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Hatred, Ridicule and Contempt: A Legal Thriller
2020-12-05 19:21
Time for a topical seasonal parody, regressing 44 years to 1976. This was not a vintage year for Christmas singles. Jethro Tull made a futile pitch for rural credibility with “Ri… Read More
2020-11-27 08:23
As ministers continue to dance to the tune of charlatans – excuse me, expert scientists – in their inexplicable war on the economy and quality of life, we could be forgiven for t… Read More
2020-11-27 07:41
Even the most ardent Americanophile will concede that not all US exports have been welcome. We only need think of school proms, rap music and political correctness. Not forgetting the worst… Read More
2020-09-18 18:41
We now hear that Van Morrison, a musician perhaps not best known for his sunny disposition or sense of humour, has written a trilogy of songs in which he leaves his antipathy to lockdown and… Read More
2020-09-17 22:24
If we were to cast our minds back 50 years or more, we might recall a joke song of a slightly scary nature – as it seemed at the time to the average infant – about the curious ga… Read More
2020-07-14 18:36
It is often the case that yesterday’s satire becomes today’s reality. One shining and somewhat topical example, all about pressure groups and oppressed minorities, can be found i… Read More
2020-05-05 21:36
With the UK’s coronavirus cure beginning to look worse than the disease, and quality of life deteriorating as rapidly as the economy, the grounds for opposing a further extension of lo… Read More
2020-03-31 12:46
Forty years ago, thanks to the genius and talent of the Not The Nine O’Clock News team, we were introduced to the parody policeman Constable Savage, whose bovine stupidity in picking o… Read More
2020-01-14 20:33
RIP Neil Peart, and thank you for all the pleasure your recorded music, your live shows with Rush and your travel writing have brought me for nearly 40 years since I first discovered the ban… Read More
2019-12-26 11:25
Free downloads for Christmas. Craven Conflict available via KDP here: -https://www.amazon.co.uk/Craven-Conflict-David-Cooper-ebook/dp/B015GGRUBE/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=craven+conflict&qid=1… Read More
2019-09-15 22:59
If Dolly Parton was the second female singer to top the US Billboard Hot 100 and the US Hot Country Singles chart with the same song, “9 to 5” in 1981, who was the first? The ans… Read More
2019-07-14 12:43
Interested in some half price legal fiction via Smashwords? You're in luck - thanks to their summer sale, there's a chance to get hold of both Hatred Ridicule & Contempt and Infernal Coa… Read More
2019-01-26 17:35
What’s the difference between Cabinet Ministers Philip Hammond and Amber Rudd, and American gangsters from the Great Depression era Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow? Hmm. Let’s thi… Read More
2018-09-06 07:04
How might the American singer/songwriter and satirist Tom Lehrer bring inspiration to British political leadership campaigns? Probably not by suggesting that enthusiastic support for poisoni… Read More
2018-07-03 15:32
How coincidental to find myself with not just one fellow solicitor’s published writing for a holiday reading session, but three. All of which were well worth it.First up, retired solic… Read More
2018-01-16 22:23
Well, fancy that. Having thought for many years that “Marrakesh Express” by Crosby, Stills & Nash was a song about indulging in Morocco’s finest (by which I do not mean… Read More
2017-07-23 14:21
What’s the connection between Muscle Shoals, near Birmingham, Alabama, USA and Kings Heath, Birmingham, UK? A minor clue: go via Nashville. Yes, it’s music, and to be more specif… Read More
2017-06-29 22:14
For anyone in search of live music in Nashville, the possibilities are of course endless. The Grand Ole Opry will need no introduction, nor indeed should the Ryman Auditorium. Honky Tonk Hig… Read More
2017-06-07 21:41
Belated shout out to Advice To Writers and its owner Jon Winokur for publishing my recent Q&A style interview, covering how I started out as a writer, my influences, my best writing advi… Read More
2017-04-17 21:21
Thanks once again to Jonathan S for another Amazon/Kindle review, this time for Craven Conflict: -“Thoroughly Enjoyable"If you are not interested in the workings of our legal system in… Read More
2017-04-04 22:05
Thanks to Jonathan S for posting the following review of Hatred Ridicule & Contempt on Amazon: -"This was one of the most enjoyable books I’ve read in a long, long time. You have t… Read More
2017-01-18 13:42
Farewell to Peter Sarstedt, the artist behind one of the most unlikely one hit wonders of the Sixties, combining acoustic guitar, accordion and the tale of a jet setter who rose from humble… Read More
2016-12-20 23:43
For the run up to Christmas, Craven Conflict is going to be half price on the Kindle Countdown deal.If you're searching for a good legal suspense drama, and you've already rea… Read More
2016-10-30 23:28
No, that’s not a clerical error. All will be revealed shortly. But let’s set the scene first.Yellowstone National Park is dangerous. An unwary visitor could be eaten by a bear. O… Read More
2016-08-27 08:35
That's right - an end of summer promotion, for one day ahead of the Bank Holiday. Use the links on the right for Amazon, or read the prologue first via the page links above Read More
2016-08-26 12:33
Would you like a free download of Craven Conflict? For one day only, on Saturday 27 August, you have the chance to obtain one. Head over to Amazon - the links are on the right Read More
2016-06-17 12:43
Tuesday night’s Nashville Cast performance at Birmingham Symphony Hall was a great show. All credit to cast members Scarlett, Will, Deacon and Gunnar – otherwise Clare Bowen, Chr… Read More
2016-04-13 21:26
“Mighty EU, flexing muscles, trampling on democracyLording o’er us all from Brussels, bastion of bureaucracyYours are clouds of sinful madness, driving precious hope awayGiving s… Read More
2016-03-26 12:06
For the next seven days, Craven Conflict is going to be half price on the Kindle Countdown deal.If you're searching for a good legal suspense drama, and you've already read ev… Read More
