tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70152127667588509312024-02-08T13:52:28.247+00:00RT HON DR DENIS MACSHANE MPDenis MacShanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04839267390176371533noreply@blogger.comBlogger217125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015212766758850931.post-68740392580294503022012-03-01T16:25:00.000+00:002012-06-19T17:59:46.899+01:00What Hollande Means for Britain
This article appeared in the Guardian.
François Hollande as French president could suit Britain
29 February 2012
François Hollande comes to London today to energise the 100,000 plus French voters who prefer British capitalism to French statism and whose votes may prove decisive in what is expected to be a narrow outcome in the French presidential election in May.
I was inDenis MacShanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04839267390176371533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015212766758850931.post-60141110765572179722012-02-14T16:24:00.002+00:002012-02-23T16:33:22.904+00:00Update on the situation in BahrainThis article was published in The Independent-BlogsBahrain: One year on14 February 2012I am used to endless lies and criticism from the BNP and its favourite blogster, as well as Islamist ideologues who hate my work on anti-semitism and the off-shore press obsessed about Europe. But this is the first time that a government, Bahrain, has sent a 17 page letter to the British Government telling Denis MacShanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04839267390176371533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015212766758850931.post-45558315443802103642012-01-09T19:04:00.000+00:002012-01-09T19:04:01.620+00:00Open Letter to the Foreign Secretary on BahrainThis letter was published on the Dale&Co. website
An Open Letter on Bahrain to Rt Hon William Hague MP
8 January 2012
Dear William, Welcome back from Burma. The pictures of you there with Aung San Suu Kyi were heart-warming and it is good you went there in person to express British support for democratic change to liberate the Denis MacShanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04839267390176371533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015212766758850931.post-48426817695981837662011-12-14T17:02:00.001+00:002012-01-09T17:13:43.393+00:00Britain can't be more like SwitzerlandThis article was published on the Dale&Co. website
Let's Stop Dreaming of Being Swiss
14 December 2011
Switzerland is one of the best countries in the world. But Britain it isn’t. The dream of Britain becoming Switzerland plus nuclear weapons and a seat at the UN Security Council is just that – a dream Here’s why.
In the film version of Graham Greene’s “The Denis MacShanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04839267390176371533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015212766758850931.post-61482127448206010162011-12-11T19:05:00.000+00:002012-01-09T19:11:08.822+00:00The Tory Eurosceptics have won their once-lonely battleThis article was published in the "Comment is Free" section of The Guardian.
There's little point in Britain staying in the EU now – Bill Cash has won
10 December 2011
The massive slump in imports into the UK announced on Friday is in many ways more important than Bill Cash's victory in Brussels. The voice we are hearing is that of David Cameron, but the script has been written by Bill Cash. His Denis MacShanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04839267390176371533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015212766758850931.post-70011570885402003062011-12-08T16:01:00.001+00:002012-01-09T17:01:15.525+00:00Press Release
Serbia Does Not Merit EU Accession Status After Tadic Again Snubs Kosovo Says UK MP
8 December 2011
Speaking at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington DC Denis MacShane MP, former Minister for the Balkans in the UK Government said that the EU should not reward Serbia’s refusal to bring about a final settlement in the Western Balkans by its continuing refusal toDenis MacShanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04839267390176371533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015212766758850931.post-88156385463932232662011-11-30T16:49:00.001+00:002012-01-09T16:55:21.142+00:00Why Anti-semitism is on the riseThis article was published on the Dale&Co. website
The Beast is Back
30 November 2011
It just won’t go away will it? Next year Verso will publish a book by the French intellectual Alain Badiou, a professor at the heart of the Paris intellectual establishment in the École Normale, which argues that anti-semitism is an invented concept created by Zionists to justify oppression of Palestinians.
