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guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-14 | business | Float planned for web video service | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/feb/14/efinance.internet | Investors including Cliff Stanford, the founder of Demon internet, are likely to float Britain's first "video on demand" business on London markets later this year. The Redbus Film Group, which is part-owned by former investment banker Simon Franks, is considering raising money on the markets for additional funding for... | 372 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-21 | money | How to take the stress out of learning | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/oct/22/workandcareers.madeleinebunting2 | 1 RECOGNISE that you stand a strong chance of enhancing your career if you decide to learn new skills and subjects again. 'Lifelong learning' is more than Blairite puff. Most office workers would benefit from developing better computer skills. And the best way to protect against ageism is to be as good as the twentysom... | 480 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | uk-news | A Country Diary | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/21/ruralaffairs.countrydiary | Holkham, Norfolk Tawny owls are the most common and familiar of our six species of owl. Except for the extreme, treeless north-west they occur right across these islands. Most parishes have a pair and most people have almost certainly heard them. But it's a smaller number that have actually seen the bird's round-winged... | 451 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | world | The Results | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/28/zimbabwe.ewenmacaskill1 | Who's In David Coltart , a white member of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, took Bulawayo South despite repeated personal criticism from President Mugabe, death threats and his right to stand being challenged on the grounds that he was eligible for UK citizenship, which he renounced 15 years ago. Mr Colta... | 684 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | technology | Dot.com booed off stage | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/may/21/efinance.business | It was the ultimate sign of a business in deep trouble. One of boo.com's Swedish founders, Kajsa Leander, replied to an invoice with an e-mail that read: 'F--- you.' The message heralded the collapse of the brash online fashion retailer - a crash that will come to be be seen as a turning point in the brief history of t... | 1,649 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-07 | world | UK at risk of 'rogue' reprisals if it gives space to US missile shield | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/07/richardnortontaylor | Britain would become a target of "rogue" states if the government allowed the US to use its bases for a proposed national missile protective shield, senior defence sources admitted for the first time yesterday. Ministers, including Tony Blair, have been approached by Washington about upgrading the Fylingdales early war... | 660 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | politics | Ken, the total non-event | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/sep/21/londonmayor.comment | Ken Livingstone knows just what the government should do about the national fuel crisis. Earlier this week he shared his solution with readers of the Independent. "The correct policy is twofold," he announced. First, the government should get tough with the oil companies. Second, it should "start to reshape its tax pol... | 1,904 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | uk-news | Leak inquiry over MI5 book | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/sep/07/richardnortontaylor | A leak inquiry was under way yesterday as the Sun handed Downing Street a copy of the memoirs of the former head of MI5 Stella Rimington. The Cabinet Office said last night: "At first sight the manuscript does look authentic." Whitehall sources confirmed to the Guardian that the draft - which has been shown to Sir Rich... | 372 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-07 | business | VW fined £57m for cheap car sales ban | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jul/07/5 | Volkswagen was fined £57m yesterday for preventing its dealers in Italy from selling to customers from other European countries. It is the largest fine ever imposed on a European company for flouting fair competition laws. The European court of justice, based in Luxembourg, told Volkswagen its behaviour was a particula... | 635 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-14 | money | I've got to find a new job...quick! | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jan/14/workandcareers.drwork | The problem I am in a job I hate and thought I'd better tell the boss. As there is no chance of promotion (I am underemployed) unless I move away, the only solution is to leave. The boss managed to extract a leaving date from me and I am now in the position of having to find another job rather than wanting to. I am doi... | 400 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-21 | business | Business: News Analysis | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/nov/21/internetnews.business2 | It is 8am and the parking lots at Cisco City are already filling up fast. A queue of cars is filing off the San Thomas Expressway that skirts the northern edge of San Jose down towards what is fast becoming the largest and most important business park in the internet world. Each morning 13,000 people make this trip to ... | 1,444 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | money | Give temps a chance | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/may/15/officehours4 | It's a scenario most temps are all too familiar with. You accept a booking with an exhaustive list of skills and requirements - 60wpm typing, advanced Microsoft Office, one blue eye, one brown, fluency in Swahili - only to spend the next two weeks in the job filing your nails. Either that or you find yourself lumbered ... | 904 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | money | 'To talk to a machine, press 1 on your keypad' | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/feb/21/workandcareers | Dealing with us customers for any length of time leads many businesses