“ARE you causing trouble again?” I’m used to this kind of question just before I’m asked to leave a social occasion, but not when I’ve just arrived. Given the person asking the question is a senior Labour peer and member of the House of Lords, then perhaps I do need to think about a reputational […]
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I’M feeling a little bit overwhelmed. There were some lovely comments prompted by last week’s blog about Rodney Dalton. But the biggest thing to come out of it was that so many other people felt exactly the same about the late, legendary Leeds lawyer as I did. So many people knew him in so many
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THIS is the blog that I hoped I never had to write. My friend Rodney Dalton died this week. He had stoically and successfully overcome two cancer diagnoses over the last two years but the ferocity with which it returned earlier this summer was too much. I visited him in hospital just over two weeks
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MORNING! That felt like a long break. This blog was last published just over a month ago and the past four weeks have included a holiday driving through France to stay with friends in Provence, catching up with old pals, watching Derby County win in the Championship (these rare pleasures must be savoured) and even
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