And on that basis, comments are closed on this post.

Damn, I’ve just realised the pseudo left wing etc allegation was in the version of the comment that I’ve deleted as being (otherwise) identical. Let me quote the passage for the record…

I have to ask what were you really motivated by Mr. Psuedo left wing housing lawyer extraordinadire was it the black thing, a brown thing a female thing or just a thing ?

Sorry Emily – no intention to remove your invective, although, if I might make a suggestion for the future, a little originality is the spice of insult.

Any objections, Emily? If you care to point fingers, I would be grateful if it was at least based on a cursory read through of the blog.

On the Karim case, the length of time spent on it here was, as should be clear, largely due to posted and emailed comments, threats of violence and abuse by a ‘supporter’ of the Karims with inside knowledge and a remarkable way of denying on the record facts. It was also very funny. And that’s another reason.

This is not a site based on journalistic or investigative reporting of dodgy solicitors. Just not our remit. So any accusation that we didn’t report such and such a case is simply by the by. Unlike our posts on housing law, my occasional naughty steps are under no (self-imposed) duty to be thorough and comprehensive. And they are clearly, even gleefully, not. Of course, if you want to make the fact that one naughty step post of eight concerns a BME firm of solicitors into an accusation of systematic racism, you are welcome to have a go, but you will have to excuse me for not considering that there is any case to answer – meaning that any further accusations are going to have to be backed up by rather more than gestural name-calling in order to actually appear on the blog.

I’ve also read Taleb. A mildly interesting critique of what we old pseudo lefty poseurs used to call mythical thinking among the market makers, but otherwise, ho hum. Agreed that the current situation is hardly a black swan, plenty of people have been predicting it for some time. They just got ignored.

Oh and I have deleted one of your comments on this post today on the basis that it is the same comment – nothing more sinister ;-)

On a more interesting note I was intrigued by the way the media covered the alleged wrongdoings of the Karim partnership which I believe included a legitimate beauty contest MNUK . On a crude analysis compare if you will the way this very site spent hours and days discussing the “Karim” case when not even a smidegeon of the time was spent on similar cases ie Paul Saffron from renouned Radcliffes Le Brasseurs who despite pocketing over a £100,000 pounds from client money to spend on strippers was not given the same meaty discourse . Neither was Mcgoldrick who was struck off for swindling some of the most needy and disenfranchised of clients . I wonder what the real motivation was behind such detailed coverage even on this site . It seems on the face of it to be a black thing, a brown thing or a toxic comibination of black, brown and female .

In the words of Marshal Mathers iii would the real slim shady please stand up ?

Rudy Narayan RIP.

This debate will continue but when the media coverage of similar cases is so obviously systemically racist in that Paul Saffron does not even merit a cursory comment by this site and others get a wagon load of anlaysis it begs the question that Robert Nestor Marley so eloquently put in his musical masterpiece : “War” : ” Until the philosophy which holds one man superior to another is utterly destroyed and until the colour of a man’s skin is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes …..I say” I throughly recommend you fork out a tenner for this marvellous album. Stir It Up little darlin’s .

France, eh? Liberté, égalité, fraternité

Et Vichy, et Le Penn. Bit under the belt that – especially from a self-confessed Francophile like me.

No, France. Good shout.

As to who said Britain’s a beacon of equality, I did. It is a veritable ‘La Convivencia’ Toledo – or a pre-war Beirut as described by NN Taleb.

Of course, the demise of our golden age could be as sudden and bloody as theirs. But, again I borrow from NNT, we won’t see it coming.

You asked for the name of a country which can compare with us. How about France? They may have their problems but hey! Who said Britain is a beacon of equality anyway?