My name is Roger Warren Evans. I am returning to the E-Clouds after a break of ten years. In 2004, as a retired lawyer, I was personally overtaken by the challenge of “justice for asylum-seekers” in the UK. I set up a new small charity in South Wales – called Asylum Justice – to address the wrongs to which asylum-seekers were subject. That charity absorbed my time and energies, as a volunteer, for ten years, until 2014. Now aged 80, I have finally retired from legal practice, while the subject of global migration has come to dominate the political agenda, and asylum is part of the complex of issues raised. Asylum Justice had a very demanding agenda and workload, and it wholly displaced my blogging, which I abandoned in 2005. I am now back, and joining WordPress as a means of re-joining the blogging community. One of my principal concerns is how the Labour Party should prepare for the critical General Election of 2020. But more of that anon.
Saturday evening 14 November 2015. I am what is often called “a driven person” – not driven by any religious ideology or belief, nor fanatical about any political cause or creed – except perhaps the perfectability of man.. I am firmly convinced that, when it comes to he organization of society, humankind has the capacity to understand and “tweak” its own structures to improve its chances of survival, in the envionmental into which evolution has delivered the species. That means that, although I am not a political fanatic, I believe that humankind, faced with he circumstances of New Year 2016 can – by political action – adjust to the requirements of human survival: my mindset is that of a political optimist. From my spot on the globe (I was born in, and I now live in, Swansea in South Wales, UK), I approach the future as a socialist, in political terms, and a convinced democrat – I believe that in the longer run, it is only human societies that accommodate the aspirations of their peoples that will survive.
Where does that optimism come from? I will tackle that question tomorrow..
G’nite Roger WE
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