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guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-06 | world | Annan wants UN to try teenagers for war crimes | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/07/sierraleone.unitednations | The United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, has asked the security council to approve the prosecution of child soldiers accused of murder, mutilation and rape in Sierra Leone. But Unicef and other child-welfare groups have condemned the plan to put them in front of an international court, saying that no matter wh... | 683 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-06 | uk-news | Moaning men push women to back of the health queue | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/07/robinmckie.theobserver | Men are the real moaners about their health. By contrast, women are much more stoical about their ailments. Women have known this for a long time, of course, but now female certainty about the weakness of the male of the species has been supported by scientists. British researchers have found that men are more likely t... | 1,114 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-20 | business | Pichetsrieder favourite for top job at VW | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/aug/21/5 | Bernd Pichetsrieder, who was the chief executive of BMW when it bought Rover, is being tipped to become the next head of Volkswagen. But he faces competition from his fellow VW management board member, Martin Winterkorn . VW is run by Ferdinand Piech, who has expanded the group's brand portfolio with a series of acquis... | 127 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | uk-news | G2: A country diary | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/nov/28/ruralaffairs.countrydiary | A cottage dating from Cromwell's time, on the edge of a straggling village, was once the place where the cobbler lived and worked. What used to be his workshop is now a store and woodshed. One morning recently, when the present owners lifted the latch and looked in, they were surprised by the sight of an elderly ewe wi... | 382 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | uk-news | US airport security demands anger UK | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/mar/14/transport.freedomofinformation | John Prescott is involved in a row over US anti-terrorism plans to bring in security agents to check passengers at Heathrow and Gatwick on all transatlantic services run by British Airways and Virgin Airlines. The US government wants to force all foreign airlines to have identical security programmes to US companies fr... | 585 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-27 | society | Blair unveils NHS plan for 21st century | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/jul/27/futureofthenhs.health2 | More than 20,000 extra nurses, 7,500 more consultants and 2,000 GPs are to be employed in the NHS as the cornerstone of the government's national plan for reform of the health service, the prime minister promised today. An extra 7,000 NHS beds - including 5,000 intermediate care places to look after elderly people and ... | 1,330 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-07 | law | Case of the week: You can't sue me, I'm immune | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/07/law.claredyer | As human rights groups and Belgium make a last-ditch attempt this week to thwart General Pinochet's return to Chile, another torture case is re-surfacing in the courts. As it was in Pinochet's case, the issue is whether the doctrine of state immunity allows agents of the state to escape liability for acts of torture. S... | 398 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | uk-news | Death of MP splits Ulster Unionists over byelection | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/28/northernireland.johnmullin | Ulster Unionists were at odds last night over a forthcoming parliamentary byelection in south Antrim following the sudden death yesterday of Clifford Forsythe, 70, an opponent of the Good Friday agreement. David Trimble, the party's leader, will want see one of his south Antrim assembly members, Duncan Shipley-Dalton o... | 267 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-06 | world | Left's anger could help Haider | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/06/austria.theobserver1 | Riot police armed with water cannon surrounded the headquarters in central Vienna of Jörg Haider's far right Freedom Party for the second night in a row after demonstrators attempted to march on the building in protest against the party's presence in government. As Austria's trade unions threatened to launch street pro... | 447 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | society | Analysis: Political parties and tax policy | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/nov/28/education.britishidentityandsociety | Today's British Social Attitudes (BSA) report complements yesterday's from the Fabian Society in what they say about our attitudes towards tax. Spending wins over tax cuts by a large margin among both Tory and Labour supporters. (The table on the right is based on an August ICM poll; people were asked about spending v ... | 1,149 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | world | Bush must keep an eye on Putin | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/14/worlddispatch.simontisdall | When Russian jet fighters swooped down over the US aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk in the Sea of Japan recently, the American crew did not see them coming until it was far too late. Although the Pentagon later insisted the Russian planes had been picked up on the ship's radar, it was clear the Kitty Hawk had been caught by... | 1,178 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | uk-news | Money worries add to parents' pressure | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/sep/28/raekhaprasad | When her daughter was four months old, Jane Andrews resumed work, leaving home at 6.30am and returning at 9pm five days a week. As a deck hand for the port of London authority, she was entitled to maternity leave of nine months but could afford to take only the 16 weeks for which she received pay. "It was horrible goin... | 874 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-07 | world | Fiji penalised by foreign ministers | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/07/fiji.johnaglionby | Commonwealth foreign ministers punished Fiji yesterday with a partial suspension from the organisation as the hostage standoff after the seizure of the ethnic Indian prime minister moved towards the end of its third week. It also decided to send an urgent mission to the islands to press for a timetable for a return to ... | 583 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-14 | business | His instincts are right | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jan/14/emu.theeuro | "This is the fight back," the foreign secretary told our diplomatic editor a week ago. Reliant Robin promised to tramp the boards for six months selling the euro to Britain. The same day, the trade and industry secretary, Stephen Byers, sounded his call to arms: euro membership was a stimulant to foreign investment; de... | 760 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-27 | world | Comment: Catholic heir to throne might still be unacceptable | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/27/religion.monarchy | "Establishment" has cropped up more than once in the Guardian's Republican campaign; and generally (including in pieces by people who should have known better), the argument has centred upon the Church of England. But "establishment" is primarily about the state, about government and about the principles and visions up... | 918 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | global | Review: Philharmonia/Sanderling | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/sep/29/artsfeatures2 | Shostakovich's 15th Symphony is, for many, one of the composer's most perplexing works. Written when he was seriously ill, it was his last statement in the genre - and, far from taking the form of a self-conscious Mahlerian farewell, it's characterised by an enigmatic inscrutability. In some respects, it pre-empts post... | 581 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | business | Blair warns on sweat shop labour | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/sep/14/12 | Rich western countries must help developing nations get rid of "sweat shop" conditions if they want them to embrace global free trade Tony Blair warned yesterday. Trade sanctions against countries using child labour or polluting the environment are often counterproductive, according to a cabinet office report launched ... | 296 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | world | Milan fashion shows begin | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/21/jesscartnermorleyonfashion.expertopinions | Milan fashion week, which began this weekend, is often seen as a sensible contrast to the antics of London's maverick designers. But Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana of the Dolce & Gabbana house are two designers who consistently do their best to inject some teen spirit into fashion's biggest financial capital - ... | 412 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | money | Tokyo backs plans to set up Asian IMF | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/apr/22/business.personalfinancenews | Japan is backing a plan by Asian governments to set up a multibillion-dollar emergency fund to defend their currencies from speculative attacks of the kind which triggered the global financial crisis in 1997. A Japanese newspaper reported yesterday that Tokyo has thrown its weight behind the fund, which was approved in... | 396 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-21 | us-news | US elections: High politics and low farce | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/21/uselections2000.usa5 | As in a saintly vision, Donato Dalrymple appeared, as he seems to whenever television cameras are gathered together. The odd thing was that even many hardcore correspondents failed to recognise him at first. He looked familiar, but then the place was crawling with familiar looking people, so Dalrymple looked as though ... | 878 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | uk-news | Liverpool drink ban to beat crime | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/15/helencarter | Police in Liverpool have been given powers to seize glasses and opened bottles of alcohol in a measure aimed at reducing street crime. The bylaw, introduced yesterday, is the first of its kind in England and Wales. It goes further than the alcohol-free zones introduced in other cities such as Belfast and Coventry. Poli... | 312 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | money | Property: Eco-friendly homes | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/oct/29/observercashsection.theobserver3 | Energy efficiency is no longer the preserve of the worthy environmentalists or the well-off who design their own eco-friendly houses. Some of Britain's most expensive properties have long had solar panels, water recycling and more fuel-efficient versions of air-conditioning - but at a cost. Now a new generation of buil... | 1,190 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | society | RD Laing: The rise and fall of a radical psychiatrist | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/jun/28/guardiansocietysupplement3 | Childhood Born in 1927 in Glasgow of Presbyterian parents. His mother regularly burnt his toys while his father and grandfather engaged in what biographer Daniel Burston called "brutal scenes in the parlour". By age 15, Laing was reading Voltaire, Marx, Nietzsche and Freud. Career After medical school and the army, he ... | 419 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | media | Egg is leading independent online bank | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/dec/14/newmedia.citynews | Prudential-owned Egg has cemented itself as the UK's largest independent online bank by revealing it has more than 1.33m customers. In a trading statement published this morning, Egg said it was meeting targets and continuing to add customers. Egg said it had signed up 141,000 customers from the beginning of October to... | 283 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-21 | world | Not a crumb from G7 table | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jul/22/debtrelief.development | The world's seven richest industrialised nations yesterday failed to agree any new proposals to breathe life into their flagging plans to relieve the third world's debt burden. Despite