Regular readers will know that Diary used be a little harsh on judges. After a Soviet-style re-education programme, all that started changing. The official line at MJ Towers became one of qualified support for hard-working legal big-wigs who, Diary was programmed to recall, were 'providing a vital public service in clarifying difficult law and not simply lining their pockets with scarce public cash' by concluding the bleedin' obvious. Until last week, that is, when the masterminds at the Court of Appeal provided a definitive ruling on what constitutes a bedroom when implementing the controversial 'bedroom tax'.
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