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<description><![CDATA[The lessons of the 1988 Piper Alpha disaster should mean offshore workers are safer, industry experts say.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[A 55-year-old man is charged with sex offences and attempted murder committed a decade apart.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The organisers of a book award defend the ceremony after criticism by an author mistakenly announced as the winner.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Graduation used to be a rite restricted to students leaving university, but these days schoolchildren are getting in on the fun - with American-style proms to mark the end of the exam season.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Among those who passed away in June, inventors of mini-roundabouts and Mr Snuffleupagus.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The recent problems with knife crime in London dominate the front page of the Daily Mail newspaper.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[A man who died after a stolen car crashed outside Belfast had previous convictions for car crime, it emerges.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Campaigning for the Glasgow East by-election caused by David Marshall's resignation, moves up a gear later.]]></description>
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<title>Bid to avoid festival travel woes</title>
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<description><![CDATA[T in the Park organisers issue travel advice to fans attending next weekend's event.]]></description>
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<title>&#x27;High&#x27; Welsh energy bills inquiry</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Claims that electricity customers in Wales pay more than the rest of the UK will be examined officially.]]></description>
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<title>Hotel balcony fall woman critical</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A woman who fell eight storeys from a hotel balcony while on holiday in Spain is being treated for injuries at hospital.]]></description>
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<title>Sharing the wealth </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Artists do battle to enrich their heirsON THE very day that a study by Francis Bacon, who died in 1992, sold for GBP17.3m ($34.4m) in Christie's biggest contemporary-art sale, a group of British artists fired the opening salvo in what could prove a drawn-out battle. Should their heirs be entitled to royalties on such sales? Led by Damien Hirst, Britain's most commercially successful artist, more than 500 signed a letter to the Telegraph urging the government to give them that right. "Our loved ones often sacrifice a lot to support an artist in the family," the letter went, and it was only fair that they got a share of the profits.For the past two years 4% of the price of a work by a living artist sold through an auction house or by a dealer has been payable to the artist. Sales of less than EURO1,000 (GBP796) are exempt, and the tax is capped for anything worth EURO500,000 or more. Throughout the European Union the tax is payable on sales of works by living artists or those who have died within 70 years; in Britain it is only works by living artists that qualify. The EU allowed Britain this exemption until 2012. Mr Hirst and his colleagues would like to make sure it is not extended.  ...]]></description>
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<title>A hard pounding for Mr Brown? </title>
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<description><![CDATA[After Wendy Alexander's ouster, Labour faces a by-election from hellWHEN the 1922 general election swept the Labour Party to dominance in west-central Scotland, a Conservative lamented that it was the worst national disaster since Flodden, a 16th-century battle in which the English crushed the Scots. So recorded the young Gordon Brown in his biography of James Maxton, one of the authors of that Labour victory. Now the prime minister may be facing his own Flodden at a parliamentary by-election in Glasgow East, hitherto one of the safest seats in Labour's Scottish heartlands.At first sight, it looks improbable. David Marshall, the MP whose resignation has precipitated the contest on July 24th, won 60.7% of the vote and a 13,507 majority at the 2005 parliamentary election, leaving the Scottish National Party (SNP) with just 17% of the vote. Yet these are fraught times for Mr Brown. Labour was beaten into fifth place in the Henley by-election on June 26th. And the Scottish Labour Party is in disarray: Wendy Alexander, its leader, resigned on June 28th, brought down by breaching the rules on political donations.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Old heads on young shoulders </title>