Denis MacShanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04839267390176371533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015212766758850931.post-13476642629343640552011-10-31T16:43:00.000+00:002012-01-09T16:45:20.991+00:00This article was published on the Dale&Co. website
Forget the people, the elite must rule
31 October 2011
Europe is the No 1 obsession of the political elite in Britain. Never has there been such a focused effort to force the British people to accept the position of the dominant elite in politics and the media. Dissenting voices are pushed to one side. Opponents of what the ruling elite want Denis MacShanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04839267390176371533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015212766758850931.post-85335352105037843372011-10-30T16:34:00.003+00:002012-01-09T16:56:08.700+00:00Europe set to become the Irish question for today's MPsThis article was published on the Dale&Co. website
Beware the European Question 30 October 2011The reverberations from Monday’s debate will echo for the remainder of this parliament. The Conservatives are not just banging on about Europe they have taken every instrument out of the political orchestra and making as much noise as possible. Yesterday Bill Cash, introduced a 10 minute rule bill, Denis MacShanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04839267390176371533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015212766758850931.post-80891436188491053602011-10-10T15:17:00.008+01:002012-01-09T16:28:55.817+00:00The two elections in Europe that Britain should watchThis article was published on the Dale&Co. website
Forget the US – Two Elections in Europe Count Right Now
10 October 2011
Today two elections vital to Britain’s future are taking place. In Poland, the Civic Platform government headed by Donald Tusk, is likely to be re-elected. This will the first time since the end of communism that a party forming a government in Poland will have won a Denis MacShanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04839267390176371533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015212766758850931.post-38375513490583594592011-09-12T13:25:00.003+01:002011-09-13T14:26:02.362+01:00Demands for Russia to uphold the rule of lawThis article was published in The Guardian
David Cameron's trip to the Kremlin must address the Sergei Magnitsky case
12 September 2011
In diplomacy there is an unofficial statute of limitations on rows that poison state-to-state relations. November will see the fifth anniversary of the murder of Alexander Litvinenko by Russian agents in London. David Cameron will Denis MacShanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04839267390176371533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015212766758850931.post-90049306564136832002011-09-07T17:42:00.000+01:002011-09-07T17:42:36.919+01:00Thinking about a 21st-century European UnionThis article was published in The Independent
Slash and burn: less Brussels, better Europe
7 September 2011
Has the word "leadership" been expunged from the dictionaries of Europe? It is not just David Cameron, Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel who are all on holiday. The crisis of the eurozone exposes a Europe whose institutions no longer work.
For Britain, George Osborne has had the boldest Denis MacShanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04839267390176371533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015212766758850931.post-36339453993721404632011-09-07T17:04:00.007+01:002011-09-07T17:29:50.750+01:00Presidential elections in Abkhazia draw attention to the complicated question of finding an independent voice for this small Balkan regionThis article was published on the openDemocracy website
Abkhazian Elections: Russia's Pawn in Georgian Election Game?
1 September 2011
During the Soviet emporium, Stalin and his epigones imposed to run Russian colonies set great store by the forms of democracy. An unverified aphorism has Stalin saying: “It’s not the people who vote that count. It’s the people who count the votes.” Elections Denis MacShanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04839267390176371533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015212766758850931.post-73473480807829270972011-08-23T11:35:00.004+01:002011-09-12T11:52:20.433+01:00Osborne the surprise Euro-federalist
This article was published by the Yorkshire Post Why the future of Europe is the issue that won't go away 23 August 2011 ORDER has been restored. The streets are calm. An inquiry will be held. New initiatives launched. The normal inter-party bickering resurfaces.But lurking behind the post-mortems on the three days when the state lost control of the streets is another much graver Denis MacShanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04839267390176371533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015212766758850931.post-84279131865953344932011-08-04T12:02:00.001+01:002011-09-01T12:10:24.259+01:00The Crisis of the Spanish Socialists: Another Sign of the Decline of the European Left
This article was published by Progress
Can the Socialists pull through in Spain?
3 August 2011
The early elections called in Spain for November will further reduce the profile of the left in Europe as a serious governing force. Unlike Jim Callaghan or Gordon Brown who clung limpetlike to office until the last possible days of their terms, the Socialist leadership in Spain have seized the Denis MacShanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04839267390176371533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015212766758850931.post-3998615555066265942011-07-22T15:48:00.002+01:002011-09-13T16:03:17.941+01:00Learning from Czeslaw MiloszThis article was published in The Tablet
Freedom, faith and a Polish poet on the underground
22 July 2011
There is a treat for users of the London Underground. To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great Polish Catholic intellectual and poet, Czeslaw Milosz, the Poems on the Underground team have put up some of his crisp short poems on the tube.
The coincidence of the Denis MacShanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04839267390176371533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015212766758850931.post-54567213275763935772011-06-24T17:27:00.000+01:002011-09-08T17:35:23.197+01:00Spain and the future of the left in Europe
This article was published by ProgressWhat the Spanish left's demise says about the crisis of Euro socialism 24 June 2011Sunday’s election in Portugal confirmed the trend. It is not a blip. The European left is where it was in the 1930s and 1950s – full of anger at the ravages of contemporary capitalism and anguish at the treatment meted out on the poor and vulnerable by a social welfare Denis MacShanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04839267390176371533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015212766758850931.post-65974962731355422652011-05-26T17:05:00.002+01:002011-09-08T17:19:22.271+01:00Should development policy include democracy promotion?
