After last week’s fractious Law Society AGM, exiting president David McIntosh, Davies Arnold Cooper’s senior partner, has probably earned the right to take a long holiday on the beach where he can sip cocktails and read a good book.

Maybe Blackstone’s Guide to the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 would be a good idea.
After a couple of years of reforms, the society seems intent on having its own race war in public – and the AGM duly divided itself into snarling camps of ‘them and us’.