to conclude that we are all barking mad, psychotic troublemakers or dimwits who only ring because they've run out of Play-Doh. Customer care is best left to the machines, then, and who hasn't experiences the joy of transactions via voicemail, e-mail... | 834 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-07 | uk-news | Trust the key as guns fall silent | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/07/northernireland.theobserver | At Hillsborough on Friday night Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern both looked exhausted. There was no talk of the 'hand of history' on Blair's shoulder, nor of 'seismic shifts' in the positions of the conflicting parties. Instead the British Prime Minister described his involvement in the peace process as 'deeply fulfilling ... | 1,460 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-21 | uk-news | Airlines test device to trace mobiles | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/21/keithharper | Airlines are testing warning devices in their cockpits to locate active mobile phones after tests by the civil aviation authority revealed that mobiles were a threat to the safety of aircraft. Tests carried out by the CAA on board two aircraft found that phone transmissions produced interference levels which could disr... | 247 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | politics | Yesterday | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jan/28/uk.politicalnews | Good day Michael Fabricant. The beautifully coiffeured Tory MP for Lichfield made a heartfelt plea that many would empathise with. He complained about being swamped with "useless junk faxes" and demanded consumer protection "for the poor guy who owns a fax machine and ends up having to pay for the paper, the toner and ... | 197 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | technology | A stab in the dark | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/dec/07/internetnews.onlinesupplement4 | The British state has long lacked a decent portal to the myriad sites put up by Whitehall, councils, the NHS, quangos and agencies and the launch this week of www.Ukonline.gov.uk is a stab in the right direction. It is a lot more user-friendly than the existing Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency (CCTA) site... | 447 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | technology | Outlaws rule the wild web | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/oct/29/business.efinance1 | 'We saved them a lot of embarrassment,' was the taciturn verdict of Tommy Helsby, senior executive with corporate security firm Kroll Associates. Embarrassment and probably a lot of money. Helsby was referring to one of his clients, a US internet giant, which was recently poised to launch in the UK. What the US dotcom ... | 1,430 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | world | Desperate jungle hostages ponder suicide | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jul/15/philippines | Militant Muslim separatists in the southern Philippines yesterday freed one of the 40, mostly foreign, hostages they have seized over the last 11 weeks. The release came as one of the remaining captives wrote that their mental state was deteriorating so quickly it was only a matter of time before they started committin... | 963 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-07 | politics | Economics of truth MPs attack rewriting of wartime history for box office gain | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jun/07/uk.filmnews | A Hollywood film which swaps British sailors for Americans in portraying the real-life wartime capture of the German Enigma coding device was yesterday attacked by MPs as a distortion of the truth for financial gain. U-571, which opened in Britain last week, tells how the US Navy recovered the Enigma Nazi code machine,... | 223 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-07 | business | On message | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/apr/07/efinance.internet1 | On the case Lawyer Gerard Spong said he was looking at the possibility of civil or criminal action against World Online chairman and founder Nina Brink over her sale of shares in the internet service provider before it listed in March. Write stuff Pen and paper make a comeback in a project announced by Ericsson with An... | 98 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | society | Mayor offers government way out of tube sell-off | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/nov/14/privatefinance.ppp | The London mayor Ken Livingstone yesterday offered the government "a face saving formula" to withdraw from its plans for part privatisation of London Underground when he asked ministers to let Bob Kiley, the new tube boss, decide if the scheme made sense. Mr Livingstone promised he would drop his opposition if Mr Kiley... | 176 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | media | Eidos losses deepen | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/nov/28/citynews1 | Eidos, the troubled creator of cyberbabe Lara Croft, continues to be hit by the non-appearance in the UK of the much-hyped PlayStation 2. Chief executive Mike McGarvey said today that the shortage of the consoles spelt another miserable Christmas for the games company. Last year the company found itself with stockpiles... | 471 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | science | Eating people - is it bad taste? | https://www.theguardian.com/science/2000/sep/07/technology3 | 'People have always eaten people. What else is there to eat? If the Juju had meant us not to eat people, he wouldn't have made us of meat!" So explains the exasperated father to his idealistic son in Michael Flanders and Donald Swann's revue skit from the 1950s, The Reluctant Cannibal. The teenage self-righteousness of... | 1,089 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | world | Arkan buried: 'Tigers' militia salute Serb warlord | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jan/21/balkans | Paramilitaries fired into the air and a band played an ancient Serbian hymn as the indicted war criminal Zeljko Raznatovic, "Arkan" was buried in Belgrade's main cemetery yesterday, five days after he was assassinated in the lobby of a city hotel. Mystery continued to swirl round the motives for his murder and whether ... | 721 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-07 | uk-news | Archer 'asked agent to alter libel evidence' | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/07/archer.politics | Jeffrey Archer is facing more embarrassment after claims by his former literary agent that the disgraced novelist asked him to alter his evidence during his 1987 libel case against the Daily Star. Richard Cohen, who played a key role in establishing the millionaire's writing career, is to tell detectives that Lord Arch... | 565 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-07 | business | BSkyB reaches content supply deal with Vodafone | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/feb/07/efinance.internet | BSkyB is understood to have reached agreement with Vodafone to supply the company with sports, news and entertainment content for its next generation of mobile phones. Under the terms of the deal Sky Sports, Sky Movies and Sky One branded content will be made available to Vodafone customers with wireless application pr... | 234 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | media | Worldsport.com put into liquidation | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/sep/28/newmedia.internet | Sports website Worldsport.com was at 3pm today put into liquidation by insolvency advice company Leonard Curtis. The final curtain follows months of speculation about the future of the company, which is understood to owe more than $10m (£6.8m). The 70 staff were told the news by receiver Leonard Curtis, which was appoi... | 134 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | law | Art treasure looted by Nazis finally returned to family | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/mar/14/warcrimes.germany | A small change made yesterday to the label of a painting in the Royal Academy's blockbuster exhibition, Art at the Crossroads, marked a moment in history. It was the first restitution in Britain of a painting looted by the Nazis to its rightful owners. The label now states that The Three Stages of Life, a grimly imposi... | 1,147 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-27 | uk-news | Jailed drug Britons arrive home | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/27/stevenmorris | Two Britons who endured more than two years jailed in what they said were dreadful conditions in the United Arab Emirates after being caught with a small amount of cannabis arrived home yesterday having been pardoned. Head teacher Lynn Majakas and social worker Ian Bamling flew back from Abu Dhabi to Heathrow airport f... | 871 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-13 | business | FTSE goes upwardly mobile | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/oct/14/ftse.stockmarkets | Mobile phone group Vodafone reclaimed its position as Britain's largest company yesterday as it helped spearhead a remarkable recovery in the FTSE 100. Shares in the company surged 8% to 257.75p and accounted for 55 of the 69 points contributed by the telecoms sector. The strong performance was enough to reverse the fo... | 808 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-07 | business | Movers | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jul/07/6 | It was the impact of Vodafone AirTouch and not the decision to keep domestic interest rates on hold that held the key to trading in London yesterday. With Wall Street looking unsure of itself ahead of today's key employment report, Vodafone's rise of 15p to 312p singlehandedly kept the FTSE 100's head above water. Beca... | 568 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-07 | business | US unemployment lowest for 30 years | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/oct/07/5 | The US unemployment rate sank to a 30-year low last month, raising doubts about the extent of the economic slowdown and rekindling fears of higher interest rates. The labour department said the economy created 252,000 jobs in September, sending the unemployment rate back down to 3.9% from August's 4.1%. Last month's jo... | 334 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | education | Some of our top medical schools are decidedly below par | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/nov/07/highereducation.universityteaching | Some of England's top medical schools, including Oxford and Cambridge, are failing to provide the best possible training for future doctors, the university standards watchdog has revealed. Leeds, Nottingham and Sheffield universities missed automatic re-inspection by just one point, after assessors concluded that "sign... | 768 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | world | The full speech: part one | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jan/28/3 | Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, honored guests, my fellow Americans: We are fortunate to be alive at this moment in history. Never before has our nation enjoyed, at once, so much prosperity and social progress with so little internal crisis or so few external threats. Never before have we had such... | 5,911 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-21 | media | Canal Plus board members ejected as takeover looms | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/dec/21/citynews.broadcasting1 | Canal Plus has ousted four board members as it prepares to be swallowed up by media giant Vivendi Universal. Pierre Lescure, boss of the French pay-TV channel, has removed four of his closest colleagues, including StudioCanal chairman Vincent Grimond. Earlier today, Mr Lescure denied that the reorganisation was forced ... | 276 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | world | Montego Bay victims win payoff | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/sep/07/3 | The Jamaican government has agreed to pay compensation to 32 street people removed by force from the island's best known tourism centre, Montego Bay, in July last year. The incident outraged human rights groups and caused a political stir. The homeless people, many reported to be mentally ill, were rounded up at night,... | 210 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | world | Russian general falls into Chechen hands | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jan/21/chechnya.ameliagentleman | Chechen rebels claimed yesterday to have captured one of Russia's most powerful generals in charge of leading the assault on Grozny, inflicting an acute