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guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | uk-news | From Osaka to Greenwich | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/28/dome.simonbowers | • Tokushichi Nomura II, the son of a money changer from Osaka, founded Nomura Securities in 1925 after watching share dealing on Wall Street. The firm grew to become Japan's largest stockbroking company by the early 60s. • Nomura is now Japan's largest securities company and a leading international finance house. It wa... | 491 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | politics | How No 10 put spin on staff to impress BBC | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jul/15/uk.labour1 | A series of leaked memos from No 10 reveals how Downing Street spun the BBC to cast Alastair Campbell in a favourable light in a BBC documentary to be shown tonight. Civil servants and the prime minister's special advisers were told to smile and be polite for the cameras during staged meetings, according to emails pass... | 519 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | global | Tailgunner | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/sep/22/artsfeatures1 | Following Nirvana producer Butch Vig's Garbage, Tailgunner are the latest rock band formed by a production wizard. In case you didn't know, Mark Coyle twiddled the knobs on Oasis' Definitely Maybe and was usually found mixing their live sound. The connection with the Gallaghers doesn't end there: until recently, Noel G... | 526 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | politics | Tories toughen asylum line | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jan/28/thatcher.uk | Asylum seekers from "safe countries" should be locked up automatically on entering Britain and have their cases fast-tracked in 14 days, the Tories insisted yesterday in their harshest response yet to the rise in asylum applications. The shadow home secretary, Ann Widdecombe, said that Labour's decision to scrap the "w... | 364 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | politics | MPs plan to ease baby problems at Commons | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/apr/21/uk.politicalnews | Parents who work in or visit Parliament may gain new facilities for changing or breast feeding their babies under proposals to be put forward by a team of women MPs. A seven-strong committee, led by equal opportunities minister Margaret Hodge together with women's minister Tessa Jowell and public health minister Yvette... | 197 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | uk-news | Ministers knew of job cuts in advance | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/14/paulkelso.terrymacalister | Stephen Byers, the trade and industry secretary, faced embarrassment last night when the government was forced to admit it knew in advance about General Motors' decision to axe 2,000 jobs at its Vauxhall plant in Luton. After furious workers downed tools and laid siege to company headquarters, No 10 indicated that mini... | 610 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | politics | Retrial plan hijacked by Tories | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/may/15/uk.politicalnews3 | The Conservatives yesterday stepped up their new offensive on law and order when they unexpectedly endorsed plans to breach the "double jeopardy" rule and allow acquitted suspects to be tried a second time in exceptional circumstances. It prompted indignant Labour cries of "knee-jerk headline seeking", and of bandwagon... | 894 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | business | Vodafone gets the message | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jul/28/vodafonegroup | "Can we have our £10m back, please?" It is not what chairman Lord MacLaurin expected as he began his speech to Vodafone AirTouch's shareholders at the company's annual meeting, but that is what one irritated investor shouted. For the disgruntled, the one-off bonus to be given to the company's chief executive, Chris Gen... | 1,039 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | uk-news | Crucifixion images | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/21/fiachragibbons | This morning the artist Maggi Hambling will go to her studio, chain-smoke her way through a few pages of the Bible and create an image of the crucifixion. Each Good Friday for 14 years Hambling has followed this curious ritual, using accounts of the Passion culled from the gospels for inspiration. Last year she used a ... | 338 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | world | Bombs raise tension in Tehran | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/mar/14/news | Mortar bombs exploded in a Tehran residential district yesterday, one day after the attempted assassination of a leading political strategist and adviser to President Mohammed Khatami. The two incidents, which appeared unrelated, heightened political tensions between the factions vying for power in Iran. Reformers blam... | 659 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | education | Pay scale on scrap heap | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/mar/07/furthereducation.theguardian | The national further education pay scale, which unions say many colleges misuse to depress wage levels, is to be scrapped. A radical review of the whole further education salary system is being launched jointly by unions and employers in the hope of clawing lecturers' pay back up to some sort of parity with schoolteach... | 720 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-13 | technology | Weblife: email news | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/jan/13/lifeonlineaguidetotheinternet.onlinesupplement | Just before Christmas, FT.com used Lenin to advertise its email news - which was deceptive since their service is not as revolutionary as the old red. Email news - headlines or stories sent straight to your inbox - is one of the oldest news channels on the net. And it still makes sense: in the beginning was the word wh... | 1,168 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-21 | uk-news | Where history repeats itself | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/21/northernireland.maggieokane | In the corner of the Tigers Bay estate on the Protestant Limestone Road in Belfast, one house has