Thursday, 14 May 2015

Marriage Equality in Ireland

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Friday, 27 March 2015

Which Lib Dems voted to (essentially) defenestrate Bercow?

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In case you were wondering, by my reckoning four Liberal Democrat MPs voted for the Hague / Gove "student union politics" move tha...
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Sunday, 15 March 2015

Do Scotland's Tories Know on Which Side Their Bread is Buttered?

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Alex Massie has a great piece in The Spectator on ' Why an SNP Surge at Westminster Could Mean the End of Britain '. I recommend yo...
Thursday, 5 March 2015

Dear Snow...

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Dear snow, I know that when we first met I was young and pretty impressionable -- looking back I was so naive -- but I fell in love wit...
Wednesday, 10 December 2014

State's Appeal Against Pistorius Murder Acquittal Allowed

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In a welcome move, at least for those of us who had serious concerns about how Judge Masipa dealt with dolus eventualis in the Oscar Pistori...
Thursday, 4 December 2014

Eric Garner and Mike Brown: the problem is the system

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I am so frustrated by what has happened that I have found it difficult to take a step back and write a measured blog post about it, and inst...
Wednesday, 12 November 2014

Smugness Alert

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But I couldn't resist. Of all my run-ins with RWNJs (right-wing nutjobs) on Twitter, this was by far and away the most satisfying... ...
Saturday, 20 September 2014

The Puzzling Problem of the Pistorius Plea

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A blog post by Felicity Gerry QC has today left me thinking again about the verdict in the Oscar Pistorius trial.  I need to disclaim at th...
Sunday, 14 September 2014

The Power of Negative Thinking (Scottish edition)

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There's a lot of keech, as they say in Scotland, bring spouted on both sides of the indyref debate. No, Scotland will not slide into cat...
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Friday, 12 September 2014

The most annoying thing about Ian Paisley is that he actually was quite likeable

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One of the most frustrating things about Ian Paisley, a man whom history ought to judge harshly for his role in creating and perpetuating a ...