Sorry to go OT so soon, but for fans of Horace Rumpole, this is a sad day:

‘Rumpole of the Bailey’ creator dead at 85

John Mortimer may have been a bit of a leftist, but a world with no new Rumpole stories is a sadder place.

I liked this quote from the article:

His legal career took in everything from divorce cases to murders — and he said he preferred the latter.

“Matrimonial clients hate each other so much and use their children to hurt each other in beastly ways,” he once said. “Murderers have usually killed the one person in the world that was bugging them and they’re usually quite peaceful and agreeable.”

R.I.P.