The white Protestants of Australia, Canada and New Zealand mattered much more to the post imperial British than the European continent, Marr identifies. ... Great Britain and Tony Blair failed miserably in this task and although the US Government were happy to have British backing they would have undoubtedly preferred the full support of the EU. ...

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Introduction The idea of `wicked problems' (Rittel and Webber, 1973) is by no means new in terms of social issues in the UK, indeed it has long been recognised that there are a series of problems/issues which, like the poor, and despite the `best efforts' of government, always seem to be with us and appear to be almost impossible to resolve. ... While there is some more recent evidence that a degree of `joining-up' has occurred, particularly at local level, it is not possible to detect a single overarching strategy towards the city in government policy or even at a more general ...

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