This Chapter at a Glance:

• UK Judicial Corruption is far from unknown;

• The Judicial Investigations Office – A Wonderland of Effort Frozen in Time;

• No one is above the law ~ Circuit  Court Judge Philip Andrew (Nelson ) Butler ( Prematurely ‘Retired’);

• The Goat ~ The Wig ~ The Butlers;

• A Citizen’s View – No one is above the Law;

• The Attorney General;

• Civil Servant abuses in the Attorney General’s Office;

• Dirty ‘handshakes’ at the Appointments Crossroads;

• The Summer Nemeses.

But there are ‘idiots’, Judges, who are knowingly corrupt because the very nature of an arrogant ‘elite’ Judiciary makes them so; total power corrupts totally and these corrupt Judges are exemplars of that very accurate phrase.

The Bugler intends in this Chapter to present examples of corrupt Judges; and at times a corrupt system geared to deny Justice in pursuit of an agenda which either serves the Government; or a corrupt organisation with secrets which a Judge sold his integrity and Soul to be a servant of; or the simple greed of an individual Judge.

What follows are the Bugler’s personal expensive experiences; not whimsical opinions; nor flights of editorial fancy; and the Bugler paid the bills, all £60,000.0 and more in the pursuit of a poorman’s right, Justice !

Now whilst that might be their unavoidable natural human condition the unfortunate consequences of birth, what cannot be tolerated is to allow such individuals to imbibe and practice corruption in their pursuit of ‘money and ambition’ as Oscar Wilde put it.

This Chapter provides an insight into the UK Judiciary some of whom it seems are Mr.Bumbles with an appetite for money and ambition whilst disregarding the Law which provides their daily bread and butter.

Reasonable Citizens have the expectation, allied with some degree of toleration, that whilst these doyens of  probity and impeccability are learning their ‘Craft’ that errors will occur.

Checks and balances are meant to ‘adjust’ such foolishness, and usually they do, but it seems as we shall see that ‘some are more equal than others’.

The simple questions will usually suffice.

Why when an obvious example of the asinine is privately and sensitively reported to the LCJ to allow the noble Lord to do his duty, did he fail to do so?

The Bugler has already laid such an example before the Noble Lord yet he failed to act and clearly there is now the need to drive the point home publicly with the detail of this example and yet another example involving a Circuit Court Judge, His Honour Philip Andrew Butler.

Not content with one major error of Judicial judgement HH Judge Butler, or as he is colloquially known to the international readership of the Morning Bugler as Judge ‘Nelson’ Butler,  then proceeds to blot his copybook once more as we shall see in a very human case involving children known colloquially in Lancashire as the ‘Zombie Children’ which also requires public scrutiny in spite of HH Judge Butler’s strenuous efforts with the BBC NorthWest TV to cover the whole imbroglio up…

This scandalous criminal affair, which is basically a Miscarriage of Justice involving criminality in a UK Court of Law adjudicated over by senior Circuit Court Judge Philip Andrew Butler, will be pursued to a very pubic conclusion by a dedicated  sub Chapter in this ‘Journey of Truth’.

But firstly before we begin, we must ask leading questions which the JIO might still continue to ask bearing in mind there is no Statute of Limitations on a criminal acts and for which having examined the presented prima facie evidence this Judge, retired or not, should be arraigned , charged, and jailed for criminal Misconduct in Public Office though there are is a plethora of other suitable criminal charges which spring to mind…

The lead Question is, why would the worthy Judge ‘appoint’ himself to adjudicate on the Bugler’s pension case well outside his discipline of so called ‘expertise’, the Family Court? What, or whose purpose, would that serve?

There can only be one answer as events were to demonstrate in Court ; to ‘pack’ the judge; the court; and the jury. None other than himself to reach a satisfactory ‘establishment’ conclusion; and as we now see currently to destroy in another criminal act any residual evidence which might point the finger at him and his criminal associates in the well of his court, his fellow Masons.