three flags flying from it, the union flag and two Red Hands of Ulster. The man who owns the house does not want to talk and does not want to be named. He is up a ladder on the gable wall stringing another banner that read... | 1,166 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-06 | uk-news | IRA agrees to open up its weapons dumps | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/07/northernireland.henrymcdonald | The IRA took the historic step yesterday of agreeing to open its arsenals to inspection, generating a wave of optimism that the Irish peace process was back on track. The republicans said arms dumps could be inspected at regular intervals by agreed representatives of an international decommissioning body to prove that ... | 1,179 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | media | Media briefing | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/sep/21/1 | DAILY TELEGRAPH The Radio Authority has cleared Welsh radio station Red Dragon FM of scaremongering after it was blamed yesterday for spreading a second round of panic petrol buying. (p8) MEDIA PAGES: Andrew Rawnsley got £30,000 from the Observer and £50,000 from the Mail for the serialisation of his book detailing feu... | 783 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | business | Public sector grows again | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jun/14/education.schools | Labour's boost to government spending has delivered the first rise in public sector employment since the winter of discontent in 1979 ushered in the Conservatives' 18-year campaign to slim down the state. In the first signs that frontline services are feeling the benefit of Labour's spending plans, figures from the off... | 729 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-21 | uk-news | Lone oarsman left all at sea as satellite link goes bust | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/mar/21/neilmcintosh | A lone oarsman crossing the south Pacific fears he could be made a virtual castaway after a satellite communications network went bankrupt last weekend. Father of five Jo Le Guen, 52, embarked on the 4,500 mile (8,350km) journey from New Zealand on February 3, in an attempt to raise awareness of ocean pollution. He is ... | 545 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | uk-news | Focus: The BSE scandal | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/29/bse.focus1 | Billy McIntyre tried to stick to his routine on Wednesday night. At about 7pm he left his terraced house on a quiet estate in the north of Aberdeen and made the 10-minute journey up the hill to the city's royal infirmary. For an hour and a half he sat with his daughter Donna, aged 21, who has been in hospital since bei... | 5,690 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-06 | world | Kosovo hit by ethnic clashes | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/06/balkans | French peacekeepers clashed with ethnic Albanians in Mitrovica, Kosovo, for a second straight day yesterday, using clubs and tear gas against hundreds trying to push across a bridge to the Serb-controlled north side of the city. Meanwhile, the death toll from four days of ethnically motivated violence rose to 10 with t... | 331 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-06 | uk-news | Is this their last hurrah? Let's hope so... | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/06/monarchy.comment3 | I cheered aloud when I read last week's Leader about the monarchy. And not least because, like many others during the past couple of weeks, I've suffered a sickening experience. We have been gagging at the reams of newspaper and hours of broadcasting time from which real news has been excluded to make space for a flood... | 840 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-07 | global | Great shot | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/jun/07/artsfeatures | Wembley in the summer of 1996: Gareth Southgate is stepping up to take that penalty. The one that seemed to take an eternity to roll across the turf. In reality it's a split second, during which Ravi Deepres reacts faster than the German goalkeeper. One eye takes in events on the pitch, while the other focuses on a sec... | 1,294 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-14 | business | E-xentric turnround for pizza magnate | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jan/14/efinance.shopping | Hugh Osmond, the pizza entrepreneur and pub owner, has turned his hand to the internet with startling effect, seeing the value of the shares in his internet shell-company jump almost 20-fold before it has even made its first investment. Shares in Blakes Clothing, formerly a Basildon-registered menswear retailer, yester... | 589 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | money | Pylon the power, s'il vous plat | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/may/14/observercashsection.theobserver | I felt a strange sensation just below my solar plexus as we drove over the hill and I caught my first glimpse of the little stone-walled French hamlet we had bought two months previously. It was mainly a ridiculous sense of relief that it was still there and that, tucked away in its clearing in the forest, with a view ... | 1,220 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | global | G2: Pass Notes on Chatham | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/dec/14/features11.g2 | Ah, Chatham in Kent. One of the three Medway towns I believe, the others being Rochester and Gillingham. Yair. And once famous for the Royal Naval dockyard (pictured) which was closed down in 1984. Yair. Wotevva. Would I be right in thinking that the young Charles Dickens lived there at one time? U wot? Gail Porter mor... | 449 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | world | Euro opponents celebrate early results in Danish euro referendum | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/sep/28/1 | The beleaguered euro faced a tight race to the end, but the nay-sayers pulled ahead in initial results from a referendum on whether to replace the 125-year-old krone with the EU's common currency. With 40.7 percent of the vote counted, it was 52.5 percent against the euro and 47.5 percent in favor, according to the Int... | 999 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | uk-news | Relatives