Tony Blair

successful in the history of British politics. Another point is that Scotland had always overwhelmingly and consistently voted for the Labour Party, and this shift could be crucial in explaining how the SNP won the election. Under the leadership of Tony Blair and the introduction of ‘New Labour’ (with its more right leaning policies), in addition to the highly unpopular (and illegal) bombing of Iraq, Scottish opinion of the Labour party started to dwindle – Labour losing 6 seats themselves. This…

The Tyranny of Experts raises credible concerns of how supporting autocratic regimes undermines individual rights. Easterly bring up four different argument of why individual rights are being diminished in autocracies. The question I will attempt to answer is whether it is correct to support autocrats who will supposedly implement technology into their countries, or if countries like the United States should abstain from such support to protect human rights. I will first comment on each of the…

As His Excellency, Tony Blair said, [2] “The people who perpetrate terrorism have no regard for the sanctity or value of human life and thus we, the democracies of the world must come together to defeat it and eradicate it. It is imperative to understand that this is not a battle…

that the Shadow home secretary Tony Blair had to give a speech in Wellingborough to calm the nation, during which the Home Secretary said "We hear of crimes so horrific they provoke anger and disbelief in equal proportions... These are the ugly manifestations of a society that is becoming unworthy of that name”. The case caused havoc and made the country feel insecure, disbelief and damaged the country’s representation of a ‘safe and secure’ country, because as Tony Blair says “the crimes were…

substantially to 31 per cent. Metropolitan Police (BBC London, 2007) further testified that gangs are responsible for more than a fifth of youth crime in London, with nearly half of the London gangs having been involved in serious assault. In support of Tony Blair’s statement (as above mentioned) the “Police hold black men responsible for more than two-thirds of shootings and more than half of robberies and street crimes in London”, this was according to figures released by Scotland Garden in…

In the contemporary British social work, it is largely spread the perception of a current crisis, due to rapid changes that take place in our everyday lives. The 'crisis' nature is about the urgent need for this profession to clarify and establish its identity. ‘Indeed we have only the most general ideas of what we are trying to produce, what constitutes the essential skill of the social worker and consequently still more varied ideas as to how to set about it’ (Younghusband, 1959, p.28). The…

that marked the end of humanity, or I thought so. A journalist’s voice droned on from by bedroom radio, but I wasn’t listening. Tony Blair has said remarkable progress is being made in Afghanistan - and Britain is committed to supporting the country. He was talking after meeting the Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, in the capital, Kabul. At a news conference, Mr Blair said the people of Afghanistan deserved to live in a proper democratic…

On the 11th of September 2001, the British Prime Minister Tony Blair stated: "This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today. […] we, […] are going to have to come together and fight it […]."(BBC News) How should we then fight “the new evil”? This question is bound to loom large as a conundrum for humanity. KENNEDY Odede, founder and chief executive of Shining Hope for Communities, and number of others uphold that the indigence of the environment proves to be the breeding ground of…

Social exclusion/inclusion: this is basically a term that is connect with other words such as stereotyping, discrimination and marginalization. However, when we talk about social exclusion we are basically referring it to issues that take part in society. Therefore, in order for us to have a clear understanding of social exclusion, The Social Exclusion Unit has defined exclusion as what can happen in society that lead certain groups of people to suffer or finding it harder to excess facilities…

Perpetuating the Predispositions of Prejudice Whether people like it or not it takes one tenth of a second to make a first impression. This impression can form judgments and preconceived notions of bias within people who are completely unaware that their brains’ are categorizing so quickly. Although we make these pre-judgments based on a person’s appearance in less than a second, we still make pre-judgments about a person or group of people when we know their personalities and characteristics…