July 2009

The unrest in Iran is slowly creeping out of the headlines, and the blogosphere is fast becoming the best source of information. One blog is leading the way as a resource for

The BBC's deal to share video news content with the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Guardian and Independent may lead to legal action from its commercial rivals, according to Ingrid Silver, a partner

The Law Society is launching an information campaign to warn law students that only the brightest and the best will find law firms willing to take them on as trainees.

I have a piece in today's Observer about David Cameron allying with reactionary parties in Europe, and indeed supporting the candidates of Vladimir Putin.

Mr Justice Eady was overturned by the Court of Appeal on two occasions while trying the libel case brought by the newspaper proprietor Richard Desmond against Tom Bower, the author. The written

Tom Bower is a friend of mine but that is no reason for not congratulating him on his success in defeating a libel claim against him by the newspaper proprietor, Richard Desmond.

Alaa al-Aswany is a good novelist. I enjoyed the Yacoubian building, a clever and witty exposition of Egypt after the rise of Nasser. Aswany's writing has sensitively chronicled modern Egypt ever since.

The Government's Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill, published yesterday, will allow the House of Lords to suspend or expel a peer if it thinks that "the House is in disrepute because of

ENGAGE, a website headed by Mohammed Ali Harrath, who is the subject of an Interpol red notice for alleged terrorist activity, was set up in order to supposedly monitor anti Muslim activity.

In the last two weeks, The Times has run two comment pieces on Afghanistan. Both are as fascinating as they are distinctly different.