efforts by Tony Blair to persuade his fellow G7 leaders to do more to respond to campaigners around the globe calling for a fairer deal... | 759 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | world | View from Paris: Why French politicians keep mum on Europe | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/14/eu.politics1 | France, in case anyone had forgotten, currently holds the rotating six-month presidency of the European Union. And next month, in Nice, a summit will be held which should, in theory and among other things, agree the major institutional changes needed to enlarge the EU to up to 30 members. So it comes as something of a ... | 920 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | uk-news | Trident protesters may face retrial after non-verdict | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/sep/21/angeliquechrisafis | Two protesters who swam 150 metres in wetsuits to a Trident submarine and smashed testing equipment with a lump hammer could face a retrial for criminal damage, after a jury at Manchester crown court failed to reach a verdict yesterday and was discharged. Rachel Wenham, 28, from Leeds, and Rosie James, 25, from London,... | 411 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | global | Hot topics on the hit list | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/sep/14/guardianweekly.guardianweekly11 | There isn't a professor on the planet who doesn't know the feeling of lecturing a roomful of bored, listless students. Some of those professors, hoping to pump oxygen into the room, pepper their lectures with hip cultural references. They urge their students to see the parallels between the lives they are studying and ... | 1,055 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | world | Son sues mum for his upkeep | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/may/21/theobserver2 | A mother's love lasts for ever - and so does her duty to maintain her children in the style to which they are accustomed, even if they are grown up. But a divorced mother of three, ordered by the Spanish courts to pay for the upkeep of an adult son, has launched a crusade to change a curious law which requires parents ... | 548 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | education | Tales to inspire children | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/nov/14/schools.booksforchildrenandteenagers | I Have a Dream by Neil Tonge (Hodder Wayland, £8.50, 7-11 years) presents a chance encounter between a little boy and Martin Luther King. The illustrated narrative concentrates on the motivation behind his commitment to racial equality, and on the famous Montgomery bus boycott that triggered reform in the USA. This was... | 711 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | world | France goes the extra mile for the metre | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jul/14/paulwebster | A 375-mile long red and white tablecloth is ready to be unfurled. Fridges the length of France are stuffed with cold chicken and chilled wine. Four million people have received personal invitations. Now only the weather can spoil a unique event - the July 14 Incredible Picnic. Part of the millennium festivities, the pi... | 573 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | politics | Macpherson: what did Hague say when the report was launched? | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/dec/14/conservatives.uk | William Hague: Does the Prime Minister agree that every decent person in the country, regardless of politics, will wish to show sympathy and support for the family of Stephen Lawrence, and will feel shame and disgust that his murderers have not been brought to justice? Does he also agree that, if some good is to come o... | 495 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-14 | world | The show is now over when Fat Lucy sings | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/14/martinkettle1 | When does a conqueror decide to stop conquering and live on his memories? It is a problem that Alexander the Great and Napoleon never solved until others forced it on them, and now it confronts the mighty Luciano Pavarotti too. From the moment that he made the operatic world sit up more than 30 years ago, Pavarotti has... | 763 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-07 | politics | How 'Bonkers' launched the battle for Britain | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jun/07/uk.oxbridgeandelitism | William Hague's populist attacks on the "liberal elite" carry an uncanny echo of criticism of the same group by a maverick rightwinger nicknamed Bonkers. The Conservative leader has read The Abolition of Britain by Peter Hitchens, a very conservative columnist on the very New Labour Daily Express, and has discussed it ... | 742 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-21 | uk-news | The David Shayler case | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/21/qanda | Why is David Shayler in the news? David Shayler, 34, is a renegade MI5 officer who has spoken out against the way the British secret services are run. He claims they are unaccountable and inefficient. This morning, he returned to Britain from France and was arrested at Dover port immediately after his arrival at 11am. ... | 491 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-07 | world | Dyke pledges to double ethnic minority staff in top BBC jobs | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/07/race.world | The BBC's new director-general, Greg Dyke, today pledged to double the number of BBC management staff from ethnic minorities. Mr Dyke, who was speaking at the Commission for Racial Equality's annual Race in the Media Awards, co-sponsored by Guardian Unlimited, said that the BBC "could do better" in its portrayal of eth... | 365 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-28 | global | Don't call me an inventor | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/feb/28/features11.g22 | Now, bins. Kitchen bins. There's some secret stuff going on at James Dyson's factory HQ in Malmesbury, Wiltshire. More revolutionary products in design on the tail (or the hose) of his mould-breaking bagless, see-through Dual Cyclone vacuum. So hush-hush that those involved have to sign a secrecy clause, have to promis... | 2,158 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | global | Explainer: the EU summit in Nice | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/07/qanda.derekbrown | Why and where are the EU leaders meeting? They always meet twice a year, at the end of each presidency, which rotates among member states in alphabetical order. Since July 1 France has been the president-nation, and in the EU tradition of gracious, not to say lavish, hospitality, it is hosting this summit on the Medite... | 761 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | uk-news | Study disproves fluoridation risk | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/21/sarahboseley | Adding fluoride to drinking water would not lead to more hip fractures as its opponents have argued, according to research published in this week's Lancet. The study is a blow to those who have fought against universal fluoridation of the water supply to gain an improvement in dental health, particularly in children. O... | 303 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | business | Artprice makes bourse debut | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jan/21/personalfinancenews.business | This morning Artprice.com will make its debut on France's Nouveau Marché. Nothing too earth-shattering about that, you might think, but in fact Artprice is the first dot.com to hit the Paris market. "We have online brokers, we have software houses, we have companies specialising in internet technology but until now we ... | 751 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | politics | Comment: Labour | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/nov/28/labour.labour1997to99 | Back in mid-September, the Anglo-American right believed it was winning hearts and votes. George W Bush was 10 points ahead in many polls, and Gallup said William Hague had eased into a five-point lead. The Labour party was plunged into the alarm that is far more habitual to its nature than arrogance. Excitable rightis... | 1,479 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | business | Loop levy points to £10 a month bill | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/nov/07/internetnews.business3 | Consumers could pay as little as £10 a month for new high-bandwidth services made available by the break-up of British Telecom's monopoly of the local telephone network. The first indication of what it will cost the public to acquire high-speed internet connection was given yesterday when the telecoms regulator Oftel a... | 496 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-21 | business | Biotech start-up Vernalis set for first drug launch | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jul/22/11 | Vernalis, one of Britain's biotechnology pioneers, yesterday won approval to sell its first product, a pill providing 24-hour relief from migraines. Medical authorities in France gave the green light for the company to launch the drug, called Migard, later this year. This will trigger automatic approval in other Europe... | 394 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | technology | Start here... How to dress Windows | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/dec/07/onlinesupplement6 | One of the nice things about Microsoft Windows is that you can sit down and use almost any PC anywhere. That's the theory. But Windows is so easy to tweak that most of us customise it so much that when we sit down at someone else's PC, it looks wrong. Why aren't the icons we need handy? Why are some utilities? And why ... | 1,053 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-07 | world | Young radicals show a clenched fist to Milosevic's state machine | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/07/1 | Along the walls of the Plateau, a student area just off the main pedestrian street in the heart of Belgrade, three young men with a bucket of glue, a paint-roller, and a pile of posters are moving rapidly along a wall. On each poster is a clenched fist, the word Otpor, which means Resistance, and the slogan "Because I ... | 915 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | business | Media diary | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/may/21/theobserver.observerbusiness6 | Sparrows or just tits? Moved by the plight of the small feathered friends that regularly commit suicide by smashing into his office window, bird-like Independent editor Simon Kelner has launched a campaign to Save a Sparrow. Kelner is, we hear, keen to participate personally in this marvellous campaign by keeping a num... | 731 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-07 | business | Falling Egg faces uncertain future | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jul/07/1 | Four weeks into life as a publicly quoted company and Egg, the internet-cum-telephone bank, is being fried. Its shares, eagerly bought last month by customers, employees and institutional investors, fell even further past the 160p offer price yesterday. Investment banks Deutsche Bank and Nomura triggered the latest rou... | 504 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | politics | A home of their own | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/sep/07/liberaldemocrats.comment | A political party's distinctiveness lies in some combination of positive policy and not being the other lot. The fate of third parties is to have two other lots from whom to distinguish themselves. Yesterday the Liberal Democrats affirmed that the greater distance is between themselves and the Tories. On the big issues... | 389 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | uk-news | How Labour failed the Lawrence test | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/21/lawrence.ukcrime2 | "We taught Macpherson and Macpherson taught the world," was the way a black activist who had given evidence to the Stephen Lawrence inquiry greeted its findings. For her, it was not just the report's conclusions that mattered - ordinary black people, who had borne the brunt of institutional racism knew all about it - b... | 2,057 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | world | Russia sends mixed signals on nuclear weapons | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/21/russia.marktran | Russia today sent mixed messages on nuclear weapons as its state parliament ratified the comprehensive test ban treaty while its national security council adopted a new more aggressive strategy. The new military doctrine adopted by Russia's top security