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can work must do so 14/01/01 B 12 7>8 * Tony Blair is to pledge no income tax rise in new parliament 14/01/01 B 3 1>4 * Peter Mandelson helped a controversial Indian tycoon, who is currently facing corruption charges, to obtain British citizenship after he agreed to donate £1bn to the Dome - see Mandelson, Peter 21/01/01 * New Labour puts 'emotional literacy' at the heart of the political agenda 21/01/01 B 11 1>7 Photographs * Tony Blair faces the humiliating prospect of being represented by an empty chair as ITV prepares to go ahead with a televised debate involving the leaders of the three main political parties 21/01/01 B 2 4>7 * In Germany, the foreign minister admits to the headstrong folly of his youth and then gets back to work, in Britain, only a perfect past is good enough, writes Neal Ascherson 21/01/01 B 29 1>4 Photographs * The Tories will try to scupper a government ban on cigarette advertising in a T-turn triggering a furious row over their links to the tobacco industry 21/01/01 B 4 7>8 Photograph * Charles Leadbeater regrets the departure from the Cabinet of Peter Mandelson - see Mandelson, Peter 28/01/01 * New Labour has turned to advertising bad boy Trevor Beattie - see Beattie, Trevor 28/01/01 * Pre-election tax cuts look to be off the agenda as a softening UK economy and acceleration in spending on public services puts the squeeze on the size of the Treasury's surplus - see Financial 28/01/01 * War broke out last night between Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson, the two key architects of New Labour over the passports-for-favours crisis 28/01/01 B 1>2 1>4 Photograph * The end of Peter Mandelson and Labour's crisis 28/01/01 B 15>19 1>7 Photographs * Focus groups show female votes falling out of love with New Labour - see Women 04/02/01 * The political scandal that refused to go away - see Hinduja Affair, The 04/02/01 * Blair fires starting pistol for single currency marathon - see Euro, The 11/02/01 * Peter Mandelson could make a comeback to an important role but only if he cleans up his act, a former Labour Party general secretary has said - see Mandelson, Peter 11/02/01 * A look at how the culture clash between Whitehall and the software providers has led to a string of expensive failures - see Information Technology 18/02/01 * Amid the sensational claims in her autobiography, one thing emerges about Christine Keeler - that she believes she is the real victim of the Profumo scandal - see Keeler, Christine 18/02/01 * Profile on former Olympic champion turned politician, Sebastian Coe - see Coe, Sebastian 18/02/01 * Public sector IT spending soars to a record £10bn - see Information Technology 18/02/01 * Two Government senior figures attacked Alastair Campbell, the Prime Minister's official spokesman, for saying that the education system was littered with 'bog standard comprehensives' - see Education 18/02/01 * Tony Blair admits fears of voter apathy 18/02/01 B 2 3>5 * Doubts over Tony Blair's deal on defence with President Bush - see Defence 25/02/01 * George Szamuely comments on the Bush-Blair summit - see Szamuely, George 25/02/01 OBSERVER INDEX: JAN-DEC 2001 167 * Government plans to encourage large-scale private saving for retirement could be heading for failure - see Personal Finance 25/02/01 * Michael Portillo faced intense pressure to reveal the full scale of his business affairs after leaked documents showed he was given secret payments by an oil giant - see Portillo, Michael 25/02/01 * The government is under pressure to secure the future of the Govan and Scotstoun shipyards in Glasgow by awarding them a contract to build two naval support ships - see Shipbuilding 25/02/01 * William Hague was so disillusioned by splits and rows within his party that he considered resigning a year ago - see Hague, William 25/02/01 * Election countdown - the Tories' impossible task 25/02/01 B 21 1>7 Photograph * Maternity pay boosted as the Budget targets women voters - see Women 04/03/01 * Peter Mandelson will be cleared of all the main charges against him by the Government inquiry into the Hinduja passport scandal which is to be published this week - see Mandelson, Peter 04/03/01 * The productivity gap between Britain and the US has widened dramatically since New Labour came to power, despite numerous Government efforts to close