jailed for attack on doctors | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/15/stevenmorris1 | Three relatives of a severely disabled boy who punched, kicked and bit hospital doctors because they believed that the child was being allowed to die were jailed yesterday. Doctors, who thought nothing more could be done for David Glass, were attacked by his uncle and two aunts after they gave him the painkiller diamor... | 906 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-07 | world | Anger at Kosovo mines contract | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/may/07/balkans | A private military company accused of human rights abuses has been awarded lucrative Government contracts to clear unexploded mines and cluster bombs in Kosovo, The Observer can reveal. The decision, taken by International Development Secretary Clare Short, has infuriated MPs, charities and anti-arms trade campaigners.... | 814 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | business | Central banks are the new rock 'n roll | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/may/14/columnists.theobserver1 | Are Central Banks the new rock 'n roll? The world is after all agog, nay on the edge of its seat, awaiting the Fed's Open Market Committee meeting this week. Forget Tate Modern, the hot ticket is Alan Greenspan's pronouncement on interest rates. While Greenspan is the Madonna of monetary policy - he only has to show up... | 767 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | uk-news | End of 'touts' in Northern Ireland | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/29/northernireland.humanrights | Tout - the word used to describe informers in Northern Ireland - is no longer politically correct. The chilling IRA warning 'touts will be shot' will have to be erased from the walls of Belfast and Derry and replaced with 'Chis's will be shot'. For police officers can no longer call their sources inside the IRA and loy... | 596 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-28 | uk-news | Fugitive MI5 agent denies breaching secrecy code | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/28/4 | David Shayler, the former MI5 officer, will today formally reject government claims that he broke his duty of confidence by disclosing information about the activities of the security and intelligence services, insisting that he spoke out in the public interest. John Wadham, his lawyer and director of Liberty, the civi... | 343 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-14 | uk-news | Cherie plots star chamber | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/14/cherieblair.politics | Cherie Booth, QC is involved in setting up a new star-studded set of chambers with leading radical barristers who have built up a reputation for taking on high profile cases that challenge the government. Some of the most sought-after barristers at top civil liberties chambers are set to join the prime minister's wife ... | 481 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | technology | Sting falls through net | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/jul/28/efinance.business | Musician Sting has lost a case at an international panel to evict the holder of the net address "sting.com", becoming the first celebrity to suffer such a defeat, United Nations arbitrators said yesterday. The singer filed the case in June at the Geneva-based World Intellectual Property Organisation (Wipo) against Mich... | 456 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-21 | world | Sweet-talking lawyers hit by home truths | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/21/uselections2000.usa4 | Two of the most eminent big city lawyers in the United States were subjected to a workout based on down-home jurisprudence yesterday as they attempted to sweet-talk their respective clients into the White House. Never mind clause 103.101, or even 102.001, when did Florida's votes really need to be in? And what was wron... | 802 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-28 | media | Meet Victoria Harwood | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/feb/28/newmedia1 | * Jon Katz (who last week provoked a big online debate with an article on the future of the press. An extract is published at) www.slashdot.org Are newspapers over? At this moment in media history, they have never been more pressed to define themselves, or done a worse job. All over the information spectrum, media audi... | 529 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | uk-news | US kidnap victim dead in swamp | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/28/helencarter | A Briton who was kidnapped by his girlfriend's jealous ex-lover in America has been found murdered in a swamp. Paul Gale's body was discovered in a marshy area in New Jersey known as Devil's Hill, 10 days after he was lured from his hotel room in Florence, Kentucky, by Greg Marcinski, who was posing as an FBI agent. Ma... | 656 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-07 | uk-news | Lords dismiss Roma asylum test case | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/07/immigration.immigrationandpublicservices | A Slovakian Roma appealing for asylum in Britain following attacks by skinheads in Slovakia yesterday lost a crucial House of Lords test case. Five Law Lords unanimously dismissed Milan Horvath's appeal in a judgment which will have implications for hundreds of other Roma or Gypsy asylum seekers in Britain who are wait... | 418 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-07 | global | The guzzler | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/jul/07/features11.g21 | On the menu: sea trout What is it? Also known as salmon trout, white trout, and sewin. Technically, salmo trutta. So what's with this old trout then? As farmed salmon is suspect and wild salmon increasingly hard to come by, discerning chefs and cooks are turning to the trout to provide the wild pink protein. Well, what... | 872 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-21 | world | Women: Is female masturbation still a taboo? | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/21/gender.uk | Stuff the American elections; the big news of the weekend was the UK sex aid industry's announcement that it has founded a trade organisation and is applying to the British Standards Institution