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guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | science | Are we all from the land of Oz? | https://www.theguardian.com/science/2000/sep/21/technology3 | On 21 March 1770 Yorkshireman James Cook, instructed to find if newly-found Australia was inhabited, recorded in his diary seeing "smook [sic] of fire". Today's Olympic flame burns over a land where aboriginal claims are still hotly disputed. Archaeologists are engaged in a less public row about the Australian from Lak... | 1,154 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-28 | technology | £20m Barclays link gives vital boost to Freeserve | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/mar/28/efinance.business2 | Shares in Freeserve, Britain's leading internet service provider, received a much needed fillip yesterday after the company announced a joint venture with Barclays Bank to set up a portal for small businesses. The venture will be 60% owned by Freeserve and 40% by Barclays. It aims to provide online advice on everything... | 411 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-14 | world | US and Britain resume Iraq raids | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/14/iraq.brianwhitaker | American and British aircraft renewed their bombing of Iraq at the weekend after a six-week lull - killing two people and hitting a railway station and food distribution centre, according to Baghdad. The strikes came amid verbal attacks by Iraq on what it called "the hireling rulers in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait". They al... | 525 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-06 | world | 13-year fight to shift Politika's line | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/07/balkans7 | He stood in front of the smoldering parliament. His eyes were eating the words of the newspaper. People stopped and stared. Politika newspaper! The mouthpiece of the Milosevic regime - its propaganda fortress - carried the banner headline: "Serbia on the Road to Democracy." Only those who have lived in Yugoslavia can u... | 689 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-21 | world | Gunmen kidnap key man in talks with Farc | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/21/1 | Heavily armed gunmen kidnapped the brother of one of the lead negotiators in the Colombian government's peace talks with Marxist rebels after a day-time shootout in which two people were killed, authorities said. The high-profile abduction on Monday came less than a week after Colombia's main rightwing paramilitary for... | 459 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-07 | global | Five O'Clock Angel | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/feb/07/artsfeatures2 | There is no doubt that Kit Hesketh-Harvey's account of the friendship between the American playwright Tennessee Williams and the Russian Maria St Just is beautifully realised. It has an intense elegiac quality, just like Williams's own memory plays, particularly The Glass Menagerie. There is also no doubt that it is br... | 441 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | business | Watch the real birdie - inflation | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/may/15/6 | Mervyn King is a gent. When answering questions about monetary policy he does so with wit and intelligence. However, even the mildest of men has something that really riles them, and for Mervyn it is the suggestion that the Bank's monetary policy committee is divided into hawks and doves. Mervyn cuts up rough at this p... | 1,362 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | world | French acclaim cartoon vision of Rwandan horror | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/07/books.booksnews | One would not have thought it ideal material for a comic book. In three months in 1994, 800,000 people were killed in Rwanda as extremist Hutus tried to eliminate the minority Tutsi population. That genocide is now the subject of a book by a French cartoonist which has been hailed as resembling a Shakespearean tragedy.... | 472 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | education | Business school puts its faith in ex-fundraiser | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/jan/21/mbas.highereducation6 | Catherine Stevens is restless, again. Last year she was the European Children's Trust's head of public affairs and had just masterminded its transformation from the Romanian Orphanage Trust. Now, at 34, she is one of London Business School's new intake of two-year full-time MBA students. She believes in her ability to ... | 753 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-14 | business | Station X regroups | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jan/14/8 | Bletchley Park - the former Station X which was home to second world war codebreakers and seat of Britain's communications revolution - is aiming to re-establish itself as the educational heartland of Britain's silicon valley. It follows the reinstatement yesterday of Christine Large as director of the trust which runs... | 345 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | money | Seller's information packs - do they lack real punch? | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/may/14/observercashsection.homeinformationpacks | Government plans for a homeseller's information pack, designed to cut the time it takes to sell your home, are facing strong criticism. Solicitors and estate agents involved in a pilot scheme report that the pack is expensive to produce and unlikely to reduce the period between acceptance of an offer and completion. Th... | 816 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-07 | politics | 'Exasperated' Blair ready to give Mowlam her cards | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jan/07/labour.labour1997to99 | Mo Mowlam has reportedly been placed "on trial" by Tony Blair, to be unceremoniously removed from the cabinet if she repeats the mistakes she made in Belfast. The prime minister, who removed Ms Mowlam from Northern Ireland last year against her will, is said to still find her exasperating. He reportedly would not flinc... | 631 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-07 | world | International news in brief | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/07/4 | Serb opposition risks