Singing (and Dancing) in the Rain
Thanks to Hollywood and John Grisham, most of us now know what a 'rainmaker' is, which is to say a person who brings prestige...
All Our Forgotten Misdeeds
It was with considerable relief that I learned it is no longer an offence to be 'an incorrigible rogue' under the Vagrancy Act of...
Why Detectives Aren’t Perfect
There was rather a portly TV detective called Frank Cannon, played by the late William Conrad, who used to pursue criminals on foot at...
Making Short Work of It – David Aitken
Judges hope juries will keep their deliberations short, and guilty people hope judges will hand down short sentences. We all live in such a...
Are there Elephants in Oklahoma?
Songs lie to us, and we are willing accomplices. In the film Carousel, the Rodgers and Hammerstein ballad "You'll Never Walk Alone" claims that...