so its products can carry the Kitemark. A little late in the day for some punters since, according to Channel 4's A Girl's Be... | 1,483 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-14 | media | The future is on the phone | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/aug/14/newmedia.mondaymediasection1 | While the majority of the population still can't see beyond the next episode of Big Brother, the powers behind our screens - the content providers, pipes and portals, all of whom hope to be dominant players in the brave new age of broadband - are falling over themselves trying to second guess our consumption habits in ... | 1,653 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-07 | world | After 40 years and millions of posters, Che's photographer sues for copyright | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/07/cuba.mattwells | Che Guevara's appearance at the front of a makeshift platform at a memorial service in Havana lasted just a few moments. But in that short time the newspaper photographer Alberto Diaz Gutierrez managed to capture the essence of the Latin American revolutionary with such perfection that his messianic image became a 20th... | 1,006 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | media | Freeserve has posted a widened first quarter loss | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/sep/28/citynews.newmedia | Freeserve, the UK's leading internet service provider, has posted a widened first quarter loss, due to technology spending and marketing costs. The company, which this summer has been subject to constant takeover speculation, said turnover for the 16 weeks to August 19 was £14.6m, against £3.3m for the same period last... | 323 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | politics | Tories unveil private contractor scheme to get jobless into work | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jul/14/thatcher.uk | The Conservative party, in a further move to the right, last night announced it would scrap the New Deal for the unemployed and impose a US-style scheme in which private contractors would find job placements for them. The scheme would place less emphasis on training and much more on preparing the jobless for the discip... | 499 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-21 | business | Tomkins offloads RHM for £1.1bn | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jul/22/privateequity | Rank Hovis McDougall, the maker of Hovis bread, Bisto gravy and Mr Kipling cakes, was sold yesterday to a private equity group for £1.1bn after long and tortuous negotiations by its owner, the former conglomerate Tomkins. In one the largest transactions of its kind, Doughty Hanson, a venture capital firm, is now expect... | 670 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | uk-news | ANC brokered IRA peace offer | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/14/northernireland.henrymcdonald | One of the last ANC militants to lay down arms after the war against apartheid played a leading role in convincing the IRA to move to its historic compromise over arms decommissioning last weekend, The Observer has learnt. Sathyandranath 'Mac' Maharaj held a secret meeting with IRA leaders, including the hardline Marxi... | 1,181 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-28 | uk-news | Trimble triumphant | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/28/northernireland.politics | Towards the end of a decisive week for Ulster Unionism and the Northern Ireland peace process the phone calls from the Province to a corner of the Pacific Far East became more and more frantic. David Trimble and his campaign team at their headquarters in Stormont kept in contact with unionism's most famous absentee - d... | 2,098 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-20 | money | No stakeholder fees, says Barclays | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/oct/21/business.personalfinancenews | Barclays yesterday moved to take a large share of the forthcoming stakeholder pensions market by announcing the introduction of a pension plan free of all charges for almost two years. The bank, which is keen to rebuild its image after a series of public relations blunders, announced a stakeholder pension with no manag... | 373 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-21 | society | Getting fair price for indigenous remedies | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/dec/21/voluntarysector1 | For centuries traditional healers in Samoa have ground up the stem of the plant Homolanthus acuminatus and steeped it in hot water as a treatment for the yellow fever virus. Recently, the age-old remedy caught the interest of the US National Cancer Institute which took a closer look and found prostratin, a drug with po... | 899 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-27 | world | Gunman kills 7 at net firm | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/27/usgunviolence.usa | A 42-year-old gunman armed with an AK47 rifle, shotgun and semi-automatic handgun yesterday shot dead seven of his fellow employees on their first day back at work after Christmas at the offices of an internet consulting company. "I'm shocked, totally shocked," said Nancy Pecjo, an employee of the firm, Edgewater Techn... | 615 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-06 | global | Dulcie Domum: Sharing a single bed | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/oct/07/weekend7.weekend | Fred, with whom I enjoyed an Umbrian dalliance, has dropped by and is being monopolised by my aged aunt, visiting lesbian, teenage daughter and ex-spouse. Perhaps it's just as well. I am incapacitated by conjunctivitis and a filling has dropped out, turning my mouth into a gasworks. Make coffee for six, but secretly lo... | 1,036 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | world | Israelis seal off towns after four deaths | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/14/israel | Israel suffered its heaviest casualties in a single day since the current conflict began when Palestinian gunmen killed three Jewish settlers in the West Bank yesterday and a man in the Gaza Strip. In response, Israel moved to cordon off all Palestinian-ruled towns in the West Bank, said Major-General Yitzhak Eitan, Is... | 637 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-06 | politics | Sketch: A day in the life of One Word Man: he says a word | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jul/06/conservatives | There is a cartoon by HM Bateman called, I think, The One Note Man. A series of beautifully detailed drawings shows a chap waking up, having breakfast, going to work with his instrument case, joining the orchestra, and, at the climax of his day, playing a single note on the triangle. The story ends with him tucked up a... | 797 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-21 | uk-news | Freed Britons describe Colombia kidnap terror | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/21/3 | Two Britons held captive in Colombia for nine months today told of their terror as they were captured at gunpoint by guerrillas. Paul Winder, from Chelmsford, Essex, and Tom Hart Dyke, from Eynsford, Kent, said they had been taken hostage after stumbling across the rebels while hunting for rare species of orchid. The t... | 619 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-14 | uk-news | Arsonist kills young couple | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/14/martinwainwright | Detectives are questioning work colleagues and other contacts of a young couple who were killed when an arsonist poured inflammable liquid through the letterbox of their home. Company manager James Murphy, 28, and his partner Jane Pemberton, 23, a personal assistant, died of smoke inhalation when fire gutted their semi... | 160 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-14 | world | Primakov opts for Duma post | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jan/14/russia.ameliagentleman | Acting President Vladimir Putin saw his chances of winning the presidential election boosted further yesterday when his rival Yevgeny Primakov hinted that he would not run. On the day that Mr Putin officially confirmed he would stand for the presidency, Mr Primakov indicated to fellow politicians that he would instead ... | 87 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-21 | media | Shake-up time for Auntie | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/jun/21/bbc.comment | Yet again, the BBC governors have laid into the corporation's flagship channel for failing to "hit the heights" with its mix of programmes. More work needs to be done, they said in their annual report, to make BBC1 distinctive from its commercial rivals; standards were too variable, and the "average quality of programm... | 395 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | business | U-turn over petrol price hike | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/sep/14/oil | Oil giant Esso tonight announced it was reversing its decision to up the price of petrol after it recognised the raise was "against the spirit" of the current fuel shortage crisis. Earlier, the company had come under fire after plans emerged for a hike in petrol prices at the height of the fuel crisis and amid a drop i... | 1,321 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-27 | global | Pop review: Pulp | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/aug/28/artsfeatures.pulp | You expect the unexpected with Pulp. Just when we'd all finally grown to love those bittersweet, poppy songs, they turned hardcore on us with that dark last album of existential brooding. At the Corn Exchange, things were stranger still. There was a sheep pen outside, with sheep in it, for starters. The venue itself, t... | 360 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | business | Kingfisher tale defies logic | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/sep/14/5 | Sometimes the City appears to defy logic. Take yesterday. Kingfisher , the retail conglomerate, rose sharply despite unveiling a lousy set of interim figures and a veiled warning on profits for the rest of the year. With some analysts bringing their full year profit forecasts down to just £670m (the consensus forecast ... | 905 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-21 | money | Postcards from the edge of a rediscovery | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jul/22/workandcareers.madeleinebunting | Social history: Lots of people collect Edwardian postcards with photographs on Remember postcards? Does anybody still send them in the age of email? Better still, remember cigarette cards? The cards of sportsmen, soldiers, shipping, trains, and theatrical figures that used to come in cigarette packets. They seemed to h... | 1,046 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | world | Russian media war hots up as mogul faces new charges | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/14/russia.ameliagentleman | The prolonged battle for control of Russia's largest privately held media group intensified yesterday when a new warrant was issued for the arrest of the Media-Most group head, Vladimir Gusinsky. Mr Gusinsky - whose brief imprisonment earlier this year fuelled international concern about the future of press freedoms in... | 971 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | technology | Boo! I'm back | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/oct/29/business.efinance | It is a virtual face that haunts any thrusting dotcom entrepreneur. The legendary Miss Boo symbolised the profligacy and mismanagement of around £100 million and became synonymous with the phrase 'cash-burn', writes Faisal Islam. But Boo is bouncing back tomorrow under new US owner Fashionmall. The new site will featur... | 129 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-07 | money | Fighting job insecurity is all in the mind | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jan/07/workandcareers.uknews1 | Ill treated and put upon workers are fighting back in an increasingly insecure job market by jealously hoarding their knowledge, psychological researchers revealed yesterday. With the end of the job for life culture and the rise of the "knowledge economy", employees are realising they need to guard their marketability ... | 519 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | world | Mugabe supporters invade Ian Smith's farm | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/may/15/zimbabwe.andrewmeldrum | Dozens of angry supporters of President Robert Mugabe yesterday invaded the 6,000-acre cattle ranch of Zimbabwe's last white