Oedipus Lex

So Harry used the P– word. Stop press, hold the front page. Now, I’m not asian or Muslim so Polly Toyn­bee would reason I am ineligible to com­ment. Inter­est­ingly I happened upon the Human­ist Soci­ety web­site today, saw La Toyn­bee was pres­id­ent and as a res­ult con­sidered con­ver­sion to either Chassidic Juda­ism or the Pente­costal Church of the Scream­ing Loony. …

It was with interest recently that I read about the appoint­ment of Bruce Houlder QC as the Dir­ector of Ser­vice Pro­sec­u­tions. In this post he will preside over the new joint ser­vices courts mar­tial sys­tem which is expec­ted to finally be oper­a­tional in Octo­ber 2009. Mr Houlder is, I believe, the first non mil­it­ary law­yer …