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Five-year plan pins hopes on street policing
July 20 2004: A new style of intensive neighbourhood policing was unveiled yesterday as a key part of the government's five-year anti-crime plan.
Special report: crime
Guardian Unlimited Politics


Blair survives Commons Iraq debate unscathed
July 21 2004: Tony Blair has escaped virtually unscathed from MPs' criticisms over the Butler report without being humiliated or forced to apologise for his handling of the faulty intelligence which led Britain into war in Iraq.
Special report: Butler report
Guardian Unlimited Politics


'Our leaders did not understand the gravity of the threat'
July 23 2004: The US government failed to protect the American people through a fatal lack of imagination, the commission into the September 11 attacks said yesterday.
Special report: September 11 2001
Special report: United States
Special report: al-Qaida


Blairism is just Thatcherism softened for a soppier age
July 22 2004: New Labour's successes bear Brown's imprint, not the prime minister's, writes Jackie Ashley.
Guardian Unlimited Politics