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Denis MacShane MP Articles

Labour and Tories fall out of love with the Poles

It is little secret that there is no love lost between the government and what should be their natural allies in Europe, the pro-American non-Eurozone centre-right government in Warsaw. Poland goes to the polls on Sunday and for the first time in its post-communist...
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Democracy cut

The single biggest gamechanger since he came to power is David Cameron's move to reduce democratic elected representation in the Commons while increasing nominated legislators in the unelected Lords. This is the first time in British parliamentary history in which...
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PMs and moral panic

Are there any sociologists among David Cameron’s advisers in 10 Downing Street? The answers appears to be No. Even a GSCE-level sociology student would have advised the prime minister against setting himself up as the man who will now go out and put Britain on the...
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The germ of a solution

Twenty five years ago I wrote a pamphlet for the Fabian Society called ‘French Lessons for Labour.’ It was a vain attempt to persuade the unreformed ‘old’ Labour Party that there might be some ideas from the socialist administration of Francois Mitterrand that might...
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