Brown's Britannia, Warts and All

On July 25, he adopted a Tory proposal to create a single robust border force to protect ports and airfields, while challenging the opposition to approve the extension of up to 56 days in which terror suspects can be detained without charge-virtual internment, in the view of Amnesty International.\n...

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Published in:World policy journal 2007-06, Vol.24 (2), p.104-108
Main Author: Meyer, Karl E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Appointments & personnel changes
Automobiles
Brown, Gordon (British politician)
Coda
Colleges
Communications industry
Current affairs
Educational aspects
Evaluation
Floods
General Interest
Great Britain
International Relations
Iraq War-2003
Leadership
Mass media
Political aspects
Politicians
Politics
Populism
Prime Ministers
Private schools
Privilege
Public Policy
Public schools
Public television
Social aspects
State schools
Summer
Terrorism
United Kingdom
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Summary:On July 25, he adopted a Tory proposal to create a single robust border force to protect ports and airfields, while challenging the opposition to approve the extension of up to 56 days in which terror suspects can be detained without charge-virtual internment, in the view of Amnesty International.\n To hype ratings, BBC news programs fecklessly broadcast a fake item about Queen Elizabeth II storming out of a photo session with Annie Liebovitz; this was followed by leaked disclosures of frauds in "actuality" programming in which BBC staff members posed as participants and winners in phone-in contests. Refugees of post-Saddam chaos need friends with influence to get into America (The Guardian, July 24); or also, from the same paper, July 19, America is just starting to wake up to the awesome scale of its Iraqi disaster, (which runs over a column by the normally pro-American Oxford scholar Timothy Garton Ash, that concludes: Looking back over a quarter of a century of writing about international affairs, I cannot recall a more comprehensive and avoidable man-made disaster.)
ISSN:0740-2775
1936-0924
DOI:10.1162/wopj.2007.24.2.104