Dearest Gentle Reader, this Friday brings dispatches of such gravity that This Author set down her pen twice before resolving to continue - a fourteen-year-old in the dock, a landmark report author calling the government's response lazy to its face, and a young man who spent his university savings not on books, but on fillings. The weekend promises warmth, though not the heatwave kind - much like the government's efforts on justice, pleasantly above average but falling rather short of the thing itself.