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guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-21 | uk-news | Queen reignites republic debate | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/mar/21/monarchy.australia | The Queen officially kicked off her two-week tour of Australia yesterday with a speech that delighted even diehard republicans by hinting that further constitutional change was possible. Just four months after a referendum in which Australia rejected republican moves and chose to keep her as head of state, the Queen sa... | 673 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | technology | What's new | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/sep/21/onlinesupplement3 | Crusoe ahoy Sony could be the first notebook PC supplier to launch a system powered by Transmeta's new Crusoe processor, instead of an Intel or AMD chip. But when Sony showed off a wide range of forthcoming products at its annual European sales conference, held in Venice last week, the PCG-C1VE was overshadowed by othe... | 1,190 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | politics | Prescott hits back on air traffic plans | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/apr/21/uk.politicalnews1 | John Prescott, the deputy prime minister, yesterday hit back at his critics in the Labour party who are threatening to block the government's plans to part-privatise Britain's air traffic control service (Nats) - and net the Treasury £600m. In a letter sent to all Labour MPs as they headed for their 10-day Easter reces... | 513 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-14 | world | US row as network alters news pictures | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jan/14/janemartinson | One of America's main television networks, CBS, has come in for a storm of criticism after it was revealed that the company tampered with news footage broadcast on New Year's Eve, using digital technology to erase the logo of a rival network. CBS's live millennium broadcast from Times Square in New York showed its main... | 393 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | world | Audience stages protest drama | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/07/rorycarroll | Feuds, character assassinations, walkouts, political combat, religious crusades - the Theatre of Rome has never held audiences so spellbound. In a saga that makes Trevor Nunn's National Theatre resemble an oasis of serenity, 300 people stormed the stage to demand the return of its director, the wonderboy of Italian cin... | 451 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-21 | politics | Dobson plays the red card | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/mar/21/londonmayor.uk1 | It was meant to be a witty put-down to ginger-haired broadcaster and DJ Chris Evans, who announced at the weekend he was donating £100,000 to Ken Livingstone's campaign to be mayor of London. "I am somewhat relieved really, because my mum always told me to steer clear of redheads," Mr Livingstone's chief rival, Frank D... | 570 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-21 | money | When the real you is desperate to get out | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jul/22/workandcareers.jobsandmoney | Exceptionally unhappy people sought for challenging new roles. Successful applicants will be miserable in their current employment and apprehensive about future job prospects. Feelings of inadequacy, anxiety and copious amounts of stress an advantage. Applications to www.iloathmyjob.com/ So goes the blurb to a new book... | 2,580 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-07 | politics | Party man who leaves nothing to chance | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jan/07/labour.labour1997to992 | So devotedly New Labour is Joe McCrea that at his wedding reception last year, it is said, he ordered the playing of the party's general election anthem, Things Can Only Get Better. Things apparently took a turn for the worse thereafter, when he found himself out of a job after Frank Dobson, his health secretary boss, ... | 438 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-27 | uk-news | Hague and Woolf clash over prisons | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/27/ukcrime.conservatives | The Tory leader, William Hague, clashed with the Lord Chief Justice today after Britain's top judge called for politicians to resist the temptation to call for ever greater use of imprisonment. Lord Woolf argued that many people in prison did not need to be there, and were simply adding to overcrowding, which undermine... | 907 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | science | Stars in his eyes | https://www.theguardian.com/science/2000/mar/14/spaceexploration.g2 | Michael Foale was the first punk in space. The British-American astronaut, and the closest thing we have to the kind of guy who starred in the Right Stuff, was a Sex Pistols and Ramones fan. He met his wife, Rhonda, when she was playing in a punk band called the Kitty Projectiles. All that is behind him now. He listens... | 2,164 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-06 | uk-news | Festival criticised for inviting Ceausescu poet | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/07/kirstyscott | A storm has arisen over an invitation to a Romanian apologist for communism to recite his works at a poetry festival in St Andrews today. Adrian Paunescu, a friend of Nicolae Ceausescu, will read poems praising the tyrant who was executed in the 1989 revolution that ended communist rule in Romania. Organisers of the St... | 373 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-07 | business | Movers | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/apr/07/ftse.stockmarkets | Back to business for the City yesterday after Wednesday's unexpected Bank Holiday status. Perhaps it was the start of a new financial year, the summer in the City, or possibly the perspective offered by a few hours away from those flashing numbers, but the FTSE was in a much more healthy and happy state of mind yesterd... | 612 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | world | Europe's Gypsies lobby for nation status | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jul/28/kateconnolly | The main body representing Europe's 12m Gypsies wants