Gavel controversy roils Britain

This is not a gavel.

Stop the presses! A huge controversy is washing over Britain concerning the use of gavels. Read all about it at Inappropriate Gavels. In which we learn, for example:

"Gavels are small wooden hammers. English judges have never used them. But some people are wrong about that."

Readers with military justice gavel stories are invited to comment (real names only, as usual).