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item0079B 1092, 1093 1092 23 May 2005
I have recently come across more evidence of his onshore career. He became a respected Secondary School Headmaster in Assam - and was invited to join the Royal Cabinet. So, in spite of my own lack of political success, it has been shown that I do have illustrious forbears - a Minister in the Assam Cabinet, no less.
This Indian tombstone Nepal tombstone suggests a ripe old age: if Sarah was 35 in 1891, he must have been over 80 when he christened me, in 1936... And he went back to Nepal afterwards, as I understand Family rumours used to abound about his having two wives "when in India", but the new evidence does not support that.
1093 23 May 2005 Whitsun Rebellion
In a debacle not unrelated to the French Referendum crisis, the French stayed away from work en masse last Monday, which was the French Whitsun Bank Holiday Monday. Why was that unusual? Because Raffarin's Government had unwisely asked the nation to work that day, to pay taxes and release funds needed to finance improved home-care for old people living alone. In the 2003 Summer heat wave, many thousands of the elderly had died of the heat, abandoned at home by their holiday-making families. The Government had no reserves to improve geriatric services, and asked for "the nation" to contribute one day's taxes to the cause.
The result was a raspberry. That is simply not an acceptable governmental technique. It was a massive misjudgment by the Government, just as the French Government has misjudged the EU Referendum. But the underlying problem is that French are obsessed with micro-managing the working-day, the working week. They are the ones who passed a law to restrict the working-week to 35 hours. They are pressing the UK to introduce a compulsory 48-hour maximum week. In this matter, I am with UK, and the Blair Government. I think the managerialist French, of both the Right and the Left, are wrong. Micro-management does not work, in the regulation of business or employment. I do think that current UK prosperity has much to do with "flexibility" in the labour market, and that socialists must find other ways of countering the uncertainty of contemporary society, of the economy. That is why I am out-of-step with many of the TU Left. Intervention at the level of the individual transaction, at the level of specific contracts, goes too far. If I want to work a 65-hour week (as I always have done, personally) I should be free to do so.
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My full name is John Roger
Warren Evans. That is because I was christened by my great uncle
John, my father's paternal Uncle, Rev John Ceredig Evans,
who was a Presbyterian Missionary in the hills of North India.
Originally a sailor from New Quay in West Wales (now Ceredigion), he had quit the sea
for the pulpit, and settled in North India. 
He was on "home" leave from Nepal at the
time of my arrival into this world in December 1935. As the only
man of the cloth which the family had ever produced, he was
quickly pressed into service for my christening, in Tabernacle, the
Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, in Whitchurch, Cardiff.