Little did he care that in the process he damaged the world credibility and reputation of his UK Judiciary and the integrity of his UK Judicial colleagues…

In the light of the current corrupt activities of the in-post Master of the Rolls at the Court of Appeal Sir Terence Etherton PC it is pertinent to remind international Readers that corruption in the UK Judiciary is not unique.

The Bugler was first exposed to its turpitude in 2013 in the person of Circuit Court Judge Philip Andrew Butler of Preston Lancs who only 2 years before was sworn into the job when he was nicknamed by the Firefighters as ‘Nelson~of~the~Blind Eye’ who were present at this 4 day civil contest which involved a case of pension maladministration  and malfeasance by the Bugler’s pension providers the Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service.

What the staff at the Court thought of this petty tyrant and thug is not printable, but he was not to last having a short time later to be required to fall on his sword…over this and the ‘Zombie Children’.

Once more, not unlike today’s circumstances at the Court of Appeal, the Bugler and his comrades have to be stopped at all costs and if that involVes any form of metaphorical assassination so much the better to make an example of him; even though their pension law is clear and simple and is on their side.

But first, because Butler claimed Irish ancestry to the Bugler during this corrupt contest, we need to trudge back through history to look at the Butlers and Ormonds of Kilkenny from whom Butler claimed to be descended, and if his obvious corruption was anything to judge by, he is entirely representative of his bloodline….

One two buckle my shoe…this is the 21st Century…

There are two lovely tales here; one sheer corruption; and the other sheer stupidity; all supported by sheer stupid arrogance, and him a good Catholic boyo but we will get to these tales.

There are greater exposés to follow probably the most important of which is to look at the antics of Circuit Court Judge Philip Andrew Butler of Irish decent, he informs us. But then the Irish peasantry know all about the Butlers.

A Papal Knight of the Holy Sepulchre; a man of the cloth; a man of such great honour and stature in the Holy Roman Catholic Church.

Perhaps he might, and pigs might yet fly over his fiefdom, engage in the early day grace, when he finds himself in the unprecedented position of being arraigned in the ‘dock’ publicly by the Bugler engage in much breast beating whilst chanting mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa, but that is doubtful and thus the Bugler must have his day in Court, but not Butler’s…

One never knows, between now and then, Butler might actually even let his personal Rottweiler Warren loose again, with yet another uncoded Judicial warning for the Bugler…

So all is not yet lost, far from it.

Indeed I remind you Dear Reader once more of Miguel de Cervantes and windmills which we shall demolish…

“For neither good nor evil can last for ever, and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand”…

A document, a Citizen’s View, on the professional conduct and capability of Circuit Court Judge, His Honour Philip Andrew Butler, who is responsible for  the application and maintenance of  Judicial Practice and Standards within the Counties of Lancashire and Cumbria in the North West of England whose future rests before The Lord Chief Justice, the Right Honourable, The Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd Kt PC, The Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand, London, England. Appointed 1st October 2013.

HH Judge Butler  is posted to and resides in practice in Preston Lancashire. His specialty is the Family Court in which he practices regularly, based not in the Crown Court on Ringway Preston, but in the old Court House in Lancaster Road beside the Preston City Hall.

Introducing the Lord Chief Justice, the Right Honourable, The Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd Kt PC, The Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand, London, England. Appointed 1st October 2013…

For the moment, this Citizen is content to wait in patience with the reassurances given that this matter will be brought directly to the attention of the Lord Chief Justice for his decision and for his appropriate action. This is because he believes and trusts in the collective View of the great tradition of British Justice, which is internationally renowned, and because he is confident in the knowledge that Justice will ultimately not only be done, but will be seen to be done…

The Bugler sent the original correspondence to the LCJ on the 21st January 2015. Indeed arrangements still exist to hand deliver a hard copy should ‘loss’, or even temporary ‘loss’, deem that necessary…

It already seems, in the fullness of time, that it will necessary to publish the full document because it seems that the prevailing attitude at the LCJ’s office is that ignoring the unpleasant will simply make it go away. What must be borne in mind is that this entire document, thanks to Ms. Collins Rice et al, is already common gossip at the Attorney General’s Office and no doubt in the local pubs adjacent to this address.

