BACK amongst friends‪.‬ Ian jones

From sibling quarrels to inheritance infighting the sky television series “ Succession “ is the penthouse of dramas far above ordinary family mayhem. The award-winning show does not imagine what could go wrong in family empires it plasters together what has gone wrong in case after case of real life melodrama and applies a glorious gloss of word play and satire.The farce makes for great telly especially as Logan Roy - the patriarch of the family - favours his only daughter. Family busine...

Back in 1984 we were introduced to Beverly Hills Cop an American buddy cop action comedy film starring Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley, a street-smart Detroit cop who visits Beverly Hills to solve the murder of his best friend. The film shot Murphy to international stardom.It was an immediate blockbuster, receiving critical acclaim and was the highest-grossing film released in 1984 . The theme tune was “the heat is on “by Glen Fry and was an up-tempo recording featuring a steady ...

Hello, darkness, my old friend.I've come to talk with you again “ are the opening lyrics to the sound of silence - the theme tune to the graduate written and sung by Paul Simon. This week we go BACK and forth with an old friend to many transport operators and he explains how he experienced complete darkness whilst driving a hgv through the deserts of Namibia. If you can connect Switzerland with the plains of Africa then you will have guessed that it is Matt Eisenegger B...

The word Apricity appears to have entered our language BACK in 1623, when Henry Cockeram recorded (or possibly invented) it for his dictionary.It means the warmth of a yellow sun in winter. Despite the fact that it is a delightful word for a delightful thing it never quite caught on, and will not be found in any modern dictionary aside from the Oxford English Dictionary. That’s simply the luck of the English language at work and shows that whilst chance is a fine thing - opportunity is ...

Princess Stéphanie of Monaco,Countess of Polignac is the youngest child of Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, and the American actress Grace Kelly. She is the younger sister of Albert II, Prince of Monaco, and Is Currently 14th in the line of succession to the Monegasque throne, she has been a singer, swimwear designer and fashion model.But what does she know about defending an employment tribunal claim during a Covid lockdown that requires ingenuity and a new set of skills during a virtual heari...

This week’s guest is not the first ever female transport lawyer but she’s in the first three. She is a Solicitor of the Supreme Court and 101 years ago she was not even allowed to be a solicitor. Indeed in 1913 the Law Society refused to allow four women to sit the Law Society examinations. The Court of Appeal upheld this ruling that women were not "persons" within the meaning of the Solicitors Act of 1843.It was not until 1919, when the Sex Disqualification Act was passed, that wom...