we tried had a private function where the TV is, although it also had Timothy Taylor’s Landlord Ale, and the other bar contained a group of Irish union fans who’d been drinking steadily since 6am. We moved on, and…

Read More Leeds. LEEDS. Leeds. (Look, you’re the richest club in the northern union. Get a better song)