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Week 19
Bank Holiday Monday 5 May 2003

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Finding light relief

Life seems to be getting unremittingly serious.  Does that worry you too?  The desperate sense of unstructured disorder in the world, faced with bullying, unprincipled and heavily-armed American Government, suborned by private business interests, supported by an ill-informed and fundamentalist Christian electorate. The prospects for peace seem bleak, without a change of direction from the United States.

 

 

Cannabis weakens Democracy

 

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If correct then
why not now?

I bring you today the full text of a penetrating legal opinion by Rabinder Singh QC, Head of Matrix Chambers (Cherie Blair's own chambers) spelling out the illegality of Blair's decision to join America in attacking Iraq.  We must find a way of bringing this issue before the UK Courts.  Blair's recent public soul-bearing and sickening religiosity cannot stand against this stern judgment, the judgment of his peers.

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Spinning the Economy

This will be the text of the article on the US economy and the fragility of consumer confidence.

 

 

Kid Glove Secretary

Patricia Hewitt has managed to ruffle a few City feathers by allowing shareholders to debate fat-cat salaries and pay-offs at their AGMs see The Observer.  And there is clearly a real hunger for corporate reform.  But the denizens of the Boardroom will soon find their way around the new rules - mark my words! They know just where the cream is hidden, and they enjoy unique secret access to it.  To out-manoeuvre them, shareholders must be given powers of prior approval of key corporate decisions - and Hewitt continues to resist that.

• She should read
  Tame the Corporations

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"Anti-racism" is not enough

We are right to be concerned with last week's electoral success of the British National Party, with the popular resentment of refugees, and with the tendency of politicians to play the race card.  But these nasty trends will not be countered by the barren language of "anti-racism", or by the scheming, undemocratic thuggery of the IS Left. 

• Only an open, fully-argued ideology of individual equality, and of social equity, will suffice.

• Unless you know different...

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I am sure you will want to keep in touch with what Steve Bell is drawing, in The Guardian

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Charitable Loos...

Psst!  Can I interest you
in public loos?  I am seeking supporters and partners, from all over the UK, for a new charity project to provide public toilet facilities.

• Can you help?

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Try BBC News, the public service website for the best and quickest access to the news, as well as a huge political data resource, the BBC is unbeatable

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Special Footnote

I love the online newspapers, which are my access to the world - share them with me - click through to their Homepages from here -

• Guardian
• Daily Telegraph
• Independent
• The Times
• Financial Times
• New York Times
• Le Monde
• Die Welt
• Moscow Times

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Diary 2002

Now up to date!  I have re-structured my Diary to give you a day-to-day means of looking back, throughout the year just click through

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Subjects, not Citizens

Do you know who
these soldiers are?

The English Courts must be given the opportunity to rule upon the lawfulness of the Iraqi War.  But legal procedures will stand in the way of proceedings unless there can be found a specific cause of action within the jurisdiction of the UK.  At the end of March, three British soldiers were sent home, ostensibly for refusing to obey orders which (they contended) involved the killing of innocent civilians. 

Do you know who they are?  Do you know a man who does? They were all three from 16 Air Assault Brigade, stationed in southern Iraq to defend the oilfields [ see The Guardian ]

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thinking big

Fabians are good at thinking ahead of the game.  And as the authority of global organisations comes under threat, they have properly focused on forms of globalisation, both of the Left and of the Right  What matters, it is argued, is the precise form of "globalisation", not simply some general phenomenon. 

I hanker for a simple statement of those individual rights which we should advocate world-wide, rights that carry conviction make sense in every language, every political system. 

• There are, I say, just FIVE of them.

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Unsettling intellect

Sir Martin Rees is the eminent Welshman who is the current Astronomer Royal, and he has just published his new Book of Revelations, predicting that mankind has only a 50/50 chance of surviving this century.  Now that will do nothing whatsoever to bolster consumer confidence.

It's all uncannily close to the theme of my own magnum opus thesis - Multiple Differential Uncertainty (which nobody ever reads...)

• If you do read it, let me have your thoughts on the subject

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