Eventually the Bugler received, after some time wasting dialogue, a response from one of the Noble Lord’s portcullis minders in the classical imperious rejectionist style which seems to be the genre of the Civil Service these days; they aim to please, mostly themselves.

It is interesting to note, and no doubt it is purely coincidental, that on the day the Bugler first published this Chapter that at long last a reply was drafted.  In the meantime in a prequel to a response we will publish here some desultory correspondence none of which Ms. Hack, another guardian of the great and ermined,  failed until prompted by telephone, to acknowledge. One wonders what she does with her time?

There does seem to be a hint to have ‘transparency’, nay dare we say it  if we are fortunate, a mea culpa? But unwelcome publication will undoubtedly involve the washing of dirty linen under the gaze of the Commonwealth,  Europe, and the world’s judiciary.

Is this the message a newly appointed guardian(2017) LCJ  the  Right Honourable The Lord Burnett (Ian) of Maldon of the reputation of the English and Welsh  judiciary wishes to send out?

Meanwhile we await the Noble Lord Thomas’s favour in this matter.  Go Here.

In the pursuit of Justice, and because of its implications a copy of this highly sensitive and confidential  Citizen’s View which documents the circumstances of a civil contest within its 17 abridged pages of extensive and comprehensive detail was sent to the Attorney General, Rt Hon Jeremy Paul Wright QC PC MP.

The Attorney General, currently(2020) Rt Hon Suella Braverman QC MP, is the UK’s leading Law Officer who is the chief legal adviser to the Crown (the Government) who has specific public interest responsibilities which include the bringing of proceedings against individual Citizens for Contempt of Court.

This civil trial coincidentally involved perjury by one of the Claimant’s primary witnesses and the  suborning (by bribery to commit perjury) of another of the Paintiff’s primary Witnesses under Oath in the Witness Box. Both acts which were, and are, prima facie cases of Contempt of Court.

These acts were witnessed by two Court Officials and 4 Members of the Public in the Public Gallery who subsequently attested in writing to these facts lodged in Court.

Because of the highly sensitive nature of the contents which involved a senior member of the judiciary HHJ Butler this document was passed to the Attorney General 

in strict written confidentiality via his…

Director General and Legal Secretary Ms. Rowena Collins-Rice, who is, with the exception of the Permanent Secretary, the most senior career Civil Servant at the Attorney General’s Office.

It was the expectation that a Civil Servant of such seniority would exhibit the professional skills and acumen necessary to handle and promptly acknowledge this sensitive document whilst above all else preserving its confidential integrity, particularly when she had been requested to do so.

Instead, without acknowledgement, Ms. Collins-Rice decided in an appalling breach of confidentiality which the record confirms and for reasons she has yet to explain publicly,  simply forwarded it as an ordinary ‘unclassified’ open document to her Correspondence Unit for a routine reply.

An action which the record also confirms that not only was the document treated as having no classification but was in addition circulated between the staff of the Unit, at all levels, as a subject of common gossip.

Mr Bernard Ingham, Mrs Thatcher’s Press Secretary, once wrote … ‘If an administrator is not a guardian of integrity (s)he is nothing’…

 A Time Line to Career Implosion…A simple question.

Why should we challenge the misbehaviour of civil servants in England at every level of government, in particular the Attorney General’s Office, which with only 40 staff is one of the smallest government departments?

In this example we have 3 senior civil servants colluding, two under career duress, to cover up the self evident misbehaviour of their boss Collins-Rice.

