Moving to a counsel-led questioning, involving CPS earlier in investigations, having court appointed expert witnesses, and pre-trial scrutiny of evidence by the judge is more likely to improve justice than getting rid of juries.

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I worry it’s too panglossian at times, but it is certainly a welcome antidote.

I turn my heating on for one day at the end of February.

I mean UCU was also great at making the most precarious academics suffer the most for no ultimate gain.

I think doctors are uniquely bad at arguing for better pay. Remembering the “we only get paid the same as Pret workers” a year or two ago. It’s like a special ability to make me think they deserve less whenever they try to explain why they deserve more.

There are lots of ways to make the argument for higher pay. The public love NHS doctors! Talk about skills, other nations, squeezed wages! But elephant in the room is the BMA and consultants are (whisper it) often from privileged circles and get lost in the rhetoric of entitlement and inequality.

Am I wrong for thinking the mutant costumes are actually effective and creepy, and that the trippy sequences are kinda cool? Utterly coincidentally, I’ve just started reading Satanic Verses…

Finally it suggests that the Liberal reforms are the reason local taxation is in a mess, which is the stupidest and most spurious claim in the whole article. That’s right the poll tax and council tax must have been Lloyd George.

It also suggests land value tax was responsible for the decline of the Liberal Party rather than, oh I don’t know, the rise of the Labour Party and the Great War.