his emollience robert jenrick... (and his consort, the concept of natural justice)

 from 'I advance masked'. in many ways (and it's not his fault) andy summers neutralizes what is interesting about fripp's playing. like on this track he provides those wet flanged/ chorused 80ies chord clusters (while fripp gets on with the soloing). at other times they alternate - fripp gets on with the minimalism while summers solos. still it's a good record. good for a rainy day.

starter for ten... the concept of natural justice...
BUZZ. (jenrick, st.john’s) ...

several months after the event robert jenrick has showed up in person with a form of words to reveal why he was quite right to bilk the poor people of tower hamlets out of 45 million.

but it is strange he didn't do so at the time.

strange that the concept of ‘natural justice’ didn’t trip lightly off his tongue when he was first invited to discuss the matter.

how then did this brave man of principle handle it? most strange. he sent a small child to parliament to take some bullets for him.

horsemouth has been doing some research on the concept of natural justice (now that robert has mentioned it). ok ok - he’s looked it up on wikipedia.

‘In English law, natural justice is technical terminology for the rule against bias and the right to a fair hearing... The basis for the rule against bias is the need to maintain public confidence in the legal system. Bias can take the form of actual bias, imputed bias or apparent bias.’ 

now robert’s initial ruling was sent aside on the basis of apparent bias - that the decision was bent (actual bias) is very difficult to prove so instead another test is used apparent bias. for there to be apparent bias it merely has to look bent e.g. your party taking a donation from a property developer and him getting let off 45 million pounds of levies on one of his projects. this is indeed what happened and it certainly did look bent,
‘While the term natural justice is often retained as a general concept, it has largely been replaced and extended by the general "duty to act fairly".’

so that’s alright then but never mind because roBENT jenrick is acting resolutely and decisively to remove these kinds of levies upon future projects (to permit the continued increase of luxury estates and to ensure the eventual extinction of housing for the poor, if not their actual extinction through high levels of covid exacerbated by overcrowding).

there is however a sense that that time (the time of commercial property and luxury appartments) has already gone - if you can work from home who needs the office? who can be bothered with even a short commute to the office? what will these buildings become? probably housing - the slums of the future.

 ‘the sun doth rise in the eastern skies’ the day before yesterday (later on) horsemouth went for a walk (the rain helped keep the people down). earlier he prayed for rain to get him out of doing the watering (it rained - yay). he will nip up the allotment in a bit to make sure everything is ok (and then wander around some more).

howard is trapped in phone hell but musicians of bremen have a release schedule with recordings ready to go but they find themselves a bit knackered and out of sorts when it comes to doing the promotion. it does no good to focus on the chiseling of types like robert jenrick. it’s just annoying rather than helpful. on the other hand one has to admire the economy of his legal advice.