split vote Serbia's largest opposition party, the Serbian Renewal Movement, decided yesterday to propose its own candidate for the presidential election in September, even though this is likely to divide the anti-Slobodan Milosevic vote. Vojislav Mihajlovic, the mayor of Belgrade, is the party's c... | 400 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | media | Magazine distribution row comment | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/sep/14/pressandpublishing1 | It has dominated the media press over the summer and came close to prompting a full-scale investigation by the Office of Fair Trading. So what's the background to the magazine distribution row, and why will WH Smith not back down? At the moment magazines are distributed through local monopolies. Publishers claim this a... | 461 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-28 | business | 'Dr Doom' poised to resign | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/feb/28/10 | Tony Dye, the Phillips & Drew investment chief who has been predicting imminent stock market disaster for five years and as a result has produced appalling returns for his pension fund clients, is expected to depart this week. Mr Dye, who oversaw investments of £50bn at the fund manager for clients including ICI, T... | 721 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | business | Telecity float back on at £580m | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jun/14/efinance.internet | Telecity, the internet infrastructure company which cancelled its flotation less than three weeks ago, is understood to have revived plans to join the stock market, with trading set to kick off as early tomorrow. The move bolsters hopes that investor confidence is returning to the high-technology sector after the sharp... | 370 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-28 | media | Leader: radio spectrum and the government sell-off | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/aug/28/newmedia.mondaymediasection | Labour has discovered an industrial policy that alchemists could only dream about. Under the "new interventionism", it is industry that pays huge sums to the government rather than vice-versa. Following the £22.5bn raised from selling radio spectrum for the third generation of internet-linked mobile phones, the governm... | 481 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-21 | global | Pop review: The Toes | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/aug/22/artsfeatures1 | The Toes say their influences range from the Rolling Stones to Phil Spector. It's certainly reflected in the five-piece's sound: swaggering, bluesy rock'n'roll mixed with a freakish soul, as exemplified on their debut EP, Lung Oyster Blues. Arguably, such retro-flavoured rawness helped win them their deal with Cornersh... | 350 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | uk-news | UK working mothers get poorest deal | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/21/sarahryle.theobserver1 | Leading businesswomen launched a scathing attack on the Government's record on maternity rights last night, claiming that Britain is 'the worst place in Europe to be a working mother'. The condemnation came as female executives from overseas, on an advanced management course at the London Business School this month, he... | 832 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | uk-news | There for what purpose? | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/sep/07/dome.guardianleaders | Once again the Millennium Dome is in possibly terminal trouble. A second "final" injection of £47m has been ordered to save it from going bankrupt. There is now no hope left that the dome will go down in history as anything but a historic fiasco. From that disastrous opening night when so much went so wrong, the projec... | 531 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | uk-news | A song of sixpence | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/21/monarchy.guardianleaders | Scotland and Wales are granted a measure of independence; hereditary peers are being removed from the Lords; London is about to elect an executive mayor, a pattern other great cities will follow. Even when we allow for promises not so far kept, like a referendum on the electoral system, this is a record of radical chan... | 715 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-28 | business | Micra jobs in the balance | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/dec/28/3 | The fate of hundreds of jobs at Nissan's car plant at Sunderland will be sealed next month when the Japanese car maker decides where to make the replacement for its Micra model in Europe. The decision on the new small car had been expected by the end of December, but company officials said it had been delayed for a mon... | 466 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-20 | money | Pension planning | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/oct/21/personalfinancenews.jobsandmoney4 | The term investment trust pension sounds like the kind of wild and risky venture only the foolhardy or wealthy would take on. Relying solely on a bunch of stocks and shares inside an investment trust to produce a pension pot is not seen as a sensible way of preparing for old age. And the inner workings of investment tr... | 765 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-21 | media | Troubled times for online estate agents | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/nov/21/newmedia1 | Cracks have begun to emerge in the fledgling online housing market, with a high-profile internet estate agent falling victim to the dot.com depression. Just two days after CGNU-owned assertahome announced it would buy two-month-old smove, easier.co.uk has pitched up the "For Sale" sign. In a statement, easier.co.uk sai... | 434 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-14 | politics | Livingstone lead cut but Dobson slips to third place | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/apr/14/londonmayor.uk3 | Support for the London mayoral frontrunner, Ken Livingstone, has dropped 12 points to 49%, according to an opinion poll published yesterday, but he maintains a commanding 33-point lead. Labour's Frank Dobson has fallen into third place behind the Tory, Steve Norris. The ICM poll for the Evening Standard found only 15% ... | 511 