the Roma people to be given recognition as a non-territorial nation, and says it will back this up with its own "floating" parliament and embassies in various countries. It is the first time that the International Union Romani has made such a demand for internationa... | 721 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | business | Kingfisher does the splits | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/sep/14/13 | One of the City's best-known names, Kingfisher, yesterday surprised the Square Mile by announcing it was to split, spinning off Woolworths and Superdrug in a separate company from B&Q and Comet. The move ignited shares in the beleaguered retailer which has struggled with its fortunes on the stock market since its failu... | 717 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | politics | There is an alternative for us Tories | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/apr/28/thatcher.uk1 | So farewell then, Michael Heseltine. The announcement that the former defence secretary and Thatcher assassin is to depart the Commons after the next election leads one to reflect not only on what might have been but also on what is to come for our party. Many might say that the Tory party is losing one of its heavy hi... | 998 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | money | On the market: Framlington New Leaders Fund | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/may/14/observercashsection.theobserver11 | Framlington New Leaders Fund Contact: 0845 702 3138, or on the Internet at www.framlington.co.uk/newleaders. Aim: To produce capital growth through investment in seven key sectors: leisure, healthcare, financial services, Internet, media, technology and telecommunications. Bells & whistles: New Leaders is designed to b... | 477 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-28 | business | Railtrack blow to Virgin west coast plans | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/mar/28/2 | Railtrack is likely to fail to deliver the much-vaunted west coast mainline upgrade, scuppering Sir Richard Branson's plans to start high-speed Virgin Trains services between London and Glasgow by May 2002, the rail regulator warned last night. Tom Winsor, the regulator, is threatening legal action against Railtrack fo... | 538 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | us-news | OJ Simpson | https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/jul/28/netnotes.derekbrown | 1. Oranthal James Simpson is a free man. Well, not exactly free, but at $9.95 (£6.40), a bit of a snip. 2. That's how much it will cost you to ask him questions on his new money-spinning website, AskOJ.com, launched this week. 3. You may wish to ask him about sport or showbiz, or the big event which combined the two: h... | 346 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-06 | world | Supervirus threatens IT meltdown | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/may/07/jasonburke.nickpatonwalsh | Renegade computer programmers have developed dozens of 'superviruses' that each have the capability to inflict massive damage on global computer systems. The new viruses have many times the destructive power of the 'love bug' which wreaked havoc last week, and there are fears that criminals and terrorists could use the... | 762 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | business | Brave heart but no cigar | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jan/21/devolutionscotland.devolution | There are times when Eddie George must wonder why he bothers. He decamps virtually the whole Bank of England to Scotland, including two-thirds of the monetary policy committee, for a two-day bonding session and what happens? He gets into a slanging match with Alex Salmond of the Scottish Nationalist Party over whether ... | 963 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-13 | global | Divine right to be cruel | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/apr/14/artsfeatures2 | At the moment, we have an embarrassment of Richards. At Stratford-on-Avon there is a nakedly political, modern dress production. Now at the old Gainsborough Studios in Shoreditch, east London, Ralph Fiennes gives an unequivocal star performance in a traditional, pyramidal Almeida Theatre production. The space is astoni... | 603 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-28 | uk-news | Mersey beat gets stronger as arts profile is raised | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/28/davidward1 | As Liverpool emerges from the economic doldrums, the city is undergoing a renaissance in preparation for its bid to become European capital of culture in 2008. Museums and galleries are expanding, public buildings are being spruced up after years of neglect, a theatre has come back into the limelight after three dark y... | 675 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-07 | uk-news | Pay-out move by family of burglar | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/07/ukguns | The family of Fred Barras, the teenage burglar murdered by the Norfolk farmer Tony Martin, are to seek criminal injuries compensation, it has been revealed. Barras, a convicted thief, was 16 when he was shot dead by Martin as he and two other men broke into the farmer's remote Norfolk home. Martin was convicted in Apri... | 358 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-21 | uk-news | Sister 'felt threatened by Tory' | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/21/2 | A former Tory minister who wined and dined two sisters later punched one in the face and then lay on top of her in the street, a court heard yesterday. Rod Richards allegedly left Cassandra Melvin, 23, in fear for her life and then hurled her against a car, fracturing her elbow. Tiffini Melvin feared "something horribl... | 275 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | society | Election looms as Labour launches drive against drunks | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/dec/07/2 | There is a remarkably close similarity between Labour's Queen's speech yesterday and John Major's last legislative programme in 1996-7. Both programmes were designed as a shameless, populist appeal to the swing voters in marginal seats. For the single-minded focus of those who assemble a government's final legislative ... | 1,098 