How can you speak up for someone accused of a savage murder? Or sway a jury? Or get a judge to drop a case? William Clegg QC is a leading criminal lawyer in London. In this vivid memoir, he revisits his most notorious and intriguing trials, from the acquittal of Colin Stagg to the murder of Jill Dando, to the man given life because of an earprint and the first Nazi war crimes prosecution in the UK. All the while he lays bare the secrets of his profession, from the rivalry among barristers to the nervous moments before a verdict comes back — and how our right to a fair trial is now at risk. Under the Wig is for anyone who wants to know the reality of a murder trial. Switch off the TV dramas and plunge into the criminal law in action. Well-known cases featured: • The Murder of Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common • The Chillenden Murders (Dr Lin and Megan Russell) • The Trial of Private Lee Clegg • The Murder of Jill Dando • The first Nazi war crimes prosecution in the UK • The Murder of Joanna Yeates • The Rebekah Brooks Phone Hacking Trial Table of Contents Introduction: How can you defend a man like that? Case 1: The Wimbledon Common Murder Perry Mason and the Art of Advocacy Case 2: The Murder of Samantha Bisset Ronnie Trott, pupil master Case 3: The Chillenden Murders Learning how to fight a case Case 4: Helen Hodgson Mutiny at 3 Hare Court Case 5: Waking the Dead in Belarus How to Become a QC Case 6: Andrusha the Bastard Defending Fraudsters Case 7: Convicted by Earprint Winning the Trust of a Judge Case 8: Private Clegg and the Joyriders How to Appeal to a Jury Case 9: A Murder Without a Body? 21st Century Set Case 10: War Crimes in the Balkans Inside Chambers: Rivalry and Camaraderie Case 11: The Murder of Jill Dando Bribery and Corruption Case 12: A Ghetto Shoot-out in Jamaica Trying Times for Legal Aid Case 13: The Murder of Joanna Yeates Private Clients Case 14: The Phone Hacking Trial Afterword: A Life of Crime Acknowledgements Index

Under the Wig: A Lawyer’s Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence

Biographies & Memoirs

Clegg, William

Professionals & Academics

Canbury Press Ltd

‘A tour de force.’ – THE SECRET BARRISTER\n‘Clear-eyed and hard-headed. His defence of liberalism is political writing at its most urgent and engaging .’ – NICK COHEN, OBSERVER COLUMNIST\n‘Dunt’s gift for making complicated issues comprehensible is second to none. Courageous.’ – JAMES O’BRIEN, LBC\nThe authoritarian right is taking control. From Viktor Orban in Hungary, to Brexit in Britain, to Donald Trump in America, nationalists have launched an all-out assault on liberal values. In this groundbreaking new book, political journalist Ian Dunt tells the story of liberalism, from its birth in the fight against absolute monarchy to the modern-day resistance against the new populism. In a soaring narrative that stretches from the battlefields of the English Civil War to the 2008 financial crash and beyond, this vivid, page-turning book explains the political ideas which underpin the modern world. But it is also something much more than that – it is a rallying cry for those who still believe in freedom and reason.

How to Be a Liberal: The Story of Freedom and the Fight for its Survival

Arts & Photography

Dunt, Ian

History & Criticism

'Deeply moving and informative'&nbsp;- Lily Bailey, author,&nbsp;Because We Are Bad As an adolescent, Russell's face and neck would turn crimson at the slightest thing. In his twenties he began suffering from an extreme form of blushing (idiopathic craniofacial erythema). It sent out all the wrong signals -- to friends, family and to the opposite sex. And it triggered something worse: Social Anxiety Disorder. Up to one in 10 people develop this irrational fear of other human beings. From university to the workplace,&nbsp;Russell desperately tried to hide his secret from everyone. In a forlorn attempt to be 'normal,' he&nbsp;grabbed every remedy going, from drugs to herbs to bottles of absinthe. By turns wry and shocking, dark and optimistic,&nbsp;Redface&nbsp;is the eye-opening true story of one man's struggle with his mental health. And how he found his own way forward in a world built for others. It will fascinate readers who are socially anxious, their friends and family, and anyone who wants to know what it's like to travel to the edge of human experience and back.

