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This 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 Burmese people from their repressive regime. Today I

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This 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 Third Man”, Orson Welles, makes

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This 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

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Press 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 to

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This 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. But

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This 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 are

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This 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,

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This 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 second

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This 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 certainly raise the

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This 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

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This 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

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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 political

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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

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This 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

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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 system

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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 European Union

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This 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 have

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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, Francois

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This 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 association. Mr.

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This 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 message was

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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 people to extract

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This 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 USA in the 1930s

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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 this

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This article was published in Newsweek  Japan Teeters on the Edge 8 November 2010 Geographically, Britain and Japan are cousins, two island nations off Eurasia. Geopolitically, they could not be more different. Western Eurasia, with its comfort blanket of NATO, two major nuclear powers, and a burgeoning EU defense profile, could hardly be more stable. Meanwhile, Japan has more than 4,000

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This article was published in the Evening Standard  Cameron Does Europe as Well as Blair 3 November 2010  It’s summer 2005 and as I shower and change after an early morning’s tennis with fellow MPs, who should into the Commons changing room wrapped in a towel but David Cameron. I joke that he has to run for leader of the Conservative Party as he is the closest they have to Tony Blair. I add that

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This article was published in the Financial Times Time to Create a Eurodrone Industry 14 October 2010 Sixty years ago Europe created a common steel industry. Twenty years later came the first truly common European product, the Airbus. Today the time is right for another: the Eurodrone. These pilotless planes are transforming warfare. Their strikes against Taliban chiefs win

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This article was published by the Guardian website Don't let Georgia down, Cameron On the second anniversary of the Russia-Georgia war, the UK should follow the US lead and support Georgian sovereignty 7 August 2010 This weekend marks the second anniversary of the Russia-Georgia war. A lot of water has passed under the bridge since then, including the "reset button" being pressed by

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This article was published by the Observer Can David Cameron match Harold Macmillan's achievement in house-building? 15 August 2010 Right-to-buy and buy-to-let have created an urgent need for social housing – which the Labour government did not deliver There re nearly half a million reasons why a new council house building programme is unlikely to get off the ground, despite hints last week

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This article was published in Tribune Driving down Britain with diplomatic impunity - Foreign policy is exposing divisions in the British Government 10 July 2010 William Hague’s first big speech as Foreign Secretary failed to address key questions, most ­important of which is Britain’s policy on Afghanistan. David Cameron has said he expects British troops to be out by 2015, with Number 10

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5 July 2010 The defeat of Jaroslaw Kaczynski in Poland’s presidential election surely brings to an end the political career of two remarkable men. This summer sees the 30th anniversary of the founding moment of the Polish trade union NSZZ Solidarnosc. The Kaczynski twins, Jarosloaw and Lech, were Solidarity activists but very much on the right-nationalist, ultra-Catholic wing of the movement.

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This article was published in Tribune Labour must avoid xenophobia at all costs 25 June 2010 Some among the Labour leadership contenders have found a reason why we lost the election: Johnny Foreigner. It’s nice, convenient – and utterly wrong. So it’s the immigrants who are to blame. Like other Labour people, I have been looking for the over-arching reason why we lost the general election.

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This piece was posted on the Guardian website Europe and the two faces of David Cameron 17 June 2010 The PM seems conflicted over the 'nutters, antisemites and homophobes' of his EU allies: where does he really stand?   On Wednesday night David Cameron did not turn up for dinner with his fellow Conservative prime ministers in Europe. The deals and decisions that Europe takes are pre-cooked,

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This article appeared in the London Evening Standard Labour is wrong to scapegoat immigrants 8 June 2010 One of the best things about the new politics is that it is less and less reserved for white Anglo-Saxons. David Cameron copies President Sarkozy and puts a Muslim woman, Sayeeda Warsi, in his Cabinet. Nick Clegg has a Dutch mother and a Spanish wife. Labour's new intake is