new humiliation on the struggling Russian army. If confirmed, the capture of Major-General Mikhail Malofeyev will mark one of the gravest setbacks yet for the Russian ... | 953 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-28 | uk-news | The middle-class terrorists of ETA | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/28/worlddispatch.northernireland | Cruising past the boulevards, mansions, designer shops, fancy cars and roundabouts with landscaped geraniums, it is difficult to believe that Getxo is a heartland of ETA, Spain's supposed mirror image of the Provisional IRA. Banners calling for prisoner-releases flap from railings, but the scrubbed streets, smooth lawn... | 674 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | money | Money writes: Cook's tour over interest free credit | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/oct/29/observercashsection.theobserver6 | I bought a Tricity Bendix cooker from Currys in April last year under an interest-free credit agreement with GE Capital. I had problems with the cooker and was still not convinced it was working by the time payment was due the following October. I contacted GE Capital and Currys in November but neither would help. I se... | 1,258 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | world | Six are injured by Basque bomb | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/mar/07/spain | A car bomb exploded in the Basque coastal resort of San Sebastian last night, injuring two paramilitary civil guards and four civilians. The attack bore all the hallmarks of the separatist group ETA. The civil guards, a man and a woman, were driving to the corps's main Basque headquarters when a parked car exploded, sc... | 223 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-21 | money | From the top | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jul/22/workandcareers.madeleinebunting4 | A company's ability to generate high profits for investors is determined by two factors. One is the attractiveness of the markets in which it operates - some markets are just easier to earn profits in than others. The second determinant is whether the firm possesses a competitive advantage. If it can offer products or ... | 634 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | uk-news | News in brief | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/29/theobserver.uknews | Clocks go back one hour British Summer Time ended at 2am today. Clocks were put back one hour to Greenwich Mean Time. Sex probe priest 'takes leave' Father Gerard Flahive, a Catholic priest in Sheldon, Birmingham, at the centre of a police investigation into more than 20 years of alleged child abuse, has been ordered t... | 408 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-07 | media | Don't shackle the political interviewers | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/aug/07/broadcasting.mondaymediasection1 | Every so often, a bright spark decides the professional broadcast interview is dead. How much better, he or she says, if the public can interact with the decision-makers: remember that old lady who ran rings around Margaret Thatcher? Or what if politicians cross-examine each other? Great format! In fact, nothing is bet... | 770 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | uk-news | Petrol crisis: Monks scorns blockades | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/sep/14/oil.business4 | Trade unionists should have nothing to do with the "bosses' blockade" of fuel depots and refineries, the TUC general secretary, John Monks, said yesterday, comparing the petrol tax protests with the CIA-financed lorry owners' strike which led General Pinochet to power in Chile in the 1970s. In the most outspoken denunc... | 630 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | money | Best personal pensions | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/mar/14/consumerfinance.consumerfinanceawards2 | The Equitable Life Assurance Society has won the award for best customer service in the personal pensions category. Founded in 1762, the Equitable is the oldest mutual life office in the world and prides itself in being different from the majority of its rivals. As a mutual, it has no shareholders and is owned by its m... | 707 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-06 | money | Time for a return to victorious values | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/may/07/observercashsection.shares | New-economy shares may have the odd bout of nervousness, and investors may have an occasional flirtation with the old-economy stalwarts, but for much of the past decade there has been only one rule of thumb: cheap stocks get cheaper and expensive ones get pricier. Fleming Asset Management, one of a growing number of in... | 649 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-07 | world | Top female officer 'was groped at the Pentagon' | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/07/martinkettle | A few months ago, Major General Larry Smith was given responsibility for driving out sexual harassment from the US army. Today he stands accused of groping the army's first female three-star general in a case which has put male military mistreatment of women back into the headlines. Lieutenant-General Claudia Kennedy, ... | 871 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | media | Melody Maker closes | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/dec/14/pressandpublishing3 | The death of Melody Maker will be mourned as the end of an era. The music title, which closed today, was always something of a little brother to IPC stablemate NME. The 73-year-old music title never quite attained the iconic status of the NME, but at its height in the 70s it sold over 250,000 copies and was a must-read... | 378 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | politics | Labour's arms scandal | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jan/21/ethicalforeignpolicy.comment | The expression of scholarly frustration this week by Sir Richard Scott, the high court judge who conducted the arms to Iraq inquiry, that one of the principal recommendations of his wide ranging and exhaustive examination of that scandal had not yet been implemented, is both timely and embarrassing. Timely because it r... | 896 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | uk-news | UK news in brief | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/14/2 | Head denies pupil assaults Northumberland police said yesterday that the head of a junior school in the village of Wooler had been charged with assaults on eight pupils. Elizabeth Carey, 51, of Ashington, who was suspended in October, denies the charges. Light plane disappears A search was under way last night for a li... | 719 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-28 | business | German-packaged sun will still be cheap and cheeful | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/may/28/theobserver.observerbusiness4 | Don't panic, don't panic. The Germans are about to buy our entire package holiday business - well, almost - but there is no reason for any jokes about beach towels or tin hats. Not a lot will change under the mass-market sun. Foreign tourists of different nationalities will mix as poorly as they have always done in res... | 1,074 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | society | A helping hand | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/jun/28/guardiansocietysupplement | Among the one million strong social care workforce, 80% have no formal qualifications or training for the job. The care standards bill, currently before parliament, will begin to address this yawning gap and establish mechanisms for regulating training and setting practice standards. Such changes are to be welcomed, bu... | 920 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | uk-news | When Irish eyes sent the wrong signal to MI5 | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/21/richardnortontaylor | Songs including We'll Meet Again, Windy Night and When Irish Eyes Are Smiling played on an Irish radio station during the second world war aroused the suspicion of security services and were scanned to see if they were hidden messages to hostile agents, according to intelligence reports released yesterday. Song request... | 540 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | society | End of the affair | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/mar/07/smoking.health | Almost a fifth of the year 2000 is already over. It is unlikely that this fact will fill you with joy. Yet there is a bunch of embattled masochists for whom every day into this year has been a small victory, a moment to be celebrated, another step towards a great goal. They are the quitters, the ex-smokers. The healthy... | 763 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-20 | money | Britvic joins brands tango | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/aug/21/business.personalfinancenews | Soft drinks group Britvic could be up for grabs this week if a crucial regulatory decision goes in favour of its biggest shareholder, Bass, in a fresh step in the reshuffling of Britain's leisure brands. Bass is waiting to hear whether the sale of its brewing division can go ahead. If so, insiders say the company is li... | 665 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | education | Blunkett's magic tricks and the £19bn boost for education that doesn't exist | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/mar/07/educationincrisis.uk | There are many mysteries in David Blunkett's department for education, but the greatest of them all is this: where has all the money gone? Just over 18 months ago, on July 14 1998, Mr Blunkett announced a spending bonanza for schools. "The government is providing an additional £19bn for education over the three years f... | 4,575 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-21 | uk-news | The north-south divide: Ne'er the twain shall meet | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/21/britishidentity.comment | The problems of Euan have nothing on the problems of Eefne and Necc as far as Tony Blair and the next election is concerned; Today's report on the north-south divide from Oxford Economic Forecasting makes that clear. Headlines about teenage goings-on may be bigger and more colourful temporarily, but the woes of the Eng... | 800 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | media | Emap to launch masthead TV show | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/sep/21/emap.pressandpublishing | Emap Performance Network has confirmed it is to launch a masthead TV show based around its Q music magazine brand. The show, called QTV, will adopt a similar format to Kiss TV and The Box, allowing viewers to select videos from a playlist. Other features will include Q&A, based on the magazine's Cash for Questions sect... | 87 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | politics | Transport staff face drinks curbs | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/dec/07/transport.politicalnews | Measures to improve safety on the railways and tackle alcohol and drug use by transport workers could come into place after legislative plans were unveiled yesterday. A safety bill is to be drafted which will take in the recommendations of Lord Cullen's inquiry into rail safety in the wake of the Ladbroke Grove rail cr... | 401 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-13 | politics | PM pleaded with LibDem leader to save Michael | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/feb/13/wales.devolution2 | Tony Blair pleaded with the Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy to save the career of his man in Wales, Alun Michael, it emerged yesterday. The Prime Minister telephoned Kennedy 'several times' hoping to persuade the Liberal Democrats to withdraw their support from the 'no confidence' motion in the Welsh Assembly t... | 481 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | uk-news | 63% unaware of big phone switch | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/21/grahamdiggines | Most people are unaware of the shake-up in phone numbers which is taking place tomorrow, according to telephone companies. Figures released by the Big Number - a consortium of Britain's 40 phone companies overseeing the move - show that despite a £20m advertising campaign, 63% of the people affected will not know their... | 526 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | world | MI6 spy is jailed for 11 years | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jul/28/russia.ameliagentleman1 | A former Russian diplomat and author of espionage thrillers was found guilty of spying for MI6 yesterday and sentenced to 11 years in a top security