They were also angry about government intrusion into their lives and advantages given to minorities competing for jobs and university admissions. These concerns, coupled with Bill Clinton’s Monica scandal, gave George Bush an opportunity that he converted into two successful presidential campaigns.What comes next? If Bush pushes his conservative agenda in a second term, trying to overturn the 1973 Roe v Wade abortion ruling by appointing ultra conservative justices to the Supreme Court, for example, it will deepen the antagonisms in the country and likely produce an explosion of opposition reminiscent of the antiwar movement of the Sixties.By contrast, if Bush consults the larger national interest, finds an early exit strategy for Iraq and tempers his conservative social agenda, he could ease the almost palpable anger of Democrats and leave a legacy of reasonably successful leadership. He needs a second term to rectify the damage done in the first.Robert Dallek is the author of nine books on US history, including ‘John F Kennedy: An Unfinished Life’ (2003, Little Brown). These tensions, however, resurfaced over Vietnam, Lyndon B Johnson’s Great Society, and the rise of political correctness in the Sixties.

Appalled by the actions of Robert Mugabe’s government, Norton still refused to leave the country.”I could go back to South Africa, or England, or anywhere, but why should I?” he said “I don’t want to go.”Max Arthur. The use of exotic animals to perform in circuses is a barbaric practice and ought to have been banned long ago. We wish the RSPCA and others every success in lobbying MPs to modify the draft animal welfare bill to make it illegal. When one considers that elephants sometimes travel 40km a day in the wild, the cruelty of keeping them chained up for long period and transported across the country in cramped conditions becomes all too clear The same is true for lions and tigers.

Unlike zoos, circuses do not even have the excuse of providing an educational insight into their animals. This is one form of entertainment that we can happily live without.. Those who would like to see Britain lose its reputation as the language dunce of Europe will not be comforted by the decision of 2,000 state schools to make the learning of foreign languages non-compulsory after the age of 14. Languages are now compulsory at GCSE level in only 30 per cent of state schools, although they continue to flourish in the private sector.