Collectively we the Taxpayer handsomely reward them in fact we pay them more than our Members of Parliament:

Collins-Rice, £134,999.0; McGinty, £84,999.0; Saunders, £71,666.0, a grand total of £291,664.0 ; and they do tell us that respectful and polite children are still starving in Africa…

So what have we a right to expect from these, our civil servants?

In a few words, respect, common good manners, decency, and honesty. Lest they have doubts about the pragmatic values of these aspirations in carrying out their duties to us we even provide them with a major written Civil Service Management Code of conduct and a synoptic version. Go Here.

We do not expect craven servility, though a little might go a long way, nor mellifluous courtesy, just common or garden good manners will do nicely.

But we do have reasonable pragmatic expectations from those we pay in this ‘business’. We do not expect our polite correspondence to be ignored and to go unacknowledged; when an error is made we have the expectation that in good grace they will admit their errors and being the mature people we are we will recognise their fallibility and thus our own.

We reject the notion that we are all village idiots, or to be imperiously dismissed, when we raise our polite voices in protest.

It is disrespectful and simply bad, or more obviously, no manners which raises questions of who and in what manner such people were reared and socially educated within their own lives before their advancement beyond the level of their own competency.

What follows, Dear Reader, is a prime example of error, leading to deceit, and then cover up at the very head and heart of a leading government legal department which is meant to pride itself as one of  the final guardians of the law in England.

• 22nd January @ 08:40hrs 2015. Original email to which the Lord Chief Justice document was originally attached with electronic receipt; Go Here.

• 23rd January @10:48hrs 2015. Email response from Civil Servant Massimo Magee at the AG’s Correspondence Unit; Go Here.

• 25th January @ 11:54hrs 2015. The Bugler sent an email with attached letter and electronic receipt to Collins-Rice; Go Here.

There was an opportunity, at this point, for Ms.Collin-Rice to reflect that she was in a hole of her own making and to stop digging.

But imperiously and deceitfully she decided that she would abuse her position and those under her career jurisdiction to launch a Kafkaesque attack by attempting to dismissively run the Bugler into dead-end highways and byways.

This was another, if consistent, grave error of her judgment and a profound abuse of her arbitrary powers which she is not entitled to use against anyone least of all a courteous member of the Taxpaying Public.

Now let us she what she does next…

Or as an eminent barrister once put it…it is axiomatic that to wear shoes you must have feet… which might have been better employed climbing the ladder out of the hole…

• 27th January @ 15:07hrs 2015. The Bugler sent an email with attached letter and electronic receipt to the Attorney General via Parliament to which he received a response; Go Here.

• 2nd February @ 15:01hrs 2015. Email response from Civil Servant Massimo Magee with attached letter from Mr.Kevin McGinty Director of Criminal Law and Deputy Head of the Attorney General’s Office.Go Here. 

Mr.Kevin McGinty CBE. In the ego parade that passes for civil servants on the AG’s website Mr McGinty’s appointment was misleadingly  described as the ‘Deputy Head of the Attorney General’s Office and Director of Criminal Law’.

In fact they seem to have forgotten the over arcing Permanent Secretary for according to their organogram ( Go Here ) Mr McGinty is not Deputy Head of the Attorney General’s Office  but one of 3 such ‘deputies’ serving under Collin-Rice which sheds a new light on his subordinate role to her in the matter of this cover up and Collins-Rice’s cavalier misbehaviour.

It is an unfortunate fact of life that, like the Editor of the Bugler Mr. McGinty was born with a name which has certain resonances with those who have a cheerful disposition. He can blame Mr Val Doonican for that.

Elsewhere in respect of Judge Butler the Bugler has repeatedly stated you can put a wig on a goat but it is still a goat…one just has to wonder about the judiciary, its civil servants, and (capra aegagrus hircus), its goats…

We all have our crosses to bear and one wonders why

Mr.Mc Ginty with his CV would lend his signature to a letter of questionable provenance, which he did not draft, but which raises intriguing questions about the integrity of all those involved in this cover up, including himself?

