This week’s Insider column was going to be an Up Pompeii spoof, with Lurcio the slave up to various high jinks in the house of Bruno Maximus (thereby getting in a few digs at our beloved, or at least beleaguered, leader).
This week’s Insider column was going to be an Up Pompeii spoof, with Lurcio the slave up to various high jinks in the house of Bruno Maximus (thereby getting in a few digs at our beloved, or at least beleaguered, leader).
However I decided against it on two grounds; first, by now the volcano is very old news indeed, and most of the stranded are home safe and well. Second, I happen to be a Fan Of Gordon (FOG). Anyway, this is supposed to be a legal column, not a political one.
My editor came to the rescue with an intriguing reference to Eddie the Eagle having trained as a lawyer and wondering whether this fact was widely known, and whether he would have been better to pursue that career. In fact, having read up on him it appears that Eddie studied law after his