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...Either they are badly organized, or they are letting the community suffer," he says. Ridiculous, says a police spokeswoman: they sent a helicopter to the scene four minutes after receiving the first call (which she says was after 1 a.m.), but were so busy saving lives at the Manningham Labour Club, where rioters had blocked the fire doors with blazing cars, that they couldn't handle the BMW dealer too. "Whatever the reality, perceptions are significant," says Khadam Hossain, 49, a financial planner who came to Britain when he was eight. "While we support the police to a certain extent...
...victories by Tony Blair and the Labour Party are a lesson that the dividends of democracy come slowly but surely. Nigerians need only look to the U.S. to find that, in the final analysis, no matter how difficult it is, democracy is the way forward. LULUFA KUNDUL VONGTAU Kaduna, Nigeria...
...parties appears desolate in many parts of Europe. Left-tilting parties hold power in 11 of the E.U.'s 15 nations, and only in Italy and Spain does the right govern alone. In Germany, where elections are due next year, the incumbent center-left government is poised for a Labour-esque landslide. The outlook is slightly brighter in France, although the left remains a fair bet to win control of both Parliament and the presidency next year. The most encouraging recent result for Europe's conservatives, the triumph of Silvio Berlusconi's center-right coalition in May's Italian election...
...euro and lowering taxes. This presented an image, former Tory Deputy Prime Minister Michael Heseltine told the bbc, of "a right-wing, xenophobic party talking to itself in a very introspective way." A new vision is clearly needed, but the difficulty for the Conservatives is that Labour now has successfully pre-empted the center ground...
...Tory leader will undoubtedly hope Labour loses its promised referendum on the euro or fails to improve public services. And if Blair slips after promising so much, the new top Tory at least will have a lot more to work with than Hague ever...