officials is intended to replace a 1993 version. In one of its key... | 640 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-28 | uk-news | Report calls for six-term school year | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/28/education.schools | Teachers' fears about losing their biggest perk - the long summer holiday - will resurface this week when an influential local authority commission recommends introduction of a six-term academic year. In a package of changes to the traditional school calendar, a commission set up by the Local Government Association wil... | 240 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | media | Newspaper distributors ask government for petrol supplies | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/sep/14/pressandpublishing3 | Newspaper distributors are continuing to lobby the government for preferential treatment in the petrol shortage, amid fears that a let-up in the crisis has come too late. Steve Oram, director of the Newspaper Publishers Association, said that renewed optimism following the ending of the lorry drivers' blockade could be... | 223 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | business | On message | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jan/21/efinance.internet | • Donor : The founder of Netscape Communications , James Barksdale, and his wife, Sally, is giving $100m to help Mississippi children learn to read. Mr Barksdale now runs Barksdale Group, an investment firm. • Buyer : Lexis-Nexis Europe, a subsidiary of Reed Elsevier , says it is to buy the business information product... | 195 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | media | Channel 4 winter arts line-up 'a bit thin' | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/nov/28/channel4.communicationsact | A senior Channel 4 executive admitted today that its winter schedule was 'a bit thin' in serious arts and culture programmes. Janey Walker, managing editor of commissioning, conceded that the broadcaster's new season of programmes didn't include enough serious arts programmes. But she insisted that the broadcaster stil... | 335 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-21 | uk-news | Leniency plea for Straw's driver | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/22/alantravis | The Police Federation yesterday called for leniency in dealing with the special branch officer who was caught speeding while driving the home secretary, Jack Straw, to a Labour party engagement. The police have not decided whether to charge the unnamed officer, who was caught driving at 103mph on the M5 earlier this mo... | 390 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-14 | uk-news | Noye's defence | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/14/marktran | Kenneth Noye said he left home on Sunday May 19 1996 to drive to a pub in Chislehurst, Kent, to have a drink with friends. On the way, he saw a red Rascal van but said he did not remember "cutting up" the vehicle, as the prosecution claimed. He thought he recognised the driver, Danielle Cable, as a woman he met in a ni... | 489 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | business | BMW's statement on the breakdown of talks with Alchemy | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/apr/28/rover3 | BMW and Alchemy have terminated their negotiations. No agreement was reached on the sale of Rover Car Operations to Alchemy. The negotiating partners were finally unable to come to an understanding with respect to certain conditions of contract. BMW Group will now pursue alternative routes to bring to an end its involv... | 137 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-28 | society | Billions lost in contracts failure | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/dec/28/localgovernment.health | The government stands to lose billions of pounds as a result of negotiating soft contracts with the private sector to build Britain's schools, hospitals and transport infrastructure. Inquiries by the national audit office and the public accounts committee have revealed that the Treasury has failed to negotiate clawback... | 662 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-28 | uk-news | Crackdown may mean 15 new jails | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/mar/28/juliahartleybrewer1 | Fifteen new jails must be built to house the thousands of extra offenders who will be imprisoned each year under tough sentencing to be brought in by the Home Office, probation officers will warn today. There could be about 60,000 additional offenders each year as a result of the legislation, the National Association o... | 278 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-21 | uk-news | Passenger guilty of endangering flight | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/22/2 | A passenger involved in fighting on board a packed holiday jet travelling to Jamaica was found guilty yesterday of endangering the flight. Patrick Connors, 36, of Lewisham, south-east London, was convicted at Hove crown court of endangering the safety of the Airtours flight to Montego Bay on January 31 last year. He wa... | 408 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | money | Ailing M&S cuts dividend in half | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/may/21/personalfinancenews.business | Marks & Spencer will this week stun the City by cutting its dividend as part of a deck-clearing exercise by the new chairman. The cut, which is expected to leave the pay-out at half last year's 14.4p, underlines the extent of M&S's fall from grace. It will be confirmed at a board meeting tomorrow, and will be a... | 518 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-21 | uk-news | Scythe that reaps a harvest of praise | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/21/martinwainwright | Sixty wildflower acres and a Nissen hut were ranked with Turner landscapes and Wren churches yesterday as one of Britain's most valuable treasures. The heads of both the National Trust and English Nature trekked from London to a Yorkshire smallholding to honour the work of Walter Umpleby and his scythe. Tucked beyond t... | 441 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-14 | uk-news | Romance in brief | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/14/3 | • A Chelsea fan making his first visit to the team's London ground was proposed to yesterday in front