Decline & Fall
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women in 56
trust schools 66, 79
Foundation schools 84
‘wrap around’ nursery care 217
breakfast clubs 217
school meals initiative 217
Balls announces more initiatives 219–20
further education 222
‘Children’s Plan’ 232–3
successful/failing schools 257, 451
higher education building projects 314–15
Education & Skills Select Committee 46
Education Bill 84, 86
Egypt, and US’s ‘secret gulag’ 18
Ekiti, Nigeria 167
El Rawi, Mr 90
El-Rufai, Nasir 169
Elder, Murray 153
elected police authorities 291
Electoral Commission 276, 277, 298
electoral reform 341, 344, 414
Electra House, Thames Embankment, London 16
electric cars 358
Elizabeth, Queen, the Queen Mother 56
Elizabeth I, Queen 426
Elizabeth II, Queen 68, 83, 104, 167, 210, 231, 292, 353, 395
Elliot, Julie 402, 441
Elliot, Larry 322, 337
Ellman, Louise 299
Ellwood, Tobias 181
Empire Theatre, Leicester Square, London 430
empty business property 256, 276
Energy Bill 240
Energy White Paper (2003) 79
Engel, Natascha 392, 393
English Speaking Union, Mayfair, London 428, 434
Ennis, Jeff 230
Equal Pay Act 31
equal pay laws 155
Eritreans 238
Etherington, Bill 212
Ethiopia election crisis 14–15
Euro elections (2009) 337–40, 345
European parliament 385
European Social Fund 56
European Union
Constitution 12
referendum dispensed with (2005) 13
British membership 26
and Nigerian elections (2007) 168
Working Time Directive 382
Eurostar 404
Evening Standard 39, 131–2, 143, 160, 264, 292, 303, 306, 376, 420, 439
exit controls 104
extraordinary rendition 19–20, 59, 60
Extraordinary Rendition Group 146
F
Facebook 378
Falconer, Charlie 87, 93–4, 143–4, 173, 275, 343, 386, 387
Falluja: US use of napalm 54
Farrelly, Paul 339
Farringdon Community School, Sunderland 372–3
fascism 26, 97, 127, 281
Federation of Small Businesses 228–9
Fees Office 336, 350
Feith, Doug 387
Fellowes, Lord (Robert) 68, 147, 215
Fernanda (Angolan woman) 56
Field, Frank 5, 162, 226, 237, 238, 244, 245, 333, 334, 352, 408, 409
Finance Bill 237, 239
Finance Department 232
Financial Times 79, 159, 228, 288, 424
Share Index 274
first-past-the-post 341
Fiscal Responsibility Act 375, 408
Fisher, Mark 305, 429
Fitzpatrick, Jim 412
Fitzwalter, Luise 34, 110, 193, 194
Fitzwalter, Ray 34, 110, 193, 194, 268–9
Fletcher, Tom 444
Flint, Caroline 340
floods
2007 185, 193
2009 398
Flynn, Paul 47
Foley, Peter 406, 417
‘To Beauchamp Church in Winter Time’ 417–18
Foley family 137, 406
Fookes, Janet 104
Foot, Michael 25–6, 165, 242, 303–4, 429, 430, 432
For Love of Money (BBC2 programme) 375
Ford, Anna 415
Foreign Affairs Select Committee 9, 20
Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Phnom Penh 204, 205
Foreign Office 101, 138, 181, 192, 254, 368, 415
CM’s two happy years 2
return of CM’s personal effects 5, 6
Robin Cook’s tenure 33
Straw’s sudden removal 97–8, 100
Trident 145
and Gaza 306
Forgan, Liz 108, 190, 269, 297
Foster, Mike 222, 223, 306
Fox, Liam 355
Fox News 369, 417
Franklin, Andrew 315, 318
Freedland, Jonathan 322
Freedom of Information Act 163, 422, 451
‘Freedom’ Pass 221
freemasonry 390
Fuhrerbunker, Berlin 83
Funcinpec 206
G
G7 finance ministers 274