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<description><![CDATA[What do we want? Fiscal prudence, property rights and lower taxesTHE oft-quoted maxim that a man who is not a socialist at 20 has no heart, whereas one who is still a socialist at 40 has no head, has been variously attributed to George Bernard Shaw, Winston Churchill, Woodrow Wilson and Otto von Bismarck, among others. Whatever its origins, the path that leads from the student view of property as theft to an appreciation of low taxes is well-trodden, often suspiciously soon after employment sets in.Now, it appears, many students are starting adulthood differently. A report published on June 26th by Opinionpanel, a research outfit that specialises in polling students, documents a big shift in political allegiances on campus since 2004 (see chart). In those days the Liberal Democrats were the students' favourite; support for the Tories hovered between a fifth and a quarter, and a third supported Labour. Now fewer than a quarter support Labour, and the Conservatives have soared to 45%.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Collateral damage </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The latest blows to the property market will pound the economy tooAFTER the longest and biggest boom in post-war history, it is payback time for Britain's ever more troubled housing market. As shares in homebuilders wilt following the failure of Taylor Wimpey, the country's largest, to raise urgently needed capital (see article), there are wider worries that Britain may revisit the trauma of the early 1990s, when a housing bust led to a deep recession. With activity in the services sector at its lowest since October 2001, the economy looks perilously vulnerable to falling housing wealth and the collapse in mortgage finance, residential investment and property transactions. The mortgage market has already plumbed unprecedented depths. Figures released this week revealed that a mere 42,000 loans had been approved to buy homes in May, well under half the number a year earlier and below even the trough reached in the early 1990s. New approvals are closely watched because they point the way to house-price changes (see chart). The declines that started late last year are continuing apace, according to Nationwide Building Society. House prices fell by 0.9% in June, leaving them 6.3% lower than they were a year earlier.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Keyhole operation </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Planned surgery for the NHS turns out to be less radical than billedNO LONG-MARRIED couple could have made more fuss about an approaching diamond anniversary than Britain's government has over the 60th anniversary of the National Health Service on July 5th. The build-up started more than a year ago, when the incoming prime minister, Gordon Brown, decided the electorate could do with a history lesson on this cherished institution (see article). He promised that his Labour Party, which had "created the NHS, that has always invested in the NHS, that has always believed in the NHS", would be the party that renewed it. He commissioned Lord Darzi, a surgeon and health minister, to come up with a new plan in time for the NHS's big day.What with the publication of an interim report last October and multiple leaks since then, Lord Darzi's final report on June 30th felt anticlimactic. A much-heralded new "constitution" turns out to be a flowery restatement of existing rights, such as the entitlement to choose a hospital or receive any treatment approved by the NHS's spending watchdog. Earlier hints that it might detail patients' responsibilities too--to lose weight or give up smoking before surgery, for example--have yielded nothing. And proposals in the interim report to carpet the land with polyclinics--halfway houses between GP surgeries and district hospitals--have, after some critical reviews, been toned down and relegated to a separate report on primary care. ...]]></description>
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<title>Throwing in the keys </title>
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<description><![CDATA[When companies need cash and shareholders say noAT THE back of every mortgage lender's mind is the fear that, in a downturn, those whose homes (and other assets) are worth less than their mortgages will simply drop their keys through the letterbox and walk away from their debts. Should banks now start to worry that the companies which built those homes will do likewise? Taylor Wimpey, Britain's biggest homebuilder, went to its shareholders for GBP500m ($1 billion) to shore up its balance-sheet. It returned on July 2nd without an extra penny to its name. A shudder ran round the stockmarket and Taylor Wimpey's share price, already weak at the knees, gave way.With house prices collapsing and sales of new homes grinding to a halt, the firm, with net debts of about GBP1.7 billion and a market value of some GBP370m, needs extra cash because it risks breaching the conditions on some of its bank loans. Yet in a business where timing is at least as important as location, Taylor Wimpey's capital-raising could hardly have come at a worse moment. For on July 1st, just as it tried to get investors to make final commitments, news emerged that in June house prices had fallen by 6.3% from a year earlier, their biggest drop since the previous housing bust in the early 1990s.  ...]]></description>
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<title>The shock of the old </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The National Health Service has lasted long enough to look modern againNOT long ago, Bagehot had a baby. Miss Bagehot came into the world in a National Health Service (NHS) hospital in London, attended by an Azeri midwife, a Kenyan anaesthetist, a Moroccan nurse and an Iraqi paediatrician. The patients were almost as varied as the staff: the new mothers ranged from raucous Cockneys to Anglo-Indian Brahmins. It was a bit shoestring and chaotic, with a faint air of Blitz-spirit stoicism; but, in its essentials, the service was impressive. It was a classic NHS experience.A dream of post-war collectivism, the universal, tax-funded NHS was launched on July 5th, 1948. In the 60 years since then it has intermittently seemed inadequate, hopelessly antiquated and plain doomed. But it is now looking oddly contemporary--partly because it has survived long enough for its principles to be relevant once more, like a retro fashion that suddenly seems cool again, and partly because it has evolved. Two of the four big problems that have long beset it are almost solved.  ...]]></description>
