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BusinessWeek October 13, 2003 Stanley Reed |
Commentary: Labour's Deep Bench Even if Blair stumbles, Chancellor of Exchequer Brown can step in. |
BusinessWeek May 24, 2004 Kerry Capell |
Is This The Endgame For Tony Blair? Is the endgame approaching for Blair? It's too early to say. But the Prime Minister, who backed President George W. Bush fully on the Iraq war, is feeling incessant heat over his decision -- and watching his position slide in the polls. |
BusinessWeek December 15, 2003 |
More Troubles For Britain's Blair Tony Blair's credibility as Prime Minister is on the line in his battle to require British university graduates to pay about $5,100 per year in fees after entering the workforce. The measure has sparked a rebellion in his Labour Party. |
BusinessWeek May 21, 2007 Stanley Reed |
What Blair Could Teach Sarkozy France's new President might learn a lot from Tony Blair about building a vibrant economy. |
BusinessWeek April 26, 2004 |
Election Odds In Britain Will British Prime Minister Tony Blair call early elections? He doesn't have to hold a vote until May, 2006, but it is widely assumed he'll call the election for the spring or, at the latest, fall of 2005. |
BusinessWeek January 17, 2005 Stanley Reed |
The Party of the Future In Britain? Election fever is rising in Britain. Just about everyone assumes that Prime Minister Tony Blair will call for a national vote this spring, probably on May 5 to coincide with already scheduled local elections. |
BusinessWeek December 8, 2003 |
Europe And Britain: Prickly Partners The gulf between old Europe and the sceptered isle was on display during a meeting in London of French President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Tony Blair on Nov. 24. |
BusinessWeek June 6, 2005 |
A Political Flap Over I.D. Cards In Britain Having just won an historic third term, British Prime Minister Tony Blair is wasting no time following up on campaign pledges. |
BusinessWeek April 18, 2005 Stanley Reed |
Britain: If The Economy Ain't Broke... Blair's strong economic record may be his saving grace in the election. |
BusinessWeek November 17, 2003 Stanley Reed |
The New Deal Gets Britain Off The Dole Since taking power in 1997, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour government has launched a flurry of programs under the New Deal banner aimed at putting the unemployed to work. Britain's welfare-busters are on a winning streak. |
CIO September 15, 2005 Malcolm Wheatley |
London's Cameras In the eyes of the British public, CCTV has become the police's first port of call and a high-tech crime-fighting tool. Yet police receive no special training in analyzing CCTV footage, nor any high-tech tools, a technical support officer. |
BusinessWeek September 27, 2004 Stanley Reed |
A Dogfight Within The House of Labour Some might think the contenders are Tory vs. Labour, but the more closely watched contest is between Blair and his tough Chancellor of the Exchequer for control of the party -- and ultimately of 10 Downing St. |
BusinessWeek January 19, 2004 |
London's Mayor Is Back In Labour's Fold Tony Blair took a big bite of humble pie on Jan. 6 when he gave the green light for maverick London Mayor Ken Livingstone to be readmitted to the Labour Party. |
BusinessWeek February 2, 2004 Stanley Reed |
Will Tony Blair Dodge These Bullets? The countdown has begun to Tony Blair's High Noon. On Jan. 27, the House of Commons will vote on the Prime Minister's controversial proposal to nearly triple university fees, to about $5,400 a year. On Jan. 28, Brian Hutton, a respected senior judge, will release the report of his investigation into the death of weapons expert David Kelly. |
Reason April 2002 Jacob Sullum |
Pot Stops In the United States, it's clearly not true that no one gets arrested for smoking pot anymore. But it looks like that will soon be the case in Britain, home of Europe's harshest drug laws... |
BusinessWeek February 9, 2004 |
A Close Call For Britain's Tony Blair British Prime Minister Tony Blair survived his two-day political ordeal on Jan. 27-28. He won his parliamentary battle to hike university tuition fees, and he escaped blame in senior judge Brian Hutton's probe into the suicide of weapons expert David Kelly. |
BusinessWeek March 14, 2005 |
Have The Tories Found A Trump Card? With the British general election expected in May, the Conservative Party is turning immigration into a key campaign issue. And it seems to be paying off. |
BusinessWeek April 11, 2005 Stanley Reed |
Britain: The Tories Are Coming On Strong British Conservative leader Michael Howard is set to challenge Tony Blair on social and political issues. |
BusinessWeek April 29, 2010 Matthew Lynn |
A British Toss-Up with an American Twist Nick Clegg came out of nowhere and may now determine who becomes Prime Minister. |
Reason Aug/Sep 2007 Brendan O'Neill |
Rant: Tony the Nanny Tony Blair's shameful record on civil liberties. |
Parameters Winter 2003/2004 James K. Wither |
British Bulldog or Bush's Poodle? Anglo-American Relations and the Iraq War There are many factors beside Blair's leadership that helped to shape the British government's role in Iraq. This article addresses these issues and places them in historical context. |
BusinessWeek July 24, 2006 Kerry Capell |
Handcuffs Across The Water Why a treaty with the U.S. to extradite terror suspects is riling British executives. |
Reason May 2005 Charles Paul Freund |
Inciting Censorship British Prime Minister Tony Blair's government has added a measure to the proposed Serious Organized Crime and Police Bill that would create a new offense: "incitement of religious hatred." |
