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Danny Dorling's fascinating account of how a Britain that achieved near-Nordic levels of income equality in the first 30 years after 1945 and then became one of the least equal [...]

Re "After Corbyn, After Covid" by Gary Younge [June 1/8 ]: As an ex - Labour MP and ex-minister for Europe, I would like to qualify the conventional wisdom from him that the UK chose "to leave the European Union in a referendum. But in Labour seats in the North - and I represented one for 18 years - while the totality voted for Brexit, most identifiable Labour voters did not. The fact is the Remain campaign was poorly run, and Labour voters backed Remain by the same margin as Scottish National Party voters. [Extracted from the article]

A little more than a year ago, China Culture Gazette, official organ of China's Ministry of Culture, was transformed. For years, CCG had been an infamous stronghold of the hard-line [...]

The TUC has survived 14 years of non-stop attack, but lost ground in the process. Now it is time to draw on other countries' experience, says Denis MacShane One of [...]

Byline: Denis MacShane Browder's tale is a warning to the West. Had you asked Stalin about Earl Browder, he would have snorted in derision. Ask Putin about Bill Browder, and [...]

Byline: Denis Macshane 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 [...]

Byline: Denis Macshane The fall of parliamentary seats into extremist hands represents the biggest shake-up on the continent since the disappearance of communism. Sweden has revealed the future direction of [...]

Byline: Denis MacShane Europe and Turkey need each other. In the cold war years Turkey was unquestionably accepted as the West's most important frontier nation. Now it seems to prefer [...]

Byline: Denis MacShane It's in Germany, not Britain. As the drama of Europe's debt crisis slowly unfolds, all eyes have been diverted to the wrong national subplot. The new Conservative-Liberal [...]

Byline: Denis MacShane There is a new divide in Europe. not an iron curtain, but an iron intolerance as politicians revert to blaming minorities for their nations' woes. In Western [...]

Byline: Denis MacShane 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, [...]

Byline: Denis Macshane Not since the 1930s have international politics been in such flux. Rising states such as China, In-dia, Turkey, and Brazil, as well as a newly assertive Russia, [...]

Byline: Denis MacShane 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 [...]

Byline: Denis MacShane It may not be time to say adieu just yet, but French President Nicolas Sarkozy is finally starting to look like a loser after seeming unbeatable for [...]

Byline: Denis MacShane Albania shows its neighbors the way. Only yesterday Albania was the world's joke nation. Ruled over by a King Zog and then a weirdo Stalinist turned Maoist, [...]

Byline: Denis Macshane The economic crisis and rising xenophobia are breaking down the great Swiss myths and undoing this once unique model nation. In the third man, Orson Welles famously [...]

Byline: Denis MacShane For the evangelists of globalization, Switzerland has long been the model country. Its -image as a diverse, harmonious nation with light regulations and political neutrality is a [...]

Socialism seemingly is in retreat across Europe. However, socialist parties govern France and Spain and socialists are the biggest group in the European parliament indicating that a renaissance of socialism may lie in the near future.

Byline: Denis MacShane Like his mentor Bill Clinton, tony Blair is poised to become the comeback kid of his generation. Europe's chattering class is currently buzzing with speculation that the [...]

Byline: Denis Macshane; Macshane is a British Labour politician. Like his mentor Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, could soon be known as the comeback kid. Europe's [...]

Byline: Denis MacShane; MacShane is a labour M.P. and a former Minister for Europe. Who wants to be president of the European commission? In theory it's one of the most [...]

Byline: Denis MacShane; Macshane Is A British Labour M.P. And Former Minister For Europe. Europe fears Obama's ignoring it. A little over a year ago, 200,000 Germans crowded around the [...]

Byline: Denis Macshane; Macshane is a labour M.P. and was Britain's Minister for Europe under Tony Blair.Macshane Increasingly, there's no place to hide. In the new movie Public Enemies, Johnny [...]

Byline: Denis MacShane; MacShane is a Labour M.P. and former Minister for Europe in Britain. This should be the left's big chance in Europe. Capitalism is in crisis. Growth is [...]

Byline: Denis MacShane Just five years ago Ukraine was the toast of pro-democracy politicians the world over. The Orange Revolution seemed to be the next strand of the thread going [...]

Byline: Denis MacShane; Macshane is a Labour M.P. and was Britain's minister for Europe under Tony Blair. Obama needs from Europe a Mozart symphony or a Beethoven 'Ode to Joy'--not [...]

Byline: Denis MacShane; Macshane is a Labour M.P. and a former minister of Europe in Britain. Everyone knows about the 'Arab Street,' to which most policymakers listen with care. But [...]

In Spain, unfavorable views of Jews climbed from 21 percent in 2005 to nearly one in two this year. As Europe faces up to its old demons of financial breakdown [...]

Byline: Denis MacShane; MacShane is a Labour M.P. and Britain's former minister for Europe. If John McCain becomes the next U.S. president, it will send europe into a fit of [...]

Byline: Denis Macshane; MacShane Is Labour M.P. For Rotherham And A Former Europe Minister. Far from being a mystery and an enigma--to use Churchill's language--today's Russia now stands revealed as [...]

Byline: Denis MacShane; MacShane, a Labour M.P., was Britain's Europe minister in Tony Blair's government. The European Union, NATO and the United Nations are all turning a blind eye to [...]

Byline: Denis Macshane; Macshane Is A Labour M.P. And A Former British Minister For Europe. The EU is choosing its new president. But will he be pencil-sharpener in chief, or [...]

Byline: Denis MacShane; MacShane is a Labour M.P. and was Britain's minister for Europe. Conservatives rule almost all of Europe. What they will do with all their power is an [...]

President Sarkozy has a lot of energy. But he is increasingly looking like a placeholder for whoever comes next. In Paris this week I am shocked at the number of […]

As David Cameron enjoys his Oedipal role in killing off any remnant of Thatcherism in today's Conservative party, is he slowly revealing himself as the grandson Ted Heath never had? [...]

Byline: Denis MacShane (MacShane, a Labour M.P., was Tony Blair's minister for Europe from 2001 to 2005.) In 1992 a certain Jacques Poos, the unknown foreign minister of Luxembourg, announced [...]

Granada The papers have been full of the Suez story. Both the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph have zeroed in on Eden's adventure of 50 years ago to try to [...]

Byline: DENIS MACSHANE (MACSHANE, a Labour M.P., was Tony Blair's Europe minister from 2002 to 2005.) Europe has a new fetish--political necrophilia. You might have thought that France and the [...]