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Opinion pieces by Joe Burns — on law, land, food and the country. Written the way he speaks: plainly, and with the occasional bad joke.
The drafting is leaving the profession. The judgment is not. My view on where the law firm that still exists in twenty years' time will find its value.
I agree with leaving habitats in a better state than we found them, and I am all for green initiatives. But not when the cost is Britain's ability to produce arable crop. The balance has not been found yet.
A country that cannot feed itself negotiates every crisis from a position of weakness. The case for backing the people who put British food on British tables.
The six-year tail of professional indemnity insurance is the monster under the bed of every retiring partner. Why the fear is justified, and how to plan around it.
One route is controlled, taxed and protected; the other is run by smuggling gangs and paid for in the most terrible currency. Keeping the two distinct is the beginning of a serious policy.