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<title>The free vote </title>
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<description><![CDATA[A single-issue by-election hits rural YorkshireTHE exigencies of the war on terror seem a long way from Haltemprice and Howden, one of the more bucolic parliamentary constituencies. There are few obvious targets to strike in this collection of Yorkshire villages, nor much scope for a clash of cultures (the non-white population is under 2%). Islamist recruiters hoping to exploit deprivation should also look elsewhere: five years ago the private-wealth division of Barclays, a bank, rated it the tenth-richest place in the country, once living costs were taken into account.Yet thanks to its MP, David Davis, the seat has become a forum for the vexed debate on the trade-off between liberty and security that has gripped Westminster. On June 12th, the day after Parliament voted to extend maximum detention without charge for terrorist suspects from 28 to 42 days, Mr Davis resigned as the Conservative home-affairs spokesman and announced that he would quit his seat. He said he would campaign in the resulting by-election, which takes place on July 10th, on the issue of defending civil liberties from 42 days, identity cards, CCTV cameras, DNA databases and other incursions. ...]]></description>
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<title>History repeats itself </title>
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<description><![CDATA[High oil prices underpin a bid for freedomEVERY time the Scottish National Party (SNP) puts on a big heave to persuade Scots to opt for independence, it comes up against an apparently insuperable obstacle: that Scots appear to pay far less in tax than they receive in public spending. Shorn of the subsidy from south of the border, the SNP's opponents are wont to say, an independent Scotland would be a poorer one. Even offshore oil has been unable to fill the gap--until now.Each year Scotland's devolved government tots up all public spending alongside estimates of all taxes raised and publishes a snapshot of Scottish public finances. This year's version, released on June 20th, contained two surprises. The first was a series of corrections to past editions that reduced the excess of Scottish spending over taxes by nearly a fifth. After a year poring over Treasury and departmental databases, statisticians concluded that much spending in England and Wales had been attributed to Scotland, and not enough revenue raised in Scotland (by public corporations, for example) taken into account. That reduced the fiscal gap in 2006-07 to a still-hefty GBP10.2 billion, or 9.7% of Scottish GDP.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Bungling &#x26; Benighted </title>
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<description><![CDATA[A bank rescue takes a new and contested turnBACKS were slapped in relief at the Bank of England and Financial Services Authority in early June after they helped engineer a rescue and recapitalisation of Bradford & Bingley, a troubled British bank. Fresh in their minds was the run on deposits that felled Northern Rock last year. Then regulators had snoozed, and the central bank had not deigned to dirty its hands with anything so crass as officiating at a shotgun wedding to shore up the staggering bank. This time regulators moved quickly when B&B's efforts to raise GBP400m from its shareholders looked set to fail. It bundled B&B down the aisle with TPG--an American private-equity firm once known as Texas Pacific Group--before word could leak out about the bank's rapidly deteriorating mortgage book. A run on deposits was averted, but the sweetheart deal offered to TPG, under which it was allowed to buy shares at a deep discount, shortchanged the bank's existing shareholders. It is a cardinal rule of British finance that old shareholders should not be discriminated against in favour of new ones (see article). ...]]></description>
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<title>Resistance struggles </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Wage-earners may not prove as meek as the government wants them to beAS INFLATION makes an unwelcome return, just how workers respond to it has become overwhelmingly important. Alistair Darling, the chancellor of the exchequer, exhorts wage restraint, and with reason. The last thing he wants--or Britain needs--is a pay-price spiral that would turn a temporary surge in inflation, driven by higher global food and energy costs, into a more persistent and general national affliction. Yet the soaring bill for essentials is bound to make Britons worse off, and workers are not slow to spot it. Until recently, fear of an inflationary wage-price spiral seemed misplaced. Inflation, measured by the retail-prices index, moved up sharply in the second half of 2006 and has generally remained above 4.0% since then (see chart). Despite this, average-earnings growth has stayed remarkably docile, thanks partly to a flexible labour market and partly to confidence that any upsurge in inflation would peter out. ...]]></description>
