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Lee Thompson and eight other soldiers were killed by friendly fire from two United States Air Force A10 aircraft on Feb 27 1991. Thompson's parents have been unable to discover the facts about the accident and both the British and Americans deny responsibility. The incident happened in good visibility and the Warrior armoured transport was clearly marked. Sunblindness may have contributed.

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. [...]

This short novel is one of the most powerful accounts of the horrors of anti-Semitism as it des-cended into mass Jewkilling. It is set not in a Nazi death camp [...]

In 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 [...]

The point about Alan Johnson is that he has his feet on the ground. Maybe it's because he was a postman, that unique British job that puts someone in daily [...]

For much of the post-1945 era it was axiomatic that Europe's centre-right parties were hostile to Russia. Charles De Gaulle frightened France by saying the Red Army was ready to [...]

At least when Russian tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia exactly 40 years ago they did not shoot to kill. Nor did Russian planes bomb civilians or fly low over European cities [...]

After Glasgow, Labour has to do more than debate its leadership and see off excited calls by union leaders for challenges to Gordon Brown. Instead the party has to confront [...]

Politics is about both measures and men. Labour is over-obsessing about one man instead of asking whether our measures make sense. Any prime minister in office today would feel the [...]

The Wildest Province: SOE in the Land of the Eagle by Roderick Bailey Jonathan Cape Pounds 25, 416 pages FT bookshop price: Pounds 20 There was a time when what [...]

Will Tony Blair re-enter politics as the European Union's first president? This tantalising idea has been dangled in front of Europe's leaders by Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president. Immediately, the [...]

Fiction Robert Harris*s cracking thriller inspired by the Blair years gives us hope that, one day, he will write the defining New Labour novel. By Denis MacShane The Ghost by [...]

While election fever goes up and down in Britain, Poland is drifting to an October election without enthusiasm or hope. The two main parties fight on what would be regarded [...]

Does Washington have a view on the new reform treaty proposed for Europe? To read some of the interventions by neoconservative ideologues such as Irwin Steltzer and John Bolton, in [...]

Why consult the crystal ball when you can read the book? Bevin's epithet is more than ever appropriate as Britain wakes up to the beginning of a long combat with [...]

From Denis MacShane MP. Sir, The 12 stars on a blue background is not a specific EU flag ('The square root of all the European Union's problems', June 12). It [...]

In 20 days, Britain will have a new prime minister and a new way of running the country. Gordon Brown is signalling a revolution in Downing Street. He is making [...]

Who declared over the weekend 'We want to be the party of the public sector''? It wasn't Michael Meacher or John McDonnell, the Labour MPs trying to get nominations to [...]

From Denis MacShane MP. Sir, Giuliano Amato's suggestions on how to take forward the next European treaty are sensible ('A better starting point for Europe's constitution debate', January 24). After [...]

Are the gnomes of Frankfurt about to replace their famous cousins in Zurich as a favourite scapegoat for politicians? It would appear so from the opening round of the French [...]

From Denis MacShane MP. Sir, I wish the Conservative party was coming to terms with the European Union as Sir Malcolm Rifkind argues ('In some areas, sovereignty should be shared [...]

When Gordon Brown rises to deliver his last Pre-Budget Statement today, will we discover something new and important about Britain's next prime minister? That he will be the next PM [...]

Entscheidungen: Mein Leben in der Politik by Gerhard Schroder Hoffman and Campe 125, 512 pages Gerhard Schroder's autobiography is called Decisions: My Life in Politics, and like himself it is [...]

'The old is passing. The new cannot be born. And in between there are many morbid symptoms.'' Thus wrote Sardinia's greatest son, the political philosopher Antonio Gramsci, of the tumultuous [...]

Europe is doing its level best to tell Turkey it is no longer wanted as part of the European Union. It is a high-risk game with little to gain and [...]

The Culture of the Europeans from 1800 to the Present by Donald Sassoon Harper Collins Pounds 30, 1,656 pages It was the movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn who complained after a [...]