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-21 | media | Uneasy partners | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/aug/21/channel4.broadcasting | When the pilot of Channel 4's experimental TV/web convergence series aired late last year, it was greeted with something like horror from the press. Some found it too voyeuristic or exploitative, most just hated the people in it; why, they asked, should we be subjected to these loathsome, middle-class narcissists, who ... | 1,431 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | society | Pulling the plug | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/jun/28/guardiansocietysupplement9 | The four cork strippers paced around the trunk of the Whistler Tree, the 217-year-old cork oak which is the largest in the world. For the first time in nine years, it was to be harvested. They debated where to begin. Eventually, Custodio removed the curved axe blade from its cork sheath. Gently he made the first incisi... | 896 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | uk-news | Gloomy Trimble attacks 'stubborn' IRA | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/21/northernireland.johnmullin | David Trimble, leader of the Ulster Unionists, last night described the IRA's traditional Easter message as deeply depressing, and said it had undermined the current push to signal a return to devolution. Mr Trimble said the IRA had made it clear in its statement that the late offer it delivered on arms decommissioning... | 625 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | politics | Livingstone lashes Treasury | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jun/28/londonmayor.livingstone | London mayor Ken Livingstone today launched a scathing attack on government control of local councils, saying British town halls have no more independence than the Vichy regime did under the Nazis. He accused "aliens" in the Treasury of undermining local government and said they treated democratically-elected people wi... | 512 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-06 | world | Saint-Tropez to bulldoze jet set's beach party bars | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/may/07/jonhenley.theobserver | His name may not be as familiar as Brigitte Bardot's, but Paul Tomaselli has probably done as much as the Sixties screen star to turn the quiet fishing village of Saint-Tropez into a holiday haunt for the international jet set. So Tomaselli was understandably miffed last week when the town council, in a drive to clean ... | 678 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-28 | uk-news | Top judge attacks prison 'cancer' | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/28/prisonsandprobation.ukcrime | The Lord Chief Justice yesterday said that fewer convicted criminals should be sent to jail and that politicians should stop promising to lock more people up as a way of battling crime. The intervention in the heated law and order debate by Lord Woolf, the top criminal judge in England and Wales, set him on a collision... | 1,123 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-06 | politics | 'Open' Labour charged with excessive secrecy | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/aug/06/uk.labour | Ministers turned down almost one in three requests for Government information last year - a rate of refusal four times higher than in 1998. The figures, published in a Home Office report, will embarrass Labour which promised a more 'open' government on election to office. The Home Office released the report the day bef... | 646 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | media | December 14 ratings | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/dec/14/overnights | The UK premiere of Steven Spielberg's The Lost World: Jurassic Park secured a respectable 8.5m viewers for ITV, helping it to a comfortable peak-time victory over the BBC. Earlier in the evening, ITV's Emmerdale pulled in 10.7m viewers, while Coronation Street proved the star of the night with ratings of 13.9m. But BBC... | 286 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | uk-news | Dolphin in cleaned up Mersey | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/15/7 | After a multi-million pound clean up campaign, the river Mersey is coming back to life, with up to 50 species of fish and, its latest visitor, a dolphin. Fifteen years ago the Mersey was devoid of life, condemned as one of Europe's most polluted waterways and a victim of Liverpool's industrial past. But the river is no... | 174 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-07 | money | 'I'm worried my boss won't notice me' | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jan/07/workandcareers.drwork | The problem I am one of two technical employees in a global company. My boss likes me and I believe he thinks I am hardworking and fine for the job, because he has given me a huge raise. I have been working for this company for one-and-a-half years now. The other colleague of mine has been working here for 10 years. He... | 619 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-21 | politics | The Budget speech - part three | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/mar/21/6 | A strong civic society is built not by rights alone but by rights and responsibilities and by the shared pursuit of the common good - which every year enlists the energies and realises the idealism of more than 22 million British citizens. It is time for Government to do more to encourage and extend this civic patrioti... | 2,480 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-14 | uk-news | Shergar mystery revived as skull is found | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/14/johnmullin | A retired milkman from south-west Ireland believes he may have solved the greatest mystery in the history of horse racing after spending Grand National day cleaning up a beauty spot. Tom Foley, an independent member of Kerry county council, found the skull of a racehorse in a deserted gully near Tralee last Saturday. H... | 557 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | technology | E-bank plan halted for a Goldfish evolution | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/dec/14/business.personalfinancenews | Lloyds TSB has abandoned the launch of internet bank Evolvebank.com in Britain