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"I've stopped six wars in the last - I'm averaging about a war a month. But the last three were very close together. India and Pakistan, and a lot of them. Congo was just and Rwanda was just done, but you probably know I won't go into it very much, because I don't know the final numbers yet. I don't know. Numerous people were killed, and I was dealing with two countries that we get along with very well, very different countries from certain standpoints. They've been fighting for 500 years, intermittently, and we solved that war. You probably saw it just came out over the wire, so we solved it ..."

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The Abbott era ... Attorney General Bookshelves Brandis gives a presser to announce the appointment of Michelle Gordon to replace her husband on the High Court ... Ducking on the question of judicial retirement age ... Three cheers for constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians ... Another idea that went nowhere ... Justinian's Archive ... April 14, 2015 ... Read more >> 


 

 

Entries in Leverhulme (28)

Thursday
Sep302021

Everyone's revolting

Leverhulme on bloody activists ... Motorway blockages ... Labour conference at Brighton ... Lord Brown has  Second Helpings ... Barry Humphries' book of revenge ... Soaring gas prices, petrol shortages ... Turner Art Prize goes dark and mumbly ... London Calling 

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Friday
Aug062021

Letter from Blighty

Anti-woke "ice-breakers" land solicitor in the freezer ... Postman's trespassing fingers and liability for a Boxer bite ... Snicker munching Syrian cooks up a storm in London ... Leverhulme reports 

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Tuesday
May042021

Leverhulme's Letter from Blighty

Innocent until proven guilty, unless it's Boris Johnson ... No. 10 home decorations scandal ... Poor PM has to pay the light bill ... Complex politically correct card game ... Lockdown officially ends next month ... Snippets from High Court judge Sir Harry Ognall (RIP) 

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Tuesday
Dec082020

No soft balls here

Important cases from The Dart ... The law of cricket ... Adults using a proper cricket ball ... The defence of illegality ... Guns in court ... Leverhulme's tribute to lord justice of appeal Roy Beldam 

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Tuesday
Nov032020

Leverhulme in lockdown

The legacy of womanising prime ministers ... Leverhulme seeks to put Boris in context, while others rage ... A new work explains the damage wrought by the PM's feckless father ... The void within ... Disease, death and lockdown ... Lord Sumption on his libertarian soapbox 

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Thursday
Aug272020

London Calling

Lords, ladies and gentlemen ... Pandemic reading ... Leverhulme in London gets to grips with two books from top-of-the tree English judges ... Sir Richard Henriques with From Crime to Crime and Lord Brown's Playing Off the Roof and Other Stories ... Giving Jonathan Sumption a poke in the eye ... Sensible chaps providing a respite in a shouty world 

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Wednesday
Jul292020

Leverhulme's London Calling

People in the Old Dart struggle to get to grips with pandemic life ... Criminal barristers are on the skids ... Pub etiquette has changed ... Try ordering a pint ... Compulsory masks in shops ... Leverhulme meets trouble in the bakery ... Righteous zealots take the high ground ... Crisis report 

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Wednesday
Apr082020

London Calling

With Boris in sickbay, nurse is having a frightful time ... Jittery politics ... Bored citizens stuck at home ... Leverhulme goes for a walk outside ... Other hot topics go cold ... Corporates who care ... Problems with Zoom ... Fallout from Alex Salmond's sexual assault trial  

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Thursday
Dec122019

Britannia votes

Leverhulme wraps-up a nasty election campaign ... Too much spin while proper information got suppressed ... Voters divided in untraditional ways ... Tactical voting ... Farage slump ... Unreliable polls ... Media players seething ... The country is begging for a result  

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