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Tony Blair has rewritten history – without modesty or shame
Posted on September 3, 2010
If he wasn't in charge of the country when it all started to go wrong, then who was, asks Jeff Randall.
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Mozambique says 7 killed in riots, calm restored
Posted on September 3, 2010
MAPUTO (Reuters) - Mozambique's capital Maputo got back to work on Friday after two days of rioting, triggered by a sharp hike in bread prices, which the government said left seven dead, 288 injured and millions of dollars of damage.
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    Does it matter who William Hague shares a hotel room with?
    Posted on September 3, 2010
    Is it any of our business? Or are politicians' lives fair game?
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    School lotteries 'fail to cut social segregation'
    Posted on September 3, 2010
    Controversial admissions lotteries established to break the middle-class stranglehold on good schools are failing, according to a study.
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    'I gave too much away': David Blunkett's startling admission on UK-U.S. extradition treaty
    Posted on September 3, 2010
    David Blunkett, the Cabinet minister who signed Labour's controversial Extradition Act, admitted yesterday that he may have 'given too much away' to the Americans. The Act, which opponents say is biased against British citizens, is being used to extradite Gary McKinnon, who has Asperger's, for computer hacking.
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    Britain's Secret Slaves
    Posted on September 2, 2010
    Channel4 Video: Over 15,000 domestic workers leave their families to come to Britain every year. Charities claim that many are not only badly treated but that they are living as slaves
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    Brown’s plan for the future
    Posted on September 2, 2010
    Mr Blair’s former breathless lover will form the fully staffed Gordon and Sarah Brown Foundation, paid for by lucrative speaking engagements, which the Spectator revealed some weeks ago. He has accepted three pro-bono appointments - joining Queen Rania of Jordan’s Global Campaign for Education, working on a new programme to bring the internet to Africa and joining the board of Tim Berners Lee's World Wide Web Foundation. He will also continue to write on the plight of the world’s poor.
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    UK police 'among the world's worst'
    Posted on September 2, 2010
    Britain's police forces are among the least effective in the developed world, according to new research which blames the decline on the breakdown of the traditional family and the disappearance of the beat bobby. The United States, France and Germany have all been more successful at combating crime than Britain, says the study carried out by right-wing think tank Civitas. The claims provoked outrage last night among chief constables and criminologists.
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    Never mind the leadership contest — look at me!
    Posted on September 2, 2010
    Never mind his claim about seeing the queen washing dishes after a barbecue at Balmoral. Forget his description of John Prescott’s affair as a ‘silly sex scandal’. Put to the back of your mind his ‘drink problem’. (Half a bottle of wine a night? Quick, someone call AA!) No, the really shocking thing about Tony Blair’s memoirs is that they exist at all, that all this personal crap, all his griping, grimacing and schoolgirl-style hatred of certain Labour colleagues, has been vomited into the public arena at precisely a time when Labour is trying to select a new leader. Such a teenage elevation of the needs of the self above the needs of one’s party speaks volumes about the end of politics and its replacement by the tyranny of therapy.
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    Andy Coulson discussed phone hacking at News of the World, report claims
    Posted on September 2, 2010
    The prime minister's media adviser, Andy Coulson, freely discussed the use of unlawful news-gathering techniques while editor of the News of the World and "actively encouraged" a named reporter to engage in the illegal interception of voicemail messages, according to allegations published by the New York Times.
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    Hague denies rumour he is gay – but special adviser steps down
    Posted on September 2, 2010
    The Foreign Secretary, William Hague, was forced to issue an extraordinary public statement yesterday denying that he was gay, after his special adviser and long-term friend resigned over "untrue and malicious" rumours about the relationship between the two men.
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    Tony Blair’s revenge on Gordon Brown puts Labour on brink of civil war
    Posted on September 2, 2010
    The ferocity of Tony Blair's attack on Gordon Brown threatens to plunge Labour into a fresh civil war and send the party into the electoral wilderness. 
