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...break, says Spielberg, "I was Mr. Carpool. We had breakfast and dinner together every day. It's full-time work, because every one of our kids is a leader. Seven leaders, no followers--which makes our kitchen at dinnertime look and sound like the House of Commons between the Labour Party and the Tories." This genial chaos ("It's like the Cirque du Soleil over there," says Hanks, a neighbor and close friend) is managed by Capshaw and a live-in couple in the Spielbergs' palatial home in the Los Angeles suburb of Pacific Palisades. "I really love the diaper...
...same time, the masculine grip on the House of Commons has finally been broken. What a parliamentary diarist once called "this delicious male, tawny place" will echo to the tones of 150 women, including a 100-strong Labour contingent. Some of the most spectacular Tory defeats were the work of women candidates, and women will make up more than a quarter of the new government. Blair, who is married to one of the most successful young lawyers in Britain, has no problems about working with women. One of his closest confidantes is his personal secretary, Anji Hunter...
...Britain remains a profoundly conservative place, and the changes will not be overwhelming. This has been the most beautiful spring most people can ever remember, and in the dazzling sunshine the British electorate voted Labour into overwhelming power precisely because they knew it would be change without revolution. It was a happy vote, not a bitter one. The overwhelming sentiment was "Time for a change." This decisively outbalanced the "feel-good factor" produced by the fact that the country has the strongest economy in Europe--its best in 50 years--and most people have never earned so much...
Blair's historic achievement was to exorcise the voters' fear of Labour. They could put him in power confident in his pledges that taxes will not go up, spending will be kept in strict control, Thatcher's antiunion laws will remain in place, the privatization of Britain's state assets will continue, and socialism is dead, buried and forgotten. This was, in essence, a constitutional vote by the people to keep the two-party system alive, to insist that the other fellow be given a chance. It was a vote for fair play, balance, honesty, high seriousness and better ethical...
...euphoria will not last long. The great Labour landslide of 1945 petered out into hopeless crisis within two years. Labour's massive victory of 1966 ran into terminal troubles within three months. Today the economy is beginning to overheat, and interest rates will have to rise soon. The Tory party will get to its feet, dust itself off and be transformed into a ferocious opposition by the autumn...