What differentiates Britain from most comparable countries in Europe, north America and the wider English-speaking world is twofold: there exists here a relatively open system (more like the US than France); and a media much more willing to print damaging claims (in this instance via Guido Fawkes) against the political class – whether they are true or false.
And yes, the person deployed to sagely assess the validity of McConnell's claims in this instance is Dennis Miller, a famous comedian who nearly destroyed Monday Night Football, with his thesaurus.
In view of this seemingly contradictory outcome, it is natural to wonder why Aristotle claims in the first instance that a human body is only homonymously a body when it has lost its soul.
Mr Modi could reasonably claim in some instances that the need was pressing.
Constitutional law professor Michael Gerhardt, for instance, claimed in a Slate piece that Obama's nomination of Garland, who is white and male, "showed the nation what a merit appointment looks like.
The larger purpose of the case, however, is to serve as means to discuss how a nation's chief executive sorts out competing claims and recommendations; in this instance, advisors at a series of levels are evenly divided on the question of whether assistance is warranted; there is division, too, on what the nature of such assistance might be, if it were to be adopted.
I think "false rape claims" tend to mislead in this instance and where it has been used we will link each online story to this column to give clarity to the evidence in this case.
It is still, for instance, widely claimed in literary histories that the young Simenon once wrote a novel in public in 24 hours, while sitting in a glass cage in Paris, accepting character and plot suggestions from a gawping audience.
Yet in this instance, Intel claims its California-based competitor wants to use the law to obtain information even though AMD is not even a party to any litigation before a foreign court.
In this instance, the plaintiffs claim that Chevron pressured Stratus to retract its assessment in exchange for dismissal of legal claims in a countersuit filed by Chevron made against the firm — claims that could have pushed the consulting business into bankruptcy.
Rarely does Thomas join with the court's liberal bloc, but in this instance, he can claim to be the only member of the court who has taken the same position over 20 years.
