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3 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Paid unemployment unsustainable
In Britain the parties are at odds over whether it is unduly cruel to make the long-term unemployed look for work. The conservative newspaper The Daily Telegraph shakes its head in disbelief: "Somehow, we seem to have lost touch with the idea that being self-supporting and responsible for your own subsistence is the normal condition of adult life: you may have difficult times in which this is not possible, but they should be seen as temporary - transitory circumstances which require a remedy so that the proper business of grown-up existence can resume. ... Paid unemployment as a lifestyle option is no longer sustainable economically. But the best reason for removing it is that it breeds defeatism and despair. Pretty much everyone - of every political persuasion - accepts that. The next step is to admit that the inertia and despondency that it creates are part of our greater economic problem, which is going to require the mobilisation of every human resource available to the country if it is to be solved."
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The miseries of Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown has been British prime minister for almost one year. Janet Daley analyses the reasons for his dramatic decline in popularity: "It all began to fall apart at last year's Labour Party conference when the awful reality dawned on every journalist present (even those whose sympathies were with Brownism): neither Mr Brown nor his ministers had anything of interest to say. ... That was when it ended: the illusion that this was a man who had been reborn, as his followers had always promised that he would be, upon achieving his life's ambition. There was no New Gordon. ... What transformed the [Conservative] party's standing and turned the opinion polls on their heads was George Osborne's announcement at the last party conference that the next Conservative government would cut inheritance tax."
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Gordon Brown calls off elections
"Mr Brown has had one of the most short-lived honeymoons in British political history," writes the daily columnist Janet Daley following British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's announcement that there would not be a fall election. "Where once he looked the embodiment of gravitas and conviction, he is now a deceitful opportunist – and not a very clever one at that. ... The resounding power of a tax-cut promise [made by conservative opposition leader David Cameron] has proved its worth so definitively that, to stay in the game now, Mr Brown needs urgently to go into plagiarism mode. The tragedy for him is that this will not undermine Mr Cameron's position – it will strengthen it. ... If Labour tries to attack the tax breaks, Mr Cameron benefits. And if it imitates them, he benefits."
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