Red Face: How I Learnt to Live With Social Anxiety

Norris, Russell

When Winston Churchill spoke in Parliament he convinced an empire to go to war. When Martin Luther King spoke in Washington he convinced millions to open their hearts to change. When Oprah Winfrey said: 'Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do,' she, too, was using rhetoric. As we have here, by deploying the rule of three (tricolon) to stress a point.Rhetoric - the art of persuasive speaking and writing - often gets a bad rap. It's called out for being glib and insincere.&nbsp;In this dazzling, fast-paced guide, speechwriter Guy Doza rescues rhetoric from the shadows and thrusts its immense power into the spotlight. Delving into compelling sayings from Ancient Rome to 21st Century adverts, he shows how leaders, businesses and even our own friends wield rhetorical devices such as logos and pathos every day, even if we don't know it.&nbsp;What's more, this book will show you how to learn to use this persuasive language in your own life. How to convince an investor to back your venture. What to say to a potential lover in a bar. And, the six rules of apology you should use if you ever accidentally run over the next-door neighbor's cat...

How to Apologise for Killing a Cat: Rhetoric and the Art of Persuasion

Doza, Guy

Literature & Fiction

Citizens opens up a new way of understanding ourselves&nbsp;and shows us what we must do to survive and thrive - as&nbsp;individuals, as organizations, as nations, even as a species.Jon Alexander's consultancy, the New Citizenship Project, has&nbsp;helped revitalize some of Britain's biggest organizations such&nbsp;as the Co-op, The Guardian, and the National Trust. Here, with&nbsp;the New York Times bestselling writer Ariane Conrad, he shows&nbsp;how human history has moved from the Subject Story of kings&nbsp;and empires to the current Consumer Story. Now, he argues&nbsp;compellingly, it is time to enter the Citizen Story.Because when our institutions treat people as citizens rather&nbsp;than consumers, everything changes. Unleashing the power&nbsp;of everyone equips us to face the challenges of economic&nbsp;insecurity, climate crisis, public health threats, and polarization.&nbsp;Citizens is an upbeat handbook, full of insights, clear examples&nbsp;to follow, and inspiring case studies, from the slums of Kenya&nbsp;to the backstreets of Birmingham. It is the perfect pick-me-up for&nbsp;leaders, founders, elected officials - and citizens everywhere.

Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us

Alexander, Jon

Reference

MCKINSEY TOP 5 RECOMMENDED READ'An underground hit' - Best Politics Books, Financial Times'Jon has one of the few big ideas that's easily applied' -&nbsp;Sam Conniff, Be More Pirate'A wonderful guide to&nbsp;how to be human in the 21st Century' -&nbsp;Ece Temelkuran, How to Lose a Country: the Seven Steps from&nbsp;Democracy to DictatorshipCitizens opens up a new way of understanding ourselves&nbsp;and shows us what we must do to survive and thrive as&nbsp;individuals, organisations, and nations.Over the past decade, Jon Alexander's consultancy, the New Citizenship Project, has&nbsp;helped revitalise some of Britain's biggest organisations including the Co-op, the Guardian and the National Trust. Here, with&nbsp;the New York Times bestselling writer Ariane Conrad, he shows&nbsp;how history is about to enter age of the Citizen.Because when our institutions treat people as creative, empowered creatures rather&nbsp;than consumers, everything changes.Unleashing the power&nbsp;of everyone equips us to face the challenges of economic&nbsp;insecurity, climate crisis, public health threats, and polarisation.&nbsp;Citizens is an upbeat handbook, full of insights, clear examples&nbsp;to follow, and inspiring case studies, from the slums of Kenya&nbsp;to the backstreets of Birmingham - and a foreword by Brian Eno.It is the perfect pick-me-up for&nbsp;leaders, founders, elected officials - and citizens everywhere. Organise and seize the future!

