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AFP - British Prime Minister David Cameron threatened to block a new European Union treaty designed to save the euro from the debt crisis if London's demands are not met. Cameron said Britain's huge financial sector and the single market would have to be protected if he were to sign up to a new EU-wide treaty aimed at resolving the crisis in the euro, which Britain does not use. His threat increases the likelihood that France and Germany, who proposed rewriting the treaty Monday, will end up pushing for an agreement between just the 17 nations who use the euro...

When Tony Blair last month hailed the latest meaningless British Crime Survey statistics — which claimed a drop in violent crime last year — he again parroted what has become his Government's mantra on the subject: it is not crime that we should worry about but the fear of crime. Fear of crime is something that keeps chief constables and politicians awake at night. Why else would police forces up and down the country list reducing it as one of their priorities? Why else would virtually every large police station have its own "public relations manager" tasked with keeping as...