it - see Business & Industry 04/03/01 * Budget countdown 04/03/01 B 16 1>8 Photograph * The Mandelson affair: the Hammond Report exonerates Ministers - but deep in its pages it exposes the subtler ways in which money still buys influences 04/03/01 B 18>19 1>8 Illustrations * Tory leader, William Hague, says 'Britain will be a foreign land' in his appeal to swing voters 04/03/01 B 2 2>4 * Poll shows that a third of Tory party activists want William Hague to quit and Michael Portillo to become leader 04/03/01 B 6 4>7 Photograph * Tony Blair is to paint an apocalyptic vision of a world being ravaged by global warming in a speech aimed at facing down critics who say that he does not take green issues seriously 04/03/01 B 6 1>3 * Chancellor Gordon Brown's record and the effect his policies have had in changing the way wealth is distributed in Britain today 04/03/01 N 6>7 1>5 Photographs * Labour is to harness the teenage craze for mobile phone textmessaging to get its election slogans, campaign instructions and encouragements to vote flashed to thousands of supporters 04/03/01 B 7 1>2 Cartoon * Single mothers get IT call-up as Labour raises its ambitions for the New Deal - see Work 11/03/01 * Tony Blair was facing a fresh sleaze row over a leaked memo suggesting Downing Street intervened in a planning application by billionaire arms broker Wafic Said 11/03/01 B 1>2 3>5 * Tony Blair believes the loss of Peter Mandelson has been a severe blow to the Government 11/03/01 B 2 2>7 Photograph * Defence contractor BAE says it will close down shipyards if Ministers don't promise to give it the orders it wants - see Business & Industry 18/03/01 * Foreign Office Minister Keith Vaz has personally overturned decisions by immigration officers an unprecedented 50 times - see Vaz, Keith 18/03/01 * John Prescott was at the centre of a furious row over his decision to use private-sector lobbyists working for the transport industry to advise him during the general election - see Prescott,
John 18/03/01 * Tony Blair is to put his religious beliefs at the centre of the general election campaign and call for a new style of ethical politics where the church is the bedrock of local communities 18/03/01 B 13 7>8 * Week 5: Foot & Mouth is no longer a disaster just in rural areas - it has become a major political drama that may threaten Blair's plans to win again - see Foot & Mouth Crisis 25/03/01 * Fresh allegations of murky dealings between the Hinduja brothers and Britain threaten to embarrass Ministers who helped them obtain their British passports 25/03/01 B 3 1>4 Photograph * It's compelling television and the most biting political satire for a generation, Robert McCrum celebrates Rory Bremner and his dazzling team - see Television 01/04/01 * Profile on Anji Hunter, confidante and trusted aide to Tony Blair - see Hunter, Anji 01/04/01 * Tony Blair clears the way for a June election 01/04/01 B 1>2 1 * The battle over the timing of the election 01/04/01 B 14 1>7 Photographs * Blair's babes were supposed to change the male-dominated world of politics for ever, but they have had a battle on their hands even to survive 01/04/01 B 4 1>7 Photographs * In a special essay for The Observer, Noreena Hertz argues that governments' surrender to big business is the deadliest threat facing democracy today - see Hertz, Noreena 08/04/01 * Lord Ashcroft, the Conservative Party treasurer, is being sued in the US over his alleged role in a corporate scandal - see Ashcroft, Lord 08/04/01 * Lord Birt, the former BBC boss named as Tony Blair's 'crime tsar' in a blaze of publicity, has been quietly pensioned off amid mounting criticism - see Birt, Lord 08/04/01 * New rights for mothers choosing to work part-time will be drawn up by an independent commission under plans being considered by Tony Blair 08/04/01 B 8 7>8 * Education Secretary David Blunkett made it clear that he would not be returning to the job after the General Election - see Education 15/04/01 * The exploitation of genetic testing by insurers is set to be outlawed by the Government - see Genetics 15/04/01 * Labour is to declare 'a war of attrition' against the BBC during the general election campaign 15/04/01 B 2 4>5 * Ed Vulliamy joins John Prescott, the Deputy PM on the New York subway to hear his views on Kyoto, the Tube - and Miles Davis - see Prescott, John 22/04/01 * Euan Ferguson meets… Tony