and will instead create a bank for Goldfish, Centrica's quirky credit card brand. The announcement was immediately embroiled in controversy when Centrica's 50-50 partner in Goldfish, HFC, pointed out its contract was still in place and it co... | 220 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | business | Market forces | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jul/14/5 | News that the United States might use the long arm of the law to crack down on expensive drugs rocked the pharmaceutical sector and the wider market yesterday. The share prices of the big drug companies fell as investors had their first chance to react to a proposal made by the chairman of the senate finance committee ... | 817 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-07 | world | Murder of Rwandan innocents | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/07/chrismcgreal | Lieutenant Colonel Tharcisse Muvunyi is remembered in the city of Butare for one crime above all. On April 30 1994 - many of Rwanda's Tutsis had already been murdered and the hunt was under way for survivors of the genocide - the colonel allegedly sent his men to dispose of a group of witnesses. They were 25 Tutsi chil... | 539 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | world | Motorists hit back in kind as French protest chaos grows | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/sep/07/4 | English motorists caught in traffic jams on the A26, the main motorway to the Channel tunnel, have responded by setting up a blockade of their own. They claim that French police had been giving locals preferential treatment, shunting other traffic between lanes to allow them through. Dave Meek, 52, of Hunstanton, Norfo... | 851 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-21 | uk-news | Scientists unlock the secret of exam nerves | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/mar/21/news1 | Psychiatrists think they have found out why some people's minds go blank the moment they see an exam paper. Blame it on the stress hormone cortisol, which jams the memory. Researchers at Zurich University took 36 people and asked them to memorise 60 German nouns, the journal Nature Neuroscience reports. They asked them... | 158 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-14 | business | Who holds the reins of power in Britain? Part 4 | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/oct/15/observerbusiness3 | 139 Professor Manuel Castells Professor of Planning and Sociology, University of California, Berkeley (NEW). Probably the world's most highly regarded commentator on the new economic order. 140 Gavyn Davies OBE Partner and Chief International Economist, Goldman Sachs; adviser to Gordon Brown (52). Widely tipped to beco... | 3,258 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | society | What is a grandparent today? | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/dec/14/socialcare.g2 | You have cracked open the champagne, congratulated the mother and admired your first grandchild. Now for the christening. What are you going to be called? Grandma? Granny? Nan? I don't think so. How does Childminder sound to you? For that, surely, will be your role for the next decade or so. Anna Haycraft (the novelist... | 1,873 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | politics | Livingstone loses by a whisker and faces his biggest gamble | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/feb/21/londonmayor.london | Ken Livingstone was last night holding out against intense pressure to throw his weight behind Frank Dobson's candidacy for elected mayor of London amid widespread dismay at the former health secretary's wafer-thin victory in Labour's electoral college. As Mr Dobson floated the prospect of a job for the former Greater ... | 1,021 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | business | Glass ceiling shows few cracks | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/oct/29/theobserver.observerbusiness14 | Take two founders of a dotcom company. Overnight one becomes a celebrity while the other languishes in the background, despite the fact that he is the senior of the two. She becomes something of an icon to the City while he is still able to shop in Tesco without being recognised. 'It's interesting to reflect on the att... | 1,663 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-21 | media | Shops on the Net seeks rescue bid | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/dec/21/newmedia | Shopping portal Shops on the Net is seeking a rescue bid after being caught short by the slowdown in the online shopping market. Staff have been cut back to a bare minimum and the remaining director, Jeremy Pocock, who set up the website in 1997, is working to secure a rescue funding package. Repeated calls to Shops on... | 214 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-27 | global | Theatre review | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/mar/28/artsfeatures4 | Helen Griffin's first play is very strange - a vulgar comedy that makes serious points about racism, a state-of-the-Welsh-nation play that never gets out of the living room, a drama that is almost totally unbelievable yet absolutely spot-on in some details. Vernon is a stereotypical Welshman who gives his wife Marge a ... | 299 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-27 | money | Bidding war rages for vital 'grey vote' | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/may/28/personalfinancenews.observercashsection1 | Pensioners' incomes are likely to be a major issue in the next general election. That is the safest conclusion you can draw from last week's political battles. Conservative leader Will-iam Hague started the debate when he announced plans for an extra weekly increase in the Basic State Pension - of between £5.50 and £10... | 1,220 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-21 | uk-news | UK news in brief | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/22/1 | Railtrack fined over death Railtrack was fined £200,000 yesterday at Blackfriars crown court, following the death of a passenger who leaned out of a train window and struck a scaffolding pole placed too near the track. Businessman David Brown, 35, died instantly just outside Denmark Hill station, south London, last Dec... | 278 