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<title>Ambiguous Albion </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Gordon Brown's foreign policy is timid and unclearSO MUCH that has transpired during Gordon Brown's first year as prime minister has been unexpected. A politician renowned for strategic cunning has erred repeatedly (most famously over whether to call a snap election last autumn) and now languishes in the polls; an intellectual with an eye for the big picture still lacks a theme for his government, or even a signature reform. Less surprising, perhaps, is that foreign policy has not played the vaulting role in his premiership that it did under Tony Blair, his predecessor, whose time on the world stage included five wars, the pronouncement of a radical doctrine of humanitarian intervention and a mission to put Britain at the heart of the European Union (EU). Compared with such a record, Mr Brown's foreign policy has shown a circumspection--five months elapsed before he made his first major speech on the topic, and he has few diplomatic initiatives to his name--that cannot adequately be explained by domestic distractions. True, a spluttering economy has grabbed his attention, made voters less indulgent of the jet-setting beloved of Mr Blair and diminished the soft power that Britain enjoyed when it was seen as a country that had mastered globalisation. But economic woes across the Channel have not stopped Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, rebuilding his country's relationship with America (though he had more need to do so, given the unpopularity of the previous president, Jacques Chirac, in Washington) and propounding bold ideas for Europe. ...]]></description>
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<title>Oh, for a honeymoon </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Both parties to an improbable marriage must learn to rub alongNORTHERN IRELAND without the Rev Ian Paisley? The man who bestrode the region's troubled politics for decades has been gone for less than a month, and already the place feels different. Peter Robinson, who stepped into his shoes on June 5th as first minister, is putting his own gloss on things. That means, first and foremost, defining the relationship with his partner-in-power, Martin McGuinness, Sinn Fein's man of the moment and deputy first minister. It was, perhaps, an unfortunate start that Sinn Fein tried to hijack Mr Robinson's assumption of office to extract concessions on matters in dispute. To resolve their differences they trod the familiar path to Number 10. Mr Brown was, it seems, less inclined than his predecessor to get involved in the nitty-gritty of Stormont politics. On June 6th he listened to the two, then told them to go sort out their disagreements at home.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Not for much longer </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Americans are going home just as the British are beginning to like them againTHE British Museum might not be the obvious first port of call for those in search of lindy-hopping, basketball and "American-style food". But on July 4th it will be, in honour of the day on which America declared its independence from the mother country. The museum also boasts an exhibition of American prints; the Tate Modern has launched a retrospective of the works of Cy Twombly (see article) and the English National Opera has come up with a lavish production of Leonard Bernstein's "Candide". Outside the art scene too, Britain seems to be getting keen on Americans again. Despite a common language and much shared heritage, it is not always easy for Americans to live in a country where 35% of the population believes that the United States is a "force for evil" (according to a YouGov poll for the Daily Telegraph in May) and its president, George Bush, is a near-universal figure of fun. But things may be on the up. Media coverage of America has become more favourable as it focuses on the 2008 election. And a new cast of transatlantic characters makes it harder for the British to claim the moral high ground. One expat observes that Britain's left, faced with the erosion of civil liberties at home and a plausible Conservative victory at the next election, has difficulty feeling holier-than-thou when looking across at Barack Obama, the Democrats' probable candidate for president. ...]]></description>
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<title>A matter of justice </title>
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<description><![CDATA[A controversial ruling on anonymous witnesses prompts calls for a new law ONCE again, the government has been thrown into a tizzy. Dozens of criminal prosecutions, many involving suspected terrorists, could be in jeopardy as a result of a ruling by the House of Lords, Britain's highest court of appeal, deeming it unlawful for prosecutors to rely on anonymous witnesses to secure convictions. On June 26th the government announced emergency legislation in an attempt to rescue trials and block appeals in scores of cases where defendants have already been convicted. It hopes to rush through a bill before Parliament rises on July 22nd. The law lords' ruling, on June 18th, has already claimed its first casualty. On June 24th a murder trial at London's Central Criminal Court, which had cost GBP6m, was halted after the judge told the jury it had heard evidence from "a number of witnesses that you should not have heard". Four witnesses, using false names, had given evidence over two months from behind screens in the trial of two men accused of killing another man in East London in 2004. ...]]></description>
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<title>Dead, not buried </title>