prison for high treason. The conviction closes a long and peculiar spy scandal which has deeply embarrassed the British intelligence service since Platon Obukhov's arrest ... | 619 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | education | New qualifications come of age | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/nov/14/highereducation.theguardian5 | Universities and colleges of higher education have fully embraced the concept of Curriculum 2000 and the broadening of the preparatory curriculum to access higher education which it brings. When the previous AS (advanced supplementary) qualifications were introduced, higher education institutions were reluctant to incl... | 946 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-20 | money | Rate rises fail to quell demand for mortgages | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/apr/21/business.personalfinancenews2 | The buoyant housing market, the start of the spring house-buying season and a determination to beat higher stamp duty in the Budget drove demand for mortgages sharply higher last month, according to figures released yesterday. Higher interest rates from the Bank of England have failed to dent enthusiasm for the propert... | 531 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | media | Comment on Melody Maker closure | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/dec/14/pressandpublishing5 | It was the first magazine to be dedicated to music and for decades was a must-read for music lovers everywhere. The death of Melody Maker is much mourned by Paul Lester, features editor between 1993 and 1997 and associate editor of the music magazine Uncut. "It's always been a fantastic magazine and it's sad to see it ... | 778 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-21 | world | Debt relief leaving the poor worse off, says Oxfam | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/21/debtrelief.development | International efforts to cut the debts of the world's poorest countries are leaving some paying tens of millions of dollars more to their western creditors, Oxfam said today. The aid agency described the debt relief package which the World Bank and International Monetary Fund are offering Zambia, one of the most impove... | 626 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | politics | Hague shifts on life sentences | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/apr/28/uk.thatcher | William Hague was yesterday accused of softening Tory policy on crime when he indicated that he favoured abolishing the mandatory life sentence for murder. In a fresh twist to Conservative attempts to capitalise on public concern over the Tony Martin case, the Tory leader said his party's manifesto would include a guar... | 709 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | uk-news | Gypsies attack 'racist' Straw over ban on fair | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/sep/07/humanrights.world | British Gypsies will accuse the home secretary of racism in the high court this morning when they seek a judicial review of his decision to sign an order banning their annual horse fair in the Kent village of Horsmonden. The Gypsy Council, the National Romany Rights Association and Liberty, the civil liberties group, w... | 743 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | education | Is the foundation degree just another confusing qualification? | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/nov/28/furthereducation.theguardian1 | The first of the quickie "foundation degrees" designed to boost massively the numbers of young people going into higher education are unveiled today. Hospitality, new media design, internet computing, music and multimedia and community enterprise are among the 40 subjects in this list of prototypes designed to achieve ... | 1,237 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | technology | Selling up or selling out? | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/sep/21/onlinesupplement6 | Could it really have been so simple? Not so long ago, a couple of guys would come up with an idea for an internet start-up, have a lot of cash thrown at them to buy brand recognition, and as much time as they wanted in which to become profitable. Taking their cue from the US, most dot.com companies over here tried to g... | 1,164 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-07 | world | Copycat coup | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/07/solomonislands.guardianleaders | The coup attempts and resulting violence in Fiji and the Solomon Islands are, in a broad sense, a product of the colonial era dislocations which still bedevil a large swath of Far East and Pacific territories once ruled by 19th-century Europe's great powers and, in the case of the Philippines, by the United States. A g... | 513 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | uk-news | A rural distraction | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/14/hunting.ruralaffairs | In the wider scheme of things - childhood poverty, school under-achievement, waiting lists, let alone jobs, technological risk and the survival of the planet - the fate of the fox is a stunning sideshow. The proverbial visitor from Mars would be nonplussed. How many parliamentary hours stand to be consumed; how much po... | 722 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | world | Ian Smith: 'The more we killed, the happier we were' | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/29/zimbabwe.sandrajordan | Former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith returns a week tomorrow to his home in Zimbabwe. He says he relishes the prospect of facing charges of genocide threatened by President Robert Mugabe, whose hold on power is under threat. But at Oxford last week, in the civilised ambience of a Union debate, Smith found himself ... | 706 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | politics | How the oil men faced down a furious PM | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/sep/14/uk.oil | The sun streaming through the cabinet room windows yesterday produced one of the few bright spots in the Downing Street bunker as the petrol crisis threatened to wreck the economy and Tony Blair's political credibility. Sitting in his normal seat in the middle of the polished cabinet table for an emergency meeting, the... | 1,229 