2016-03-25 10:08
One claim to fame for Penny Mordaunt MP, undoubtedly a rising star in Parliament, is that she once made a rather unorthodox speech in the Commons about poultry welfare in satisfaction o… Read More
2016-03-15 08:26
Last week I was treated to the news, via an unsolicited email, that following months of research by the in-house awards team at the Spennymoor & Cricklewood Combined Pigeon Fanciers&rsqu&hell…Read More
2015-11-18 22:24
Hat tip to Legal Cheek for spotting the judgment in the Moosuncase that no doubt livened up an otherwise dull day in the High Court Chancery Division two weeks ago. Mrs Moosun, having e… Read More
2015-09-18 13:07
Delighted to confirm that my new legal suspense drama "Craven Conflict", finally emerging after two and a half years' worth of creativity and 25 years' worth of mixed memories and… Read More
2015-06-05 21:27
Not for the first time, I sense the need to write about scams. A few days ago, I was alerted to an incoming email on the subject of “Pre-Paid Funeral Plans for as little as £&hell…Read More
2015-04-29 09:20
I am in the process of finalising my third book, working title "Craven Conflict". From the back cover: - Barely days after recruitment consultant Karen Rutherford’s right hand man… Read More
2015-03-14 13:20
At first sight there’s little or nothing in common between Keane, best known for the alternative sounds illustrated by “Everybody’s Changing”, and the hard rock band… Read More
2015-01-06 23:23
What to make of ‘My Fat Story’, in which former Apprentice candidate Katie Hopkins deliberately set out to gain four stone in order to lose it all again and thereby make a point… Read More
2014-12-16 18:03
Southern Peru’s cultural and historical legacy includes two items of particular interest, both of which I am privileged to have seen. It is hardly surprising that the first of these, t… Read More
2014-12-14 10:28
No, that’s not the name of a new band of X Factor hopefuls, however amusing it would be to see the reaction of the judges’ panel when they turned up for their first audition. And… Read More
2014-11-30 10:40
So the judge in last week’s Plebgate trial concluded in his judgment that Andrew Mitchell MP did, on the balance of probabilities, use the word ‘pleb’ when he had his Do Yo… Read More
2014-10-26 10:06
‘The growing unease over Britain’s continued commitment to overseas aid targets, regardless of the massive ongoing budget deficit, intensified today as news broke of the latest p… Read More
2014-10-16 22:35
Long ago, hell might have frozen over before I could ever have contemplated attending anything like a Lady Gaga concert. Not any longer. There’s no denying the talent of a genuinely ve… Read More
2014-10-14 22:27
Cast your mind back to the English music scene in the 60s and 70s. Think for a moment about the aspiring rock bands who wanted nothing to do with the squeaky clean, goody two shoes, boy next… Read More
2014-09-17 20:13
With the Scottish Independence Referendum campaign drawing to a close, it is time to resurrect a long forgotten episode of the much underrated Blackadder 1, Born To Be King, and update one o… Read More
2014-08-29 09:53
Amid the party liners, sycophants and time servers that sadly make up far too much of the House of Commons, Douglas Carswell MP has always been a breath of fresh air - never frightened to sp… Read More
2014-08-21 20:36
Thwack! Another lethal product is beaten into oblivion and it’s all for our own good! Swoosh! Petty objections are swept away! Scrub! The devastating effects of climate change are clea… Read More
2014-08-08 12:44
“Is stoutness as big a problem as you’re making out?” “Yeah, it’s huge…” But is it an epidemic, we may ask? Yet another example of yesterday’… Read More
2014-07-21 14:13
As the prologue of Infernal Coalition (above) shows, law professor Susie Harris found herself contemplating a career in Conservative politics, thanks to the party leader’s apparently s… Read More
2014-07-06 22:20
For anyone accompanying a die hard Robbie Williams fan of many years’ standing to the ‘Swings Both Ways’ tour, there will be different thoughts running through the mind. Cu… Read More
2014-06-13 22:28
No, not the monarch - my old alma mater King Henry VIII School, Coventry. Any former pupil from the seventies in particular might just see signs here of a subconscious (or possibly… Read More
2014-06-13 22:28
No, not the monarch - my old alma mater King Henry VIII School, Coventry. Any former pupil from the seventies in particular might just see signs here of a subconscious (or possibly… Read More
2014-06-04 20:43
Few would dispute that long haul flights nowadays are an experience to be endured rather than enjoyed. Especially when combined with the international departures ordeal where passengers can… Read More
2014-05-06 21:14
Followers of UK national politics from a partisan viewpoint may have strong feelings about the coalition government that has run the country since 2010. They may think that the coming toge… Read More
2014-04-15 22:20
Having managed to read five fiction novels over the course of a recent holiday – two 14 hour flights played their part in enabling this – I wondered which one had been the most w… Read More
2014-03-09 22:56
Last week I found myself on the receiving end of a group sales presentation over lunch. The invitation had proclaimed the restaurant in question to be top class, and the restaurant’s b… Read More
2014-02-28 21:48
Those awfully nice people at Smashwords are promoting the joy of reading ebooks, for a week from Sunday 2 March. In their own words: -"Read an Ebook Week is an international celebration… Read More
2014-02-08 09:52
Hard on the heels of the National GP Survey (see post below from 13 January), where a recent reminder that I had not completed and returned the original questionnaire still failed to convinc… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Thanks to authors' and readers' site Awesomegang for today's publication of a full page ad for my debut novel Hatred Ridicule & Contempt, complete with all the links. Click her… Read More
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