1998 and 1999 Newsnotes

Comments made in a magazine called Labour & Trade Union Review, now Labour Affairs.

1998: December:

• Liberal Autocracy In Russia;
• Sound-bitten politics;
• Get-poor-quick;
• Microsoft – Big Bill Knows Better Than You.;
• Internet news.

1999: January:

• Monica’s War – the Baghdad Front;
• – the Washington Front;
• – the Home Front [Britain];
• Glad to be Gladstonian?;
• Another oddity [Caxton didn’t invent printing];
• New Toryism – Fear the Future, Hate the Past?

February:

1. New Labour, Hard Labour?;
2. Hague remains vague, posh;
3. Gitec – who pays? [Chinese bank];
4. Euro Sleaze? [Damaging the European Union].

March:

• Rivers of Bloody-Mindedness [Race and Police in Britain];
• Legal convolutions [Stephen Lawrence case];
• America isn’t working [US Race Relations];
• Selective Holocaust memories

April:

• The War of the Kosovo Secession;
• New World Chaos;
• General Custer, Ethnic Cleanser;
• Testing times [Kosovo];
• Boss of Benevolence [New World Order];
• Justice for All [US Legal Privilege];
• Land of the Free [Odd laws about sex in the USA];
• Good Muslims [Anwar Ibrahim in Malaysia].

September:

• East Atlantic Blues;
• Clinton – low crimes and misdemeanours;
• Saving Private Ryan;
• Russia – asset stripers;
• Serbian shadowboxing.

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