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...small, rocky piece of political turf where Tony Blair stands up to George W. Bush and publicly says, "No more"? Britain hopes so. With Blair heading to Washington this week to address a joint meeting of Congress, a rare honor for a foreign leader, the entire British political establishment - Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat - united last week to pressure the Prime Minister into doing exactly that. The reason: the Pentagon's announcement that two Britons held for months at Camp Delta, the U.S. military prison for suspected terrorists at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, won't be returned to Britain...
...mixture of foulness and folly," he kept this view to himself while consorting with the aristocrats who eased the U.S. into being. A year before his return, Franklin did concede, "There are two opinions prevalent in Europe which have mischievous effects in diminishing national felicity; the one, that useful labour is dishonourable; the other that families may be perpetuated with estates. In America we have neither of these prejudices, which is a great advantage to us"--but he did so in a letter to a Spaniard. The reports that Washington and his officers were forming a hereditary honorary society made...
...wall. July 1982 Michael Fagan breaks into the Queen's bedroom at Buckingham Palace. Police ignore a phone call for help, so the Queen chats with him for 10 minutes before alerting staff. Home Secretary William Whitelaw announces a "major shake-up" in palace security. Members of the opposition Labour Party call Whitelaw's comment that the incident represented a serious failure in security arrangements "the understatement of the year." January 1994 Cambodian student David Kang runs toward Prince Charles and fires two shots from a starting pistol at an event in Sydney. Charles displays considerable sangfroid as his would...
...minimize the "Gorbachev effect" - getting applause abroad for things unpopular at home. And no matter how Iraq resolves, it is likely to be Blair's last big foreign adventure. There's no other place Bush might fight where he will follow. That leaves Blair the hard slog of Labour's core mission: fixing the public services. Some improvements are beginning to show; the best British 15-year-olds now perform close to the top of international league tables, and last week a doctors' panel noted big gains in the speed of getting anti-clotting drugs to heart-attack patients, something...
...shoulder to shoulder" in the march to Baghdad, the Iraq war was an extremely tough sell for the British Prime Minister. Millions marched against the war in London; two Cabinet ministers resigned over it, and in the crucial House of Commons vote authorizing war, 138 members of Blair's Labour Party voted for an antiwar amendment, the largest rebellion in parliamentary history. Blair's tenacious battle for public opinion rested squarely on the imminent danger posed by Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. "I have never put our justification for action as regime change," he told the House of Commons...