Another of whom, Ms. Nichola Saunders it now transpires, is Mr.McGinty’s Head of ‘Business’ Support and thus in line management reports ultimately to Collins-Rice.

This intrigue deepens… 

• On Tuesday 3^rd February 2015 @11:11hrs. the Bugler sent a response to Mr.McGinty’s letter to the Attorney General, copied to Ms.Collins-Rice; Mr.McGinty(which he acknowledged); and the Correspondence Unit. Go Here.

The Bugler sought direction on what procedures were  to be implemented in order to lay a formal complaint against Ms.Collins-Rice (not, it will be noted, the Correspondence Unit).

• On Thursday 5^th February @16:19hrs 2015. The Bugler received the following from Ms.N. Saunders Head of Business Support. Go Here.

The Bugler did not raise any concerns about the ‘handling’ of its correspondence by the Correspondence Unit. Indeed he was at pains to point out that it attached no fault to Massimo Magee and this Unit.

A brief study of the Complaints procedures raised questions which were addressed immediately with Ms.Saunders on the phone in order to save the department engaging in a fatuous wasteful exercise in running the Bugler around the houses.

The questions raised included a simple one. Who would be the final arbiter if the Bugler was dissatisfied with the conclusion of Ms.Saunders ‘investigation’? It seems that this person would be Ms.Collins-Rice.

The Bugler urged Ms. Saunders to seek to achieve impartiality but in particular to seek advice above Ms.Collins-Rice, before she proceeded to waste more departmental time. In particular she should seek advice from the Permanent Secretary in a matter which would directly involve her line managers Mr. McGinty and Ms. Collins-Rice.

Ms. Saunders emphasised that she would investigate Ms.Collins-Rice, her boss, with impartially and guaranteed her integrity in doing so.

• On Thursday 5^th February @17:05hrs 2015. Bugler sent Ms. Saunders the following email  which is self explanatory but simply serves to confirm the nature of their original discussion on the telephone. Go Here.

It is the simplest of conjecture that a foolish Ms.Saunders, in all probability ‘encouraged’ by Ms.Collins-Rice, decided in her transparent disingenuousness that an investigation of the Correspondence Unit was required into its handling of the Bugler’s correspondence to divert attention from Ms. Collins-Rice predicament.

A predicament in which Ms. Collins-Rice alone  had placed herself in and which she now abused her considerable powers of future ‘ promotion patronage’ on her subordinates by forcing them to ‘rally to her flag’ of corruption as she now attempted to salvage her career whilst shifting the burden of guilt from herself  to the shoulders of juniors like Massimo Magee who had only done his job.

This is a singular example (among others) of an arbitrary abuse of authority whereby Ms.Collins-Rice did not hesitate to protect herself at the expense of her subordinates which is quite unforgivable.

All that was required at an early point was the simple admission that an error of judgement had occurred and this coupled with  a genuine apology and a guarantee of confidentiality from her Correspondence Unit would have sufficed. But now as we see once more total power corrupts totally making her a liability and a public embarrassment to her department.

Ms.Saunders was simply an intimidated fool who failed to clearly identify where her public duties lay and her personal adherence to the articles of the Civil Service Code of conduct.

Ms.Saunders  mendaciously stated in her response to her ‘investigation’… “That unit sought assistance in drafting a response from the Deputy Legal Secretary, Kevin McGinty” … when in fact she works for Mr. McGinty in his management team and it was she who personally, in deceitful cover up, drafted all these responses.

One has only to glance at the style with which she writes…it is indeed a wondrous web…but read on to see the ‘dramatic  conclusions’ she reached and the Bugler’s incorporated interim response. Go Here.

