Entries in Procrustes (99)
Lessons learned, but no SIGAR


Report by Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction extracted by FOI ... Truth about the prospect of victory withheld ... Misleading accounts retailed to the public ... Consequences for refugee applicants ... Onwards to Tasmania and the good boat Four Winds ... Appeal misadventure in the Neil-Fraser case ... Second appeal falters ... Awaiting judgment ... Procrustes files from the ramparts
Old Bufferdom


Kipling on the British retreat from Afghanistan ... Jezails and tulwars win the day ... Lessons of history ... Premature Old Buffers in Oz - Canavan and Sheldon cross swords with the Wiggles ... Doc Evatt before his time ... The Chester case ... Seeing off Frederick Jordan ... Menzies - an artistic philistine ... Procrustes files
Newes from Scotland - A Fishy Tail


Salmond and Sturgeon thrashing around in hot water ... Sex scandal catches former and current First Ministers on the hook ... Judicial review ... Criminal trial ... Parliamentary review on how harassment complaints were handled ... Skewering political adversaries ... Procrustes gives us three lessons
Secret sheriffs' business


South Australian chief justice lashes the use of secret evidence by parliamentary inquiry ... Finding of a culture of bullying in the Sheriff's Office ... Ummm ... This is the same CJ, who as solicitor general, assisted in plans for secret police intelligence to be unchallenged in court ... Procrustes reports on the storm that has spilled from the teacup