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This comment appeared on the Open Democracy website Georgia's Promising Elections 9 June 2010 The recent local elections in Georgia were deemed “free and fair”, but the opposition remains fragmented. Parliament is the proper forum for moving towards mature democracy, says Denis MacShane, but the world should not forget Georgia and its troubled relationship with its northern neighbour, Russia

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This article was published in the Observer Our soldiers have shed enough blood: it is time to come home from Helmand 30 May 2010 The strategy of sending patrols out to be shot at by the Taliban is needlessly costing the lives of British troops It is time to stop the blood sacrifice of our young soldiers in Afghanistan. In June 2003, Tony Blair initiated the grim ritual of reading out

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News Release 1 June 2010 Former Europe Minister Denis MacShane MP has urged the Council of Europe to invite Kosovan parliamentarians to take part in Council of Europe meetings. Speaking at the Political Affairs Committee of the Council of Europe in Paris (1 June) MacShane said members of Kosovo's parliament, including Serbs, should be invited to Strasbourg to see how fellow European

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The following article was published in the Independent India is key to solving Afghanistan It beggars belief that a fellow Commonwealth country - both a democracy and a nuclear-armed power - can be talking about an invasion of Pakistan 20 May 2010 When will the Commons start telling the truth about Afghanistan? Other than immigration, no other subject was raised so often on the

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This appeared in Newsweek from the magazine issue dated 31 May 2010 The Real European Stalemate It's in Germany, not Britain. 14 May 2010 As the drama of Europe's debt crisis slowly unfolds, all eyes have been diverted to the wrong national subplot. The new Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition in Britain is surprising and historic, but it is not the potential stalemate that matters most

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This articles was published on the Guardian Comment website Two votes of no confidence 10 May 2010 The political class in Britain and Germany have finally woken up to the fact that the public no longer trusts them German politics faces a new nightmare as voters in Germany's biggest land, North Rhine Westphalia, punished the ruling chancellor, Angela Merkel, but refused to give

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This article appeared in Die Welt Treuer Sohn seines Landes 12 April 2010 Lech Kaczynski war gewiss nicht jedermanns politische Präferenz. Aber als treuer Sohn Polens bemühte er sich immer, Ehre und Ansehen der polnischen Nation und ihrer Menschen hochzuhalten. Als Präsident riskierte er mutig sein Leben, als er 2008 nach Georgien flog, um Solidarität mit dem georgischen Volk zu bekunden, als

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MacShane Urges Protection of Journalists Rights in Digital Economy Bill 8 April 2010 Speaking in the closing stages of the Digital Economy bill, Labour MP Denis MacShane, said that journalists, musicians and creative workers should not have their work stolen from them to be handed out free on the internet. The MP, a former president of the National Union of Journalist, criticised Lib-Dem

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This article was published on the Guardian website David Cameron's Prague spring 5 April 2010 As a Czech party leader is forced to stand down over homophobic remarks, can we expect Tories to follow suit? Chris Grayling would fit in well with David Cameron's new allies in eastern Europe. On the Radio 4 Today programme this morning, Michael Heseltine airily dismissed a question about

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This column was published in Newsweek As Europe Dithers 2 April 2010 (from the magazine issue dated 12 April 2010) Not since the 1930s have international politics been in such flux. Rising states such as China, India, Turkey, and Brazil, as well as a newly assertive Russia, are challenging the old democracies as never before. But rather than use its growing Union to assert itself, Europe has

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This article was published in Newsweek 29 March 2010 Big Trouble for Sarko The price of underachievement. It may not be time to say adieu, but French President Nicolas Sarkozy is finally starting to look like a loser after seeming unbeatable for 20 years. The first round of regional elections in early March gave him a terrible battering. As the left-leaning weekly Le Nouvel Observateur

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This article appeared in the Wall St Journal Europe 26 March 2010 Who's in Charge Here, Anyway? The Rhine has become wider than the Atlantic, as Berlin and Paris stop speaking European The European Union summit this week should beware of Greeks bearing their crisis and asking what they should do with it. The answer may come from the French socialist, Dominique Strauss Kahn, at the IMF. It