This article was published in The World Today 26 May 2011UK Politics: Democracy as Conflict-PreventionSixty years ago Harold Wilson wrote his book, War on Want, which launched the concept of development aid. As prime minister, Wilson appointed Britain's first overseas aid minister. His initiative has grown into the biggest international spend in the British budget. Britain and its Denis MacShanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04839267390176371533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015212766758850931.post-51087861777138826742011-04-25T12:35:00.001+01:002011-09-08T12:37:20.632+01:00The future of the European ParliamentThis article was published by the Centre for European Reform website
Europe's parliament: Reform or perish?
25 April 2011
What are we going to do with the European Parliament (EP)? Such a question is normally the beginning of an anti-European diatribe. Not for me. I have spent every year since the first direct elections in 1979 to the Strasbourg Assembly defending its role and purpose. I haveDenis MacShanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04839267390176371533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015212766758850931.post-81109930904655416652011-04-14T11:41:00.002+01:002011-09-01T11:59:54.387+01:0030th Anniversary of the Election of Mitterrand: What Can We Learn from the French Socialist Leader?This article was published by Policy Network
The meaning of Mitterrand
11 April 2011
Many key problems of the contemporary political sphere, from climate change to bank regulation, must be addressed through a commitment to supranationalism and leadership. With this in mind social democrat’s today would do well to understand the political intellect of a neglected European leader, Denis MacShanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04839267390176371533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015212766758850931.post-91289798888418813662011-03-09T11:52:00.006+00:002011-09-12T12:16:59.310+01:00Countries yearning for freedom should be priorities for development supportThis article was published in The Wall Street Journal
How to build democracies in the Mideast
9 March 2011
The revolts in Arab and Maghreb nations as well as the Green Movement in Iran are an opportunity to reshape Western policy in the region. In his speech in Kuwait last week, British Prime Minister David Cameron called for reforms there, for rule of law, and for freedom of Denis MacShanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04839267390176371533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015212766758850931.post-63230327863939371192011-02-23T12:23:00.001+00:002011-09-12T13:28:31.786+01:00The Council of Europe and unfounded accusations against the Kosovan Prime MinisterThis article was published by The Wall Street Journal
Smearing Hashim Thaci
23 February 2011
Last month the Council of Europe adopted a report by Swiss politician Dick Marty, which accused the prime minister of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, of having harvested organs for sale from executed Serb prisoners in 1999. The allegations made world headlines. After the Iraq war controversy, the Denis MacShanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04839267390176371533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015212766758850931.post-33795839292750029472010-12-30T17:57:00.001+00:002011-08-31T18:05:45.904+01:00Council of Europe's Dick Marty Causes Unjustified Lurid Headlines about Kosovo
This article was published on the Open Democracy website
The Human Organs of the Council of Europe: there is no evidence in the Marty report 29 December 2010
In the midst of the Wikileaks, another story exploded onto front pages around the world which claimed that the present prime minister of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi, had been a master-mind criminal involved in the killing of Denis MacShanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04839267390176371533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015212766758850931.post-51912349047489401692010-12-15T17:45:00.001+00:002011-08-31T17:56:01.514+01:00Bill Browder's Tale: a Warning to the WestThis article was published in Newsweek
An American in Exile From Moscow
13 December 2010
Had you asked Stalin about Earl Browder, he would have snorted in derision. Ask Putin about Bill Browder, and the reaction will be the same. The Browder family’s tortured relationship with Russian leaders is worthy of a Ken Follett novel.
Earl Browder was the leader of the Communist Party Denis MacShanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04839267390176371533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015212766758850931.post-14464507839469747332010-11-28T17:28:00.002+00:002011-08-31T17:41:42.348+01:00Europe's Crisis of Social Democracy: Shall the Social Democrats Be the Ones to Blame?
This article was published in TribuneIs the left's decline terminal?26 November 2010That there is a crisis of social democracy in Europe is not in doubt. The question is whether it is terminal. The symptoms are worrying. In Vienna, home city a century ago to anti-Semitic, brownshirt politics, 27 per cent of voters supported the extremism of the late and unlamented Jorg Haider's party in Denis MacShanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04839267390176371533noreply@blogger.com