Next because the Bugler rejects this farce of an ‘investigation’ it must nevertheless exhaust the department’s Complaint procedure by referring the matter to its final arbitrator, Ms. Collins-Rice, to see if she can finally summon up enough good manners to acknowledge receipt of the formal response she will receive and express a public opinion on her own actions.

She has indeed, thus far made herself a laughing stock and in the process brought her department into disrepute but in the true traditions of natural justice she must know what she stands accused of before moving this debacle to a higher authority.

Finally we must address the interplay and the role which Mr. McGinty has played in this tawdry affair allied with the public role he is likely to play in the immediate future.

It is illuminating but hardly a good start…

“The Deputy Legal Secretary of the Attorney General’s office, Mr Kevin McGinty, has been named as the preferred candidate for Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of the Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate. Mr McGinty will now appear in front of the Justice Select Committee for a pre-appointment hearing before he takes up the position.”. 

Whereas previously this has been a ‘rubber stamp’ procedure it is no longer a sinecure for a plum job, or that the ‘preferred candidate’ will in fact be finally appointed.

So Mr. McGinty is not yet home and dry…

This old ‘nod and wink’ corrupt patronage system has been under scrutiny since 2000.

Pre-appointment hearings were recommended in the Liaison’s Committee’s report Shifting the Balance Sheet: Select Committees and the Executive published in 2000 (HC 384, 2007-08).

Although the idea was initially rejected by the Government, the July 2007 Governance of Britain Green Paper contained a proposal for Select Committee scrutiny of prospective appointments in the following terms: “…the hearing would be non-binding, but in the light of the report from the [relevant] Select Committee the Minister would decide whether to proceed. The hearings would cover issues such as the candidate’s suitability for the role, his or her key priorities, and the process used in selection…”. Annex A, 2007-08).

This current appointment is the fourth that the Justice  Committee will scrutinise under the initiative to extend parliamentary oversight and improve the accountability of key public appointments.

The first was the Chair of the Office of Legal Complaints.

The second was a new Information Commissioner though from direct experience in the latter’s case most Fire Service Veterans now conclude that the Committee made a poor, if not disastrous, appointment (before the admirable current Canadian incumbent).

The concluding line in the Report above says it all “the process used in selection…”

One wonders, not only how the current Deputy Inspector of the CPSI Mr. Asker Husain must feel?

Given his more accomplished and competing CV in comparison with Mr. McGinty’s CV who has a more Civil Service and Banking background rather than in Mr. Hussain’s case, dirty knuckle involvement of prosecuting at the sharp end, he did not make it to the ‘preference’ point?

One can reasonably assume that it was, as usual, more dirty ‘handshakes’ at the ‘establishment’s’ X-Roads.

One hopes, but this cannot be certain, because Mr. Husain cannot in these circumstances speak for himself, that he was treated transparently and fairly before this ‘preferred candidate’ was publicly announced though somehow the Bugler doubts it. Go Here.

The time is long overdue when this ‘system’ should be recognised for what it is which is little more than smooth corruption.

Whilst up and down the Kingdom every single day from the   most menial to the most elevated post, appointments are made under Statute employment law in a completely transparent procedure which requires posts to be advertised; listing of candidates for short list, and finally appointments made; all of which are procedurally examinable post appointment if there is the slightest hint of bias, prejudice, or racism.

So why does Parliament continue to tolerate this anachronism, this dirty ‘old boy’ network, when the ‘proles’ have to comply with the law and they do not?

This denial of human ambition should be ended, and ended now.

The Attorney General Jeremy Wright said of Mr. McGinty:

“Mr.McGinty CBE has the leadership qualities, vision and integrity required to lead a fair and effective Inspectorate.

His knowledge of working with ministerial departments will be a great asset as a Chief Inspector who seeks to maintain quality, drive change and promote good practice within the Crown Prosecution Service and the Serious Fraud Office…… improve performance at the CPS, and ultimately within the criminal justice system as a whole.”.

Will he really?