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This comment was published on the Guardian website 24 March 2010 A non-toxic immigration debate With an election looming, immigration will be an issue – but one that must be reported sensitively, not sensationally Listening to the long rant of Newham citizens against "immigrants" on the Today programme this morning took me back to my early days as a BBC trainee reporter in Birmingham in the

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This comment was published by the Guardian 18 March 2010 Tories must answer for extremist links The ahistorical David Cameron has no idea how much his association with Waffen-SS admirers has tarnished UK politics Ian Traynor's balanced report from Riga about the Waffen-SS commemoration in Latvia is a reminder that Britain's Conservative party has not been adequately called to account for its

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The speech by Denis MacShane below was made in the House of Commons in a debate on "Defence in the World" 15th March 2010 The debate is about defence in the world, and my right hon. Friend the Defence Secretary focused a bit narrowly, if I may say so, on Afghanistan. I do not entirely blame him, because the attempts to challenge the Chilcot inquiry evidence given by the Prime Minister, who was

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Press Release 22 February 2010 Russia Urged To Press Its own Reset Button with Nato Denis MacShane MP, former FCO Minister and UK delegate to the Nato Parliamentary Assembly has urged Russia to press its own reset button and lower tension with Nato members. MacShane made his appeal in the House of Commons (22 February 2010) after declarations from Moscow that the Kremlin’s new military

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This article was published in the French daily newspaper Libération 22 February 2010 Ne pas stigmatiser le capitalisme, mais lui opposer des contre-pouvoirs Jacques Julliard a introduit un débat essentiel. Comme Luther en son temps, il a hardiment placardé ses thèses sur les portes de la cathédrale de la gauche - Libé. Julliard dénonce avec vigueur, propose sans crainte et incarne l’antithèse

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This book review was published in the Financial Times 22 February 2010 A Jew Must Die, by Jacques Chessex (translated by W Donald Wilson, Bitter Lemon Press £6.99, 92 pages) This short novel is one of the most powerful accounts of the horrors of anti-Semitism as it descended into mass Jew-killing. It is set not in a Nazi death camp but in peaceful, neutral Switzerland. The Swiss asked the

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This book review article was published in Tribune Icy warning: the Nordic saga of a Bourbon country that has learned – and forgotten – nothing 18 February 2010 Meltdown Iceland by Roger Boyes (Bloomsbury, £12.99) Pity poor Iceland. Lost in the icy seas of the Northern Atlantic between Europe and North America, this ancient democracy has only known poverty and cod for centuries. Bullied

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This comment was published in The Independent 16 February 2010 Shame on those now sneering at the European project The right is forcing the pace in seeking to cast the EU in a negative light Like the Bullingdon Club on a late-night binge, the Anglo-Saxon club of anti-Europeans is on the rampage, portraying the euro on the brink of collapse. Behind this stands a bigger right-wing agenda

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This article was published in the Yorkshire Post 8 February 2010 The battle is not all over yet, Gordon... if you can use your strengths The nation is fed up with its leader. The same party has been in power for well over a decade. Other elections and opinion polls show the voters want change. Compared to the peerless communication abilities of his predecessor, the new head of

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Auf Wiedersehen Oscar 2 February 2010 The shock news that Oskar Lafontaine, the eternally youthful No-sayer of the German left, is standing down as leader of the Left Party (Die Linke) and as a German MP opens the door to fascinating possibilities for the German left. Lafontaine underwent a serious cancer operation last November and has now announced his retirement from politics. This

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China : Time for New Realism 23 January 2010 Charles Grant, of the Centre for European Reform, has written - not for the first time - a very timely and prescient essay on the growing disenchantment of the democratic world with the Middle Kingdom. David Rennie in his current Bagehot column in the Economist has a good take on it too. The problem arises from the fact that China has