Booth, the PM's father-in-law - see Booth, Tony 22/04/01 * Labour is set to tackle the crisis in the rail industry with a major shake-up... - see Railway Industry 22/04/01 * Rebel Tories, and a nicely timed speech about curry, have put the explosive issue of race on top of the election agenda - see Race 22/04/01 * The Labour Party was accused of being 'institutionally racist' after an investigation revealed it will fail to hit its own target on electing black and Asian MPs at the next election - see Racism 22/04/01 * Some of the last election's losers relive the tears and the tantrums 22/04/01 M 14>20 1>4 Photographs * Blair's Britain just cultural vandalism says Bush's social policy guru, Myron Magnet 22/04/01 B 23 1>4 Photograph OBSERVER INDEX: JAN-DEC 2001 168 * Labour's plan to give all newborn children a solid financial start - see Personal Finance 29/04/01 * Leading Conservatives in William Hague's Treasury team are seeking to change tax laws which would directly benefit a business man who has donated millions of pounds to the party 29/04/01 B 1>2 1>3 Photograph * Lord Taylor, the black Conservative leader who has fiercely criticised William Hague's stance on race, is to be gagged this week by the party 29/04/01 B 2 2>7 * Alistair Beaton, author of the satirical hit 'Feelgood', chances on a secret memo from the Prime Minister seeking a livelier manifesto 29/04/01 B 24 2>5 * Comment by Peter Mandelson - see Mandelson, Peter 06/05/01 * Tony Blair overruled the Treasury to strike a deal over the future of the London Tube amid fears than an ongoing row would cost Labour seats in the capital - see London Underground 06/05/01 * A tough package of crime measures is to be made the launch pad for Tony Blair's electoral appeal to Britain's middle ground 06/05/01 B 1 4>7 * Chancellor Gordon Brown may have to refund billions of pounds in tax to multinational companies following a deluge of lawsuits after the European Court of Justice ruled discrimination 06/05/01 N 1 1>7 Photograph * Countdown to polling day 06/05/01 B 14 1>6 Photographs * Peter Preston comments on the newspaper tabloid, The Sun's backing of Tony Blair 06/05/01 B 14 7>8 * Varied personal opinions of the Labour Party 06/05/01 B 24 2>4 Photographs * Tony Blair secretly scrapped an official report detailing how Britain's public services are still failing under New Labour amid fears that it would give ammunition to the Tories close to the election 06/05/01 B 6 1>7 * A fresh attempt to crack down on cartels, rogue traders and anti-competitive companies will be the centrepiece of Labour's election manifesto plans for business - see Business & Industry 13/05/01 * A raft of tax cuts and rises in allowances were promised in the Tories' election manifesto last week, all funded by £8bn cuts in public spending - see Personal Finance 13/05/01 * How your vote in the forthcoming General Election could hit your pocket - see Personal Finance 13/05/01 * Labour has wooed business - but the relationship is fragile - see Business & Industry 13/05/01 * Labour's new incentives to work - and a boost for pensioners - see Personal Finance 13/05/01 * Many Lib Dem proposals on personal finance are similar to those they made at the last election, but this time they are making an effort to appeal to pensioners - see Personal Finance 13/05/01 * A group of 60 prominent businessmen are set to endorse Labour's economic record in a letter to be published in The Times tomorrow 13/05/01 N 1 2>6 * New poll joy for Blair as Tories lose high earners 13/05/01 B 1 1>6 Photograph * Six-page special on Election 2001 13/05/01 B 13>18 1>8 Photographs * A former aide to the Hinduja brothers accused Downing Street of lying about a meeting between Tony Blair and the controversial Indian tycoons in June 1998 13/05/01 B 2 7>8
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* Interview with Jake Arnott, autho
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album, a clothing range, toys, a tr
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* See Music: Classical 17/06/01 IAN
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of Venezuela, have broken their par
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* Italian police were questioning a
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in the same way that football clubs
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