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...first place do we want government money invested in private companies? The world has had 50 years of bitter experience with the failure and sheer destructiveness of nationalization. After World War II, the British Labour Party seized the "commanding heights" of the economy, nationalizing everything big in sight: coal and steel and rails and utilities. By 1980 Britain was the sick man of Europe...
...weeks ago, Peter Mandelson, Britain's trade secretary and the architect of Blair's successful New Labour policies, was found to have borrowed L375,000 (more than $600,000) to buy a new home in central London. He borrowed the money from Geoffrey Robinson, the government's politically appointed paymaster general, but more pertinently a former entrepreneur whose business dealing Mandelson's agency was investigating...
Straw's decision is billed as judicial rather than political, but the strong human-rights orientation of Tony Blair's Labour government is surely pressing him toward extradition. And if Straw is tempted to let the old dictator go, he faces another roadblock: the once arcane principle of universal jurisdiction. This dates to the heyday of piracy, when any nation could deal with the brigands of the high seas. These days there is considerable agreement that systematic torture and genocide are such heinous crimes that any country should be free to try those who are accused of them. "Some crimes...
This smooth weight. I labour...
After all, if we remove the hereditary peers, we will be left only with those who have received their peerages through political party patronage, the 492 so-called life peers. And over the next few years, the Labour government will be tempted to pack the upper house with more and more of its own supporters--"Tony's cronies," as some would have it. It could become a palace of unelected hacks and dogsbodies, unlikely to provide independent and considered advice. There is at least some legitimacy in ancient tradition; there will be none in the short-term political convenience...