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | world | Hungary's choice: 'build schools or prisons' | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jul/28/1 | By September, one in three children starting school in Hungary will be a Romany, according to the education minister, Zoltan Pokorni. The numbers of Roma are hotly disputed, roughly 600,000 - 6% or 7% of the overall population - say the sociologists. With Hungarian couples reluctant to have even one child, and most Rom... | 603 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-21 | technology | Search engine | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/jul/21/internetnews | With the inexorable rise of internet culture, those myths, rumours and falsities seem to spread as fast as those nasty e-viruses. So, too, does the number of sites set up to debunk them. One of the best is www.snopes.com (should that be snoops?). Split into topics such as animals, politics, sex, and radio & TV - the si... | 491 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-21 | global | Health: Underage sex campaigner Victoria Gillick | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/nov/21/features11.g22 | A small item appeared in the news pages of the Daily Telegraph yesterday. Tucked away under a generous page three spread on the nuptials of Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas, it was reported that Victoria Gillick, the indefatigable campaigner against underage sex, was facing financial ruin after a libel action s... | 1,342 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-06 | politics | Strings attached to Ashcroft peerage | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/apr/06/lords.ashcroft | The controversial Conservative party treasurer, Michael Ashcroft, has at last been awarded a peerage - but only if he returns from tax exile to live permanently in Britain by the end of this year. The Florida-based billionaire, who has donated £1m a year to the Tories since 1997, is the most eyecatching name on the lis... | 702 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-06 | uk-news | Nazi suspect leaves Britain | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/06/marktran | Konrad Kalejs, a suspected Nazi war criminal and one of Britain's most unwelcome visitors, today left the country voluntarily before he could be deported. The 86-year-old has left on a flight to Singapore, ultimately heading for Australia where he is a citizen. Despite widespread suspicion that he was involved in the m... | 639 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-07 | society | A profession in crisis | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/may/07/futureofthenhs.health | This is a story of something that happened in the middle of the night on an obstetrics ward at a large London hospital. It's a true story, told to me by a doctor who wants to remain anonymous, and who was then in the early stages of her career. Like all junior doctors, she was working ridiculously long hours. She had j... | 3,932 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | world | Putin to double Russian arms spending | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jan/28/russia.iantraynor1 | Vladimir Putin, Russia's acting president and prime minister, yesterday built on his pledges to restore Russian military might and superpower status by announcing plans to almost double arms spending this year. Mr Putin, whose whirlwind political ascent has coincided with his prosecution of the war in Chechnya, insiste... | 812 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-07 | business | Minding the pennies pays off | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jun/07/3 | Protecting other people's money sounds as dull as the Securicor share price has been lately. But yesterday the company showed there is cash to be made from this worthy business: especially on special occasions such as the millennium. Strong first-half figures triggered a 5% revival in Securicor's stock price. Until now... | 464 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-07 | global | Swan Lake | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/may/08/artsfeatures3 | All is not well with Swan Lake. On Tuesday night the Kirov gave us a museum-piece La Bayadère with some magic moments. This second offering at the beginning of the company's national tour is just plain old-fashioned. In the opening scene the boys and girls come out to play at Prince Siegfried's coming of age. A jester ... | 409 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-21 | uk-news | Guardian and Observer win high court battle over Shayler emails | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/21/davidshayler1 | A victory for press freedom was claimed today by two national newspapers in a high court ruling over the Shayler affair. The court warned against the making of court disclosure orders against newspapers which might "stifle" investigative journalism unless there was "compelling evidence" the orders were in the public in... | 467 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-20 | uk-news | Mary Rose 'overloaded' | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/21/oliverburkeman | Her decks were dangerously overloaded with soldiers and arms and the crew was unfamiliar with recently fitted gun ports, which had accidentally been left open. The combination of these factors left the Mary Rose so unstable that an ill-timed gust of wind would have been enough to scupper her, a documentary will claim t... | 458 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-07 | technology | Test drive: Think City | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/feb/07/motoring1 | Despite being very long and sparsely populated, Norway is as keen to cut global smog as your average Brit with a brace of Jags. Even there, 70% of car usage is within urban confines and, despite all those open roads, the average A-to-B speed of the average Norwegian car is a miserable 25mph. All of which raises the que... | 1,061 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-21 | world | I wasn't there when they died, says general | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/21/balkans3 | For most of his five days in the dock, the general simply looked annoyed with the whole business. He had the air of an exasperated teenager who has