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Press release Preacher of hate and supporter of suicide bombing to speak at Birmingham University 20 January 2010 Former FCO minister, Denis MacShane MP, said: "On Monday I wrote to the Vice-Chancellor of Birmingham University drawing his attention to a Jew-hater and propagandist for terrorist jihad and suicide bombings who had been invited to speak on campus. I did so after

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This article appeared in The Independent 20 January 2010 Objections I never heard in 2003 Plenty of those now eager to cast Blair in a bad light supported war in Iraq at the time Which of the many senior politicians caught in the long-running debate over the Iraq conflict said that Saddam Hussein "most certainly has chemical and biological weapons and is working towards a nuclear

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19 January 2010 MacShane Urges UK to Support Green revolution of Iranian People Former Foreign Minister Denis MacShane MP has told the Commons that Britain should support by means of so-called “soft-power” the movement in Iran for democracy, human rights and an end to rule by Ayatollahs and extremists. Below is the exchange with Foreign Secretary David Miliband who had earlier told

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11 January 2010 Defence Secretary urged to Tell India To Drop Military Threats Against Pakistan Former FCO Minister Denis MacShane MP has called on Britain to urge India to stop preparations for war against Pakistan. The Labour MP asked Britain’s Defence Secretary, Bob Ainsworth, to write to India’s Defence Chief and urged India “to stop beating the drums of war.” MacShane’s appeal made

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8 January 2010 "Iceland Needs Negotiation, Not Threats" Says Former Europe Minister Former Europe Minister, Denis MacShane MP, has urged Britain to avoid imposing "Versailles Treaty type reparations" on Iceland and instead negotiate a new deal with Iceland to allow its debt to be paid back to Britain without "humiliating and imposing a disproportionate financial burden on individual

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This article appeared in the Independant 5 January 2010 Go to the theatre to see what a Tory future would be like 'The Misanthrope' mocks the faux morality of the sun king's court Want to peep into a Tory future-land? Forget the pundits, columnists, Compassites, Progressites, and Fabianites. Instead buy a theatre or film ticket and all will be revealed. Some of the best political

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This book review was published in the New Statesman 30 December 2009 Free Radical: a Memoir The Cable guy If Paddy Ashdown is the best foreign secretary Labour never had, Vince Cable is the best shadow chancellor the Conservatives might have had in place of the current clumsy occupant of that post. Cable is the undoubted darling of today's Commons watchers. They hate Gordon Brown and, other

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On 12th November 2009, in an historic decision, British law was radically changed. From now on, men -not women- will be obliged to accept responsibility for the abuses of trafficked and coerced women forced to work as prostitutes. It has been a long, slow-burn campaign headed by Labour women ministers and MPs. Until now it has been women who have been arrested, questioned, or deported as if the

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At the invitation of the British-Ukraine Society, Denis MacShane gave the annual YALTA MEMORIAL LECTURE in Parliament on 30 november 2009. Here is the text of his speech: "From Malta to Yalta we shall not falter" intoned Winston Churchill as he and President Roosevelt dragged their weary bodies across the world to meet Stalin in the early weeks of 1945. Then it was to seal the compact of war

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This article appeared in Tribune 20 November 2009 THE TORIES' FAR RIGHT LINKS STAND EXPOSED FOR WHAT THEY ARE Who called David Cameron’s new friends on the hard right in east Europe a “shoddy, shaming alliance”? Not David Miliband, nor any other Labour spokesperson. No, it was The Economist, global capitalism’s parish journal, which thus denounced the neo-isolationism of the Conservatives.