G8 10, 21, 42, 180
G8 summits
Gleneagles (2005) 9, 23
St Petersburg (2006) 116
G20 summits
London (2009) 315, 316, 318
Pittsburgh (2009) 374
Gabelle, Chris 70
Gadaffi, Muammar 170, 307
Galloway, George 20–21, 23, 25, 75, 193
Gambia 146
Gamekeeper’s Cottage, Northchapel, West Sussex 32–4, 119–21
Gapes, Mike 244
Garel-Jones, Tristan 74
Gascony, France 110
Gates, Bill 133
Gay Hussar restaurant, Soho, London 21
Gaza 299
Israel attacks 294, 295–6, 297, 306
GCHQ, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire 65
general election (2010)
canvassing 441
manifestos 441
hoardings 441–2
leaders’ debates (2010) 442–3, 445–6
Clegg mania 443
Tory press launches assault of Clegg 444
Brown’s bigot gaffe 445
Brown visits Sunderland 446
the polls 447
the count 447
Brown resigns 448
transformation of the political landscape 448
General’s Arms, Little Baddow, Essex 113
George V, King 55
George VI, King 56, 83
Georgia 291
Russian invasion of (2008) 261
US warship with ‘relief supplies’ arrives in Georgia 252
Gerrard, Neil 153, 154
Ghana independence 159, 179
Gibbon, Gary 373
Gibson, Ian 337, 359
Gilbert, John 20, 83, 153
Gilligan, Andrew 19–20, 165–6
Gladstone, William 344–5, 427
Glasgow 432–3
Glasgow East by-election (2008) 258, 259
Glass, Charles 343, 385
Glenrothes by-election (2008) 283
global energy crisis 81
global financial crisis (2008) 265, 271–3, 285, 293–4, 300–301, 310, 315, 372, 379, 386, 421
global warming 79, 131, 291–2
Goebbels, Joseph 83
Goggins, Paul 40
Goldsmith, Lord (Peter) 178, 214, 219, 231
Goodman, Helen 84
Goodwin, Sir Fred 309
Goody, Jade 314
Google 302
Gordon, François 422
Gordon, John 358
Gosford Park (film) 385
Gove, Michael 21
government car service 6, 16, 373, 391
Gow, Ian 50
Gowrie, Grey 356–7, 402
Gozney, Diana 166
Gozney, Richard 166, 167, 317
Grace Darling Museum, Bamburgh 235
Graham, Billy 47
Graham, David 92
Graham Greene festival (Berkhamsted School, 2008) 270
Grainger, Ian Liddell 208
Granada 269
Grand Hotel, Brighton 38, 39
Grangemouth oil refinery 239
Grangetown, Sunderland 160
Grangetown school, Sunderland 243
Grayling, Chris 344, 354
Great Freeze (2009) 4
04, 405
Great Terror (Cambodia) 204, 206
Great War (1914–18) 285
Greaves, Harry 73
Green, Damian 290
Green, David 160
Green Zone, The (film) 431
Greene, Caroline 270
Greene, Graham 270
The Quiet American 281
Greengrass, Paul 431
Greenland icecap 81
Greenpeace 157
Grey, Stephen 18, 60
Griffin, Nick 385
Griffiths, Nigel 158, 314
Grindon, Sunderland 273
Grocott, Bruce 17, 43, 57, 74, 109, 126, 139, 231, 246, 303, 394, 410, 427
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) 131
Gross National Product (GNP) 131
Groucho Club, London 183
Groundwork 88
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba 18, 77, 90, 198, 312
Guardian 17, 33, 35, 53, 67, 96, 127, 136, 160, 174, 180, 220, 232, 240, 248, 259, 260, 262, 263, 268, 295, 316, 322, 335, 337, 338, 374, 378, 394, 403, 417, 436, 437, 438
polls 62, 121, 141, 368
Guardian Online 303
Guildford Four 199
Guildford pub bombing (1974) 53
Gulf states 277
Gulu, northern Uganda 81–3
Gurkhas 324, 325, 415
H
Hackney, North London 17
Hackney bus bomb (2005) 28
Hague, William 105, 119, 190, 307, 315, 357
