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U.K.'s Coalition Government: A Happy Marriage? (And Can It Last?)
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyThe United Kingdom has a coalition government for the first time in 70 years. But will this marriage of convenience last? The historic British elections, which -- after five days of intense wrangling -- finally yielded a new coalition government under the leadership of David Cameron on Tuesday night, has already unleashed a torrent of analysis and commentary. Some of it has been hopeful, some of it cautious, and some of it downright negative. ...
Tony Blair: Jesus Christ or Richard Nixon?
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyLONDON -- Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair appeared before a government-appointed panel in London Friday to answer questions about his role in the war in Iraq. It was, in many ways, the moment this country has been waiting for ever since Blair's government joined the United States in invading Iraq in 2003. And in a telling sign of just how torn up the U.K. is over this man -- and this conflict -- he was alternately compared to both Jesus Christ and Richard Nixon as he took the stand. ...
Detainee Torture: Pressure for Inquiry Mounts in Britain
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyThe British government is under growing pressure to launch a formal inquiry into detainee torture. On Sunday -- for the second time in a week -- a parliamentary committee demanded the publication of guidelines given to security and intelligence agencies regarding the treatment of detainees abroad.Pressure for such an investigation has been building for some time. The most widely publicized case concerns Binyam Mohamed, a British resident who was detained by the United States government on suspicion of terrorism shortly after 9/11 and spent 6½ years in prison in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Morocco ...
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