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YOU knew the elderGeorge Bush had his electoral goose cooked when he went campaigning for reelection in a supermarket and expressed amazement at the laser barcode reader at the checkout. This was 1992 and, after 12 years cocooned behind his secret service security detail as vice-president and president, he was simply too out of touch with even the most commonplace changes during that time.
In Brighton this week, a government minister admitted to me he did not know how to send an e-mail. He has "people"who do such things for him. In its third term, and cocooned in the security cordon of Whitehall or the Brighton conference centre, Labour's high command risks losing touch, even with the extent to which e-mail has transformed working and social life.See the full content of this document
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Will Anyone Make a Stand Against the Heir Apparent?
Tony Blair, however, is a prime ministerwho claims to be in touch with change. He loves it, embraces it, runs ahead of it, makes it happen - sometimes a tad more than is healthy.
Warning the Labour conference about "a world fast-forwarding to the future at unprecedented pace" and the need to "lock horns with...See the full content of this document
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