September 13th, 2005
At the very start of his leadership of the Labour Party, at the 1994 Labour Party Conference, Tony Blair promised that in his new Britain, the workforce would not be “treated as servants, but as partners” and that “ we will make work pay.” Then at the 1999 party conference, he added that the National Minimum Wage (NMW) would help create a “society [in which everyone has the chance to share in increasing prosperity.” So what happened?
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September 10th, 2005
The videotape of the suicide bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan has switched the focus of the London bombings away from the establishment view of brainwashed, murderous individuals and highlighted a starker political reality. While there can be no justification for horrific killings of this kind, they need to be understood against the ferment of the last decade radicalising Muslim youth of Pakistani origin living in Europe.
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