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	Politics of the United Kingdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In practical terms the political head the country is the Prime Minister (Tony Blair since May 2 1997) who must have the support of House of Commons.
		UK political parties originated in 1662 in the aftermath of the English Civil War with the creation of the Court and the Country Party soon becoming known the Tories (now the Conservative party still commonly to as 'the Tories') and the Whigs (now the Liberal Democrats though the 'Whig' has become obsolete).
		Politics in Northern Ireland is particularly complex due to the history of Northern Ireland particularly the ' Troubles '.
	www.freeglossary.com /Politics_of_the_United_Kingdom (3464 words)

	Sample Chapter for Clark, A.: Scandal: The Sexual Politics of the British Constitution.
		Scandalous satires and caricatures also undercut the respect and awe surrounding the monarch; for instance, caricatures depicted the prince regent as a corpulent, half-drunk, blubbery creature unable to focus on affairs of state.
		Scandals had their greatest impact when activists were able to link personal problems with larger political issues and to mobilize public opinion in protest.
		Furthermore, political influence could be a burden for aristocratic women, as is apparent from the tragic story of the countess of Strathmore, whose husband used her family's clout to win an election, but then savagely abused her to seize her fortune.
	press.princeton.edu /chapters/s7643.html (7415 words)

	Thoughts form London
		If political leaders and their closest aides learnt from the mistakes of their predecessors or the leaders of other countries we might have thought that salvation is at hand.
		The political demography of Washington where power resides in the US has been perceptibly changed because of the Bush administration's individualistic and reckless policies and the scandals that have dogged it, from Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib to the lucrative reconstruction contracts in Iraq for Bush and Dick Cheney contacts and several republican Congressmen.
		Political leaders who shut their eyes to such moral turpitude will be made to pay the ultimate price- public opprobrium, in whatever way it is expressed.
	www.sundaytimes.lk /061112/Columns/thoughts.html (1355 words)

	How Mass Media Simulate Political Transparency
		Journalists, in turn, have adapted the rhetoric of political transparency to defend their emerging investigative practices, to rationalise greater sexual frankness in reporting of news stories, and to justify their sense of greater entitlement to investigate and report on the private lives of public officials, including their infidelities, their sexual orientations, and their sexual habits.
		Although scandals are to some degree inherently interesting to audiences, the events of the scandal must be assessed and approached from many different angles in order to sustain viewer interest.
		His political style – which is also his personal style – actively invites discussion of his character because so much of his appeal comes from his personality and his apparent emotional closeness to the voting public.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/jbalkin/articles/media01.htm (8041 words)

	The U.S. Election: The Value of Political Stability > The Good News : January/February 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Until a nation has a stable political system in place, it is impossible for people to plan their lives, conduct business successfully and go about their daily routines with any hope for the future.
		Political instability has been the norm for most of the new nations of the world given birth since World War II as the European powers dismantled their colonial empires.
		Political uncertainty is to be expected in some of the poorer, less politically stable nations.
	www.gnmagazine.org /issues/gn32/politicalstability.htm (1869 words)

	Profumo Affair: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		The Profumo Affair, (1963) British sex scandal that directly led to the...of State John Profumo, and indirectly Prime Minister Harold-MacMillan Harold MacMillan...
		The Profumo Affair was a political scandal of 1963 in Britain.
		The scandal was his brief relationship with a showgirl named Christine Keeler.
	www.encyclopedian.com /pr/Profumo-scandal.html (384 words)

	City View Magazine Political Ramblings
		Independent candidates are required to meet the same legislative, financial and legal obligations that a political party candidate does, but only their name appears on the provincial ballot form whereas the political party candidate name and party are both used in the count after an election to determine which party will form the new government.
		This affects public policy and appears to be related to present and past political scandals as candidates and parties attempt to meet the high cost of political campaigns.
		Political parties represent special interests that financially compete for control of the provincial government through its endorsement of different groups, societies, organizations, corporations and private individuals in order to win enough seats to form the government.
	www.cityview.bc.ca /politics/ramble1.shtml (2678 words)

	Suez Crisis information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Crisis resulted in the resignation of the British Conservative Prime Minister, Anthony Eden, and marked the completion of the shift in the global balance of power from European powers to the United States and the Soviet Union.
		British troops were withdrawn from Palestine in 1947 and the state of Israel was formally established in 1948, shortly followed by the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, which further established Israel's independence.
		The British Prime Minister of the time, Sir Anthony Eden, tried to persuade the British public of the need for war and so, perhaps in an attempt to recall World War II-era patriotism, he compared Nasser's nationalisation of the Suez Canal with the nationalism of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler twenty years earlier.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Suez_Crisis (2525 words)

	Political scandal
		A political scandal is a scandal in which politicians engage in various illegal or unethical practices.
		A political scandal can involve the breaking of the nation's laws, including the rules of the constitution or creating a plot or conspiracy to do so.
		Sex scandals often occur within the ranks of politicians, but these are different than political scandals as they rarely directly affect political operation.
	www.fastload.org /po/Political_scandal.html (317 words)

