We are well reminded that this Court once employed an exhaustive analysis of English and colonial practices regarding the right to counsel to justify the conclusion that it was fundamental to a fair trial and, less than 10 years later, used essentially the same material to conclude that it was not.
This year, again, he is unlikely to be well enough, reminding his anxious people of his mortality.
It is a strange paradox: a team who apparently are notplaying well, reminded of as much on almost weekly basis on Match of the Day, but galloping to the league, outdoing the most financially empowered club on the planet (not to mention Roman Abramovich) and winning 27 of their 34 games.
They would be well advised to remind China that there is no restriction of their right to meet political and religious figures — including the Dalai Lama.
And I thought, well, this is good, reminds me of high school.
But it is well to remind ourselves, he concludes, as a mysterious nocturnal visitor reminded King Edwin in the tale of the Venerable Bede, "that what was at issue was not the here and now but the eternal things: a God who could give salvation". "The Birth of Christianity" moves across a much smaller canvas.
As President Bush is about to embark on Gulf War II, it is well to remind him of the golden rules of military action.
Before panic sets in, it is well to be reminded of the difference in degree, and kind, of today's foreign influence-peddling compared with past episodes.
Oscar Wilde's work is being much revived now on stage and screen, and it is well to be reminded that Salome and Lady Windermere were not his only creations.