Mr.Kevin McGinty CBE in response said:

“I am delighted to have been selected as the Attorney General’s preferred candidate for the role. I want to maintain public confidence in the criminal justice system by leading an independent, fair and transparent inspectorate.
The work of HCMPSI is crucial to uphold the quality of our criminal justice system and I am looking forward to working with the team to continue delivering high quality inspection programmes.”.

 Will he indeed?

Yet when put to the test recently ‘to maintain public confidence in the criminal justice system’ at the same time when all these secret manoeuvrings were being kept from Public scrutiny, Mr.McGinty’s confidence building, integrity, fairness, or transparency could not stretch itself far enough to deal with a straight forward matter of Contempt of Court; the reporting of this crime; or the prosecution of those involved which is a specific duty laid upon the Attorney General and his staff which includes Mr. McGinty.

Whilst he might well argue that Collins-Rice’s debacle had little to do with him, other than having read a document he was not intended to read and other than helping to cover up Collins-Rice’s breach of confidentiality, he is, whether he likes it or not an extremely senior law officer, duty bound to apply the law wherever he sees wrongdoing, or when, by whatever means, it is brought to his attention and when it was, quite by chance, he failed abysmally.

There is the point that such failure in matters small, usually indicate the potential and capacity for failing in matters large.

The overarcing lesson here is quite clear that when, under patronage (or if you prefer corruption) you select a second rater, then you will get a second rater’s mindset in everything that this person turns their hand to…it is a fact of life.

Mr Bernard Ingham, Mrs Thatcher’s Press Secretary, once wrote …’If an administrator is not a guardian of integrity he is nothing’…

Quad erat demonstrandum.

Dear Reader,

After a rather desultory summer the yah boo politicians have returned from their ill deserved vacation whilst the remainder of the worker bees have continued about their lawful occasions  earning an honest living.

The nights draw in and the Spring Lambs now well fattened face their own Nemesis, just like the rest of us.

The barley has been harvested and is well on its way to the breweries and the wheat to be mixed with the Canadian hard wheat to provide us all with  that wonderful daily staple of bread made by the most admirable English bakers in the world.

But while all seems well with this particular part of the world and nature drifts inexorably towards its Autumn mists and hibernation others begin to stir…

The old warhorse Rozinante looks out over its stable half door and stamps his shining fetlocks whilst snorting with ill-disguised impatience because as his Master,  Miguel de Cervantes, erstwhile Don Quixote, was often heard to quote in his strange human language…

…and thus it is time to ride to war once more…

Indeed there is much evidential evil still to report and perhaps the words evil and war are too dramatic to be used in this context but the fact remains that if good men will do nothing then evil will undoubtedly prevail…

Well that Dear Reader is for you to contemplate and for you to decide….

For the Autumn Nemeses are at hand and there are still many windmills of sheer brigandry yet to be demolished… and so to work.

Recently on a more prosaic note the Morning Bugler maxed out in its page expansion hence the recent refuge under service interrupted Maintenance Banner whilst behind the scenes deep technical work has taken place to allow the four fold increase in the potential pages available for future editorial content.

So thanks for your patience.

And indeed there is much more to report as usual supported with irrefutable evidence of wrong doing in the LFRS; the DCLG; the Pension Ombudsman; and sadly the Judiciary.

A particular Sword of Damocles will shortly be removed from the hand of Warren and his vagabond cohorts and the Bugler’s unbridled ride on a Journey of Truth will recommence.

This sorry saga will be concluded when the Fire Service Veterans involved have decided it is concluded and that pure justice has been achieved, and not one minute before.

Today it is a matter of certain encouragement to note that before the clock strikes midnight well over 1000 actual visitors will have physically visited the Morning Bugler.

All of those involved in this terminal fight to correct this  wrong are encouraged by all those visitors and we collectively thank you for your actual and tacit support…

Now it is time to lead old Rozinante from his stall and mount up…the ‘Journey of Truth’ beckons.