Posts Tagged ‘Britain’
Britain Lagging
A great little ‘Number Crunching’ feature in the latest issue of Private Eye;
“7 Months since Gordon Brown boasted in speech on global economy that ‘Britain is better placed to benefit as the storm passes, as pass it will’
7- Countries which have emerged from recession ahead of Britain since then.”
Private Eye was released last week and [...]
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Tags: Britain, British, economy, france, germany, news, recession, Thailand, UK, unemployment
Although I try to avoid the news these days and keep away from such reactionary bastions as CNN and FOX News, I’ve read in the blogosphere that there is currently quite a storm surrounding president Barack Obama’s plans to introduce a NON-national/single payer healthcare system, which has nevertheless been dubbed ’socialist’.
According to a report in [...]
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Tags: Britain, health, healthcare, healthcare reform, news, NHS, Obama, politics, single payer
Propping up Imperial Ambition
The past week has witnessed another damaging row for the PM Gordon Brown, this time regarding the number of helicopters British forces in Afghanistan have at their disposal.
The outgoing Foreign Office Minister Lord Malloch-Brown claimed “we [the UK forces in Afghanistan] definitely don’t have enough helicopters”. This caused an immediate riposte on the part of [...]
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Tags: Afghanistan, Britain, british foreign policy, Gordown Brown, helicopters, imperialism, Iraq, joe biden, military, NATO, politics, UK, war
Torture Tony
Tony Blair was aware of the existence of a secret interrogation policy which effectively led to British citizens, and others, being tortured during counter-terrorism investigations, the Guardian can reveal…
British intelligence officers were given written instructions that they could not “be seen to condone” torture and that they must not “engage in any activity yourself that [...]
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Tags: Britain, intelligence, MI5, MI6, news, politics, Tony Blair, torture
Summer of our Discontent
Last month the most senior police officer in the country in charge of keeping ‘civil order’ claimed that Britain was facing a ’summer of rage‘. He claimed that middle and working class victims of the current deep recession would become ‘footsoldiers’ in a wave of mass violent protests, reminiscent of those around the country during [...]
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Tags: bankers, Britain, capitalism, London, news, politics, protest
A very interesting blog post by Nir Rosen on The Guardian website today encompassing the nature of terrorism, universal laws, the Israel-Palestine conflict and the British/American occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Below are some excerpts… I especially like the way Rosen highlights the legal, social and political relationships between weak and powerful peoples everywhere. It has [...]
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Tags: Britain, gaza, gramsci, Hamas, Iraq, Israel, news, palestine, politics, terrorism, US
Soviet invasion of Britain
I was interested to read this story reporting on declassified British government documents from the 1970s in which officials made clear that the UK was virtually defenceless to an attack by the Soviet Union;
“Documents marked “Top Secret, UK eyes only” which have just been de-classified by the National Archives, show the Labour government of 30 [...]
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Tags: 1970s, Britain, cold war, foreign policy, History, military, soviet union
The British public and international community have regularly been subject to Gordon Brown’s high and mighty moral rhetoric concerning the tragic situation in Zimbabwe in recent years and the country’s fruitcake dictator. Although like Mugabe Brown was personally not elected to Britain’s highest office (although no Prime Minister is), he isn’t in the same league of [...]
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Tags: arrest, Britain, Brown, Conservatives, damian green, david cameron, Labour, news, politics, tony benn
US Barbarism
US Admits to Killing 37 Afghans in Attack on Wedding
In Afghanistan, the US has admitted to killing thirty-seven civilians and wounding dozens more in a military attack last week. The victims were bombed as they attended a wedding party outside the city of Kandahar. The Pentagon says the US bombed the area after coming under [...]
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Tags: Afghanistan, Britain, ICC, NATO, news, politics, US imperialism
Australia
12 days
Canada
1 day
Denmark
3 days
France
6 days
Germany
2 days
Italy
4 days
New Zealand
2 days
Norway
3 days
Ireland
7 days
Russia
5 days
South Africa
2 days
Spain
5 days
Turkey
7.5 days
United Kingdom
28 days, see below
USA
2 days
According to this article, Number 10 is backing away from plans to increase the time terror suspects can be held without charge from the current 28 to 42 days.
As is obvious in the table to the [...]
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Tags: 42 days, Britain, British Muslims, British politics, Brown, Labour, liberty, news, police, politics, surveillance, terrorism, UK
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