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British Austerity Budget Discriminates Against Women, Lawsuit Claims
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyBudget cuts are never popular politically. But can they be illegal? Last week, a prominent women's rights organization mounted a legal challenge against the British government on the grounds that its budget discriminates against women. The case was brought forward by The Fawcett Society, a non-profit organization in the U.K. devoted to establishing equality between the sexes. The group is arguing that Treasury officials in the new coalition government broke the law by failing to conduct an assessment of how the current austerity budget would affect women. According to a 2007 law passed by ...
Oil Leak and BP: The Brits Take Tea
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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. ...
Gordon Brown to Step Down; British Government Up For Grabs
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyJust when you thought you knew where the British elections were headed, things took another wild swerve. Prime Minister Gordon Brown is stepping down as party leader and the Liberal Democrats have opened up talks with the Labour Party. ...
British Elections: Why Glenda Jackson Should Replace Gordon Brown
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyMemo to the Labour Party HQ: Replace Gordon Brown with Glenda Jackson as your candidate in Thursday's election. It's not all that often that you have the chance to contemplate a "what if" scenario while an election is still under way. But that's exactly what happened to me on Friday afternoon. I was attending a "hustings" (open forum) for the Member of Parliament (MP) seat in my London constituency. It was the last time before the general election that the candidates from the three main political parties -- Labour, Conservatives and Liberal Democrats -- would be together in one room. And as ...
Nick Clegg -- Next British PM? -- Infuses U.K. Election With Personality
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyA funny thing happened on the way to the 2010 general elections in the United Kingdom: Personality began to matter. And the reason can be summed up in two words -- Nick Clegg -- leader of the opposition Liberal Democrats Party. Never heard of Nick Clegg? You're in good company. Neither had half of Great Britain before last week. That's when Clegg electrified a heretofore moribund campaign season with his dazzling performance in the first-ever televised debates between the three candidates for prime minister. Overnight, Clegg went from the guy that the other parties walked out on when he spoke ...
Britain's Televised Election Debates: U.S. Politics 2.0?
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyFor the first time in history, the leaders of Britain's three main political parties will go head to head in a series of televised political debates. While many are wondering what impact this will have on the upcoming general election, the bigger question on everyone's mind is whether we are witnessing the Americanization of British politics. ...
CIA Torture Case Entangles U.K. Government, Prompts Charges of Cover-Up
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyBritain's top military intelligence agency -- MI5 -- has been accused of covering up its complicity in the torture of a U.K. citizen. The case has created a political firestorm in this country, reigniting controversy over government secrecy, the morality of torture and Britain's special relationship with the United States. The case concerns one Binyam Mohamed. Mohamed is a U.K. resident who was detained by the U.S. government on suspicion of terrorism shortly after 9/11 and spent 6½ years imprisoned in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Morocco and Guantánamo Bay. Mohamed has long alleged that he was ...
Five Reasons to Be Bullish on America
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyI recognize that the mood in the U.S. isn't particularly buoyant right now. Between high unemployment rates, a recent near-miss terrorist attack, and the collective angst around the future of health care reform, Americans of all political stripes are pretty gloomy. Which is why I was shocked to meet someone the other night who's betting the farm on America in the long run. He's a British businessman whom I met at a dinner party. And he recently made the very calculated choice to move his wife and two children to New York City . . . for good. As an American who's lived in the U.K. for 3½ ...
What Gordon Brown Can Learn From Massachusetts and Chile
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyIf British Prime Minister Gordon Brown didn't watch CNN International last week, let's hope that one of his staffers did. Two landmark elections in Chile and Massachusetts delivered stunning victories for right-wing political parties. And in my humble opinion, both elections have portentous implications for the upcoming elections in the U.K. ...
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