of a crowd of 30,000. Amanda Kirk, 22, popped the question on Stamford Bridge's giant scoreboard. "I just could not believe it," said Michael Evans, 30. "I had no idea I was coming to the game until we arrived in Londo... | 537 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-27 | technology | Investors dump Amazon shares | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/jul/28/efinance.money | Shares in online retailer Amazon.com fell sharply yesterday as investors lost patience after a second-quarter revenue shortfall. Shares in Amazon, which is seen as a bellwether for the entire online retailing sector, fell in heavy trade on Nasdaq. "It was a disappointing quarter, leading some we spoke with to say the c... | 374 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | uk-news | Wakeham urges press restraint on prince | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/28/monarchy1 | Newspaper watchdog Lord Wakeham today called for continued restraint in coverage of Prince William after he leaves school. Setting out new guidelines for editors, the chairman of the press complaints commission (PCC) said the 18-year-old prince was entitled to privacy in the same way as any other public figure. On the ... | 1,207 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-21 | politics | Pioneer puts trust in integrated strategy for city | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jul/21/transport.politicalnews4 | In the Perfect Leeds, a supertram will rock you past lanes reserved for bicycles, buddy-sharing cars and guided buses, to slide open its doors at the gateway to the central pedestrian precinct - all restored historic buildings, buskers and flower stalls - while cars spin contentedly round the one-way inner loop. That c... | 475 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-07 | money | Fair shares for the part-time professionals | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/apr/08/workandcareers.madeleinebunting | Job sharing, where two people share the duties, pay and benefits of one full-time post, is becoming the upmarket face of part-time working. Where part-time working in the UK has tended to be associated with low-skilled, poorly-paid and insecure jobs: "Job sharing has become an accepted way of introducing part-time hour... | 2,021 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | business | Somerfield admits to talks with potential buyers | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/mar/07/13 | Somerfield, the hard-pressed supermarket chain, yesterday sparked an auction for its mainstream grocery business by admitting it was holding talks with several groups which could lead to a takeover bid. At least two venture capital firms as well as one trade buyer have made tentative offers for the business. The statem... | 488 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-28 | world | The price of telling the awful truth | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/may/28/sierraleone.johnsweeney | The French war correspondent Paul Marchard last week divided up the journalists who cover conflict into three headings. There were, he said, the Tourists, who popped in for a few days, sniffed round while it was quiet, got their passports stamped and checked out. There were the Mickeys, gizmo fetishists with all the ri... | 1,682 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-06 | world | Tigers close in on beaten Sri Lankans | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/may/07/lukeharding.theobserver | At the far end of a military airport in Colombo, a Hercules aircraft sits in a hangar. Unfortunately for Sri Lanka's marooned army in the north, it does not work. Over the past two and a half weeks, as rebel Tamil Tigers advanced across the Jaffna peninsula, engineers were pondering how to fix the plane's broken exhaus... | 1,036 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-07 | media | A Lump in My Throat | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/feb/07/artsfeatures1 | Like many others, I have a little ritual on Saturday mornings. The moment the papers are delivered, I drop everything and riffle through the Times magazine looking for John Diamond's column. When it is not there, I wonder what his absence means. Is he merely sunning himself in Bermuda? Or has something more sinister ha... | 514 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-21 | education | Sat in your lap | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/mar/21/itforschools.schools11 | Imagine a class turning up to your lesson with a laptop computer apiece and then taking them home again at the end of the day to do homework. Improving ICT skills would no longer be the main focus as the government's aim of "integrating technology with everyday teaching" would have been met. Well, for one group of UK s... | 1,114 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-21 | society | Home truths | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/jun/21/guardiansocietysupplement7 | The full scale of the challenge facing the government if it is to develop comprehensive rehabilitation services is revealed today. Reviewing the present state of services, the audit commission concludes: "Taken together, the picture is one of disorganised rather than organised care." Much is riding on the potential of ... | 722 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | science | Dinosaur heart a shock to evolution | https://www.theguardian.com/science/2000/apr/21/dinosaurs.fossils | For the first time, scientists have unearthed a fossilised dinosaur complete with its heart - a discovery that could help overturn a centuries-old image of a cold-blooded, reptilian Jurassic Park. Scans of rock occupying the thescelosaurus's chest cavity show a heart adapted to pumping warm, oxygen-rich blood. The disc... | 435 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-07 | global | Ernani | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/may/08/artsfeatures4 | The best of Verdi's early operas, Ernani was deemed strong stuff at its 1844 premiere. Set in Counter-Reformation Spain it depicts a world in which male sexuality is thwarted by unshakeable ideals of honour. Three men - the Byronic bandit Ernani, the Hapsburg emperor Carlo and the decrepit, high-principled Silva - viol... | 363 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-21 | world | Defectors dare