Disease X: The 100 Days Mission to End Pandemics

A pacy, real-life page-turner by Reuters journalist on the global 100-days mission to identify and catch the next virus outbreak, codenamed DISEASE X, before it spreads worldwide.\nWith a foreword written by former British Prime Minister, Sir Tony Blair, DISEASE X is a must-read, fast-paced, almost-real-time account of how international scientists and global public health leaders are preparing the world to be able to contain outbreaks of new and re-emerging infectious diseases before they spawn deadly global contagions like Covid-19.\nDISEASE X is the codename given by the World Health Organisation to a pathogen currently unknown to science that could cause havoc to humankind. Emerging infections are sending us multiple warnings that another Disease X is looming. We’ve had SARS in 2002, H5N1 bird flu in 2004, H1N1 ‘swine flu’ in 2009, MERS in 2012, Ebola in 2014, Zika in 2015 and now COVID-19. These events are not freak events, but are happening continually, and at an increasing cadence.\nWritten by a long-standing ex-Reuters global health and science correspondent, Kate Kelland, DISEASE X uses privileged access to the body leading international efforts to control viral outbreaks, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), and its CEO, Dr Richard Hatchett. CEPI seed-funded three successful COVID vaccines, including the AstraZeneca and Moderna shots. Weaving in insights from the likes of Bill Gates, Erna Solberg, Jeremy Farrar and Seth Berkley, DISEASE X explores the the emergence of the novel coronavirus and the deadly crisis it caused. It analyses the responses of global health organisations and experts, including the WHO; national governments in Britain, China and the USA; COVAX, the global vaccine allocation facility; pharmaceutical companies; and leading research scientists.\nUltimately, DISEASE X is a story of hope. It tells of how, throughout the devastation of Covid, science and human ingenuity have shown that the world can devise intricate new weapons at breath-taking pace against deadly diseases it has never encountered before. It also tells how the world’s public health scientists are embarking on a 100 Days Mission to embed that scientific progress into a pandemic-busting plan to defuse future threats from as-yet-unknown pathogens in a little over three months. This is the 100 Days Mission – backed by the G7 and G20 - that will see a newly prepared world, one that can move at speed to snuff out future threats before they become deadly pandemics.

Kelland, Kate

Science & Math

Zelensky: A Biography of Ukraine's War Leader

Zelensky&nbsp;is the first major biography of Ukraine's leader written for a Western audience.Told with flair and authority, it is the gripping story of one&nbsp;of the most admired and inspirational leaders in the world.Millions who have admired Volodymyr Zelensky's defiance during Russia's invasion of Ukraine will learn much from this up-to-date biography of the Ukrainian President.Zelensky's life to date has been packed with drama and action.By the age of 20, the Jewish boy from the provincial&nbsp;town of Kryvyi Rih had become a star of the stage.* At 30, he headed a multimillion-dollar TV company.* At 40, he took on Ukraine's corrupt political and business&nbsp;elite in a TV drama where he played a history teacher who becomes President.* Then he launched a real-life political party named after the TV show, won a landslide victory and became Ukraine's real President.* When Russian troops flooded across the border, Zelensky refused Western offers to leave Kyiv. He has marshalled Ukraine's resistance&nbsp;and successfully obtained Western missile systems and anti-tank weapons.Zelensky said: 'If I am elected, they will first sling mud at me.&nbsp;Then they will learn to respect me. And finally cry when&nbsp;I leave.'Covering Zelensky's background and bustling TV career&nbsp;through to his first, controversial years in office to&nbsp;Russia's full-scale blitzkrieg, Zelensky&nbsp;is written by a long-standing Russia and Ukraine reporter and a Russian- and Ukrainian speaking researcher.It's a pithy biography of Zelensky for anyone who wants&nbsp;to understand Ukraine's charismatic head of state, his&nbsp;complex country, and its vexed relationship with Russia.Covering Zelensky's life from his childhood to the Ukrainian presidency, Zelensky deals with: his background in a Russian-speaking region of Ukraine; his early career in TV taking part in KVN talent competitions; his rise through the Ukrainian and Russian television industry; and his breakthrough moment in&nbsp;the TV series Servant of the People playing a teacher, Vasyl&nbsp;Holoborodko, who dreams of reforming Ukraine and ending its corruption.The show becomes a reality and Zelensky and his party, called Servant of the People, take power.Zelensky's presidency is dogged by controversy concerning his attempts to curry favor with the US President Donald Trump and the offshoring of tens of millions of dollars.Zelensky battles political rivals and takes on&nbsp;powerful vested interests in Europe's second-largest country - before&nbsp;fighting a superpower in a fight most assume Ukraine will quickly lose (but has not).

