At 5pm today, if Hammersmith and Fulham Council in London has its way, a group of refuseniks who have not signed new employment contracts will leave their place of work for the last time.
The brilliant QC Michael Mansfield describes his job as "defending the indefensible". This week Hollywood, politicians and literary figures have been coming over all Michael Mansfield about film director and, let us not forget, child sex offender Roman Polanski.
When did a mass protest last achieve its aims? A couple of weeks ago, as it happens, when London's black cab drivers blocked streets to object to a man with a history of paranoid schizophrenia joining their ranks.
At last the director of public prosecutions has clarified the instances in which it may be permissible - but not legal - to assist someone to take their own life.
We knew David Cameron had it in for ContactPoint, the child database that is being piloted in some areas. Now the Liberal Democrats say they want it to be scrapped.
Yesterday Sangatte; today the "jungle" at Calais. It is a persistently familiar issue.
Cuts and welfare have dominated the news this week - and I fear this is more than a coincidence.
There is an interesting conduct tribunal under way involving a solicitor who campaigns against the closure of residential care homes.
The National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse heroin is expected today to press for a roll-out of heroin shooting galleries.
Mental health issues seldom receive a positive press but a feature on a trainee black cab driver on last night's BBC London news made a sortie deep into shock-jock territory.
Courtesy of a huge effort from teenage girls, the UK has found itself top of the international league in one respect: drunkenness.
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