Not if your garden is in Greece! The latest news suggests that horticulture in that part of the Mediterranean must be very tricky. Drought conditions prevail and the plants are looking a trifle sickly. It is not much better further along the Mediterranean either with Berlusconi withering on the vine, Zapatero running for cover (elections… Read More »
Ask any group of people if they know the meanings of the words “synonym” and “antonym” and I guarantee a majority will know the definition of both. Ask the same group of people how they would define “contranym” and I am fairly certain you will be met with blank stares. Rather like English law which… Read More »
Is there a conspiracy out there? I do not normally subscribe to such thoughts but on occasions I have to accept that there seems to be an unfortunate conjunction of events to say the least. A few weeeks back, at a time when some 40 million users of BlackBerries around the world from Europe to… Read More »
Why are you here? What do you do? Who is Millnet? Are you going to set up in the US? Before I went away I mentioned that I had had the honour to be invited to the Fall Conference of the Litigation Counsel of America. What a splendid occasion it was in the beautiful city… Read More »
2011 is the 650th anniversary of the office of Justice of the Peace. Most people will be only dimly aware that over 95% of the judicial work in the courts of this country is carried out by unpaid volunteers who have taken an oath that they “will well and truly serve” the Queen “in the… Read More »
In the last winter of the Second World War (1944-5), the Germans and the Allies fought a tank battle in the Ardennes region of France which has become known as the Battle of the Bulge, so called because of the initial German advance which caused a bulge in the Allied line as depicted in maps… Read More »
“Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere..” Paul Revere’s ride, as retold in Longfellow’s poem, together with the Boston Tea Party are two of the iconic events leading up to the American War of Independence. On April 18th 1775, Paul Revere set off to ride to Lexington, Massachusetts to warn… Read More »
We have all heard about Silicon Valley and some of us have even heard about Silicon Fen (the area around Cambridge which is home to many dotcom and other technology start ups) and a few will even have heard of New York’s Silicon Alley! However, just when you thought you were safe, along comes the Silicon… Read More »
On the flyleaf of a book given to me by a friend appear the words “…I hope this book brings on an afflatus rather than a Winchester Goose….” If you are anything like me, you will not immediately understand where the donor is coming from. Indeed, I had to look up the words in the… Read More »
I promised to return to the subject of the missing link at the end of my last post when I said that: “I will try and explain what I think he (Richard Susskind) meant and how this ties up with new legal structures, technology, LPOs and dead satellites falling to earth in my next post.”… Read More »