ruler, the stubborn and outspoken Ian Smith. The occupation comes on the eve of a visit to Zimbabwe by the Commonwealth secretary-general Don McKinnon, who is expected to deliver a stern warning ... | 736 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-06 | education | Making trading grades an educational option | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/jul/06/schools.comment | It's all in a name, so they say, and never more so than in the case of qualifications. The government has struggled in vain to give more credibility to the appallingly-named GNVQ (General National Vocational Qualification) in order to encourage more take-up. Today it is announcing that it is relaunching foundation, int... | 608 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-20 | politics | Comment: Joan Smith on family values, politics and the media | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/aug/21/labour.labour1997to99 | They simply can't resist it, can they? Tony Blair and Cherie, walking hand in hand the day after Labour won the general election in 1997; Al Gore and Tipper, snogging on the podium at the Democratic convention in Los Angeles last week. In the latter case, the subtext was so loud it might as well have been broadcast ove... | 1,366 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-14 | world | Wahid backs down on call for Wiranto to resign | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/14/indonesia.johnaglionby | The Indonesian president, Abdurrahman Wahid, yesterday backed down in his confrontation with his security minister, General Wiranto, and said that the former armed forces commander would not have to resign until a formal legal investigation had been completed into last year's atrocities in East Timor. It is not thought... | 584 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-13 | global | Promenade poetry | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/apr/14/artsfeatures4 | The 1998 Guardian International Theatre award was scooped by writer/director Dylan Ritson and he proves that the faith was justified with this most novel of London debuts. Ritson's play and production, a fleshing out of Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem, are overlong and the relentless wordplay can get wearing. But there i... | 379 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | global | Stone age survivor | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/may/15/features11.g21 | Bill Wyman, former bass player with the Rolling Stones, is a man with few affectations. (Very few expressions, too, but that's another matter.) He doesn't wear jewellery or fancy suits. "They told me to dress up for this. Well, I didn't." There's raggedy salt-and-pepper stubble above his upper lip. And there are marks ... | 2,238 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-21 | politics | Every day is election day, politicians are told | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jul/22/uk.politicalnews | The advice given to Tony Blair by Philip Gould, the prime minister's chief pollster, is based on the work of the controversial US political consultant Dick Morris, who in his latest work suggests that modern political leadership is no longer about ideology but substance. In an echo of the Downing Street denunciation of... | 935 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-14 | business | The power 300 panel | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/oct/15/theobserver.observerbusiness | Will Hutton Chief executive, the Industrial Society Hutton's career in journalism started in 1978. He joined the Guardian in 1990, and became editor in chief of The Observer in 1998, before taking up his job with the Industrial Society this year. His books include The State We're In (1994). Tamara Ingram Chief executiv... | 420 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | money | Frustrated by a wall of silence | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jul/29/personalfinancenews.jobsandmoney1 | Patrick Dickinson, 32 is part of the "can pay, can't get" generation of well-paid professionals who, despite having perfect credit ratings, are horrified to find themselves rejected when they apply for financial deals. On paper, Mr Dickinson looks just the sort of "new economy" customer the new internet-led financial c... | 688 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | business | Humble Pie - an email doing the City rounds | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/apr/21/6 | A long, long week ago I can still remember how the market used to make me smile What I'd do when I had the chance Is get myself a cash advance And add another tech stock to the pile... But Alan Greenspan made me shiver With every speech that he delivered Bad news on the rate front Still I'd take one more punt I can't r... | 338 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | uk-news | A Taurean who just wants to be noticed | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/21/tonyblair.politics3 | Born on the last day of Taurus, at 12.25 am, Leo Blair is no Lion but a full-blooded Bull like his father. Taureans are invariably described as cautious, practical people, dependable but stubborn. Since Taurus is the sign of Mother Earth in full bloom, its subjects are reckoned natural artists and economists. In the ca... | 358 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-21 | education | Preparations for the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/nov/21/highereducation.researchassessmentexercise | The head to head between Oxford and Cambridge will be one of the most eagerly anticipated events of the academic calendar next year. And we are not talking about the boat race, varsity match, or even Jeremy Paxman's University Challenge TV quiz. The competition is the Research Assessment Exercise - a national obsession... | 1,963 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-06 | uk-news | Anti-social order made against barrister | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/07/paulkelso | As a barrister with 20 years' experience Veena Madnani would have become used to being told to pipe down by a judge. When she took to repeatedly banging on her ceiling, apparently in response to noise from above, it led to a far more serious rebuke. Madnani has become the first homeowner to be issued