Archive for the ‘The law’ Category

So sue me

May 15th, 2008 at 10:44 pm

No word sums up America quite as well as ‘litigious’. So conscious am I of the propensity of my fellow citizens to engage the services of a lawyer that I can barely bring myself to go to the toilet at work, for fear that the sound of me relieving myself will cause untold emotional trauma [...]

Fight the power

March 15th, 2008 at 8:52 am

I’ve never been in trouble all my life. Well, that’s not strictly true. I was practically roasted alive when I was about five, when I ignored my mum’s declaration that I couldn’t buy a Screwball from the ice cream van while she and my sister were at the house of one of her friends. How [...]

Step back in time

October 29th, 2007 at 11:11 pm