The Barrister Bard

It’s not often I feel sorry for the Director of Public Prosecutions. After all, he’s on a fat salary, index linked pension, and if he keeps his nose clean, a knighthood and further professional advancement. And by all accounts, he isn’t required to do much other than pontificate from the […]

In one form or another, trial by jury has been with us for the best part of eight hundred years. The principle that a man charged with high crimes and misdemeanours should be tried by a jury of his peers is the bulwark of a civilised society, or so they say.
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A good education is priceless. Of all the tools needed to equip us on our journey through life, education is undoubtedly primus inter partes, more important perhaps than good parenting, although the two generally go hand in hand.

This country, more than any other, boasts a two class system of education. […]

The recent tragic spate of air crashes was foremost in my mind when I boarded a Squeezijet flight to the Algarve. For my part, I find air travel an ordeal at the best of times. I’m like a fine wine, I don’t travel well. It’s not just the way in […]

Bernard “Madoff with billions” has been sentenced to 150 years in prison, and at the ripe old age of 71, unlikely to smell the roses or feel the grass beneath his feet again before he shakes off his mortal coil.

The last time I revisited my portfolio, I was looking at the rates […]