I've not been arrested. I'm not corresponding from a cold damp rent-free cell. Nor do I have a couple of pots of Fortnum & Mason's jam – sorry, conserve – in my larder plundered from the famous store, sadly. The reason for all these circumstances is that I was unable to join the thousands marching through the streets of London a couple of weekends ago in protest to the government's swingeing cuts (I was too busy contributing to the Big Society elsewhere that day). Had I been able to march, I would have joined the hordes gathered outside the RCJ and Sounding Off For Justice.
Forget 15 minutes of fame. If the tabloids are to be believed, record stats from TLS are proof that today's population is hungrier for their 15 minutes as a solicitor. But what is really going on behind the graphs? Nina Fletcher reports