On the eve of an election campaign, the government of British Prime Minister Tony Blair is attempting, with mounting desperation, to suppress a scandal potentially greater than the arms-to-Iraq cover-up. This is the deaths of
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According to the folksy writer Matthew Engel, the glories of the Olympic Games have a cathartic effect on nations. The 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles "helped the US regain the confidence it lost in Vietnam". He omitted to explain the
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The 'new feminism'Recently, the British Guardian devoted three pages to Germaine Greer, who has written a book called The Whole Woman. Other famous feminists were asked to comment. "We should not feel guilty for cleaning our
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The room is filled with the bodies of children killed by NATO in Surdulica in Serbia. Several are recognisable only by their sneakers. A dead infant is cradled in the arms of his father. These pictures and many others have not been
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How the media fan warAt the height of World War I, the British PM, David Lloyd George, confided to C.P. Snow, editor of the Manchester Guardian, "If people knew the truth, the war would be stopped tomorrow. But they don't know and
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When the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima after Japan had all but surrendered, the front page of the Daily Express said: "This is a warning to the world". As US missiles and bombs attack a sovereign European state,
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It doesn't matter whether or not President Clinton fired his missiles in order to distract attention from his troubles with Monica Lewinsky. He would have done it, anyway. We have been through this many times before, with the lies
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The Dunblanes that are never newsIt is three weeks since Dunblane and the moving tributes delivered by John Major and other politicians to the child victims of guns. "We must keep our anger burning bright", said David Mellor MP.
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The American liberal journal Nation described the renewed IRA bombing campaign as "an indefensible military response to the corruption and recklessness of a politician who was willing to torpedo peace to keep his job". Similarly,
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Australia's history as a political laboratory is extraordinary. In 192O, half a century ahead of Europe and the United States, the silver and zinc miners of Broken Hill won the world's first 35-hour week. Long before most of
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Today, 40% of all British children live in poverty. It is a breathtaking claim, yet the evidence was produced on World in Action two weeks ago by York University. Although this figure is probably the highest since modern
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Last month Prime Minister Paul Keating launched a "trade and cultural promotion" with Indonesia. Surrounded by businessmen and representatives of the arts, Keating made an extraordinary speech that was praised in the Australian