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This article appeared in The Independent AT LAST BRITAIN WINS A EURO-TITLE 21 November 2009 Listening to Justin Webb stuttering himself into silence on Today yesterday morning was a reminder of how poorly trained London-based journalists are on how Europe works. Webb was a master of Capitol Hill in Washington and unrivalled in reporting the nuances of US politics. But when it comes to Europe,

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This article appeared in the Yorkshire Post THE YEARS OF CASINO CAPITALISM ARE OVER, AND NOT BEFORE TIME 16 November 2009 It was Winston Churchill who summed it up when he said he wished that "finance was less proud and industry more confident". Then, he was Chancellor of the Exchequer 80 years ago, but the endless and usually unequal contest between the men of finance and the real

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Denis MacShane’s Queen Speech Debate calls for Assault on Inequality19 November 2009Rotherham MP and former Europe Minister Denis MacShane has called for a new campaign to combat ever-growing inequality at home and abroad. In a speech in the House of Commons on the Queens Speech, MacShane said inequality was the major problem facing the world. He spoke after an appeal from Tory MP David MacLean

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Press releaseCongratulations on Cathy Ashton19 November 2009Denis macshane MP, who is a long-standing friend of the new EU foreign minister Cathy Ashton, said he was delighted with her appointment. "Cathy Ashton has always exceeded expectations in every job she has undertaken. She is a calm, competent consensus builder with all the down-to-earth style of her native Lancashire. She was Labour's

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This article on the need to appoint strong figures to the new EU posts after the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty appeared in the German newspaper Die WeltDie halbherzige Personalpolitik der EU11 November 2009Der Lissabon-Vertrag ist endlich abgesegnet, da offenbart sich das nächste Problem. Es scheint, als wollen die EU-Mächtigen ausgerechnet jene Politiker in Führungspositionen wählen, die

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This article appeared in the Jewish ChronicleTories, drop your Euro allies12 November 2009The argument over the Tory alliance with populist right-wing parties in Eastern Europe has caused great heartache amongst politicians fighting antisemitism.Exaggerated claims have been made on both sides. Michal Kaminski is not a roaring Jew-hater in the classical antisemitic mould. He supports Israel — but

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This article was published in the Ottawa Citizen, a local daily newspaper, while in Canada to testify before the all-party parliamentary commission enquiring into antisemitismGlobal anti-Semitism demands a united response3 November 2009The recent desecration of a Jewish cemetery in south Ottawa should be a wake-up call. The beast of anti-Semitism is back.In Europe, politicians who deny the

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This open editorial was published in the National Post, a Canadian daily newspaper, on the day I appeared as a witness before the Canadian coalition to combat antisemitism in the Canadian ParliamentEurope's new anti-Semitism2 November 2009At London’s Royal National Theatre, a play called Our Class is pulling in crowds. It tells of the massacre of 1,400 Jews in the town of Jedwabne in north-east

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This article appeared on the Guardian’s Comment website Tories will come to regret Euro allies 29 October 2009Michal Kaminski might support Israel, but so does Nick Griffin. Cameron will one day have to climb out of the hole he has dug.Again, the problem of the Tory approach to Europe is raised on the Today programme and in the House of Commons. Has the time now come to have to a full public

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This article appeared in the Spanish paper ABC (Madrid)El regreso del antisemitismo28 October 2009En el Royal National Theatre de Londres hay en cartel una obra, «Our Class» (Nuestra clase), que está atrayendo mucho público. Narra la masacre de 1.400 judíos en la ciudad polaca de Jedwabne, en el noreste de Polonia, en 1941. Estos judíos no fueron víctimas de los nazis. Fueron asesinados por

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This article on the 1989 revolution was published in Tribune"Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire" by Victor Sebestyen (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, £25)16 October 2009The 1989 revolution lays claim to be the world’s greatest revolution precisely because it was peaceful. Perhaps it would command more attention if blood had been shed as in all previous revolutions – think the English Civil

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"Globalising Hatred", By Denis MacShaneReviewed by Boyd Tonkin (Independent)16 October 2009The German social democrat Bebel wisely called anti-Semitism "the socialism of fools". This bracing, combative account of its modern resurgence finds much nasty new evidence among pro-Islamist leftists. Yet the author would agree that a hatred of Jews still counts as the conservatism of morons too. MacShane

