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Week 32 Monday Tsunami! These are grim times. Momentum is clearly accelerating, throughout the asylum system. There are higher levels of removals* and threatened removals, a more aggressive approach to the withdrawal of support, inducing higher levels of destitution and despair. And Blair's intemperate response to the London bombings is spreading real, personal, fear among all refugee communities. This impacts with particular force upon the failed asylum-seekers, who caught in the vice of uncertainty, between two worlds. *
That has meant a tsunami of work for me - which explains my continuing silence, as a web-editor. This coming week, from 8 August, I am booked for 32 hours of "surgery" consultations in Swansea, Newport and Cardiff, plus a Court appearance on Tuesday in Newport. And that is without counting Wednesday, when I shall be in London for a meeting with the Chinese Embassy, planning a Fabian Society visit to China in October 2006. The problem is partly attributable to the Summer holidays, with three of my volunteer lawyers on holiday, and my having to hold the fort for both Cardiff and Swansea simultaneously. And in parallel, work continues to secure for the new charity Asylum Justice formal registration with the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner...
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.
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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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 -
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"Removal"
is the equivalent of "deportation", in popular parlance. But the
term "deportation" applies strictly to cases where there has been a Court
or Ministerial "order to deport", signifying a
change of legal status for the individual concerned. In
the case of failed asylum-seekers, their status is
already that of illegal immigrants without any leave to
remain, and they are simply being removed
as a direct consequence of that status.
Have you
ever resigned from the Labour
Party? What happened?
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
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