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    • The Tony Blair Interview with Andrew Marr
    Posted on September 1, 2010
    Video: Tony Blair speaks to Andrew Marr on the publication of his autobiography, A Journey.
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    David vs Ed? It’s the end of politics as we knew it
    Posted on September 1, 2010
    If political parties could be done under the Trade Descriptions Act, Labour would surely be in trouble for describing its current internal squabbling as a ‘party leadership contest’.
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    Teachers 'fuelling gender gap by stereotyping boys as badly behaved'
    Posted on September 1, 2010
    Teachers may be fuelling the gender gap in education by stereotyping boys as badly behaved, research suggests.
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    Citizens Advice warns public sector jobs cull will create new wave of debtors
    Posted on September 1, 2010
    Looming public sector job cuts will lead to a new wave of debtors who risk losing their home or possessions, Citizens Advice warns today as its bureaux have reported an increase in welfare benefits inquiries since the general election.
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    Britain a 'selfish and hedonistic wasteland', says Archbishop's adviser
    Posted on September 1, 2010
    A leading Catholic has claimed Britain has become a "selfish and hedonistic wasteland" which is less tolerant of his religion than countries such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and China, according to reports. 
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    Problem drinking shows up north-south England divisions
    Posted on September 1, 2010
    There are stark geographical divisions in the toll alcohol takes on health in England, with men in the North West more likely to die prematurely than those in the South East, figures show.
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    Blair: I knew Brown would be a disaster
    Posted on September 1, 2010
    World exclusive: As his memoir is published, the man who reshaped British politics talks frankly to Martin Kettle about Gordon Brown, the Iraq war – and where Labour went wrong 
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    In B&Q they cost 20p. So why does the NHS spend £99 for a screw to put in your hip?
    Posted on August 31, 2010
    Every year, the NHS spends £500 million on orthopaedic equipment, but according to one insider they are being completely ripped off. In a damning expose, a medical sales rep, under the cover of anonymity, talks to VICTORIA ­LAMBERT about the used-car-sales ­tactics of ­companies which make millions from the NHS.
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    Labour condemns UK 'opt out' from EU directive against sex trafficking
    Posted on August 31, 2010
    David Cameron and Nick Clegg stand accused of sending the "wrong signal" to pimps and human traffickers across the world after the coalition decided against endorsing an EU directive designed to co-ordinate European efforts to combat the trade in sex slaves.
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    Plans to combine British and French navies to be discussed in Paris this week.
    Posted on August 31, 2010
    Plans for the British navy to combine forces with the French will be discussed at a meeting in Paris this week between Liam Fox, the Defence Secretary, and French ministers. 
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    Labour's vain, venal has-beens should bow out and shut up
    Posted on August 31, 2010
    They just can't stop themselves, yesteryear headline addicts, locked in the old quarrels, oozing sectarian malice to their last gasp. Peter Mandelson and Tony Blair elbow their way back into the limelight for one last show with their competing memoirs – a breathtaking self-indulgence dragging the party back, just when the ballot papers for Labour's future land on doormats tomorrow morning.
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    Blair prepares to trash Brown in first major TV interview since he quit as PM
    Posted on August 31, 2010
    Labour is braced for a new outbreak of the Blair-Brown wars as allies of Gordon Brown ready themselves to hit back at criticism by Tony Blair of his premiership. Mr Blair yesterday filmed his first major television interview since he left Downing Street ahead of the publication tomorrow of his memoir, entitled A Journey.
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    Mandelson triggers Labour civil war as he bids to stop 'Red Ed' Miliband from winning leader race
    Posted on August 31, 2010
    Labour's leadership battle erupted into civil war last night as Lord Mandelson launched a last-ditch bid to stop ‘Red Ed’ Miliband from winning. His onslaught started a bitter row as grandees traded blows over the future of the party before ballot papers go out tomorrow.
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