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-14 | world | South Africa slow to curb spiralling child sex abuse | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/14/chrismcgreal | The South African government is expected to reject public clamour for a paedophile register in new sex offence legislation aimed at curbing some of the highest rates of child abuse in the world. Public frustration with the authorities over a series of horrific crimes against children in recent weeks has focused on the ... | 792 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-21 | world | Champagne of revolution quick to go flat in valley of fear | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/21/balkans2 | The handover of power from Slobodan Milosevic's allies to the opposition appears to be making slow progress; nowhere more so than in the Presevo valley, next door to Kosovo and also home to many of Serbia's Albanian minority. The region, about 25 miles south-east of Pristina and tucked between Kosovo and the former Yug... | 980 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | society | Guidelines may end infertility care bias | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/jan/21/futureofthenhs.health | Many more women could receive infertility treatment on the NHS if measures were taken to prevent triplet births, specialists said yesterday at the launch of new guidelines. At present, IVF (test tube baby) clinics replace up to three embryos in the woman's womb after fertilisation of her eggs with her partner's sperm t... | 379 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-14 | world | Russia talks to rebels in Chechnya | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/14/chechnya.ameliagentleman | The Russian government said yesterday that it was talking directly to rebel representatives in Chechnya - a reversal of its refusal to enter into dialogue with "terrorists". The announcement by Russia's foreign minister, Igor Ivanov, indicates that Moscow is finally ready to start negotiations in an attempt to end the ... | 653 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | law | Race dilemma for judges | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/may/15/law.theguardian | A few years ago a woman juror at Croydon Crown Court told the judge that her intense racial prejudice prevented her from reaching an unbiased verdict in the trial of a black defendant. The judge let her go home. But what should a judge do if he receives a note from one juror saying that some fellow jurors had made raci... | 1,059 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | media | Voyeur vision puts contestants in focus | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/jun/28/uknews | Owing more to Colditz than a Conran loft conversion, a purpose-built London home is about to become the centre of this year's biggest television phenomenon. It needs to be well-protected. When its 10 occupants move in next month, they will become the focus of unrelenting interest, the target of commercial publicity stu... | 895 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | politics | New parliament, same old prejudice | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jan/21/scotlanddevolution.devolution | It was an ugly death. Michael Doran, a 35-year-old homosexual, was cruising the lawns and pathways of Glasgow's Queens Park, a well-known gay haunt, when he was set upon by a gang of youths. He was found next morning in a flower-bed, every bone in his face and head broken. But that was five years ago, a time when the p... | 1,012 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | business | Business: Buyers rush for Bamforth archive | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/sep/28/4 | The well-padded stars of a uniquely British art form, the saucy seaside postcard, have proved their commercial strength after the bankruptcy of their parent firm. Buyers are competing for the Bamforth section of the collapsed ETW Dennis printing company, which took over the range of groan-inducing but perennially popul... | 299 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | world | John Sweeney on Israelis' fears | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/29/israel | The old man basked in the autumn sun and watched the girls go by on Tel Aviv beach and remembered the time back in '33 when, as a five-year-old, he had given the Nazi salute. 'The Nazis had just taken power and they were all Heil Hitlering and I joined in the fun too,' he said. 'And then a man came to me and said: "Boy... | 1,206 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | world | UN tribunal told of Bosnian rape camp horrors | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/21/balkans1 | Her identity reduced for the second time in her young life, witness number 78 delivered heartbreaking testimony at the international war crimes tribunal in the Hague yesterday. The young Bosnian woman's evidence, delivered in short painful sentences from behind a screen, is part of a trial which could overturn centurie... | 1,135 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | world | The national vetoes which must go | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/07/eu.politics7 | Many people may think that institutional reforms at a European level are dull, too abstract to be meaningful, too tiresome to deserve attention. The European Council meeting in Nice, however, is of crucial importance to all of us. It will, quite simply, determine whether we have a European Union that works in future. T... | 914 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-07 | media | Time to end this shrill campaign | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/feb/07/bbc.mondaymediasection | Well, at least we're on the last lap. By the end of this month - maybe even the end of this week - we will know the government's answer to the puzzle set by the Davies Report: should the BBC spend money on the new digital services? And, if so, where should it come from? The casual reader might be forgiven for imagining... | 1,001 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | education | Blunkett's magic tricks, continued | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/mar/07/educationincrisis.uk1 | Bonanza In 1992, according to the Commons library, there were only two LEAs in England which were not spending above the SSA guideline. By