to explain again what should be obvious: that he is innocent of all charges. Of course he wasn't the man who in July 1995 ordered his men to fill the mass graves of Srebren... | 983 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-21 | society | Tory apologises for racist joke | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/dec/21/health5 | The race row engulfing the Tories intensified last night after a shadow cabinet minister was forced to apologise for telling a joke that was both racist and sexist. Liam Fox, the shadow health secretary and an increasingly prominent frontbencher, was told to apologise by William Hague's office after the joke, told at a... | 449 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-27 | money | D-Day for market merger | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/apr/28/business.personalfinancenews3 | London Stock Exchange officials are due to meet today in a make or break attempt to unite the exchange with its German rival. Negotiations between the London exchange and the Deutsche Borse of Germany are understood to have been successfully concluded and one City source said last night that it was now up to London to ... | 408 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-28 | uk-news | Vitamins help fight dementia | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/mar/28/5 | Vitamin C and E supplements may increase mental ability in the elderly, prevent some forms of dementia and limit brain damage from strokes, according to the journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Kamal Masaki of the University of Hawaii in Honolulu reported on a study of more than 3,000 Japanese-American men ove... | 283 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | money | Has early retirement been pensioned off? | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/apr/29/personalfinancenews.pensionsmisselling | If you're thinking of combining your 50th birthday party with a retirement bash, be warned: what is often dubbed the longest holiday of your life may be postponed by at least five years under government proposals announced this week. Heading for the pavilion after your half century could be put off until your score rea... | 1,335 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-21 | world | Crocodile rock | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/21/worlddispatch.comment1 | Almost every vehicle in Weipa is a four-wheel drive. Eagles circle above the local supermarket and many of its prefabricated houses are lightly dusted with paprika-red soil from a nearby bauxite mine. The towns 2,500 residents live about as far off the beaten track as you can get, a 10-hour drive along dirt roads - was... | 1,094 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-20 | money | Government issue warning on pensions | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/oct/21/personalfinancenews.jobsandmoney2 | Tim Stoller, 23, is one of the first people in Britain to get one of the new combined pension statements - and he admits he was "shocked" when he read its contents. The statements will set out the income people can expect when they retire by giving a combined estimate of both their state pension and private pension pro... | 430 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-21 | uk-news | UK news in brief | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/21/1 | Britons freed in Colombia Two Britons, Paul Winder and Tom Hartdyke, kidnapped while trekking in Colombia, have been freed, British embassy officials said yesterday. The Red Cross and diplomats helped secure the release of the pair who went missing in March after entering the jungle to hunt orchids. Army leaves Ulster ... | 542 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | uk-news | Lockerbie witness 'lied' to CIA to secure life in US | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/sep/28/lockerbie.gerardseenan | The Libyan defector who has become the key prosecution witness in the Lockerbie trial is a desperate liar who exaggerated his status as a spy and fabricated key information when a disillusioned CIA threatened to abandon him, a court heard yesterday. Under cross-examination from defence counsel, the credibility of Abdul... | 802 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | world | Clinton questioned over funding abuse | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/22/uselections2000.usa | President Clinton came face to face with federal inquisitors yet again in a Good Friday evidence-giving session in the oval office, the White House revealed last night. Mr Clinton was questioned about continuing suspicions that he broke campaign fundraising laws during the 1996 presidential contest, allegations which h... | 273 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-21 | society | Inquiry called into GP's serial sex abuse | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/dec/21/health4 | The health secretary, Alan Milburn, yesterday announced an inquiry into the case of a GP found guilty of the serial sexual abuse of women patients which went on for at least eight years in spite of complaints to the health authority and a hospital where he temporarily worked. Clifford Ayling, a GP in Folkestone, Kent, ... | 716 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | media | Mergers in the advertising industry | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/sep/21/advertising.mergers | The news that Omnicom and True North have resumed talks over a possible merger will come as a surprise to no-one. When DaimlerChrysler, which spends more than $1bn on advertising through the two companies, said it wanted to cut down to just one major agency it must have seemed the logical thing to do. Whereas once clie... | 523 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | media | Wrongful arrest makes The Bill a turn-off | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/sep/21/crime.broadcasting | The Bill's storylines rarely win plaudits for authenticity, but the ITV cop show appears to be so realistic that a man whose wrongful arrest left him too traumatised to watch it won £7,750 damages yesterday. Paul Stevenson, who was arrested during a post-match fight at a pub frequented by football hooligans, was yester... | 471 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | us-news | Drudge plans to publish exit polls | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/nov/07/news.usa2000 | Controversial web journalist Matt Drudge is planning a US election upset by revealing the winners of exit polls ahead of time on his website. The decision to break the official media embargo will put the author of the Drudge Report on a collision course with his peers and could even land him in court. But a defiant Mr ... | 429 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | politics | Hague scorns Blair's programme as 'all spin and no delivery' | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/dec/07/uk.labour | Tony Blair was last night accused of arrogance in offering a "thin" legislative programme aimed purely at securing good press coverage in the run-up to an expected May general election. In a boisterous response to the Queen's speech, the Tory leader William Hague told the prime minister the speech was a thousand words ... | 1,103 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | media | Virgin Radio net rights win | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/sep/14/digitalmedia.broadcasting | Virgin Radio has clinched the online rights to new blockbuster movie, Me, Myself & Irene, in a deal believed to be the first of its kind in the UK. Virgin is hosting the film's official website, located at Memyselfandirene.co.uk, and will promote it from September 18 in an on-air campaign. The official website will als... | 210 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-06 | global | Review: gogmagogs | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/oct/07/artsfeatures3 | John Tavener's latest stage-work, The Fool, was written for the amazingly versatile talents of the gogmagogs, the seven-piece ensemble of string-playing actors and singers, and premiered at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival. The work dramatises the theological archetype of the Holy Fool, chosen by Tavener and his spirit... | 601 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | world | Japan's ruling party split on bid to oust leader | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/14/worlddispatch.jonathanwatts | At the dusty headquarters of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party the air is thick with the talk of rebellion, betrayal and upheaval. The building in Tokyo's Nagatacho district is usually the calm control centre of one of the world's most effective political machines, which has held power for all but one of the past... | 1,222 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-07 | business | Threadbare Textile industry leaders dismiss Byers' jobs initiative | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jun/07/5 | Business and union leaders yesterday branded a £15m government package to stem job losses in the textile and clothing industry as too little, too late. Stephen Byers (pictured), the trade and industry secretary, said the package was an immediate response to a report on the industry prepared by industrialists, retailers... | 234 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | world | Let's end racism in politics | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/may/21/race.uk | I tried to be diplomatic, as befitted an historic occasion. Having won the privilege of making the first speech to London's new Assembly as its first Chair, I felt that I had to live up to the occasion. A colleague later accused me of being 'urbane', for which read 'smooth bastard'. On reflection, I should have been di... | 1,524 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | business | Railtrack wins big fees increase | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jul/28/transportintheuk | Regulator Tom Winsor yesterday allowed Railtrack a 40% rise in charges to £13bn over the next five years in return for efficiency improvements. Mr Winsor insisted that the decision would not lead to "automatic fare increases" for passengers. To justify the money, Railtrack's efficiency would have to rise by between 3% ... | 419 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | uk-news | 'Building it was the first mistake' | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/sep/07/dome.fiachragibbons | The seeds of the dome debacle were sown in the final months of 1999, when a series of astonishing mistakes was made, it emerged yesterday. As the dome's then chief executive, Jennie Page, and her "too small team" laboured under intense political pressure to meet the December 31 millennium deadline for opening, no prope... | 1,401 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | us-news | Bush's victory speech | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/14/uselections2000.usa13 | Thank you very much. Good evening my fellow Americans, I appreciate the opportunity to speak with you tonight. Mr speaker, lieutenant governor, friends, distinguished guests. Our country has been through a long and trying period, with the outcome of the presidential election not finalised for longer than any of us coul... | 1,657 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-07 | business | On message | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jan/07/16 | • Day trade action US financial regulators are taking legal action against an online investment adviser going under the name of Tokyo Joe for allegedly defrauding amateur share traders. The self proclaimed day trading expert whose real name is Yun Soo Oh Park is accused of failing to disclose that he owned shares in th... | 203 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | business | Ford finally seals Land Rover deal | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/may/21/ford.theobserver | Ford is set to buy the four-wheel-drive maker Land Rover this week, despite last- minute wrangles over price prompted by losses which soared to almost £100 million last year, The Observer has learnt. The US carmaker is likely to switch at least half of Land Rover's component purchasing to the Continent and America over... | 351 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | politics | Hague's nationalist warning | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/nov/14/uk.conservatives | William Hague took a first step towards tapping into English nationalism yesterday by unveiling plans to