Denis MacShane

Denis MacShane

Denis MacShane is MP for Rotherham and was a minister at Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Articles by Denis MacShane

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Picked up on the picket line

  • 19 February 2007

The New Statesman 15 July 1977 Denis MacShane, former minister for Europe and Labour MP for Rotherham, is a prominent critic of the Metropolitan Police inquiry into the cash-for-peerages scandal. Thirty years ago, on the eve of becoming president of the National Union of Journalists, he was himself the subject of police attention: he was arrested on two different picket lines in the same month. Selected by Robert Taylor

Our new old friends

  • 08 January 2007

The opportunity for unity between progressives in the US and in Europe may have arrived

Don't close our borders

  • 30 October 2006

Observations on immigration

Poet who had to die

  • 11 September 2006

Observations on Spain

Persuading Britain’s Muslims will be no easy task

  • 21 August 2006

Time to show some initiative

  • 22 May 2006

Observations on Europe

Welcome to weird politics

  • 20 February 2006

Observations on Poland

Turkey's disgrace

  • 28 November 2005

Observations on censorship

More loyal than left

  • 15 August 2005

Robin Cook: a tribute

Marmite, Ryvita and a stash of cash

  • 01 August 2005

The Solidarity union was born 25 years ago this summer, rocking the communist world. Denis MacShane recalls his own modest part in a story that changed history

Afghanistan

Doomed to failure

Two sides of the Coin

Hung parliament

Who would rule?

Doing deals in Downing Street

Interview

Seymour Hersh

The NS Interview: Seymour Hersh

Television

Paradox

Paradox

What if...

The Beatles never formed

What if .... the Beatles had never formed

Will Self

Eats at Subway

Attack of the one-foot sandwich

Iraq war

We want a trial

Iraq, Palin and building bridges

Books of the year

Our selection

Books of the Year: Part I

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