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Article: New Labour's anti-socialism: New Labour's attempt to synthesise progressive politics with the global market is collapsing into new experiments in social authoritarianism.(Against the Current)(social policy of Labour Party)
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- Arena Magazine
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- April 1, 2005
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If a liberal is a conservative who's never been mugged, then at some point during the past decade or so New Labour was done over. Launching a five-year government law and order strategy in July 2004--no doubt with an eye on the 5 May General Election --Tony Blair explained that New Labour would end 'the 1960s social-liberal consensus on law and order' (Guardian 19 July 2004).
New Labour's favourite weapons in this new offensive in the culture wars are Anti-Social Behaviour Orders, or ASBOs as they're affectionately known.
Introduced as part of the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act, ASBOs can be taken out against people--including children as young as ten years ...