Derix, Steven

Arts & Literature

''The best guide to increasing your, and most other adults'', leisure time by 50%. With no serious downside'' Professor Danny Dorling, University of Oxford Rising numbers of employers worldwide are switching to a four-day week, making workers happier and organisations stronger. Written by the director of the UK''s 4 Day Week campaign, this easy-to-follow guide shows how businesses, charities, and councils can reap the benefits of introducing smarter working. It takes anyone considering modernising their hours through the current academic evidence for the benefits of introducing a four-day week - with no loss of pay. It then explains the various steps you should take to adopt this human resources hack. It tackles: <ul> <li>The productivity improvements that flow from more energised and focused staff</li> <li>The typical challenges faced in running a trial, including part-time workers and bank holidays</li> <li>The different approaches to introducing a four-day week, such as staggered and fifth-day stoppage</li> <li style="list-style: none"> The 4 Day Week Handbook features case studies from the British economy, with breakouts on individual organisations. There are tips for improving the output of a business and a resources section with the essential information you need to start making progress, including a list of academics and researchers who may be able to help. As the leader of the 4 Day Week Campaign in the UK, Joe Ryle has years of practical experience working with organisations that have adopted more flexible working. Explaining why companies are changing, he recaps the changes to our working lives over time. At the turn of the 20th Century, workers routinely toiled for six days a week - until the Ford Motor Company invented the five-day working week, and the ''weekend''. Now, with longer commutes and more family members employed, the five-day working week no longer works for employers or employees. Stressed-out workers stagger home on a Friday evening and take the weekend to recover, while productivity stagnates. The 4 Day Week Handbook tracks the strong evidence that shortening working hours provides major benefits for the health and welfare of staff - and for employers. During a trial involving 2,900 workers at 61 organisations in the UK, sick days fell by 65% (improving productivity) and staff felt much more loyal to their bosses. Companies'' revenue stayed broadly the same, rising by 1.4% on average. The vast majority of employers who piloted a four-day week continued operating one after the trial ended. The 4 Day Week Handbook charts the many benefits of working smarter, not harder. Better work-life balance A four-day week with no loss of pay gives workers the time to live happier and more fulfilled lives, allowing for those non-work parts of life that are often neglected: </li> </ul> <ul> <li>rest - sleep and physical, mental, social, emotional and sensory rest</li> <li>parenting -reducing the use of paid childcare</li> <li>leisure - spending time with family and friends and pursuing hobbies and passions</li> <li>''Life Admin'' - shopping, cleaning, managing household finances</li> </ul> A four-day week with no loss of pay lowers the financial and environmental costs of commuting. Higher performance and profits Real-world examples show that employers who move to a four-day week improve productivity and cut costs. In 2021, the Henley Business School estimated that UK businesses would save a combined £104 billion a year if all the UK worked a four-day week. Reducing the working week enables organisations to attract and retain high-quality employees who are happier and less stressed. More sustainable lifestyle More free time allows citizens to cycle and walk instead of driving and cook with fresh ingredients rather than buying energy-intensive ready meals. Research has shown that a four-day week could reduce the UK''s carbon footprint by 127 million tonnes per year. That is the equivalent of taking Britain''s entire private car fleet of 27 million cars off the road. The business and human resources case for introducing a 4-day week at your office, shop or factory is clear. This succinct and practical book shows how to make the change. Reviews ''The four-day week is an idea whose time has come. This is an invaluable guide to its benefits but more importantly how to introduce it successfully. It''s a handbook to the future of work.'' John McDonnell MP, former Shadow Chancellor ''Simple, effective, efficient. The best guide to increasing your, and most other adults'', leisure time by 50%. With no serious downside'' Professor Danny Dorling, University of Oxford ''A must-read for anyone considering joining the four-day week revolution!'' Claire Daniels, CEO of Trio Media ''A four-day working week is long overdue and this book provides a crucial roadmap. One day, we will look back in horror at the fact we worked until we dropped.'' Owen Jones, Journalist

The 4 Day Week Handbook: Your Guide to Happy Staff, Smarter Working and a Productivity Miracle

Business & Money

Ryle, Joe

Business Culture

Die Smiling: A Memoir: The Sorrows and Joys on a Journey to Dignitas

Self-Help

Casson, Julie

Death & Grief

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Under the Wig: A Lawyer’s Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence

How to Be a Liberal: The Story of Freedom and the Fight for its Survival

Red Face: How I Learnt to Live With Social Anxiety

How to Apologise for Killing a Cat: Rhetoric and the Art of Persuasion

Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us

Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us

Disease X: The 100 Days Mission to End Pandemics

Zelensky: A Biography of Ukraine's War Leader

The 4 Day Week Handbook: Your Guide to Happy Staff, Smarter Working and a Productivity Miracle

Die Smiling: A Memoir: The Sorrows and Joys on a Journey to Dignitas