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The Duty of DiplomacyIntroductory remarks at the launch of the new edition of Satow’s Diplomatic Practice edited by Sir Ivor Roberts KCMG, President of Trinity College in Oxford.Locarno Room, FCO 19 October 2009I had the pleasure of working with Britain’s diplomats as a PPS and then a minister at the FCO between 1997 and 2005.Unlike some, I have nothing but admiration for the practice and

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This article appeared in The Moscow TimesRussia's Values Aren't Europe's8 October 2009The continuing bitter feud between Russia and the Council of Europe reflects a major problem about Russian engagement with the rest of Europe.Most contacts that Russia has with other European nations are state-to-state, business-to-business or other bilateral relations ranging from culture to tourism. At the

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This article was published in the German daily newspaper Die Welt on 6 October 2009Gastkommentar: Europas Sozialdemokratien sind in der KriseWir Armen!Lieber Gott, was tun, um die Sozialdemokratie wieder zum Leben zu erwecken?Deutschland macht es wie Frankreich und Italien und Österreich und bald womöglich auch Großbritannien; überall heißt es jetzt "game over" für die Sozialdemokratie des 20.

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This article was published on the Guardian's Comment is Free websiteThe curious case of Michal Kaminski6 October 2009At the National Theatre in London, the play Our Class is pulling in crowds. It examines the massacre by a small group of antisemitic Poles of hundreds of Jews in Jedwabne in north east Poland in 1941. No Nazis were involved. The massacre was covered up by the communist rulers in

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This article was published in the Yorkshire PostIrish verdict strands the Europhobes in no man's land5 October 2009IRELAND has spoken. Europe is back in business. The fall-out from the Irish referendum is already shaking British politics. Hard-line Tories who admired the Irish when first they said No are now stumped by the huge Irish Yes. UKIP poured money into the No campaign, distributing lurid

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This review was published in the Financial TimesNo vote. Democracy comes under fire3 October 2009Democracy Kills: What’s So Good About Having the Vote?By Humphrey HawksleyMacmillan £12.99, 356 pagesIn my adult life, democracy has done rather well. When I was at university, three nations of Europe – Spain, Portugal and Greece – were all undemocratic. So were South Korea, South Africa, Indonesia,

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Press release: Council of Europe Urged to Support Rape Victims by Sending Polanski to Face Justice30 September 2009 Britain’s former Europe Minister Denis MacShane MP has said the Council of Europe should support the extradition of Roman Polanski as part of its campaign against rape. On Friday (2 October), the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly will debate a report on rape

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This article was published in the Irish TimesVoters should beware the advice of false friends across Irish Sea29 September 2009OPINION: The Irish vote on the Lisbon Treaty is a good one for British Eurosceptics only if it is a No voteIT WAS British Conservative prime minister Lord Salisbury who grandly announced in a debate in the London parliament at the end of the 19th century that he would "no

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This was carried on Associated Press Pakistan news agency.MP Urges Greater Understanding of Pakistan and Muslim Issues25 September 2009By Fawad HashmeyLONDON, Sept 25 (APP): A British member of Parliament has urged the Western media for a greater understanding of Pakistan’s difficult internal politics and said it was the extremist ideology of militant Islamism that was responsible for much Islam

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This article was published on the Guardian's Comment is Free websiteGerman lessons for LabourThe demise of Germany's left wing reflects an existential crisis across Europe that Labour should be mindful of this week28 September 2009The depth of the European left's existential crisis is revealed by the catastrophic defeat of the Social Democrats (SPD) in Germany.The re-elected chancellor, Angela

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This article was published in the American magazine Newsweek The Accidental Head of Europe 21 September 2009 Who wants to be President of the European commission? In theory it's one of the most powerful jobs in the world. You head the world's biggest economic bloc, receive an automatic invite to G8 meetings, and your calls get taken by prime ministers and presidents the world over. In

