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05 Apr 2005 05:14:06 AM |
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Labour candidate deserts 'authoritarian' Blair
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=626531
By John Deane, PA
05 April 2005
A Labour Parliamentary candidate announced today that he had defected
to the Liberal Democrats.
Stephen Wilkinson, who until yesterday was Labour's candidate for
Ribble Valley and a Labour member of Lancashire County Council, said he
had become disillusioned with Tony Blair's "increasingly authoritarian"
party.
I'm with Wolfowitz
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1452430,00.html
Liberal handwringing over the World Bank simply reflects a failure to
recognise the role it exists to fulfil
George Monbiot
Tuesday April 5, 2005
The Guardian
It's about as close to consensus as the left is ever likely to come.
Everyone this side of Atilla the Hun and the Wall Street Journal agrees
that Paul Wolfowitz's appointment as president of the World Bank is a
catastrophe. Except me.
Under Wolfowitz, my fellow progressives lament, the World Bank will
work for America. If only someone else were chosen, it would work for
the world's poor. Joseph Stiglitz, the bank's renegade former chief
economist, champions Ernesto Zedillo, a former president of Mexico. A
Guardian leading article suggested Colin Powell or, had he been allowed
to stand, Bono. But what all this hand-wringing reveals is a profound
misconception about the role and purpose of the body Wolfowitz will
run.
George Monbiot
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Wolfowitz
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World Bank
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It's as if the Reformation had never happened
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1452198,00.html
The Pope's death exposes the erosion of confidence in our institutions
Martin Kettle
Tuesday April 5, 2005
The Guardian
It is a compelling measure of the personal and political impact made by
the long reign of John Paul II - to say nothing of the changed nature
of British public life during his 27 years as Bishop of Rome - that the
death of the pontiff this weekend should have triggered such turmoil
for the establishment of this notably un-Catholic country.
The funeral of a pope, let us be clear, has never until now been the
sort of event deemed to require the attendance of the British prime
minister - or even of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The late Lord
Callaghan, who was premier when the previous two Popes died in quick
succession in 1978, attended neither of their funerals. Nor did anyone
at the time think it remarkable that he chose not to go. The more so
when not even Dr Donald Coggan, Cantuar of that time, saw it as an
essential duty to attend the funeral of John Paul I either.
Martin Kettle
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The end of the world as we know it
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1452240,00.html
The fight against extreme poverty can be won, but only if Bush
recognises that military might alone won't secure the world
Jeffrey Sachs
Tuesday April 5, 2005
The Guardian
The end of poverty is a choice, not a forecast. There are a billion
people on earth fighting daily for their survival. The world has
committed, in the Millennium Development Goals, to cut extreme poverty
by half by 2015. By 2025, extreme poverty can be banished. By dint of
interest and calendar, the next step rests with Downing Street.
Tony Blair has dramatically raised the stakes. Now, he must deliver.
The Blair Africa Commission is a masterful display of diagnosis and
politics. Africa's leading development thinkers and Britain's political
leaders are aligned on a sound diagnosis and course of action. Blair
has promised that Africa and development aid will be at the core of
this year's G8 summit, which he will host in Scotland in July. Africans
are daring to hope that this time offered help is not just empty words.
Jeffrey Sachs
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Revolution behind closed doors
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1452200,00.html
The drift towards presidential government must be held up to scrutiny
before it becomes irreversible
Michael Quinlan
Tuesday April 5, 2005
The Guardian
British civil servants, ultimately, have to accept and implement
whatever ministers decide. That ethic was the subject of an article I
published in the US in 1993, prompting a response from a Princeton
academic titled The Remains of the Role, evoking the dedicated servant
stunted by duty of Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day. I rejected the
implication. Rebuttal might, however, be less assured today.
Sir Christopher Foster argues in his book British Government in Crisis
that Tony Blair has carried change in constitutional practice to the
point of revolution, and that key elements of this concern how the
cabinet works and what is expected of senior civil servants. The Hutton
and Butler inquiries shone a disconcerting light on all this, the
Butler report ending with trenchant comment - largely evaded in the
government's recent response - on what was revealed.
Michael Quinlan
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Lecturers may boycott Israeli academics
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1452281,00.html
State's policy in occupied territories fuels union debate
Polly Curtis and Will Woodward
Tuesday April 5, 2005
The Guardian
Israeli academics who refuse to condemn their government's actions in
the occupied territories risk a boycott by the UK's leading lecturers'
union.
Sharon defies international objections by allowing 3,500 new homes on
West Bank
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=626485
By Donald Macintyre and Eric Silver in Jerusalem
05 April 2005
Ariel Sharon, Israel's Prime Minister, has defied international and
Palestinian objections to go ahead with a bitterly controversial plan
to expand the largest Jewish settlement on the West Bank by 3,500
homes.
The leak of Mr Sharon's remarks yesterday to an Israeli parliamentary
committee came as he prepared to visit President George Bush next week
in the US for talks at which he is expected to seek a green light for
the expansion, which would join up the settlement of Ma'ale Adumim with
Jerusalem.
The Association of University Teachers' annual council, which begins on
April 20 in Eastbourne, will also debate whether to boycott three of
Israel's eight universities - Haifa University, Bar Ilan University and
the Hebrew University in Jerusalem - over their alleged complicity with
the government's policies on the Palestinian territories.
Illegal Immigrants Are Bolstering Social Security With Billions
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/05/business/05immigration.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By EDUARDO PORTER
The estimated seven million illegal immigrant workers in the U.S. are
providing the Social Security system with a subsidy of as much as $7
billion a year.
Social Security
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In Mexico, Church's Influence Wanes as Evangelism Grows
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26323-2005Apr4.html
By Mary Jordan, Page A01
ZINACANTAN, Mexico -- After Pedro Gonzalez Perez, 38, lost sight in his
left eye during a drunken stupor, he said he desperately searched for
help, but found none in the town's grand Catholic church.
Post-Schiavo Questions Await Congress's GOP Leaders
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26191-2005Apr4.html
Priorities Debated As Recess Ends
By Charles Babington
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 5, 2005; Page A04
Republican congressional leaders return to Washington today to confront
a political landscape that is considerably more problematic than the
one they left two weeks ago, when the House and Senate adjourned for
Easter recess.
The searingly emotional Terri Schiavo case divided Republican-leaning
voters and drew Congress into an extraordinary Palm Sunday
intervention, which is now fueling claims that party leaders are out of
step with mainstream America.
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