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | business | NTL to be Rangers' agent | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jun/14/efinance.internet2 | NTL, Britain's largest cable company, yesterday announced a £31m agreement to act as media agent for Glasgow's Rangers football club and in doing so risked a backlash from supporters of its historic rival Celtic. The agreement with Rangers, which is planning a stock market flotation, will see the establishment of a joi... | 480 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | world | Yard race unit aids Telford hangings inquiry | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/28/race.world2 | West Mercia police investigating the deaths of two black men, Harold and Jason McGowan, have met members of Scotland Yard's racial and violent crimes task force to receive advice on their handling of the investigation. A Scotland Yard spokeswoman last night confirmed that members of the racial task force had met on Wed... | 997 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | media | Harpers & Queen editor-in-chief dies | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/nov/28/pressandpublishing2 | Fiona Macpherson, editor-in-chief of Harpers & Queen, has died aged 61. The National Magazine Company, which owns the society glossy, said Ms Macpherson had been suffering from cancer. She died peacefully this morning in London. Ms Macpherson was one of the magazine industry's longest-serving editors, having joined... | 258 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | world | Mugabe gangs torch homes of farm workers | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/21/zimbabwe.andrewmeldrum1 | Gangs of attackers torched the homes of farmworkers yesterday, despite promises by the leader of Zimbabwe's squatters' movement of an end to hostilities. Smoke covered the Arcturus area, 30 miles north of Harare, as nearly 1,000 homes were razed by men who identified themselves as war veterans. Other farmers reported t... | 410 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-14 | money | Banks thrash out merger details | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/feb/14/business.personalfinancenews1 | High-level talks between NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland will begin today, as the Scottish bank is expected to reveal it has won the backing of the majority of NatWest's shareholders for its £21bn takeover. The two sides - which failed to decide the terms of an "agreed" takeover despite months of behind-the-scenes a... | 307 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | media | Cable trailblazer cements News Corp link | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/sep/28/newscorporation.broadcasting | News Corp, the sprawling media empire run by Rupert Murdoch, yesterday cemented its link with John Malone, a trailblazer of the US cable industry often characterised as one of the world's most powerful media figures. The company announced a series of transactions which will lift Mr Malone's stake in News Corp from 7% t... | 596 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | world | What the US media says | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jan/28/5 | It was the first time Clinton had to deal with the fact that the country, collectively, wasn't just looking at him, but past him - literally, over his right shoulder to his vice president and would-be successor, Al Gore. So the narcissist in chief responded like a toddler realizing that his younger brother is suddenly ... | 442 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-07 | politics | You can argue about who won, but Hague is the biggest loser | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/may/07/election2000.politicalnews | Tony Blair always seemed to rise above party and politics and speak for the nation. Now, the voters see him as a politician. The shocks administered to Labour and the Conservatives last Thursday made it a bad day for politicians. Not that Blair will shrug off the disappointments. Like many driven people, he is perennia... | 1,264 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-14 | money | Spray invention to help end tight situation | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/feb/14/workandcareers.uknews | Whether it is the career ladder or the social ladder that you want to climb, there is no defence against the most irritating ladder of all - the ever-growing run in a snagged pair of tights. Liz Chantree, a 27-year-old businesswoman from Rayleigh, Essex, has come up with a simple solution. She has invented a spray whic... | 437 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | media | Microsoft and Andersen join forces | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/mar/14/mondaymediasection.business | Microsoft joined forces with Andersen Consulting yesterday in an alliance designed to prevent internet rivals from undermining the dominance of its desktop operating system Windows. The two firms are to form a new company, Avanade, to sell software and services to Andersen's existing client list of Fortune 500 companie... | 624 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-14 | uk-news | Ahern to tax Blair over BNFL influence with ministers | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/14/nuclear.freedomofinformation | The Irish prime minister, Bertie Ahern, is to ask Tony Blair why British Nuclear Fuels appears to be able to dictate the wording of a reply to an Irish MP who wrote to him about Sellafield. Dublin is also to demand a full explanation from Helen Liddell, the minister of state at the Department of Trade and Industry, of ... | 453 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-07 | business | Abbey looks deeper into cyberspace | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jun/08/personalfinancenews.business | Yet another internet bank will take to the small screen this weekend as the race for cyberspace banking customers gathers pace. This time the advertiser will be Cahoot, Abbey National's internet venture which aims not to be just a bank but also a shopping experience. Last night, ahead of Monday's launch, Cahoot was bei... | 461 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-28 | world | Tide of death sweeps Mozambique | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/28/chrismcgreal | Dozens, possibly hundreds, of people were swept to their deaths by surging flood waters in Mozambique yesterday as too few rescue helicopters battled to save survivors clinging to trees and roofs, and crammed into ever shrinking strips of high ground. The Mozambican government appealed for more aircraft to back up five... | 1,539 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-06 | global | Review: Schiff | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/oct/07/artsfeatures4 | The highlights of this year's Bach celebrations have tended to be explorations of his instrumental works. Etched on the memory are Viktoria Mullova's titanic interpretations of the solo violin music, Angela Hewitt's rendition of The Well Tempered Clavier and, in marked contrast, Andras Schiff's ebullient version of the... | 381 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | society | The 15 most powerful people in social care | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/nov/14/longtermcare.socialcare | 1. Denise Platt Chief inspector, Social Services Inspectorate, Department of Health Social Services Inspectorate A figure held in high regard in local and central government, with access to political power, Platt "operates effectively to promote not just social work but the whole of social care at the centre and to the... | 1,422 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | world | Revived Franco-German axis rings alarm bells in London | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/28/germany.euro | France's clarion call for a "pioneering group" of EU member states puts new pressure on Tony Blair to accept the idea of a two-speed Europe in which Britain, especially a Britain outside the single currency, could find itself in the slow lane. Speaking on a state visit to Berlin yesterday, President Jacques Chirac went... | 907 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-21 | uk-news | Easy ways to reinvent our industry | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/21/election2001.politics | Labour should rebrand the DTI, making it not the Department of Trade and Industry but the Department for Technology and the Internet. That would send an instant, important message about its crucial role in the information revolution. For if the DTI had no other task than to bully companies and public sector bodies into... | 1,547 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-14 | business | Auction bid breaks £5bn barrier | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/apr/14/efinance.internet1 | British Telecommunications stole the limelight in the government's auction of third generation mobile phone licences yesterday, when it became the first bidder to offer £5bn. BT took the values being placed on the five licences on offer to new heights as its tussle with Vodafone to win licence B escalated. Licence B is... | 283 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-28 | politics | Scots parliament at risk | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/feb/28/scotlanddevolution.devolution | Scotland's proposed new parliament building may be scrapped because of soaring costs. The original estimate for the building at Holyrood, designed by the Catalan architect, Enric Miralles, was £40m, but latest reports put the cost at £230m and rising. Yesterday, the parliament's presiding officer, Sir David Steel, MSP,... | 240 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | education | Internet know-how - Hunting for software | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/nov/28/schools.richarddoughty | Where do you begin? There's a vast number of software manufacturers out on the net, flogging their products as hard as they can using all the web wizardry available. Some are more informative than others, but if you want a reliable and thoroughly independent evaluation by practising teachers, specially trained to asses... | 478 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | world | 'The oil is nothing to do with us' | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/sep/07/features11.g2 | Thursday night is burger night at Fisherman's Wharf. Expats in Gap khakis and Teva sandals gobble up cheeseburgers and Mexican lager. The prices are in dollars. The talk is of Brent crude and oil pipelines. You could almost be in Texas, or Louisiana, except the portions are slightly too small, the meat has been flown i... | 1,581 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | politics | Peers face tougher cash rules | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/mar/14/lordreform.constitution | Members of the House of Lords seem certain to be forced to register their business interests after an inquiry into the conduct of peers was announced yesterday. Lord Neill, chairman of the committee on standards in public life, is to examine whether the present voluntary system of declarations by peers should be scrapp... | 1,193 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | world | Life and death on a rubbish dump | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jul/14/johnaglionby | Nicamor Gacura squashed one more piece of rotting cardboard into a wooden crate already full with similar ripped-up boxes and tied it up with a piece of plastic cord he pulled off a badly punctured bright yellow rubber dinghy. "This feels like it is at least 60 kilos," he said, lifting it up. That means another 60 peso... | 1,744 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | politics | No more ghostly voices | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jul/15/labour.labour1997to99 | If you concentrate hard enough tonight you may glimpse a man called Godric Smith on television. No, I had never heard of him either until recently. He is, in the nicest possible way, an anonymous looking man: balding, early forties in a self-effacing two-piece suit. What do we know about this Godric Smith? We know that... | 2,394 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-07 | world | The Sikh sergeant blamed for race hate mail | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/07/race.world | Sergeant Gurpal Virdi is probably unique among officers in the Metropolitan police. Not because he is a Sikh, though there are precious few in the 26,000 strong force. And not because he is still committed to the job, despite the battering