Making a Difference You Did Your Bit: Now It's Over to the Politicians
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IT'S NOT only rock'n'roll. We like it so much that hundreds of thousands attended the Live8 concerts in 10 of the world's great cities at the weekend while perhaps five billion viewers tuned in to watch live on television. According to Bob Geldof, the organiser, the Hyde Park gig, the biggest and best, was as if everything in rock'n roll had just been made real.
We are accustomed to hyperbole in the world of pop; less so from the mouths of politicians in powerwary of being caught out by committing themselves to something they cannot deliver. Such had been the success of the concerts and Saturday's linked march in Edinburgh that even Gordon Brown yesterday proclaimed they proved that "people can have power if they make their views felt".See the full content of this document
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Making a Difference You Did Your Bit: Now It's Over to the Politicians
Certainly, people's hopes and expectations are high that the G8 leaders, meeting in Gleneagles for their threeday summit starting on Wedne...
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