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Late Life Crisis - March 2025

Finally, a promise by a previous Government has come home to roost. 'Stop the Boats'. As I have written often, statements like these are made by politicians when they know that the promise is unachievable but it looks good at the time, and subsequently when the promise fails there is the excuse that progress is being made ('at pace' is often thrown in because that also looks good), but that the failure was beyond the Government's control and anyway no one should have taken the promise literally.

Late Life Crisis - February 2025

What's in a word, or two or three? Lawyers for Luke Littler (don't you love the alliteration), having trademarked 'the Nuke', 'Luke Littler', and 'Luke the Nuke Littler', have allegedly started action to prevent a bar opening in his home town of Warrington under the name 'Nukes Sports Bar'.

Late Life Crisis - January 2025

4th January. A weekend supplement promotes '24 easy ways to be healthier this year'. Another lifestyle piece suggests that if you are on a train and a child behind you repeatedly kicks the back of your seat, then you should not remonstrate but should meditate on your own childhood.

Enough. 

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I can only reproduce verbatim this hilarious message via LinkedIn from Checkatrade:

'Fancy getting more local work?'

Mind the Gap - lawyer training and the SQE

As lawyers return to work after the Festive Season (excepting those who were chained to end of year deadlines), law firms who invest in trainee solicitors, or even those who would prefer to recruit newly qualified solicitors, may be pondering on the quality of the NQ product coming out of the new SQE (Solicitors Qualifying Examination) route against that of those who have qualified through the previous LPC (Legal Practice Course) regime. 

Late Life Crisis - December 2024

No worse a fate can befall a man than when his exercise activity stops downloading  from his Apple Watch to his Strava app on the I Phone. Perturbation; anxiety; and concern that followers may fear over what has happened to the athlete. But in I Phone world it's ok, as long as you can get to an Apple Store. There they have friendly tech experts who can sort you out in an instant.

So off I go one bright morning to the Apple Store at the top of Regent Street, where the smiley sales assistants help you shed molto moolah on the latest Apple innovation.