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<description><![CDATA[New light on an old murderWHEN Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian emigre broadcaster, was murdered in London in 1978, few could have suspected that Communist rule in his country would collapse a decade or so later. But Bulgaria's democratic rulers proved unable to help solve one of Britain's most spectacular political murders. Key files were inexplicably destroyed; two senior officials died mysteriously. Though the cause of death--a pellet laden with a fatal poison, ricin, supposedly poked in with an umbrella--had long been known, the trail to those who ordered the killing seemed to have gone cold. Now Scotland Yard officers have again been visiting Bulgaria, interviewing former secret-police officers and examining documents that they sought in vain in the early 1990s. At a time when Bulgaria's reputation in the European Union has been dented by the seeming impunity enjoyed by its gangsters and their corrupt pals in officialdom, its willingness to co-operate with the British investigation will be an important test of good faith. "It will show to what extent former spies still control the country," says Hristo Hristov, a Bulgarian journalist who follows the Markov case closely.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Captain Malaprop </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Gordon Brown's failure to speak to voters in a language they understand has undone himTO MARK Gordon Brown's anniversary as prime minister on June 27th, the Conservatives produced a cruel but funny dossier. After the serious stuff about economic woes and U-turns, civil liberties and lost data discs, the document turns to Mr Brown's Bush-esque malapropisms (Nelson Mandela free "in our lunch time") and weird pronunciations ("Dial-eye Lama"). The whimsy and gaffes, however, point to what has been Mr Brown's most damaging flaw: he is a lousy communicator. A failing in any leader, for Mr Brown this weakness has proved catastrophic.Part of the problem is--how to put it politely?--the prime minister's proclivity, under pressure, to be prudent with the truth. It isn't only his tricksiness with statistics, his fondness for misleading historical comparisons (for example, on inflation) and self-serving exaggeration (such as his wild rounding-up of poverty-reduction figures): all that is more or less routine, and passes unnoticed by most voters. Much more damaging have been his periodic assertions that black is white--as in his claim that Wendy Alexander, Labour's leader in the Scottish Parliament, had not urged a referendum on Scottish independence, despite her call to "bring it on", or his avowal that no inducements had been offered to Unionist and backbench Labour MPs this month in return for their votes on his counter-terrorism plans.  ...]]></description>
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<title>The wood for the trees</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A proposed new safety standard shows pernicious regulatory creepWHAT could be more relaxing than to amble through an ancient wood, pausing to rest beneath a gnarled old tree or even to hug one? Where some see rest and relaxation, though, others see danger and an opportunity for red tape. BSI British Standards, an official setter of benchmarks, is drafting guidelines on safety inspections for trees that cast a very different light on these venerable denizens and the hidden dangers of "branch shedding" (falling branches, to the layman) and even "whole-tree failure" that they pose. It suggests they should all be scrutinised once a year by their owners. Trained inspectors should beat them with mallets and prod them with probes every two years or so and still more expert folk assess the risk they pose to ambling, snoozing or tree-hugging passers-by every five years. With such a draconian standard proposed, one could be forgiven for thinking that trees pose a grave threat to life and limb, one surely magnified by the fact that these seemingly ferocious specimens cover some 12% of Britain. Yet, according to the best available data, kamikaze trees crush only some six people to death a year (though more die after driving into fallen trees or branches). In contrast, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents reckons that more than 4,000 are killed each year in accidents in their own homes. ...]]></description>
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<title>Mary Poppins and Magna Carta</title>
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<description><![CDATA[British liberties have been eroded under Labour. Few seem to mind muchLIBERALS have long lamented that, despite much stirring rhetoric about the mother of parliaments and Magna Carta, modern Britons have little real interest in their hard-won liberties. On June 17th, as Gordon Brown gave a speech on the subject, that pessimism seemed confirmed when one rapt listener fell asleep in the middle of the prime minister's oration.Yet civil liberties are much in the news these days. Mr Brown's speech came in the wake of the surprise resignation on June 12th of David Davis, the Conservative shadow home secretary. Mr Davis quit the House of Commons after it voted to allow terrorist suspects to be detained without charge for up to 42 days (the bill now looks set for a rocky ride in the House of Lords). From the steps of the Palace of Westminster, Mr Davis accused the government of presiding over the "slow strangulation" of freedoms and the "ceaseless encroachment of the state" into daily life. He hopes to use the resulting by-election in his Yorkshire constituency as a referendum on Labour's liberal credentials, and on the growth of the nanny state in general. ...]]></description>
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