Peter Hain

Articles by Peter Hain

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Don't let Osborne wield his axe

  • 23 July 2009
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The choice between the parties remains clear: prudence with a conscience from Labour, or indiscriminate cuts from the Tories

Why we must keep on spending

  • 16 April 2009
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The government must resist the pressure to cut borrowing. What is needed at the Budget is another bold fiscal stimulus package. Without it, we could soon have four million unemployed

The book that changed my life

  • 15 January 2009
  • 2 comments

Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell (Penguin)

Time to confront Mugabe

  • 12 June 2008
  • 4 comments

A man determined to cling to power, writes the former Cabinet Minister

Getting real on renewables

  • 06 March 2008
  • 4 comments

We need to replace the can’t-do culture when it comes to to green energy, argues Labour's Peter Hain

Labour and the sick note

  • 29 November 2007
  • 11 comments

Peter Hain on the Tories' plan to force the unemployed into work will fail. Plus the Inside Track - our unrivalled insights into UK politics

Fundamental flaw of the Blair project

  • 07 June 2007
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By flirting with the anti-liberal prejudices of the right-wing media, new Labour has alienated its core voters at its peril. Peter Hain urges Gordon Brown to change tack

The people's peacemaker

  • 29 August 2005

In Northern Ireland Mo Mowlam reached parts of the population most politicians simply never get near. Because of her, the divisions are more soluble than they used to be

Robin Cook: a tribute

  • 15 August 2005

Last Saturday, British politics lost one of its most dazzling talents - and the Labour Party its most courageous reformer. Leading our tributes, Peter Hain warns that his political legacy must not be forgotten by this Labour government

The NS Interview - Peter Hain

  • 31 January 2005

The Leader of the Commons says Blair has done better than Attlee, and we can still vote Labour even if we opposed the war. Peter Hain interviewed by John Kampfner

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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