Hague International Criminal Court, Netherlands 105
Haig, Dawyck 12, 369
Hain, Peter 217, 224, 340
Haiphong, Vietnam 208–9
Haiti earthquake (2009) 412, 413
Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) 265
Haltwhistle 141, 405
Hamas 234, 294, 295
Hampstead, London 242
Hampstead Underground, London 22
Hanningfield, Lord 420
Hanoi, Vietnam 207–8, 209
The Residence 207
Hansard 375, 436
Hanson, Rupert 347, 352, 357
Hardie, Keir 78
Harman, Harriet 178–9, 185, 216, 217, 222–3, 224, 232, 244, 253, 254, 257, 291, 299, 309, 315, 330, 336, 341, 344, 384, 411, 419–22, 425, 433, 436
Harris, Evan 429
Harris, Robert 293
Harris, Tom 342
Harrow, Middlesex 347
Haselhurst, Alan 88, 333, 334, 395
Hattersley, Roy 6, 311–12, 388, 427
Haw, Brian 149
Hayman, Assistant Commissioner 48
Healey, Denis 59, 303
Healey, John 238, 256
health
New Labour’s record 3
private medicine 41
Primary Care Trusts 42 see also National Health Service (NHS)
Heath, David 421
Heath, Sir Edward 26–7, 151
Heathcoat-Amory, David 229
Heathrow Airport, London 298, 304, 305
Helions Bumpstead, Essex 63
Helmand province, Afghanistan 106, 213, 355
Help the Aged 33
Hemel Hempstead oil depot fire (2005) 62
Henderson, Doug 96
Hendon, Sunderland 134, 164, 233, 300, 403
Hendon Valley Community School, Sunderland 217
Henry Jackson Society 281
Heritage Lottery 269, 387
Hermon, Sylvia 186
Heseltine, Michael 403
Hewitt, Patricia 42, 80, 94, 130, 337, 409, 411, 435
Heybridge, Essex (Brewster House care home) 11, 16, 63, 91, 125, 130, 134, 135, 137, 146
High Court, London 218, 275
Highcliff Hotel, Bournemouth 197
Highgrove House, near Tetbury, Gloucestershire 107–8
Hill, Keith 9, 10, 21–2, 80, 100, 111, 112, 115, 120, 122, 125, 139–40, 181, 229, 271, 279, 293, 294, 310, 384, 422, 428
Hindley, Myra 129
Hitler Youth 209
Hizbollah 115
HM Revenue and Customs
child benefit records lost discs 213–14
MPs’ expenses 318–19 see also Inland Revenue
Ho Chi Minh City 360–62 see also Saigon
Ho Chi Minh trail 364
Hodge, Margaret 93
Hodge Hill by-election 7
Hodgson, Lord 146
Hoey, Kate 50, 226, 328, 331
Hoffman, Lord 394
Hogg, Douglas 247, 329, 394
Hogg, Sarah 292
Hoi An, Vietnam 365
Holmes, The, Roxburghshire 11, 12
Holy Island 228
Home Affairs Select Committee 214
Home Office 6, 40, 47, 90, 91, 434
deportation orders against foreign criminals 94
and number of illegal immigrants 104
asylum seekers with children 116
John Reid on 105
and Maxine Carr 129
British citizens who have committed crimes abroad 143
drugs issue 189, 309
homelessness 152, 418–19, 422–3
Homer, Lin 116
Hong, Aunty 360
honours lists 86
Hoon, Geoff 97, 101, 221, 226, 232, 258, 409, 411, 435
and nuclear weapons issue 7
Leader of the House 8
on Robin Cook 40
recess dates 51
wants Blair to go sooner rather than later 126
on Blair’s last Cabinet 184
becomes Chief Whip 191
and parliamentary private secretaries 191
and a third runway for Heathrow 305
departure of 340
failed coup 409, 416
Hope, Bob 109
Hope, Phil 330
Hopkins, Kelvin 230
Hotel Constellation, Vientiane, Laos 82
Houghton, Sunderland 299
Houghton and Sunderland South seat 309
House of Commons
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