Well, That's a Family First.

As you may have detected from the Nicholas Salvador verdict or UK Justice Secretary Micheal Gove's (no really) speech today has marked my younger brother's first appearance at Britain's Central Criminal Court - The Old Bailey.

Somewhat fortunately he was there as part of the "Justice, Money and Power" strand of the "City of London Festival" sponsored by CNBC. His role this evening was to moderate a debate entitled "All rise! Do judges have too much power?" between Jon Holbrook, mere barrister, Anthony Speaight, QC, Jessica Simor, QC and Ian Dunt, Twat. The depressing bit is that he's certainly not getting any richer and they didn't even let him sit in the judge's chair.

Elsewhere today I had lunch today with my mother. This of course is not the mother who is a government attorney but the mother who - as Jay Z well knows - works as a tour guide at Salisbury Cathedral teaching tourists about Magna Carta. Seriously over Christmas there actually was a test. She's been a bit ill recently with rheumatoid arthritis. She seems to be improving but obviously I don't enjoy discussing other problems on the Internet. My father has though suddenly become very interested.

Both mothers of course live near the massive UK military training base on Salisbury Plain. The happy couple were were actually introduced to the area by a military relative who wasn't involved in last Wednesday's (17/6/15) big crash. As such I'm happy to defer to the military on that one. After all accidents do happen. Also it turns out that Micheal Gove is another relatives local MP but on the Irish side of the family that probably includes most of the UK's 650 MP's and half of the Massachusetts state senate.  Not the SNP's 56 though - We've got to have some standards.

Meanwhile the UK Queen has begun a sort of Aliyah-type journey back to her native Germany. This coincided with the UK getting a small taste of the EU migrant crisis at the French port of Calais. By the look of Twitter we've already started building the gas chambers.

20:40 on 23/6/15 (UK date).