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...make the right decisions. There are differences in the approach to this issue with the government, but we don't try to play politics with this issue. I don't stand at Prime Minister's Questions and try to catch the Prime Minister out on Iraq. I genuinely want Britain to make the right decisions so we can have a more stable Iraq and can bring our troops home...
...position that the vast mass of the British public agrees with us about. Ten years ago, [former Conservative Party leader] William Hague was a lone voice against the single currency. The Confederation of British Industry and the Labour Party and lots of others were saying Britain wouldn't have a future outside the single currency. Now, you can hardly find a politician who wants to join the single currency, so I think the Conservative Party is in the right position. The idea of bringing back a constitution with lots of transfer of power from the nation states to the center...
...TIME: It's supposedly the other way around: I'm told you're Britain's most sought-after dinner guest. People say you're recreating Camelot...
...weight of family and community hangs over Shame like a doting parent. As Sanghera notes, nobody really knows how many young people in Britain are pressured into matches they don't want. The British government's Forced Marriage Unit deals with more than 250 cases a year, but Sanghera's group, Derby-based Karma Nirvana, alone takes on seven new ones a week. Police in Britain are investigating scores of suspected "honor killings" of women resisting arranged marriages. Tellingly, the suicide rate among young South Asian females is three times the national average...
...killers, but also the police spymasters alleged to have shielded them from justice. McCord's decade-long odyssey that turned him from street fighter to amateur investigator was vindicated, Monday, when the official police ombudsman for Northern Ireland, Nuala O'Loan, alleged that officers of the Special Branch of Britain's Royal Ulster Constabulary had knowingly colluded with Protestant paramilitaries responsible for at least a dozen murders, shielding them from justice. Her report echoes McCord's allegations, on the basis of his investigation into his son's murder, that some police officers paid and protected terrorist killers, and allowed them...