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Week 31 Monday Editor Encouraged I gained decided comfort from your responses in July, even though July is a bad month for Websites - with the Summer hols beginning to bite. So the total of 1221 was much better than last year, and better than last month - thanks for your continuing interest and support.
As my asylum-seeker work mounts, future time becomes even more heavily mortgaged. I have five cases this week, before the Immigration Tribunal at Newport...
Cherie for PM 
Cherie Blair understands the essence of civil liberties. Her recent speech in Kuala Lumpur backed the Judges in asserting individual rights against Governments, in the current wave of terrorist hysteria, in which her husband is a key element. She shows a real understanding of the issues confronting our society, as her husband does not. For the essence of liberty is due process. Nobody is wise enough to anticipate every turn of actual events, in a fast-moving and complex society. But we can, and should, adhere to principles of due and just process. Habeas corpus ("Do you have the body of ...... ?") was a matter of process, not substance. It embodied - and continues to embody - the power of the Judges to challenge the Executive and the State, anywhere anytime, anywhere, if there is any suspicious detention. LJ Brooke, when he declared the Blair Curfew Zones illegal, was applying basic principles of civil liberty, minimising the loss of personal freedom in the face of intrusive legislation. And Cherie Blair approved on that.
Returning
In July, I became an Immigration Adviser Level 3, registered with the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner. I had to complete this process, and p0ass three examinations, in order to avoid prosecution for the criminal offence of assisting asylum-seekers.
This is the adverse side-effect of a law which was in itself sensible. In the late 1990s, there developed a shady market in immigration advice, with many asylum-seekers exploited by unqualified "legal" advisers, charging exploitative fees. The Government stepped in to create a new paralegal profession, that of Immigration Adviser, supervised by a new regulator, the Immigration Services Commissioner. Anyone who was not a practising Barrister or Solicitor had to get a new qualification, if wanting to operate legally. The problem is that the new law strikes at everyone, whether charging fees or not.
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A very Welsh Connection >>> "Moodmeter" measures confidence >>> What do interest rates mean? >>> Labour Party my resignation >>> My uncle, in the Assam Cabinet >>> Electoral reform My conversion >>> New principle Public Primacy >>> The Power of Private Property >>> Corporate Kleptocracy >>> Drop the school-leaving age >>> Countering Fundamentalism >>> Against Unreasonable Inequality >>> Abolish Wrongful Dismissal >>> Adjustment Pay for every worker >>>
Theft by Proxy
It was the incredible salary inflation which occurred, throughout the BBC, when ITV was launched. BBC salaries trebled - at a stroke. As the Directors and senior managers of ITV began to pay themselves telephone-number salaries - BBC salaries "had to follow suit". It is now commonplace to keep a rolling comparison of top public and private sector salaries, dragging public service salaries up to similar astronomical levels. Yet corporate Board remuneration-fixing is nothing less than theft, with monopolistic managers exploiting both shareholders and the "the workers": see Corporate Kleptocracy. Company law, nationally and internationally, permits Directors to steal systematically from their own companies - without legal challenge. And their criminality has the effect of inflating public sector salaries, including the remuneration of MPs.
Web Mining As web-logging proliferates, a new form of modern history becomes possible. I can now give you an insight into what was "in the news" for the matching week, one two, and three years ago. This is how the world looked to me,at the end of April - Dear Mr. Evans... 
Tony Blair has at last replied to my resignation letter. Well, I say "replied" - rather, acknowledged. And I say "Tony Blair" as an abstraction. Judge for yourself ...
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I have speculated on the emergence of a
dicastocracy in the modern world, or "rule by Judges" -
This
is the week! I have acquired a new profession,
at the age of 69. I have taken on five cases pro bono before
the Newport Asylum & Immigration Tribunal, returning to the courtroom as an advocate after a
break of 36 years... 
Yep!
It is a criminal offence for anyone to assist an asylum-seeker with his
case, even as a friend, without charging any fee. Every other person in
society, who for whatever reason faces legal proceedings without a lawyer,
it is possible to enlist the held of a friend - commonly called a
Mackenzie Friend, or Litigation Friend, or Next Friend.
But not an asylum-seeker:
anyone who assists an asylum-seeker, without being properly qualified,
commits a criminal offence, punishable with imprisonment.
And read my Big Theory itself, at 
The scandal of BBC management bonuses
brings back memories. They are of 1961, a key year in my political
development - all because of TV, and BBC. 
The time is ripe for new company
legislation, to counter managerial wrongdoing
Have you
ever resigned from the Labour
Party? What happened?
Having
discovered this remarkable NASA website, linked with the Hubble Telescope
and the NASA Mars exploration vehicles, with its current photographs from
outer space, I am reluctant