the Met has received in the wake of the Macpherson report on the Stephen Lawrenc... | 1,036 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-14 | uk-news | High commission worker's racism case rejected | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/14/ewenmacaskill | An industrial tribunal ruled yesterday against a woman who alleged racial discrimination against a British high commission in the Caribbean. In a landmark judgment, the London South tribunal said the case did not come under its jurisdiction and that, for legal purposes, British embassies and high commissions should not... | 370 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-07 | media | Piers' pressure | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/feb/07/citynews.mondaymediasection | In an echo of Peter Mandelson when he resigned his cabinet post after his unorthodox housing loan, Mirror editor Piers Morgan is describing the events of the last five days as "a humbling experience". But Morgan has not lost his job. After a swift inquiry into his share-dealing activities, the board of Trinity-Mirror h... | 2,459 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-14 | business | World Bank in e-loans link-up | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/feb/14/efinance.internet1 | The World Bank's International Finance Corporation and the Japanese internet investor, Softbank will launch a $500m fund today to invest in the digital economies of 100 developing nations. According to the two partners, it is the most significant initiative yet to narrow the global digital divide between technologicall... | 238 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | world | Philippine president put on trial | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/14/philippines | A defiant President Joseph Estrada was impeached yesterday in the Philippines congress, but insisted that he would "face the trial" rather than resign. There were cheers from the gallery as the house of representatives passed the indictment against Mr Estrada, on charges of corruption, in eight minutes flat. He is accu... | 809 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | uk-news | Theatre bombed by IRA faces cash row with builders | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/14/northernireland.fiachragibbons | The award-winning Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester is facing "financial disaster" because the builders who restored it after an IRA bomb attack are demanding to be paid three times what they tendered, its artistic director claimed last night. The £17m complex - the Barclay's Theatre Of The Year - which was extensiv... | 551 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-28 | world | Relief as French leave EU chair | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/28/eu.politics | After what even the French media have begun calling a "six-month political fiasco", France hands the European Union presidency to Sweden this weekend, to sighs of relief from its fellow members. "The treaty of Nice is a failure ... and the way France conducted the inter-governmental conference that produced it has led ... | 562 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-07 | money | Look back in anger | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/feb/07/workandcareers | Is it possible to suffer undue stress and angst caused by all the new rages that currently seem to be on offer in and around the workplace? Can I put my name to being the first person to identify the phenomenon of rage rage? This is where the victim becomes incensed by yet another survey showing up yet another trivial ... | 849 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | politics | Yesterday | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jan/21/uk.politicalnews | Good day The Rt Rev Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford, a member of the royal commission reforming the House of Lords, escaped a £10 fine when he lost his underground train ticket - unlike that other fare miscreant Cherie Blair. Flat day Cabinet office minister Mo Mowlam was given a grace-and-favour apartment off Trafal... | 239 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | politics | 'New Britons' unite for common goal | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jan/21/lordreform.constitution4 | The 12-strong royal commission which met throughout last year to produce yesterday's plea to Tony Blair reflects the kind of "New Briton" cross-section which the prime minister is keen to promote. A bishop, Oxford's Richard Harries , and a black trade union leader, Bill Morris , of the T&GWU, joined three women, on... | 362 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-07 | money | Cyberbanks find fund of glitches | https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2000/jan/07/shopping.money | Banks say people are rushing to sign up for online accounts but these early customers are quickly finding that banking in cyberspace is not yet all that it should be. Barclays, which yesterday claimed to have more than 500,000 customers banking online, admitted that it was trying to sort out a glitch with its internet ... | 299 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | politics | MPs face tighter rules on interests | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jul/14/uk.lords | Tougher rules for the declaration of MPs' interests were proposed yesterday, after a series of critical reports from the Commons standards and privileges committee showed MPs failing to declare cheap home loans or investments in overseas trusts. The committee has proposed that all gifts and benefits given by one MP to ... | 480 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-07 | uk-news | Stately sell-off: Masterpieces may fetch £10m | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/07/fiachragibbons | Many of the treasures of Luton Hoo are to be sold off to save what remains of one of the country's greatest art collections. Old Master paintings, furniture and sculptures from the Wernher collection - gathered by the German-born diamond magnate Sir Julius Wernher, using the fortune he amassed in South Africa - are exp... | 435 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | uk-news | Head faces jail for hitting pupil | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/15/education.schools | A headmistress with 35 years' experience as a teacher was yesterday facing the possibility of a prison sentence after being convicted of slapping an unruly 10-year-old boy across the face. Marjorie Evans, 55, who has been suspended since the incident in September last year, was found guilty of hitting the boy when he s... | 875 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-28 | business | US were ready to bail out Wilson | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/feb/28/3 | Harold Wilson appears to have been kept in the dark about a $3bn-plus rescue package that could have prevented the humiliating devaluation of sterling in November 1967, according to declassified papers from the US state department. The move rocked Wilson's Labour government, undermining its credibility with backbench M... | 637 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | media | Retailers on riot alert after launch of text message ad service | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/nov/14/newmedia.marketingandpr | Retailers at Essex shopping centre Lakeside have been put on riot alert after the unprecedented popularity of a new text message promotions service called ZagMe. "It's a lot of fun," said Bill Green, chief executive officer of ZagMe, who said users had been racing around Lakeside to make the most of the free promotions... | 265 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-21 | society | Christmas wish list | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/dec/21/localgovernment.socialcare | Social care Ian Johnston, director of the British Association of Social Workers The BASW wants: The challenges and achievements of social workers and other social care staff to be recognised by politicians and the general public. An end to social workers being held up as scapegoats for the failings of society and for t... | 4,665 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-07 | money | Job-seeking goes online for beginners and returners | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/apr/08/workandcareers.jobsandmoney | Career guidance experts Working Future have set up an electronic shop for anyone beginning a new career or kick-starting a stalled one. The website offers links across the employment spectrum including tips on job search, managing a career change, financial advice and CVs. There is an online database with more than 80,... | 451 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | us-news | The mediocrity of the middle ground | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/29/uselections2000.usa1 | With onl a bit over a week to go, Al Gore and George W. Bush are still neck and neck in the polls. This is the closest race since the Kennedy-Nixon election of 1960. But unlike that race, this one is something of a bore. Most Americans aren't very interested in who's to be the next leader of the world's most powerful n... | 1,414 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-13 | world | Colombia rebels deny kidnap | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/14/2 | Colombia's biggest guerilla group has denied kidnapping foreigners from an Ecuadorean oilfield in the Amazon jungle. The captives - thought to include five or six Americans, two Frenchmen, a Chilean and an Argentinian - were abducted by six masked gunmen and flown by helicopter to neighbouring Colombia by a group claim... | 405 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-07 | global | The guzzler | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/jan/07/features11.g24 | Cheapskate... where to eat out for under £15 Bloom's 130 Golders Green Road, London NW11 Tel: 0181 455 1338 The one, the only (the only one left), the best-known kosher restaurant in London, after 30-odd years still faithfully serving the faithful as well as those in search of food which is short on frills and long on ... | 413 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | education | Feeling the pinch | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/mar/07/highereducation.theguardian | The government is clawing back bursary funds for poor students to force them to pay university tuition fees, it has emerged. The policy has enraged academic leaders at the University of Cambridge who have complained that the mean-minded regulations fly in the face of efforts to widen access to universities, and will cr... | 712 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | uk-news | HIV manager sacked after food store feared sales would suffer | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/mar/14/kevinmaguire | A supermarket manager diagnosed with HIV lost his £34,000 a year job because the company claimed his illness might put off customers. Mark Hedley, 34, is to sue the German-owned Aldi chain after he was barred from returning to the Seaham store in County Durham. The manager, who had previously been praised as a good man... | 378 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-14 | world | Yemen bombers hit UK embassy | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/14/israel.alqaida | The British embassy in Yemen was hit by a bomb yesterday less than 24 hours after a suicide attack on a US warship in the south of the country killed 17 people and injured 35. The early morning blast at the embassy in the capital, Sana'a, smashed windows but caused no injuries. Guards had been on duty at the front of t... | 723 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-21 | world | GM animal tests 'out of control' | https://www.theguardian.com/science/2000/aug/21/gm.animalrights | The RSPCA has warned that experiments involving genetically engineered animals may be getting out of control, and has called for greater scrutiny. Home Office figures published last week showed a 14% rise in scientific procedures involving genetically modified animals between 1998 and 1999, up by 63,000 to 511,000. The... | 304 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-21 | uk-news | Rail travellers face repairs chaos | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/21/hatfield.transport2 | Rail services will quickly descend into chaos as buses are substituted on large sections of the railway while urgent repairs are carried out to broken rails, the train operators admitted last night. Timetables are being rewritten to accommodate reductions in services