	Political History: 14 to 18 years
		Politics in Britain: 1750-1950: An encyclopedia of politics in Britain between 1750 and 1950.
		Political Cartoons: The Political Cartoon Society is a non-profit making organisation for those interested in History and Politics through the medium of cartoons.
		American Politics: This site is aimed at those students studying American Politics at an Advanced level (17 to 18 year olds) and most sections have been updated to include the 2000 election result and issues that have arisen in the current government of George Bush.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /REVhistorypolitical.htm (1107 words)

	Fraud Factor - Scandals - California Attorney General Bill Lockyer hosts antisemitic and anti-American art exhibit
		This Arab political cartoon shows an unarmed peaceful Arab tied to a giant hand grenade with a Jewish star on it, and with a dove with an olive branch in its mouth symbolizing peace tethered from its leg to the ring holding the cotter pin in the hand grenade handle, preventing the grenade from exploding.
		This Arab political cartoon, titled "Elections", shows an unarmed peaceful Arab crying out in pain as he is suspended by a giant knife that has stabbed him in the back and impaled him, exiting his stomach.
		This Arab political cartoon combines the Jews as Nazis theme with the Blood Libel against the Jews, claiming that Jews must murder and drink the blood of non-Jewish children as part of their religious observance and rituals.
	www.fraudfactor.com /scandals/ca_ag_lawyer_art/ff_ca_ag_lawyer_art.html (6576 words)

	Political Cartoon Books For Sale
		Political cartoons often expose a nastier underside to contentious issues than is apparent on the surface of polite society.
		The Watergate scandal that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon was arguably the biggest political scandal in American history -- and inarguably a popular topic among the nation's political cartoonists.
		In the face of domestic and foreign challenges that threatened to shake the very foundations of existing social and political structures, the public struggled to identify those ideals, qualities and characteristics that seemed to form the basis of British society and culture, and that were the bedrock upon which the British polity rested.
	www.politicalcartoon.co.uk /html/books.html (3694 words)

	Mystery Readers Journal: Political Mysteries - Volume 6, No. 3
		However, domestic politics is less often the scene for murder; although motives may be abundant, the excessive visibility of politicians and current levels of security make dirty tricks more likely.
		It is called A Scandal in Belgravia, and it centers on a recently dismissed cabinet minister, looking back on the death of a homosexual friend in the 'fifties, the time when the Foreign Office in Britain was riven and discredited by a series of spy scandals.
		Though the dead man whose murder is at the core of the book was in fact a civil servant/diplomat, his family was an aristocratic one, his father a government minister, and therefore politics is always in the background of the book and politicians feature prominently, not as a rule in a very credible light.
	www.mysteryreaders.org /Issues/Political.html (1536 words)

	HUNGER STRIKE COMMEMORATIVE WEB PROJECT: 'The obscenity of H-blocks'
		This gathering represented those people whose deeper political understanding brought a more intelligent compassion to bear on a tragic situation, few of whose victims can be said to be the authors of their own misfortunes, and the ultimate responsibility for which lies in the higher regions of political power.
		They are political for reasons too numerous to list, but primarily because they are there as a direct result of the inevitable conflict and turmoil accompanying the breakdown of Britain's old, rotten political system in the six counties.
		Thus it is that the direction taken by British policy is itself the main factor which determines who is and who shall be deemed to be either 'political terrorists' or 'terrorist criminals' in the context of any six-county solution.
	larkspirit.com /hungerstrikes/racs/obscenity.html (1464 words)

	SALON Daily Clicks: Newsreal
		It is the constant politicking, some analysts argue, that causes legislative gridlock and leads to campaign finance scandals — which the President spent much of yesterday's news conference addressing.
		Salon spoke to one of the doubters, Anthony King, a British political scientist who is a longtime observer of American politics.
		It's part of the phenomenon of the political class playing political games which they seem to enjoy but have nothing to do with the vast bulk of the people.
	www.salon.com /news/news970129.html (1378 words)

	eHistory at OSU \| Reviews
		British Empire, may think they are missing something by not understanding some of the vocabulary Dirks uses; however, the text itself is easy to follow, and Dirksâ style is generally smooth.
		Beyond Indian, British, or imperial histories, The Scandal of Empire should also be a significant contribution to understanding political scandals and corruption both historical and contemporary.
		By contextualizing a scandal of the past within current events, Dirks reminds us that the scandals of empires past offer us important lessons about the nature colonial expansion and the uses of scandal in a new era of globalization.
	ehistory.osu.edu /osu/reviews/reviewview.cfm?id=28 (713 words)

	British Political Facts since 1979 (1403903727) BUTLER - Palgrave Macmillan
		British Political Facts Since 1979 is the definitive record of the who, the what and the when of British political history from the election of Thatcher as Prime Minister to the present day.
		Twentieth-Century British Political Facts is the definitive record of the who, the what and the when of British political history in the 1900s, providing reliable information which could not otherwise be found without many hours of digging in a library.
		Despite the enduring rhetorical use of the lessons of history by British politicians to justify present-day policies, the extent to which history has been used as an actual policy input remains a neglected topic.
	www.palgrave-usa.com /catalog/product.aspx?isbn=1403903727 (660 words)

