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Denis MacShane MP Articles

No to Brexit

Some months ago I coined the term Brexit - Britain exiting Europe in a Progress article.  Month by month the Brexit door opens ever wider. In numerous conversations with politicians, editors, civil servants and business leaders in different European countries there is...

The union question

The new TUC general-secretary needs to make unions truly relevant once again By Denis MacShane —The trade union question is now haunting the left across the world. Anti-union attack dogs are on the rise everywhere. Conservative MPs seek every opportunity to bash and...

British capitalism’s European embrace

Is industry rushing in where politicians fear to tread? For 25 years it is has been a golden rule of British defence discourse that Europe was bad, America good. Now this ideology has been turned on its head. BAE, the giant monolithic creation of Thatcher-era defence...

Russia’s new friends

Lenin called them 'useless fools'. They were the gullible idiots of the left who supported Sovietism even after it descended into terror and the crushing of freedom. Now Vladimir Putin has his own groupies in British politics but this time they are rightwing Tory MPs....