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27 “Nursery alert for racist toddlers,” BBC, July 7, 2008; available online at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7493654.stm.
28 Luke Salkeld, “Flipping madness! Police offer free flip-flops to binge drinkers who keep falling over in heels,” The Daily Mail, November 27, 2008; available online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1089919/Flipping-madness-Police-offer-free-flip-flops-binge-drinkers-falling-heels.html.
29 Nick Allen, “Man escapes jail for punching war veteran, 96,” The Telegraph, October 22, 2007; available online at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1566972/Man-escapes-jail-for-punching-war-veteran-96.html.
30 George Jonas, “The Evil Men Do Lives After Them,” The National Post, October 16, 2000; available online at http://jeanchretien.libertyca.net/html/0072.html.
31 David Millward, “Traffic wardens get head cameras,” The Telegraph, December 21, 2009; available online at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/6840937/Traffic-wardens-get-head-cameras.html.
32 Maxine Frith, “How average Briton is caught on camera 300 times a day,” The Independent, January 12, 2004; available online at http://www.independent. co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/how-average-briton-is-caught-on-camera-300-times-a-day-572781.html.
33 John Steele, “Britain has worst drug addiction rate in Europe,” The Telegraph, April 19, 2007; available online at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1549028/Britain-has-worst-drug-addiction-rate-in-Europe.html.
34 Steve Doughty, “Most teenage pregnancies now end with an abortion,” The Daily Mail, May 11, 2009; available online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1180262/Most-teenage-pregnancies-end-abortion.html.
35 Steve Doughty, “Single mother Britain: U.K. has most lone parents of any major European nation,” The Daily Mail, April 1, 2011; available online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1372533/Britain-lone-parents-major-Euro-nation. html.
36 Helen Weathers, “Why does Britain have record levels of abortion and an unprecedented need for IVF?,” The Daily Mail, June 30, 2006; available online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-393236/Why-does-Britain-record-levelsabortion-unprecedented-need-IVF.html.
37 Jack Grimston, “Children wear body armour school uniform,” The Times, September 9, 2007; available online at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2414704.ece
38 “The plan for social security: full outline,” The Guardian, December 2, 1942; available online at http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,,127564,00.html.
39 Patrick Wintour, “Brown: Remembrance Sunday should become ‘British Day’,” The Guardian, January 14, 2006; available online at http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/jan/14/britishidentity.labour.
40 John Carvel, “Brown urged to create holiday on birthday of health service,” The Guardian, January 1, 2008; available online at http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/jan/01/uk.publicservices.
41 Jason Groves, “’Shameless’ generation grows as seven million now live in households where no one works,” The Daily Mail, September 14, 2010; available online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1310220/7-million-live-joblesshouseholds-works.html.
42 Tim Shipman, “More than 900,000 have been off sick for a DECADE–costing taxpayer £4bn a year,” The Daily Mail, August 16, 2010; available online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1303320/4bn-year-900-000-whove-decadesick.html.
43 Paul Sims, “Councils pay for disabled to visit prostitutes and lap-dancing clubs from £520m taxpayer fund,” The Daily Mail, August 16, 2010; available online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1303273/Councils-pay-disabledvisit-prostitutes-lap-dancing-clubs.html.
44 Abul Taher, “‘Soviet’ Britain swells amid the recession,” The Times, January 25, 2009; available online at http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article5581225.ece.
45 House of Commons, “A Century of Change: Trends in UK statistics since 1900,” December 21, 1999; available online at http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons/lib/research/rp99/rp99-111.pdf.