United Kingdom & Ireland

Magazine articles on politics and society in the United Kingdom & Ireland.

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BusinessWeek July 28, 2003 Cooper & Madigan	Britain: Will Lower Rates Give Manufacturing a Boost? The Bank of England's quarter-point rate cut on July 10, to a 48-year low of 3.5%, was surprising on two accounts.
CIO July 15, 2003 Malcolm Wheatley	How IT Fixed London's Traffic Woes In a nation known for spectacular IT failures, a new traffic reduction scheme has gained global attention for its smashing success. The secret? Strong project management applied to well-designed systems.
Reason February 2003 Michael Valdez Moses	Wherever Green Is Worn? Multiculturalism in contemporary Ireland: a review of Multi-culturalism: The View from the Two Irelands, a brief book featuring essays by two of the island's most prominent literary critics: Edna Longley (who resides in Northern Ireland) and Declan Kiberd (who lives in the Republic).
Salon.com January 15, 2003 Tina Brown	Death of a vivacious man of letters The death of an intellectual bon vivant draws fans, friends and Tony Blair, who is unafraid to mingle or pick up a lady's purse.
Reason January 2003 Charles Paul Freund	Artifact: News From Airstrip One Astonishing posters first graced London in October. They are a celebration of intrusion, via supposedly all-seeing surveillance cameras on London's buses, in the guise of increased security.
Bio-IT World November 12, 2002 Sue Mayer	Are Gene Patents in the Public Interest? Two recent studies from Britain argue against the unbridled patenting of genes and raise tough ethical questions.
Reason November 2002 Joyce Lee Malcolm	Gun Control's Twisted Outcome Restricting firearms has helped make England more crime-ridden than the U.S.
Reason April 2002 Jacob Sullum	Pot Stops In the United States, it's clearly not true that no one gets arrested for smoking pot anymore. But it looks like that will soon be the case in Britain, home of Europe's harshest drug laws...
Reason March 2002 James Morrow	Bye-Bye, Jury Britain is poised to eliminate almost two-thirds of all jury trials, according to a report in the New Statesman. New rules would allow a wide range of offenses (including any crime with a maximum sentence of less than two years) to be tried solely by a judge employed by the crown...
Salon.com March 1, 2002 Quentin Fottrell	Pro-life, even in death Irish voters face a referendum that would prohibit abortion even when suicide is a health risk for the mother...
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