with an anti-socia... | 306 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-14 | uk-news | Risks of speed that give rallying its appeal | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/14/davidwilliams | To competitors and spectators alike, part of rallying's appeal is cars being driven on any kind of road in any kind of conditions. Yesterday's accident has underlined the sport's dangers. Rallies can cover hundreds of miles in remote countryside, and it can be difficult to maintain close crowd control. While even minor... | 217 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-06 | money | Ford workers told to cut absenteeism | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/apr/07/business.personalfinancenews2 | The crisis facing Britain's beleaguered car industry deepened last night as Ford warned employees at its Dagenham plant to cut down on sickness and absenteeism or face a future of decline. On the other side of the country, 200 workers at Vauxhall's engine plant at Ellesmere Port walked off the job in a dispute about sh... | 579 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | society | Local government finances fluctuate despite drive for stability | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/nov/28/policy.socialcare | The revenue support grant settlement never loses its importance for local government. The allocation of £44.4bn of external support to local authorities is the single most important event in their year. Such is the level of interest that many councils send an official to pick up the papers from the glassy offices of th... | 675 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-21 | media | Right here, right now | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/mar/21/itv.tvandradio | ITV, sore from the embarrassing loss of Home And Away to the upstart Channel 5, is desperately seeking a new, home-grown soap. The call has gone out to producers from across the land to come up with an idea for an original, home-produced, youthful alternative. A new national viewing institution could soon be born. But ... | 1,076 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-07 | uk-news | Mayor Ken recruits top race radical | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/07/london.london | Ken Livingstone yesterday underlined his determination to bring a new kind of politics to London by appointing a radical black activist to his mayoral Cabinet. Lee Jasper, a Brixton community leader, has been given responsibility for race relations and liaison with the Metropolitan Police. The capital's first elected M... | 599 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-21 | business | Ryanair sneers at BA flights of fancy | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jun/21/theairlineindustry.britishairwaysbusiness | Michael O'Leary, the ever-ebullient chief executive of Ryanair, Europe's largest budget airline, was at it again yesterday, bad-mouthing his bigger and dearer rivals such as British Airways and Virgin Atlantic, the unlikely new bed-partners, and comparing their sorry profits decline with his own tenth year of earnings ... | 564 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | uk-news | Plan for haulage shakeup | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/nov/07/oil.business1 | The government has after weeks of debate decided to face down the fuel protesters, but is to offer instead a mix of concessions designed to speed a restructuring of the haulage industry. Ministers have decided to freeze fuel duty for the general motorist - in effect a real terms cut of 2p - since duty will not be uprat... | 443 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | media | BBC to sell news footage in Internet deal | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/may/14/bbc.business | The prospect of well-known BBC journalists such as Kate Adie and John Simpson appearing in bulletins on a multitude of commercial television channels from Chad to China is about to become a reality. The BBC will tomorrow announce that it will sell its news packages to other broadcasters through a new website which aims... | 222 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | science | What the tortoise taught us | https://www.theguardian.com/science/2000/dec/07/robots | In the 1940s Dr. William Grey Walter built some of the first artificial animals. More than half a century later, these first robots are providing the inspiration for a new race of mechanical creatures. Walter called his machines tortoises, after the tortoise in Alice in Wonderland. The mock turtle explains to Alice tha... | 1,728 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-07 | world | Barak plays for high stakes at summit | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jul/07/israel | Israel's prime minister, Ehud Barak, yesterday gave himself only an even chance of pulling off the biggest gamble of his career: reaching a peace agreement with the Palestinians at the Camp David summit. As he struggles to keep his coalition from collapse, Mr Barak is acutely conscious of warnings from Palestinian offi... | 378 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | technology | Feedback | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/sep/14/onlinesupplement | No revolution I was pleased to note your inclusion of World Online in your table of internet access providers a couple of weeks ago (Online, September). I recently signed up to their excellent Freedom 24 programme after giving up on BT's risible Surftime deal - which was still not available in my area months after the ... | 773 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-14 | uk-news | Filling up regardless | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/14/transport.uk | Drivers are today being urged to boycott BP service stations as part of the campaign to persuade Gordon Brown to cut the cost of motoring. So far, Dump the Pump has been a damp squib. The RAC, while sympathising with motorists, believes there are better ways of getting the message across. Whatever its final outcome, ho... | 1,141 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-28 | global | Do Sarah Lucas's pictures make you think of sex? | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/mar/28/artsfeatures1 | The thought of Sarah Lucas on the rampage in Sigmund Freud's