and diversions caused by the 81 nationwide trouble s... | 707 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | society | So much hot air | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/mar/14/futureofthenhs.health1 | You can almost feel the red faces in the department of health. Last week, after two years of preparation, the government launched a "crusade against heart disease". More money! More surgeons! More operations! More lives saved! A week later, no less a body than the Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons reveals that in the ... | 791 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | uk-news | Final whistle for Subbuteo | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/21/2 | Top players were today mourning the demise of the legendary table top football game Subbuteo which has been shown the red card by its makers. Hasbro confirmed in a statement: "Production of Subbuteo will cease in January 2000 although Subbuteo games and teams will be available from retailers across the UK for the next ... | 522 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | media | Let's get clever | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/feb/21/bbc.itforschools | Spot the difference. Greg Dyke's first major speech as the BBC's director-general designate was about education: "I see this as one of my priorities for my period as DG." Later, in an impromptu defence of his extracurricular activities on Radio 4's Today programme, he was asked by John Humphrys what he would like to be... | 939 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | global | Slim presence | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/jul/15/artsfeatures | Aimee Mann Shepherds Bush Empire, London *** US artist Aimee Mann is in the strange position of having an Oscar nomination, for a song on the Magnolia film soundtrack, yet being without a record deal. She had two successful albums in the 90s, and recorded a third, but amid major label machinations and the pressure to c... | 525 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-21 | global | Split-level decision pays off | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/oct/21/features.jobsmoney5 | Buying shares in investment trusts can be good way to deliver steady income and, if you choose your investment carefully, there is also scope for strong capital growth. UK fund management providers offer a range of investment trusts, or closed-ended funds, listed on the London stock exchange. Nearly all are available t... | 851 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | world | Refugees return to Kosovo | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/21/balkans | Almost exactly a year after arriving in Yorkshire from the wreckage of Kosovo, nearly 70 refugees returned home yesterday on a flight to Pristina. Families packed up slightly bulkier belongings than the threadbare holdalls and plastic bags with which they arrived last April from the mud of Stenkovac 1 camp in Macedonia... | 198 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | business | City briefing | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jan/21/8 | LVMH posts record profits The world's biggest luxury goods group, LVMH, posted record 1999 sales figures yesterday, cheering analysts who said the result reflected more than just economic recovery in Asia. Paris-based Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy said 1999 turnover rose 23% from 1998 levels to a record €8.5bn (£5.2bn), ... | 588 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | global | What you have to pay for an accountant | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/jul/15/features.jobsmoney3 | VAT registered Good records Carrier bag of receipts Employees (basic rate tax ) n/a £220 (plus VAT) £300 (plus VAT) Employees (higher rate tax) n/a £350 (plus VAT) £450 (plus VAT) Self employed, No £395 (inc VAT) £610 (inc VAT) (turnover £30 - £52,000) Self employed, Yes £495 (plus VAT) £790 (plus VAT) (turnover £52 - ... | 163 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | global | Derek Malcolm's 100 greatest movies | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/sep/14/artsfeatures1 | From a court in Bologna that banned Last Tango in Paris: "Obscene content offensive to public decency... presented with obsessive self-indulgence, catering to the lowest instincts of the libido, dominated by the idea of stirring unchecked appetites for sexual pleasure, permeated by scurrilous language... accompanied of... | 771 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-07 | global | Who's cooking? | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/jan/07/features11.g26 | Age: 32. Nationality: British. Restaurant: The Greenhouse, 27a Hay's Mews, London W1X 7RJ. 0171 499 3331. Past form: The last restaurant I worked at full-time was Interlude on Charlotte Street, London. Before that was The Terrace at Le Meridien, Piccadilly. I worked at a couple of restaurants with Gary Rhodes, and did ... | 488 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | media | Granada buys Arsenal stake | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/sep/07/football.citynews | Granada Media has bought a 5% stake in Arsenal Football Club and a 50% share in new media joint-venture AFC Broadband for £47m. Arsenal and Granada are planning to develop AFC Broadband as a global portal that can exploit the club's new media rights, including delayed coverage of Premiership matches across online and b... | 155 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | uk-news | IVF laser technique performs well | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/28/sarahboseley1 | The use of lasers to drill a hole in a fertilised egg - a technique banned in the US - is safe and successful in helping older women with fertility problems to have babies, according to new research. Yesterday two Hungarian doctors reported that babies born to 96 women in the St John hospital in Budapest using the tech... | 384 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-21 | media | Online media company folds | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/dec/21/newmedia.internet1 | HoboMedia, an online media company launched to develop portals for the music, film and television industries, has gone into liquidation. Accountant Moore Stephens in London was