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DangerMouth on Ethical Complexity
Those nice folk at DangerMouth had the JC on their podcast to talk about systems, complexity, normal accidents and Lucy Letby
Nov 13, 2025
Introducing the JC’s new Difference Engine
A neat way of comparing things on the fly
Nov 9, 2025
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Juries, proof and the appalling vista
What our attitude to a man with caught with some kitchen scales dusty cash and a lot of drugs tells us about the burden of proof.
Oct 11, 2025
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Maintenance update
JC is changing webhosts — do not adjust your set — all will carry on.
Sep 23, 2025
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Withholding tax and gross-ups — addendum for hepcats
If you can’t get enough of withholding tax and gross-up here is another forty goddamn minutes of it, in JC’s premium addendum. And some stuff about our…
Sep 14, 2025
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Withholding tax and gross ups
What is it, what is for, who pays it, and what does this all mean for contractual negotiations?
Sep 13, 2025
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Lucy Letby: you had to be there
The strange reluctance of prosecution supporters to articulate the prosecution case.
Aug 29, 2025
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Premium pricing update
The Village Green has put its prices up —
Aug 2, 2025
Information entropy and market abuse pt 2
Carrying on the tenuous analogies to look at the mechanics of equity index and share trading and hedging, and some good advice on how to get a…
Aug 2, 2025
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Waiver of privilege
Thunderbolts and lightning very, very frightening. Or is it? More thoughts on waiver of privilege, systems theory, re-biting cherries as an end-goal of…
Jul 28, 2025
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LIBOR rigging
A recorded version of JC’s long epistle on the LIBOR rigging palaver.
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Jul 23, 2025
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Lucy Letby — the judge’s direction
A curious juridicial direction to the jury that might have sent the wrong message. TL;DR: “This was a case where without proof of how she killed, there…
Jul 21, 2025
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