Mugabe | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/21/zimbabwe.jonathansteele | The Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, calls them "Satans" and at a recent rally urged them to renounce their wicked ways. They are former loyalists of his Zanu-PF party who have broken ranks and are running as independents in this weekend's elections. Despite the threat of expulsion from the Zanu-PF party, none of t... | 1,114 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-07 | media | A station of two halves | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/aug/07/broadcasting.mondaymediasection2 | Bob Shennan, the new controller of Radio 5 Live, is making it very clear, in his quiet but insistent manner, that he has indeed landed his dream job. "I feel I've been in training for it since I joined the BBC. I wanted it. It doesn't come up very often." Radio 5 Live has never looked back since the high-profile relaun... | 2,016 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | politics | Brown used to be red | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/dec/07/labour.labour1997to991 | Without hesitating, Gordon Brown refused. Twice. We should have realised that it was an unlikely scenario: the City-friendly chancellor addressing a group of socialists about his plans to nationalise everything. But with fake naivety, this was more or less what we had in mind when we asked him to attend our conference ... | 983 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-27 | global | 'His death barely touched me' - the story of Julie Myerson's father's suicide | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/dec/27/features11.g23 | Almost exactly 10 years ago, in the early hours of New Year's Day 1991, I gave birth to our daughter. It was unforgettable for several reasons. Because it was dazzlingly quick. Because the midwives on shift at St Thomas's Hospital in London had tinsel in their hair. Because we got to hold our minutes-old baby in our ar... | 1,664 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | business | BATM excites gossips | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/dec/07/4 | Dr Zvi Marom, charismatic chief executive of BATM Advanced Communications, is in London and, according to the gossips, it is not to see the lights on Oxford Street. Aside from yesterday's presentation at a Sachs Associates conference, they claim something big is brewing at the London-listed company, which is based in I... | 165 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | environment | Sketch: Back to the domesday scenario | https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2000/nov/07/columnists.oilandpetrol | The cry of "doomed, doomed, we are all doomed!" has been going up from ministers over the past two weeks as they contemplate the horrors of global warming. They seem to believe that 2p off a litre of petrol will turn the planet into a spinning ball of dust, or alternatively a great sodden sponge. Our fate changes month... | 800 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | world | Saddam in secret talks with Israel | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/may/21/iraq.edvulliamy | Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi dictator, has made an astonishing bid for peace with the West after months of secret talks with the Israeli government. At a series of meetings held over the past 15 months, Saddam's representatives have repeatedly told the Israelis that, if Jerusalem works to end Iraq's diplomatic isolation, ... | 869 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | education | TECs hang on to their kecks | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/mar/07/furthereducation.theguardian1 | Divorce can be very messy. In fact, few problems in David Blunkett's in-tray are proving knottier than the break-up with the Training and Enterprise Councils, or TECs. In 12 months, the 72 TECs in England plus six in Wales will cease getting government funding to the tune of almost £1bn a year. Their goose was cooked a... | 1,364 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | uk-news | Science in brief | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/21/1 | • Tiny devices measured in millionths of a millimetre could soon be at work removing pollution, cleaning blood or purifying biochemicals. Tiny revolving motors could be controlling the way liquids flow across solid surfaces. And tiny chemical claws could be one day be constructing fabrics a molecule at a time, Jim Gimz... | 273 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | money | TV access to web will fuel e-commerce bonanza | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/feb/21/personalfinancenews.shopping | Easy access to the internet through phones and televisions will fuel an explosion in e-commerce in Britain to £113bn by 2009, according to research out this week from the Henley centre. The consumer consultancy reckons that an eighth of all everyday spending will be made on the net within nine years. Andrew Curry, asso... | 263 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | global | Make mine a... | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/jul/15/weekend7.weekend1 | If you're planning to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Black Tot Day on August 1, then Pusser's is the drink for you. That was the day when the Navy's daily rum ration was finally abolished - probably not a moment too soon. Pusser's, named after the purser by whom it was distributed, is a hefty 54.5%, which makes th... | 235 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-06 | society | NHS scandal of the missing managers | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/aug/06/futureofthenhs.health | Health chiefs have admitted they do not know how many managers there are in the NHS - so they are paying management consultants thousands of pounds to count them. Internal health service documents leaked to The Observer reveal that the bosses do not know what work the managers do, either. The consultants will trawl thr... | 569 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-06 | society | The lesson of Peter Grimes | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/aug/06/childprotection.comment1 | 'We shall tame his arrogance!' screams the angry crowd. 