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April 2002

• Multiple-subject diaries: Subjects are shown separately, but you will need to search texts within each designated day

02  Stolichnaya Vodka: Russian Court blunders - New slogan for Mars Bar - French parking amnesty - Keep urban parks public - Courts uphold Press freedom - Equality: refining the concept - Fabian call for more Bank Holidays

07  " Taming the Corporations", full Bridgend text - German Courts wrongly fine C&A - I support Blair's international initiatives - The proper role of the Military - Japan: a sick currency - Government needs more liberal attitudes - Insurance and the State: long-stop guarantor? - Housebuilding: profit margins

10   The Hollow Crown, my limited monarchism - Asylum Adjudications should be made by UNHCR - Revisiting Aneurin Bevan: Today's Five Fears - Council Housing: Tenants vote against transfers - Faith schools, in perspective - MoD: More incompetence, with sand in tanks

13   Voting reforms, trivial in effect - Pursue UN asylum adjudication concept - Growing opium, in Afghanistan - NHS: the public insurance case - new Data Access Commission proposed, to manage growing public databases - Rebuilding our Civil Service - New Bevan Agenda - Enron: the diversions continue

17   Budget Day, Labour priorities challenged - Frozen Old Age Pensions, for pensioners resident abroad - Corporate abuse of power - Japan: another bad week for public confidence - Do not withdraw fraud trials from juries - "Corporate manslaughter" explained -  Remove compulsion from secondary education

21  The Demedicalisation of Britain: new health philosophy required - Public primacy in transport, residential homes - Labour market rigidity: Italy goes wrong - OECD targets tax havens - Home Office: an awful Department - Personal wealth: some acceptable, some objectionable

24   Budget sets course for 2005 Election - Budget: good UK statistics published - Railtrack whirlpool accelerates - Graduate Debt: urgent need for new system - Small-business VAT: follow Spain's example

27   Immigrant "swamping" schools: Blunkett's wrong language - Global management of migration - Blair accepts cross-examination - State guarantee for personal savings, US cf UK - City government: Birmingham top job - "Systems thinking": new political fashion - Employers: write them out of the public service script - Government Special Advisers: my own experience - David Beckham: new form of tax avoidance - Non-executive Directors: Useless, says Lord Young -Govt Departments lack effective websites

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