Add it to the Amazon list.His first attempt as a lyricist includes a song about life in jail, "The Prisoner." It was inspired by the autobiography of John McVicar, who is currently serving a 26-year term in an English prison for armed robbery. And for the golfers amongst you, if you have not read it Lawrence Donegan wrote the funniest ever golf book. The usual bottle of decent red to whoever identifies the Autumn Moon quote – although delivery may take some time. The truth, as Murray Head says, “is getting fierce”.īut to end on a brighter note-two things. They have admitted it is.Īnd do you know what? Sometimes I really wish I too could stop caring. I am clinging to the hope that it simply could not be so. And that says sad things about our country.
#Roger daltrey say it ain t so joe free#
Sadly, few of them feel free to express this without repercussions. I know how many lawyers out there, past and present, share my embarrassment and disgust. This has damaged our international reputation. And the profession should be sharing the outrage I feel. Get Helena Kennedy’s Just Law and understand what we need to fight for. And there’s little we as lawyers can do about that. Unfortunately our politics has become vicious. – but – it is only when you live in a country where politics is wholly venal that you truly appreciate that at least they are honest.Īnd they are. Yes, far too many of them are poorly qualified, tribal, embarrassing etc. Amongst other things (the usual Tunnocks Caramel Wafers, Irn Bru etc.), he said the politicians. He wrote in The Herald about 20 years ago about what he missed about Scotland. Lawrence Donegan who played with the Bluebells and who was a writer and journalist went to the States. Now no one, is suggesting any financial motive here at all. The idiom is defined as “used to express one’s disbelief, disappointment, or grief upon learning some unfortunate truth about someone or something”. The song is about the disillusionment of a young Chicago White Sox fan. Shoeless Joe Jackson was a baseball player who took bribes to throw the 1919 World Series. Worth it just to remember how mad Keith Moon actually was. For the youngsters amongst the few who will read this who do not know the song, go on YouTube and listen – especially to the Roger Daltrey/One of the Boys cover in 1977. Not about accountability.Īnd Say It Ain’t So, Joe was Murray Head in 1975 – coincidentally the year I went to study law at Glasgow. Not about failsafe systems, risk management processes and ensuring mechanisms that mean this cannot happen again. Being stewards for what we have inherited. The kind of legal system we were and have become. Not about the police and their role and liability in these cases. Not about the fact that several warned against the Lord Advocate being a cabinet member and were, as things were becoming in Scotland then, traduced. However, the money is likely to come from a justice budget and the final eight-figure bill would fund our hard-pressed law centres for decades.Īnd it’s not about the constitutional architecture of the Scottish Parliament and cabinet. Can I however simply observe that whilst compared to ferries, airports, hospitals, etc.
Shameful.Īnd I am not going to speculate how much the public purse is going to be hit by the financial outcomes of these actions in these most straitened of times. That, for most lawyers in this country, is quite simply stunning. That is not just my assertion, it is an open admission in court on their behalf by their appointed QC.
No, I don’t even have to say “allegedly”. For, as far as I am aware, the first time ever. No, this is about the Crown Office prosecuting maliciously. I’ll leave these topics to much more knowing and motivated people. No “here’s tae us” from me.Īnd this is not about Covid/Brexit/civil servants/party politics/football loyalties/Salmondgate/proper use of scarce public funds. But having said that, I am no Golden Ager. I accept the inevitable creep towards Grumpy Old Man status. I accept that in my case the Autumn Moon Lights My Way. Times we simply could not have imagined a few years ago.
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