United Kingdom & Ireland

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

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BusinessWeek January 31, 2005	More Woes For Britain's Tories A recent poll by agency predicted another victory for the Labour Party in parliamentary elections expected on May 5.
HBS Working Knowledge January 10, 2005 Jim Heskett	Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer? The aging workforces of developed countries around the world have created long-term fiscal challenges that are forcing their governments to address this issue now. Which county offers a better response? The U.S.? Germany? Mexico? Or is there some other preferred alternative?
BusinessWeek January 17, 2005 Stanley Reed	The Party of the Future In Britain? Election fever is rising in Britain. Just about everyone assumes that Prime Minister Tony Blair will call for a national vote this spring, probably on May 5 to coincide with already scheduled local elections.
Managed Care November 2004 John A. Marcille	Following Great Britain's Lead on EMR and (Maybe) OTC Statins The U.S. can still learn a thing or two from their older British cousins about a national Electronic Medical Records system.
BusinessWeek December 6, 2004 Kerry Capell	Aer Lingus: A Risky Holding Pattern Why Dublin needs to decide quickly on the airline's future ownership.
InternetNews November 24, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Brits Get Replacements for Phony XP Microsoft will swap out phony copies of Windows XP for the real thing, but only in the U.K.
Information Today November 15, 2004 Richard Poynder	U.K. Government Rejects Call to Support Open Access In a move that has angered members of an influential cross-party committee of British politicians, the U.K. government has rejected their call to make all publicly funded scientific research in Britain freely available on the Web.
InternetNews October 28, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	UK Agency Report Greenlights Linux A day after Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent out the message that "free software isn't free," the UK's Office of Government Commerce said open source software is a viable desktop alternative for most government users.
InternetNews October 11, 2004 Roy Mark	Spam Summit Kicks Off Officials from the Federal Trade Commission and the British Office of Fair Trading hosted the first international meeting of spam enforcement agencies today in London.
Reason October 2004 Jacob Sullum	Injecting Tyranny Drug warriors may soon take their fight to our bloodstreams. Companies in the U.S. and the U.K. are developing "vaccines" to discourage drug use by preventing people from enjoying it.
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