appointed as liquidator on Monday December 18. A meeting of creditors is to be held next Friday. Hobomedia, which was set up at the beginning o... | 272 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | media | Wowgo shuts up shop after four months | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/nov/14/newmedia.internet | Wowgo, the Unilever-backed teenage girls website, has shut up shop just four months after it launched its much-hyped community website. A statement from Wowgo blamed its downfall on negative sentiments towards consumer-focused internet companies. It said: "Having decided that it is unable to continue as an independent ... | 435 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-06 | politics | Last points of order as time called on late night sittings | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jul/06/houseofcommons.uk | Late night sittings of the House of Commons , which fequently force MPs to remain at Westminster until the early hours, are to be consigned to the past as part of the most radical shake-up of parliament in more than 20 years to be unveiled today. In a move which will delight modernisers, but dismay traditionalists who ... | 780 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-07 | money | On track with your training | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/feb/07/careers.officehours1 | There are some things at work that it's OK to leave to other people, such as putting in a new fax roll or organising a whip-round for a departing colleague. Taking responsibility for your training, however, is not a thing you should expect someone else to take care of. According to the Industrial Society, only 11% of c... | 973 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | business | French insist Orange will float this year | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/sep/07/media1 | France Télécom yesterday underlined its commitment to float the Orange mobile phone network back on to the stock market during the second half of the group's financial year. Michel Bon, France Télécom president, said the postponement of the flotations of T-Online, the German mobile phone business, and KPN Mobile of the... | 615 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-21 | business | Pernod looks at sell-off after Seagram deal | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/dec/21/12 | French drinks firm Pernod Ricard is to sell more than euro1bn (£600m) of assets following its successful bid for a slice of Seagram's spirits and wines portfolio, with Orangina and Oddbins among names on the block. Swallowing Seagram brands such as Chivas Regal and Martell has transformed the shape of the Paris-based g... | 464 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | money | Trouser woman celebrates tribunal win | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jan/21/workandcareers | A former training manager at the Professional Golfers' Association who was sent home for wearing trousers to work was celebrating last night after a "memorable" sex discrimination victory. Judy Owen, 39, resigned from her job at The Belfry, the PGA's head office in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, within weeks of start... | 577 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | technology | An easier way to turn clicks to cash | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/sep/14/internetnews.efinance | Putting a small business online is getting easier every day. No longer do businesses need to invest in expensive leased lines and run their own electronic commerce software. Instead companies all round the world are offering to take away the risk and pain that building an online store always seemed to entail. An online... | 1,453 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | uk-news | House swap: Some possible new homes for the royals | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/28/monarchy.gwyntopham | Buckingham Palace Built: 1677; royal renovations since 1762 Cost: initial conversion £73,000 (in 1762); now, take a guess. Bedrooms: 52 royal and guest rooms, 188 staff apartments Dining/recreation: Ballroom with seating for 1,500. Handy for: Changing of the Guard. Staff required: 422 plus tour guides Possible alternat... | 601 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | education | Furthermore: The megaphone window | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/nov/14/furthereducation.theguardian5 | We have all sorts of ethicals to conjure with in further education. The most recent is the megaphone window. There is an office in our college which, when the window is open at a certain angle, serves as a highly efficient loudspeaker system. But the spokesperson is oblivious to the fact that every word spoken is carri... | 634 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | business | Why the EU thinks Britain is just the job | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/sep/07/12 | In normal circumstances, yesterday's report from Brussels putting Britain at the top of the European Union's class for job creation would merely be an indication of how far the UK has come since the days in the early 80s and 90s when 3 million people were on the dole. But these, of course, are not normal circumstances ... | 1,151 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | business | Mandelson the destabiliser | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/may/21/labourparty.politics | Six months ago an American hedge-fund manager asked me who was going to win the next British general election. I told him that everybody expected Labour to walk it. 'That's not good enough for me,' he replied. 'In my business you have to make provision for all contingencies.' Until now New Labour has comforted itself w... | 1,051 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-28 | global | 'I'll only talk to you naked' | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/feb/28/features11.g23 | A gloriously Gallic soap opera has divided le tout Paris. It has pitted man against woman, chauvinist against feminist, editorialist against commentator, philosopher against moralist. Acres of newsprint, hours of airtime have been devoted to it. And what everyone wants to know is, did Bruno Gaccio touch Sylvie Kerviel'... | 1,518 |
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