	Commanding Heights : France Political \| on PBS
		Internal divisions and conservative opposition to his fiscal measures lead him to resign and the Front to lose strength, but not before preventing the rise of fascism in France.
		A series of impermanent governments are unable to stem inflation or the political and social unrest in the colony of Indochina.
		But economic recession and political scandal cause Cresson's popularity to plummet, pulling Mitterrand's down as well.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/commandingheights/lo/countries/fr/fr_political.html (1210 words)

	Washington Blade Online
		What passes for political drama on this side of the Atlantic pales in comparison to the intensity of British political debate and the rhetorical skills of those who engage in it.
		The Liberal Democrats, Britain’s third largest political party, are in the process of choosing a new leader after their longtime head, an affable enough Scotsman, was forced to resign on Jan. 7 after admitting to a drinking problem.
		Two weeks later, Mark Oaten, one of the leadership candidates, stepped down after it was revealed in a British tabloid that over a six month period, he had paid a rent boy for sex.
	www.washblade.com /print.cfm?content_id=7514 (739 words)

	What Lies Ahead for the British Monarchy and Commonwealth? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The British people were tired of fighting seemingly endless conflicts around the world and voted for a political transformation in 1945.
		Successive British governments, forgetting the loyalty and commitment of the British overseas dominions, turned their backs on them, and became obsessed with Europe.
		The nations that were members of the British Commonwealth shared not only the common bond of loyalty to the crown, but the ideals of democracy, the rule of law and a love of freedom.
	www.ucgstp.org /lit/gn/gn003/gn003wn1.htm (2059 words)

	The Skeleton Closet
		Political chameleon has morphed from an anti-abortion conservative to a protectionist lefty populist.
		Here are some local politicians with SERIOUS scandals such as murder, or the politician who bit another woman for refusing to join a threesome with her husband.
		According to an excellent article in the Wall Street Journal (9/23/97, pA1), this scandal was reported in the Richmond, VA Recorder in 1802 by James Callendar, a British-born reporter, who didn't have any particular evidence to back up his charges.
	www.realchange.org (2521 words)

	Scandals -- Monday, Jan. 26, 1987 -- Page 2 -- TIME (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		But it is rare for a government to be clapped in political irons because of foreign policy subterfuge.
		Quips one political observer in Bonn: "If Iranscam were ever replayed here, the odds are that the Germans would be more scandalized by the missing millions and the sloppy accounting than the arms transactions."
		The scandal surrounding the mysterious "P-2" Masonic lodge in 1981 entangled Cabinet ministers and military officers in a web of tax evasion and political intrigue.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,963329-2,00.html (672 words)

	Anatomy of a Political Sex Scandal; Love Woes of British Minister Spice Up a Dull Political Season Washingtonpost.com - ...
		The headlines now dominating the British news sites tell a tale that is familiar but somehow fresh in its embarrassing details: A tough-talking Cabinet minister falls in love with an American socialite who is already respectably married.
		The hanky panky of these mismatched stiffs may strike Americans as less screwball than our home-grown political comedies: the president seduced by the pizza girl; the former education secretary who squandered a fortune at the gaming table; the televangelist who frolicked with a lady of the night.
		Now the punchy but politically trivial prose of the tabloids is temporarily dominating British political discourse.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0NTQ/is_2004_Nov_30/ai_n9510453 (788 words)

	James Wolcott: Why Are British Sex Scandals So Much Better than Ours?: Fame & Scandal: vanityfair.com
		Comparing Washington sex scandals with those of Britain's political class is enough to cause any red-blooded American to blush with shame.
		British sex scandals, like ours, are often rooted in a dolor of middle-aged malaise, but they're also animated by spite, spicy details, vanity, revenge, bitter comedy, and bawdy excess—the complete Jacobean pantry.
		In the blaze of flashbulbs and howl of headlines, the men in the Profumo scandal crumpled and the women seized pop-star status.
	www.vanityfair.com /fame/features/2007/02/wolcott200702 (796 words)

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	The Scandals of Translation - Lawrence Venuti
		Translation is so prevalent that it must be addressed, and it should be considered every time one takes a book that has been translated in hand.
		Venuti's subtitle -- "towards and ethics of difference" -- and his jargon-laden writing can be off-putting, as can some of his political argument.
		The book was, famously, translated twice, as American publisher's Farrar, Straus Giroux commissioned a second translation, not being satisfied with the British one (published by Harvill).
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/venutil/scandals.htm (1030 words)

	Crooks and Liars » Scandals
		To refresh your memory, back in May of last year, CIA #3 man, Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, was implicated in a scandal involving disgraced former Congressman Duke Cunningham, prostitutes and, of all places, the Watergate Hotel.
		The scandal allegedly enjoyed the participation of current and former CIA officials, including Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, the executive director of the agency.
		Just like the Valerie Plame scandal, the obfuscations and plot twists of the Abramoff story can be overwhelming for even for the most ardent political news junkie to follow.
	www.crooksandliars.com /category/scandals (3326 words)

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