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Still, recent times have been tough for [[legal almanac]]s and their publishers, who have been hit by a [[triple cocktail]] of woe:  
Still, recent times have been tough for [[legal almanac]]s and their publishers, who have been hit by a [[triple cocktail]] of woe:  
====[[Critical theory]] got ... critical ====
====[[Critical theory]] got ... critical ====
In 2019, from nowhere, publishers were forced into bouts of panicked defensive [[virtue-signalling]] when their “rigorous selection methodology” — largely “recommending your buddies as a prank and then voting for each other” — was found to be doctrinally wanting by humourless [[Critical theory|critical legal theorist]]s.<ref>Or perhaps practitioners, ''posing'' as humourless critical legal theorists, who were disappointed not to have been included.</ref>  
In 2019, from nowhere, publishers were forced into bouts of panicked defensive [[virtue-signalling]] when their “rigorous selection methodology” for inclusion in these guides — largely “recommending your buddies as a prank and then voting for each other” — was found to be doctrinally wanting by humourless [[Critical theory|critical legal theorist]]s.<ref>Or perhaps practitioners, ''posing'' as humourless critical legal theorists, who were disappointed not to have been included.</ref>  


The response, though quite reasonable —“wait a minute? No-one ''reads'' these guides, do they? Doesn’t everyone just use them to prop up their monitors?” — fell on deaf, [[Snowflake|delicate]] ears.
The response, though quite reasonable —“wait a minute? No-one ''reads'' these guides, do they? Doesn’t everyone just use them to prop up their monitors?” — fell on deaf, [[Snowflake|delicate]] ears.<ref>But publishers are nothing if not resourceful, and they came out fighting, with yet more ways to arbitrarily divide up the city: the new “Chambers [[Diversity & inclusion|Diversity & Inclusion]]” guide, for example, catalogues the exclusive intersectionally-marginalised global elite (see: https://diversity.chambers.com/ ''“Diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of what we do and who we all are. We are, in that regard, all the same: we screen our people to make sure [[D&I]] is a fundamental part of their, and therefore our, DNA.”''</ref>
 
But publishers are nothing if not resourceful, and they came out fighting, with yet more ways to arbitrarily divide up the city: the new “Chambers [[Diversity & inclusion|Diversity & Inclusion]]” guide, for example, catalogues the exclusive intersectionally-marginalised global elite.<ref>https://diversity.chambers.com/ “Diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of what we do and who we all are. We are, in that regard, all the same: we screen our people to make sure [[D&I]] is a fundamental part of their, and therefore our, DNA.”</ref>


====[[Covid]] goes ''virtual''====
====[[Covid]] goes ''virtual''====