There is one reason why Johnson should be allowed to cling on to power a little longer; Liz Truss. It would be like being rescued from the Titanic by the Marie Celeste.
- 14 Apr 2022
Despite his bombastic, venal, morally vacuous, self centred, narcissistic copper bottomed shitery where his relationship with the truth is at best adulterous, there is one very good reason that Johnson should be allowed cling to office for a little while longer. Liz Truss; the...
The criminal bar negotiated with the government in good faith. Our reward is to still be wiping the spit from our faces
- 3 Apr 2022
I haven’t blogged for the last couple of months as there has hardly been a day when I haven’t worked for at least thirteen hours or a weekend where I have had much, if any, free time. Like most practitioners at the criminal bar I am physically and mentally exhausted. Not enou...
Guto Harri is one of the good guys. One of the few who can tell Johnson not to be a twat. But he is merely palliative care. The jostling of Starmer May be a game changer
- 7 Feb 2022
When Boris Johnson became Prime Minister (matron I need my meds!) I wrote that he would be mad not to bring in Guto Harri as his director of comms. And when Johnson really started to fuck up (matron pleeese !) I wrote that the only man that could save him was Harri. That he sh...
Sue Gray is not legally obliged to redact her report. Should heed the words of the Duke of Wellington “Publish and be damned”.
- 29 Jan 2022
I am as astonished and angry at Cressida Dick’s legally incomprehensible decision to ask for great swarths of Sue Gray’s report to be redacted, as any person who really wants to get to the truth of what has been happening in Downing Street during lockdown. She has asked/reque...
It’s a dead cat & reverse ferret fight back which will fail
- 22 Jan 2022
Number 10 are now singing from the stricken leader in the bunker ‘fight back’ play book. Arrogant macho posturing that he will fight and fight to win. Parade his diehard loyalists on the media telling us that support has never been stronger in the vain hope that it may be true...
How many more reputations are to be trashed to save this despicable man? Backbenchers must take Big Dog to the vets to put us all out our misery
- 15 Jan 2022
Just how low can the Conservative party sink? I thought that we were on a downward descent when Liz Truss broke her oath as Lord Chancellor to protect the judiciary when the press attacked our independent judiciary as Enemies of the People. Things had become pretty tawdry befo...
I knew Margaret Thatcher. Liz Truss you ain’t no Margaret Thatcher
- 3 Jan 2022
What a bloody awful mess we are in. And it’s going to get worse. Some of us have been warning publicly for well over a year, as was Sunak privately, that we were heading full steam ahead for the seventies. Stagflation. Spiralling wage costs. The end of cheap money. And a massi...
Boris Johnson is good at promising to save Christmas why doesn’t he save the Criminal Justice System? If our pay review is derisory we should go on strike
- 28 Nov 2021
Yesterday I attended the Criminal Bar Association winter conference. It was joyous and uplifting to see so many old friends. But ‘old’ was the the name of the game. There were very few young barristers there. Why? Because appalling working conditions, low pay, stress, the wor...
Johnson has trashed his party, Parliament & his backbenchers he must be swiftly evicted from Number 10
- 12 Nov 2021
I suspect that this is the last time the Grand old Duke of Pork will lead his troops to the top of the hill and march them down again. He has trashed the Conservative brand, trashed Parliament and trashed the reputations of hardworking, honest members of Parliament; which is m...
The most deliciously political budget I have ever seen. And Johnson will start a dirty war against his chancellor
- 27 Oct 2021
Thank heavens that most of the government front bench were wearing face coverings during the budget speech today. Apart from their green eyes it concealed their envy at the most outrageous bid for the leadership that I have ever seen. And I got the distinct impression that s...