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Monday, April 23, 2007 |
Telegraph: "Tony Blair has created a 'staggering degree of inequality' in Britain, perpetuated a culture of greed and undermined democracy, according to one of those vying to succeed him.
Michael Meacher, the former environment minister, now a Labour leadership candidate, said that society was more unequal now than at any time since the 1930s. A new class, the 'mega rich', had been given unprecedented power and access to government by Mr Blair, who was himself obsessed by money, he claimed.
He claimed Mr Brown blocked a decision he took as environment minister to force the top 1,000 companies to publish their greenhouse gas emissions."
Observer: "The crucial decision on whether anyone will face trial over the cash for honours scandal will be taken before Tony Blair leaves office, it emerged yesterday, amid a growing backlash over the effect of the investigation on May's elections.
Legal sources said they expected a decision to be taken in June, sooner than expected, on whether three key figures - fundraiser Lord Levy, Downing Street director of government relations Ruth Turner, and donor Sir Christopher Evans - should be formally charged."
The dilemma is that there is no real alternative to Labour. But at least they provide some 'amusement':
Guardian: "A controversial production which was cancelled by Italy's leading opera house because of its vicious lampooning of world leaders is to be staged in London.
The new production of Candide - which features attacks on Tony Blair, George Bush and Silvio Berlusconi - is being brought to London by the embattled English National Opera, as the company attempts to demonstrate its cultural cutting edge."
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SundayHerald: "Dozens of people drank, inhaled or were injected with radioactivity as part of a series of secret experiments carried out by the nuclear industry in the 1960s, according to official documents passed to the Sunday Herald.
Tests exposing humans to radioactive caesium, iodine, strontium and uranium were conducted despite doubts about their legal and ethical implications. One proposal even envisaged injecting plutonium into elderly people to help assess contamination risks."
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