Mr Justice Holman, a High Court judge well-versed in Family law … sorry, quick digression. Family law almost always is divorce or incredibly unpleasant cases involving child abuse; anything in fact to make for unhappy families.
I saw Robert Vaughn (sic) in Twelve Angry Men in the West End in 2013. Also in the cast was Martin Shaw, of The Professionals fame, who dined with me at the Ivy Club afterwards. We were guests of LAMDA, where he trained.
I really don’t recommend DitA, a cocktail invented by Hemingway. If you have a death wish here’s how to make it, in his own words: “Pour one jigger absinthe into a Champagne glass. Add iced Champagne until it attains the proper opalescent milkiness. Drink three to five of these slowly.”
The EU Withdrawal Bill is proving a contentious piece of legislation. The Peers are flexing their pecs, making amendments to give the Commons a greater say on the outcome of the negotiations with the EU. The Bill shuttles between the two Chambers in a process known as Parliamentary ping-pong.
At Flores, in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay, And a pinnace, like a flutter’d bird, came flying from far away; “Spanish ships of war at sea! we have sighted fifty-three!”
Every day next week there is going to be a post about a court case that took place in Dundalk in 1794. The posts are a contemporary transcription of a trial for treason concluding with the verdict delivered by the jury and my verdict.