Now not not!

... Some very good work done that has good grasp of how things work on the ground. Some vg academics still come from practice.

I'm not wondering if the gaps between academia and practice have shrunk or grown. Suspect it's a bit about where one looks (the size of the 'faculty' growing and the PhDification of entry increased the gulf in general). My feeling is the gap shrank in other ways, but more an intuition, but...

I had a feeling this would flush out the chocolate cake infidels. Brownies yes, puddings and mouses, yes, tarts, possibly, cakes, no. This is the way.

Far better cake to be had than chocolate cake. There, I said it.

I wondered that.

The thought crossed my mind too!

Also a former DPP has reviewed cases and said the judges failed to do their jobs adequately sometimes too. So I think the hindsight argument is in reality a complacency argument.

Do it's a fair question and we deal with how difficult it was for the defence because of the PO conduct in the report. But we also know problems in the evidence were apparent on their face. That defence lawyers did not do the basics sometimes. And did worse sometimes too. All in report