When I wrote my GIP explaining this icon I wrote a brief paragraph of the legal case it was inspired by. It appears that my memory was slightly faulty on a few minor details, and The Snow in Summer^[1] has a much better explanation and also links to the then Staggers editor, Steve Platt, own website and recollections. This post is partially to share the links, because it's all worth a read, and partially to remind me to return and read it properly when not 3/4 asleep. Thanks Iain, nice bit of digging there. I've since lost my back issues of Staggers from the time, although I do have a copy of the offending Scallywag issue, probably ought to scan it and put it up somewhere.

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[1] tsitsoss_rss, one of the first 'blog' feeds I subscribed to after setting up LJ, think I found it clicking links from ukpolitics, and definitely an influence on my decision to try and 'blog' on stuff I know about &c. Strange how we can all end up going full circle. Of course the author was daweaver of this parish, before he left, many of his concerns about LJ have since been proven completely right, naturally.