"I have to warn you followers of my blog, no more Xmas cards from me, they will be too expensive," wrote Bar Standards Board (BSB) chair Baroness Ruth Deech on her most recent blog post.
Deech was writing in response to the announcement that the price of first class stamps is to rise to 60p at the end of this month – an increase of 12p.
Might this extreme budgeting have contributed to a recent BSB report on advocacy standards which some appear to be suggesting has been done on the cheap? Yesterday, legal academic Richard Moorhead became the latest bigshot to lampoon it, labelling the report "crass" and "biased" in the Guardian.