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This comment appeared in the Daily MirrorAnalysis: Is Barack Obama right to scrap missile defence shield18 September 2009Barack Obama has shown bold global leadership by withdrawing George W Bush's provocative defence shield.Bush wanted to reignite the Cold War by stationing US missiles on the doorstep of nervous, nationalist Russia.Obama has sent out clear messages. He is unclenching his fist

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This article was published in the French newspaper Le Figaro. An English translation is below it.Right and Left Should Support Barroso for a Strong Europe18 September 2009Maintenant que José Manuel Barroso a été réélu à la présidence de la Commission européenne, les dirigeants européens le laisseront-ils faire son travail ?Sa reconduction ne fut pas édifiante. En dépit de sa qualité de candidat

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This article was published in the Yorkshire PostTo cut or not to cut... that is the pressing question for Labour16 September 2009WHAT is it with the C word? Politicians have been dancing around the word "Cuts" as if pruning a budget was the great unmentionable.At last Gordon Brown, following on from Alistair Darling and Peter Mandelson, has used the "C" word in his TUC speech yesterday.Can this

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This article was published in the Evening StandardNever mind the politics, it's time to join the Euro7 September 2009Back from summer holidays and the anxious wait for the Visa and MasterCard statements begins.Europe, from rainy Ireland to sun-soaked Greece, has suddenly become frighteningly expensive, as the massive devaluation of the pound against the euro hits home. The jug of sangria, the

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Labour’s Unfinished Europe Business13 September 2009Getting policy, politics and principle into alignment is the 3-card trick of government and coherent party activity. Europe ought to be one of Labour’s strongest cards. As an internationalist party Europe is where we can give expression to the idea of working cooperatively beyond national borders. Of course Labour has a century of

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This article was published on the Guardian's Comment websiteThe BBC's disgraceful BNP stunt8 September 2009The BBC should not provide a platform for fascism. If Nick Griffin appears on Question Time the only winner will be the BNP.The BBC, whose lavish salaries and expenses paid for by the poorest of the land, are obsessed with media stunts as they watch ratings slump. Last week, it was Adam

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This article was published in the London Evening Standard Never mind the politics, it's time to join the euro 7th September 2009 Back from summer holidays and the anxious wait for the Visa and MasterCard statements begins.Europe, from rainy Ireland to sun-soaked Greece, has suddenly become frighteningly expensive, as the massive devaluation of the pound against the euro hits home. The jug of

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This article was published in NewsweekLooking for LeadershipEurope fears Obama's ignoring it.Published 28 August 2009From the magazine issue dated 7 September 2009A little over a year ago, 200,000 Germans crowded around the Victory Column just down from Berlin's Brandenburg Gate to listen rapturously to a speech by Barack Obama. That was candidate Obama. Today it's less clear that President Obama

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This article appeared in the IndependentRussian revisionism is our best guide to Putin's priorities1 September 2009 For decades Russia pretended the Germans had killed Poland's leaders.In a remarkable gesture, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be in Gdansk today to commemorate the 70 years since a German warship opened fire on Polish soil, thus beginning the Second World War. Her

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This article was published by the Guardian (Comment is Free website) We can't abandon Afghanistan21 August 2009 So the doomsayers are again proved wrong. Afghan citizens queued in their millions to vote. They defied the Taliban and took an even bigger risk in defying the British, American, European and Islamist wiseacres who are urging a precipitate withdrawal.Expect these cries however to get

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This article appeared in the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza 13 August 2009Czasy imperiów skończyły się, Rosjo!Zamiast pokazywać, że 56-latek może mieć duże mięśnie, Władimir Putin mógłby pokazać, jak wielki ma mózg i serce - porzucić nacjonalistyczną retorykę i dostrzec w sąsiadach przyszłych przyjaciół zamiast przeszłych wasali i potencjalnych wrogów - pisze Denis MacShane1. Naszą uwagę

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