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...Australia, even if Japan does end its whaling program in November (which history would suggest that it won't) that's still too long to wait for any decisive action. "Australia should seek an injunction to stop current whaling while the International Court of Justice determines the matter," Bob Brown, the leader of the Australian Greens Party, said in a statement. Watson, who was named by The Guardian in 2008 as one of 50 people that could save the planet, agrees. "It's as if the Australian government has told a bunch of bank robbers, 'Look you can continue robbing...
Downing Street and the Cabinet Office vigorously deny all the allegations. Cabinet ministers are lining up to defend Brown. "I don't think [Brown] so much bullies people as he is very demanding of people," Lord Mandelson, the Secretary of State for Business and a mainstay of Brown's government, told a BBC program. But attempts to close down the story and move on have been thwarted by a fresh allegation. Christine Pratt, chief executive of a charity called the National Bullying Helpline, has spoken to British media outlets claiming that Downing Street staff contacted her organization for help, telling...
...about these allegations," said a No. 10 spokesman. "We have rigorous, well-established procedures in place to allow any member of staff to address any concerns over inappropriate treatment or behavior. The civil service will continue to have a no-tolerance policy on bullying." (See pictures of Gordon Brown before he became Prime Minister...
Pratt rejected breaching confidentiality and denied any political motivation after commentators noticed that her charity's website carries endorsements from Conservative leader David Cameron - who has called for an inquiry into the Brown bullying allegations - and Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe, also listed as a patron of the helpline. The impact of her comments was undermined as her account of the number and source of the alleged calls changed in successive interviews, and four patrons of the charity, including Widdecombe, resigned. Mandelson, returning to the fray, suggested that Labour's opponents might have directed journalists to the organization. "This whole affair...
...just how badly could these assaults on Brown's character impact on his chances of victory? "If the story carries on and you get a new and fixed public sense of Brown, that he's a bully and he's emotionally out of control, that could be immensely damaging," says Peter Kellner, the president of the polling organization YouGov. The Prime Minister's best hope of retaining his job, adds Kellner, is that voters see Brown "as passionate - and better that than somebody who's bland...