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...this country of nice old things, he wants to create a new "cool Britannia." Little surprise, then, that his passion for the modern has spread upward from Britain's House of Commons into the 700-year-old House of Lords. Under plans unveiled last week by Baroness Jay, the Labour government's leader of the Lords, Britain's 700 hereditary peers are about to get the chop. Twenty-one generations of Lord Fauntleroys influencing the affairs of the nation will come to an end. They will continue to have the right to call themselves Baron this and the Earl...
...with indecent exposure. Nine days later--one day after the St. Louis Cardinals won a seven-game World Series against the New York Yankees and the Soviets ousted Khrushchev and replaced him with Brezhnev--China exploded its first atomic device. That same day, Harold Wilson became Britain's first Labour Prime Minister in 13 years. That week TIME put four people on its cover...
Some of these changes, but not all, can be attributed to the influence of Tony Blair. He continues to meet with the Queen weekly, but the idea that New Labour is "advising the palace on how to modernize themselves would be well wide of the mark," a Blair spokesman says. "Any decision about the future of the monarchy is a matter for the monarchy, not for the government...
...modern British tabloid who ruled his Fleet Street subjects with a tart tongue and irreverent wit; in Chichester, England. A reporter at age 14 and an editor at 24, he later took charge of the Daily Mirror and shocked its sleepy circulation--and sober content--with bold headlines, pro-Labour positions (dubbing Britain "too damn smug"), prurience (he ran the first photo of a topless beauty) and pluck...
...camps have been interacting less formally for years. Al From, co-founder of the Democratic Leadership Council, where Clinton nurtured his new-Democrat ideas, took some reformist cues from Neil Kinnock, one of Blair's predecessors as Labour Party chief. Key Blair aides watched Clinton campaigning close up in 1992, and after the election Blair, then a little-known backbencher, visited the Clinton team to see how it was done...