strip Scottish MPs of their rights to vote on matters south of the border. In a speech in Oxford, which has been widely condemned, the Tory leader promised to change House of Commons procedures to guarantee "English... | 378 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-07 | business | Keeping a watch on the Rhine | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/apr/07/6 | Suddenly Rhineland capitalism does not look so comfortable. Yesterday Bernhard Walter, the head of Dresdner Bank - Germany's third largest - announced his resignation just 24 hours after his board pulled the plug on the merger with Deutsche Bank, the country's biggest. Rolf Breuer's job at Deutsche Bank looks a bit dic... | 1,029 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | world | Lima in fear of bloodshed as Fujimori takes office | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jul/28/alexbellos | Up to 40,000 riot police are on standby to handle opposition protests planned for today's swearing-in of Peru's president for a controversial third term. The opposition is hoping to get as many as 300,000 demonstrators out for what will be the third day of protests this week. Organisers said that tens of thousands of p... | 570 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-07 | society | How to fix the consultants: give them all a socking rise | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/jun/07/futureofthenhs.comment | The hawks and doves are fighting it out inside the government and the Department of Health. Is there to be all-out war against the God-like consultants, locking horns with the monarchs of the wards? Or is it to be peace, emollience and sweet inducements? The BMA and the Royal Colleges have been outraged by some of the ... | 1,443 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | global | Whale of a gig | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/mar/07/artsfeatures7 | Moby is something of an oddity, so perhaps it was to be expected that this last gig of his short UK tour would be full of curiosities, touches of musical genius and occasional frustrations too. Not that the performance wasn't great. It was. He was. Moby bounded on stage like Tigger and kept on bouncing, banging his bon... | 651 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-06 | money | Officehours: On sharing company profits. | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/aug/07/workandcareers.officehours | Imagine a world in which it's not only the "fat cats" who gain from company profits. It's a world where the contributions of employees at all levels, including support staff, are truly valued and proven in the form of regular meaty cheques. A utopian dream that's about as likely as John Prescott trading in his Jaguars ... | 1,497 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-07 | uk-news | Drugs tsar praises Oasis star | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/07/juliahartleybrewer | The government drugs tsar, Keith Hellawell, yesterday praised the Oasis star Noel Gallagher for his "change of heart" over hard drugs. Mr Hellawell, the anti-drugs co-ordinator who took up his post two years ago this week, said Gallagher had shown "a much more responsible approach, telling about his negative experience... | 217 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-06 | politics | Without Prejudice: Dangerous liaison | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/aug/06/labour.labour1997to991 | In Tony Blair's leaked memo, whose conservatism still shook those of us who thought we were unshockable after all these years, the Prime Minister wailed that he was not 'perceived' as a tough supporter of British military power. He couldn't understand the 'bizarre' reports from Philip Gould's focus groups. 'Kosovo shou... | 1,884 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-07 | business | Tories enlist economic experts | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/aug/07/4 | The Conservatives yesterday stepped up their attack on Gordon Brown's £40bn public spending plans by releasing a dossier of warnings from economic experts that voters face the prospect of higher inflation and dearer borrowing. In an attempt to neutralise the political impact of the three-year boost to expenditure, the ... | 239 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | uk-news | Toll tax: Bad news for British motorists | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jan/28/transport.uk | Motorists using major road bridges and tunnel crossings in Britain are set to face hefty increases in charges after a European ruling yesterday. The government has fought against the levying of a 17.5% VAT charge being imposed by the European commission, but the European court of justice's advocate general has now said... | 383 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | law | MP3.com could pay Universal $250m in damages | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/sep/07/copyright.news | Music website MP3.com stands to pay out $250m in damages after losing its copyright battle with Universal Music. New York judge Jed Rakoff, who ruled in April that MP3.com's internet music database constituted an infringement of Universal's copyrights, ruled yesterday that the infringement was wilful. He has ordered th... | 192 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | science | Sleeping sentinels of the deep | https://www.theguardian.com/science/2000/dec/07/technology3 | Some of us are quite helpless first thing in the morning, only half awake barely able to face the day. But the dolphin stays totally in control and completely aware of its surroundings even when half asleep. Dolphins are extraordinary creatures. They are mammals, they breathe air with lungs and can make a large gulp la... | 664 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-07 | money | The sec's files | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/aug/07/officehours | • SKIP THE RUSH HOUR Have you ever considered becoming a teleworker, and doing your nine to five at home instead of in the office? If so, it seems you are not alone. Analysis of the government's Spring 2000 Labour Force Survey by the Institute for Employment Studies shows a huge increase in the number of people working... | 548 |
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