house feels unlikely and alarming, but also disgracefully inevitable. Somehow, I don't see Lucas spending her evenings in with Freud's Collected Works and an apple. It isn't her style even if in some quarters, reading psycho-analytic literature has become alm... | 1,192 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | money | Cashpoints | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/oct/29/observercashsection.theobserver2 | Active funds back on track Managers of UK growth funds have started to outperform the tracker funds that merely mimic financial indices, according to a review of 98 funds by the financial ratings agency Standard & Poor's. Over the 12-month review period, the average total return from an actively managed fund was 11.1 p... | 1,941 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-27 | world | Women: Summer nights | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/28/gender.uk | It's a summer night and my mother is not in the house. The Lady Who Lives Downstairs is keeping an eye on my brother, sister and me. I am the oldest so I must be calm, even though it feels as if we are alone. I'm too hot, so I kick back the sheet and lie in the dark, aware of the closeness of summer, the stuffiness of ... | 1,726 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-13 | media | Radio 1 axeman quits key post | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/oct/14/bbc.uknews | The BBC lost one of its most senior executives yesterday when Matthew Bannister, the axeman of Radio 1's ageing disc jockeys, quit the corporation after 22 years. He will step down as director of marketing and communications at the end of the year, a role he was given in a BBC restructuring led by Greg Dyke, the direct... | 575 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-07 | business | Movers | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jun/07/ftse.stockmarkets | London shares ended the session just about back where they started, with the FTSE 100 having moved through a 130-point range during the session. The overall trend was one of weak drugs and media stocks tempered by some firmness in banking and oil sectors. The Footsie ended just 0.1 points higher at 6,546.8, and trading... | 595 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | global | Food on the net | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/jan/21/features11.g26 | www.food.epicurious.com A US site "for people who eat", apparently, which should suit pretty much everyone. Covers just about everything from cookbook reviews to difficult questions of etiquette (picking fish bones from your teeth, eating corn on the cob in public). Pros: Over 10,000 recipes on file to search through; ... | 145 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | uk-news | English football fans clash with police home and abroad | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/21/football.russellthomas | English fans clashed with police last night, marring the Uefa Cup semi-finals involving Leeds United and Arsenal. Tension was high in Yorkshire following the murder of two Leeds fans in Turkey a fortnight ago before the first leg of the tie. Fifteen people were arrested amid angry scenes outside Leeds' Elland Road grou... | 588 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-07 | uk-news | Football club's flats plan fails | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/07/4 | A long-running battle over the legality of planning permission granted four years ago for the redevelopment of Fulham Football Club's Craven Cottage ground ended yesterday in victory for local objectors, led by Lady Berkeley. Five law lords upheld her claim that the failure of the former environment secretary John Gumm... | 193 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | world | 'Everyone knows there is going to be a civil war in Serbia now. We can smell it' | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/mar/14/balkans3 | His mobile phone plays the Serbian national anthem when it rings; he presses the receiver with a hand the size of a T-bone steak. A Serb paramilitary, one of the feared "Tigers" who killed in Kosovo, he smothers the bay-blue handset with massive fingers. "I'd like to find a nice girl and get married, but we have to wai... | 1,540 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-07 | politics | Can a touch of pragmatism bring Europe into new focus? | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/oct/07/uk.labour | Tony Blair's speech was the best of British. Europe has heard many British speeches before, and come to associate them with the worst of epithets: griping, defensive, belligerent, utterly uninterested in the construction of "Europe". The Blair Warsaw oration marks the first time a leader has felt free to show the bette... | 819 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | uk-news | No precedent for the nappy factor | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/21/tonyblair.politics2 | We've had Prime Ministers who extended their leases on power with 'khaki' elections. Will a cooing electorate sweep New Labour back to a second term in the first ever 'nappy' election? Though no leading politician will be so indelicate as to talk about this in public, it has privately been the subject of weeks of pre-n... | 791 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | global | Empty lives, full of noise | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/jul/15/artsfeatures1 | I'll Go On Barbican Pit, London **** "My life - a joke that still goes on." So speaks Molloy in Samuel Beckett's novel, the first of the agonising post- war trilogy of being and nothingness that spans Mol loy, Malone and The Unnamable. These are works that read more like the longest suicide note in history than novels.... | 538 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-14 | money | Mind your languages | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/feb/14/officehours2 | The day you first heard those immortal words "Liselotte ist krank," it was always going to go one of two ways. Either you would love learning German, or you were going to spend the next couple of years doing some serious doodling. But when the UK subsidiary of an international property company needs to liaise with its ... | 625 |
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