the time Mr Blunkett took office, there were 30 who had been forced below the SSA level. Behind the annual announcements of increases in SSA, the amount which the LEAs actually spen... | 2,410 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-14 | politics | McGuinness lesson for Harlem pupils pupils of struggle | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jan/14/uk.politicalnews1 | Martin McGuinness, Sinn Fein's first minister of education, yesterday told a group of African-American schoolboys living in Harlem about oppression, injustice and inequality suffered in Northern Ireland. On his first tour of New York as a member of Northern Ireland's power-sharing executive, Mr McGuinness visited a sch... | 506 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | business | Smile to move into mortgages and shopping | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/sep/08/internetnews.business | smile.co.uk, the first internet-only bank, yesterday said it will branch into selling mortgages and open an Egg-style "shopping zone". It also reported customers numbers have topped 200,000 since it opened in October last year. Chief executive Mervyn Pedelty shrugged off the arrival of other net banks, including Abbey ... | 431 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | society | White paper promotes 'market town without a market' | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/nov/28/communities.localgovernment2 | The government's new white paper on the countryside is full of good intentions about reinvigorating the rural economy. There will be measures to provide affordable housing, develop better public transport and encourage commercial development and diversification. That's all fine, but it is built on a flawed premise: tha... | 744 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-21 | uk-news | Race attack family denied new home | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/nov/21/race.world | A single mother and her seven children have been declared "intentionally homeless" after being forced out of their south London house by a racist gang wielding baseball bats and knives. Southwark's Labour council has given June Rowe and her family until December 11 to vacate a hostel in the Old Kent Road where it place... | 1,034 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-21 | education | "No threats" learning | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/mar/21/itforschools.schools21 | We have 200 pupils on the SEN register, pupils whose reading ability is below their actual age. To tackle the problem, we use SuccessMaker, an integrated learning program designed to build up basic skills in a methodical, non-threatening way. We have two SuccessMaker rooms, with 15 workstations in each one. They are us... | 221 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-21 | politics | Geoffrey Robinson defends himself | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/oct/21/labour.uk | Geoffrey Robinson would like us to believe he has done the government a good turn this week. The ruling clique of the New Labour cabinet, he says, has been riven with personal rivalries and political schisms since its inception and was in need of some healing. So he obliged by writing a book, The Unconventional Ministe... | 3,238 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-28 | world | Whatever happened to the housewife? | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/28/gender.uk | It was with sharp frustration and a dollop of sympathy that Guardian journalist Betty Jerman wrote about surburbia 40 years ago. The open space and fresh air, she said, made it a good place to bring up children, but she feared these advantages were outweighed by the brain-numbing atmosphere. "Surburbia is an incredibly... | 1,476 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | uk-news | RAF reservist wins chance to regain bank job | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/mar/14/sarahhall1 | An RAF reserve officer sacked by an international bank after serving during the Kosovo crisis yesterday won the first step in a legal battle which could safeguard the jobs of thousands of military service volunteers. Sebastian Nokes, a 34-year-old Old Etonian, successfully overturned claims by his former employers, Cre... | 530 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | media | Meet your new listeners (and yes, they are old) | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/feb/21/bbc.mondaymediasection | Are the days of the loud-mouthed shock jocks and safe, computerised playlists numbered? Well, commercial radio is certainly looking at itself with an unusually critical eye. It has suddenly realised that unless it broadens listener choice, adds some civilised voices alongside the lads and ladettes, and tones down the d... | 1,189 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | society | Councils disappointed by lack of recognition | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/dec/14/health.socialcare | Scottish local authorities have voiced dismay that the NHS action plan has failed to recognise their key role in helping to improve public health. Rita Miller, health spokesperson for the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA), claimed references to local government in the NHS plan were "neither strong enough... | 857 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-14 | business | Snook confirms talks with Sonera | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/aug/14/5 | Orange chief executive Hans Snook yesterday confirmed the mobile telecommunications group had been "in talks" with Finnish phone group Sonera as speculation mounted that the Scandinavian company was on the verge of being taken over. Speaking to the Guardian yesterday Mr Snook said: "It's true we do talk to them [Sonera... | 821 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | media | Media stories from today's papers | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/sep/07/1 | Top stories All the papers carry reports, obituaries and tributes to the film maker and broadcaster Desmond Wilcox who died yesterday. Other main stories The Guardian Guardian media correspondent Matt Wells reports in G2 on the cult US phenomenon that is ITN's World News anchor, Daljit Dhaliwal. Letterman loves her, ap... | 800 |
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