Derek Evans Thoughts

The court case was lost. Unsurprisingly really. The jury took a common-sense view of the relationship between personal assistants and their pay masters. So the facts are that two sisters were employed by Nigella Lawson and her, can I say it in jest, ex-husband (not sure about the divorce situation but it would seem to be in process), as personal assistants. They were given carte blanche ability to use credit cards and in any expense agreements, all had been signed off by their paymasters. Unfortunately for Lawson/Saatchi, this involved significant spending on other items. So the jury said, that they should have been wary, and undertaken a professional approach, which would have prevented most of this excess. But they did not. So now the case was lost, the bickering continues, the sisters should be unemployable, with their reputations known publicly as well as their names, and life goes on as normal. Whether the protagonists will learn from this lesson is debatable, but people do what

Formalities are. I am a parent of a madly loving football daughter, or soccer to those who are not aware that this is the original football. Most children move up with their teams as they grow older, and the size of teams and the size of pitches evolves. This is supposed to ensure that the game encourages skills but also a competitive environment to build on the training sessions that also take place weekly during the season. Teams are put into divisions or sections as they now call them, and between September and December each team should play the other in the league on one occasion to fulfil the league fixture list. Additionally, there were three cup games in a so-called group stage, against teams in the higher or lower section, and I guess that this was also used to see the relative strength of one division against another. She is currently at an age where playing alongside the boys is fine, and that continues until she turns 12 or 13. In general the league is well run, results and

Others more qualified than I can write reams about the life of Nelson Mandela, about the intricacies of his life, and about his political operating abilities. However, all must be taken into context with his life and how he was a well educated person, but clearly had a moral upbringing that ensured he had a political belief that he took into the life he then had and how he retained that modesty in him through the many years of being incarcerated on Robben Island, and then finally when there was a realisation on all sides that the status quo could not continue that he has wise to bring as many people along with him as possible but that his ambition was there for him to realise what was probably a personal dream of becoming the President of the Republic of South Africa. His political wisdom continued in that he set in motion a movement to create an enduring rehabilitation of the population of the country, by also improving the life chances of the black and minority peoples, in education