Word: labourers
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...backing Bush at every opportunity. The transatlantic bridge he has labored to build and bestride has become too wobbly to bear his weight gracefully. A former aide to Bill Clinton says that Blair "is a little like Vladimir Putin: he hasn't gotten much for his westward drift." Labour backbenchers are roiling as M.P.s beyond the usual antiwar suspects signal strong opposition to an Iraq war. Claire Short, the International Development Minister, has said privately she will protest in the streets if Iraq is bombed. But like a monk who believes self-flagellation is the path to salvation, Blair said...
When we consider that Blair represents Britain’s left-wing Labour Party, his remarks are truly extraordinary. Recent polls indicate that 86 percent of Labour Members of Parliament are opposed to a war with Iraq. On any number of issues, it is hard to imagine Daschle bucking similar opposition from congressional Democrats here in the States; his knee-jerk partisan impulses wouldn’t allow...
...going around talking about the A word," says Evelyn Mahon, a sociologist at Trinity College Dublin. "It's our last great taboo." This debate has forced the issue into more open dialogue. The referendum "means that people have to confront an unpalatable truth," says McManus, health spokeswoman for the Labour Party, which opposes the proposal. "We do have a relatively high level of abortion...
...shoes to fill, charismatically speaking. Until last November, the Social Democratic and Labour Party was led by John Hume, Nobel Peace Prize winner, singer of songs with President Clinton, darling of the world's press since he staked out a nonviolent Irish nationalism at the start of the Troubles. Durkan, the youngest of seven children raised on a police widow's pension, was Hume's detail man for two decades, turning the great leader's big but fuzzy visions into political reality. His skill at listening and bridging divides won him respect, and when Hume finally stepped down, Durkan...
...review by antitrust authorities. This coincidence did not go unnoticed by the nation's broadsheet press: it received the mild scandal treatment in the left-wing Sunday newspaper, the Observer, while the daily Independent wryly called the decision "a test case for companies which have made donations to the Labour Party." In 1999, the party itself held an internal inquiry scrutinizing the payments. But soon the story was mostly forgotten, filed away as a routine (if depressing) example of the outsized role of money in modern politics. Until now, that...