'We'll make the murderer pay for his crime.' And they set off in pursuit of the man they think has killed a child. Peter Grimes is always a gripping and chilling opera, but the superb performance at Glyndebourne last week took on fresh layers of meaning. Two boys ... | 867 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-27 | business | Big Brother shows why TV needs surveillance | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/aug/27/media.comment | This was about to be declared a Big Brother-free zone, not least because I have yet to understand the attraction of watching a self-obsessed group of show-offs engaging in excruciatingly dull Saturday night pub conversations about their sexual exploits. I have, however, to confess to a passing interest in whether Clair... | 906 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | technology | Net users press G8 leaders to drop the debt | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/jul/14/debt.comment | Debt relief campaigners are relying on a massive online campaign to get their message across shark-infested waters when leaders from the world's leading industrialised countries meet in Okinawa, Japan. Jubilee 2000, the movement pressing for debt relief for the world's poorest countries, has set up a website urging peo... | 894 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | education | Furthermore: Donald Hiscock becomes a voyeur | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/nov/07/furthereducation.theguardian5 | I had a strange experience last night. I saw people in a different light. Or rather I didn't see people. I had gone back to college to retrieve my glasses, having put them down somewhere and then gone home without them. I don't know how I managed to do that, but that is not the point. The point is that I became a voyeu... | 681 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | media | Oyster expands into offline marketing | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/nov/28/marketingandpr1 | The company that has created websites for household names including Barclaycard and Sky is to expand into offline marketing with the launch of a new branding consultancy. Oyster Partners today announced the formation of a brand strategy group to be headed by co-founder and chief creative officer Hugo Manassei. The comp... | 192 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-20 | money | Diabetes drug lifts profits at SKB | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/apr/21/business.personalfinancenews1 | SmithKline Beecham's chief executive Jan Leschly declared he was leaving the pharmaceuticals company "on a high" yesterday, after announcing a 10% increase in first-quarter profits to £562m. The results, driven by strong sales of new diabetes drug Avandia, were Mr Leschly's last before he retires at SmithKline's annual... | 671 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-07 | society | Doctors warn after record £77m paid out to patients | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/aug/07/futureofthenhs.health | Doctors paid a record £77m in compensation to patients last year - almost double the amount paid out in 1996, when £41m was distributed. The Medical Defence Union, which represents doctors in negligence claims, warned that the dramatic rise in cases could result in a similar situation to that in the US, where surgeons ... | 787 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-14 | media | Why fcuk spells success | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/feb/14/advertising.mondaymediasection | Once again, "shock advertising" is a hot topic of debate in the industry. We are confronted with the faces of death row prisoners by Benetton, a heroin-injecting baby by Barnardo's, and the F-word, or a version of it, by French Connection. Are these all similar examples or are there important differences between them? ... | 990 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | politics | Billionaire peer continues to bankroll Tories | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/oct/28/uk.lords | Michael Ashcroft, the newly-enobled Conservative treasurer, gave his party another £1m last year, plus £390,000 worth of gifts in kind that included staff, marketing costs and the use of aircraft, Tory HQ revealed last night. The billionaire businessman, who recently relocated himself from Belize to Britain for tax pur... | 648 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | uk-news | Red tape warning Headteachers' plea to Blair | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/mar/14/news | Headteachers of the 36 most improved schools in England will warn Tony Blair today that his educational reforms are in danger of being submerged under red tape. The prime minister has invited them to Downing Street to present the first national school awards for consistent improvement over the last four years. They inc... | 745 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | uk-news | Nurse sues over threats by killer anaesthetist | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/21/martinwainwright | The hospital that employed the consultant Thomas Shanks, given a life sentence for murder, is being sued by a nurse who claims he threatened her with violence. Erica Bujanski, 39, who works in intensive care at Pontefract general hospital, West Yorkshire, claims that the doctor, a former SAS man, "went berserk" at her ... | 319 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | world | Canadian smokers face shock tactics | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/21/smoking.world | The Canadian government believes that smokers have become immune to written warnings and hopes that graphic photos of diseased mouths, lungs and brains plastered on cigarette packages will shock them into kicking the habit. The health minister, Allan Rock, proposed regulations yesterday that would require cigarette com... | 380 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-07 | money | How to win compensation | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/oct/07/mortgages.endowments | Tackling the insurer This should be your first step. You must contact the firm or the adviser - which could be the building society that was tied to the insurance company at the time - that sold you the endowment policy. All endowment holders received a holding letter from the Financial Services Authority earlier this ... | 1,503 |
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