guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/mar/29/cool-britannia-g20-blair-brown/print) Stryker McGuire The Observer‚ Sunday 29 March 2009 This time I’ve come to bury Cool Britannia American journalist Stryker McGuire wrote the magazine article that initiated the ’Cool Britannia’ phenomenon in 1996. Back then‚ the City was the engine of our prosperity‚ British music‚ nightlife‚ art and fashion were the best in the world‚ and a young‚ dynamic Tony Blair was about to topple the Tories. Now McGuire contrasts those
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A day in the life of the president of the United States is not boring nor is it something that any Joe Schmo can do. As the president‚ free time is hard to come by‚ because running one of the biggest nations in the world‚ something can always be done. That goes for every president that has ever been in the oval office‚ especially in the world we live in today. President Bush was no stranger to having busy day‚ and the day of October 10‚ 2001 was no different. Relation between America and the
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attacks mainly lasted about 21 days of major combat operations and finally ended with the United States of America capturing and obtaining control over the capital Baghdad . According to U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair‚ the objective of the mission was to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction‚ to end Saddam Hussein’s support for terrorism‚ and to free the Iraqi people from Hussein and his abuse‚ but the one reason why the American people wanted to start
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Blair favoured Bi-laterals and Tri-laterals‚ and chose to speak to ministers on a 1-to-1 basis‚ bypassing Cabinet. This was also claimed by the former Labour politician Mo Mowlam in her book ‘Momentum’ (2003)‚ in which she claimed that ‘Blair makes decisions with a small coterie of people and doesn’t consult Cabinet’; for example the decision to surrender control of interest
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tradition just like the Royal Prerogative. It also has the same force as the law. It is now a recognized convention that the decision to go to war is taken by the Prime Minister even though it is part of the Royal Prerogative. An example of this is when Tony Blair ordered to send troops into Serbia and Kosovo. Therefore the Convention and the Royal Prerogative have the same statues in importance however they are not as important as EU laws and Statues
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Multicultural Britain The 21th century Great Britain is a richly diverse society and culture‚ and the British people belong to a melting pot of ethnic backgrounds‚ languages‚ cultures and religions. The transformation of Britain into a multicultural society has happened rather quickly. There have been ethnic minorities in Britain for hundreds of years‚ but it was not until the last half of the 20th century that immigration to Britain really took of. At the beginning of the 1950s‚ Britain’s
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the London Stock Exchange in 1986‚ the so called Big Bang‚ and under New Labour only a limited regulatory body [Financial Service Authority] was introduced - later described by Gordon Brown as a ‘big mistake’ for its ineffectiveness. Both M.T and Blair/Brown sought market based reforms‚ shying away from public spending wherever possible - even when New Labour followed through on traditional Labour policy‚ such as the injection of funds into the NHS. This was mainly done with the Conservative/Thatcherite
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others say these parties have changed their direction from Thatcher. The Labour party have still seen Thatcher’s views as valid. For example‚ in 1997‚ when Tony Blair was elected as Prime Minister‚ he did not go around changing all her policies. This means that he agreed with some of the policies of Thatcher but adapted some of them. For example‚ Blair adapted Thatcher’s view on trade unions. Thatcher believed that trade unions should be minimised‚ whilst the New Labour adapted this and added that the
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HISTORIES AND IDEOLOGIES OF WELFARE Ideology is a system and ideas‚ especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy (oxford dictionary). Everybody has his/her own ideology‚ they are our own systems of believe that shape and structure the way we see the world‚ and make judgment about it‚ and each individual’s ideological perspectives is different and unique. Individual ideologies are both capital and prescriptive; we know what is wrong with
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How governments are formed There are no codified rules in the UK to state how government is formed‚ in theory it is in the hands of the monarch – up until the 19thCentury this was largely a reality. However the monarch no longer plays any active role in this process. The party that wins a majority of seats in the House of Commons after a general election‚ its leader will be invited by the monarch to form a government. 2010 Coalition Conservatives were longest party in HoC but failed to win overall
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