Salon.com August 2, 2001 Jared Manasek |
Smoke signal Police in London's gritty Brixton neighborhood are losing the war on drugs, so the police chief is experimenting with not enforcing cannabis laws. |
Salon.com August 23, 2000 Wendy M. Grossman |
Are British bobbies reading your e-mail? While Americans gnash their teeth about the FBI's Carnivore spying technology, U.K. legislators pass a law that could let cops read your messages. |
BusinessWeek November 3, 2003 Stanley Reed |
Commentary: Back To The Bad Old Days Of Strikes? British unions are angry, but things are nowhere near as chaotic as in the '70s |
BusinessWeek April 5, 2004 Capell & Cohn |
Britain's Amazing Jobs Machine How does it keep creating so much employment? And can the boom last? |
Information Today December 15, 2015 |
Gale Debuts 19th-Century Crime and Punishment Collection Gale launched Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920, its new primary-source archive of more than 2 million pages of material on 19th-century history, literature, law, and criminal justice. |
BusinessWeek August 30, 2004 Kerry Capell |
Animal-Rights Activism Turns Rabid Attacks on drug companies and university labs have Britain's $8 billion biomedical research industry under siege. But will the government's latest plan to combat extremists be enough? |
Chemistry World May 10, 2007 |
Comment: Blair's legacy Peter Cotgreave, director of the Campaign for Science and Engineering in the UK, reflects on 10 years under Blair's leadership. |
Reason March 2002 James Morrow |
Bye-Bye, Jury Britain is poised to eliminate almost two-thirds of all jury trials, according to a report in the New Statesman. New rules would allow a wide range of offenses (including any crime with a maximum sentence of less than two years) to be tried solely by a judge employed by the crown... |
BusinessWeek September 1, 2010 Robert Hutton |
Tony Blair, New Tory, Defends His Reign Tony Blair sounds a conservative note in his memoir. |
Reason November 2002 Joyce Lee Malcolm |
Gun Control's Twisted Outcome Restricting firearms has helped make England more crime-ridden than the U.S. |
Salon.com August 17, 2000 Anthony York |
The cops become the issue More civil than disobedient, the marches against police brutality were as scripted as the action inside the Staples Center. |
National Defense March 2009 Magnuson & Rusling |
Noted Police Chief Slams Federal-Local Partnerships The man who led the local police response to the 9/11 attacks on the Pentagon hopes the new administration does a better job of coordinating counterterrorism efforts with local law enforcement. |
BusinessWeek August 8, 2005 |
Big Brother Britain? The Blair Administration's proposal for biometric ID cards looked like a goner - until the July 7 attacks in London. But critics still worry about their intrusiveness. |
IDB America June 2004 Charo Quesada |
The People's Police Why the residents of Bogota have come to love their police force, after years of suspicion and resentment. |
BusinessWeek November 4, 2010 Penny & Donaldson |
London's Tory Mayor Defies the Tory Party Prime Minister Cameron has been blindsided by criticism of his budget cuts by London's mayor and fellow Tory, Boris Johnson. |
Salon.com July 26, 2000 Valeria Russ |
My son loves cops How and when do I tell him about Amadou Diallo? |
Reason February 2006 Matt Welch |
The War on Sedition English-speaking American allies crack down on speech in the name of fighting Islamic terrorism. |
Salon.com April 14, 2001 Earl Ofari Hutchinson |
Cincinnati's killer cops Black leaders want the feds to investigate the city's trigger-happy police. They shouldn't hold their breath... |
ifeminists September 30, 2003 George Rolph |
An Open Letter to the Police Commissioner of Great Britain As someone who mans a 24-hour help line in the UK for male victims of domestic violence, I am struck by the number of men who tell me that the police refuse to either take their complaints seriously, ignore them entirely, arrest the victim or fail to arrest the perpetrator. |
Salon.com July 14, 2000 Howard Altman |
Ready to rumble Police violence rocks Philadelphia as anxious protesters prepare to descend on the city for the Republican National Convention. |
Reason May 2008 Charles Oliver |
Brickbats News: An automated telephone system made some 2,100 calls telling parents, inaccurately, that their children were not in school... Two high school students were suspended for 10 days after they made an anti-drug commercial for a TV workshop... etc. |
Reason May 2008 Ed Burns |
Rewiring the System The author offers three reforms that he believes would improve the American criminal justice system. |
ifeminists September 9, 2003 George Rolph |
A Total Eclipse of the Son As the light of publicity shines on female victims of domestic violence there will be others standing in the dark shadow cast by that light. Those "others" will be men and boys. |
Reason October 2001 Rhys Southan |
DNA on Demand Scotland's Strathclyde Police don't blink twice when it comes to slighting privacy for crime detection. In March, Scotland's largest police department announced that officers would take DNA samples from everyone they arrest, no matter how minor the crime... |
Reason June 2002 Jesse Walker |
Policing Dissent Political spying rears its ugly head in Denver... |
BusinessWeek November 10, 2003 Stanley Reed in London |
School Daze At British Universities They're facing huge funding gaps as subsidies shrink and enrollments swell. |
BusinessWeek March 4, 2010 Reed & Vina |
In Britain, a Rout Turns into a Race As the Tories talk tough about trimming the public sector, voters get nervous -- and Labour suddenly has a chance. |