Denis MacShane MP Articles

The Kremlin has never been taking a closer interest in the internal workings of the Conservative party in Britain. The re-elected Vladimir Putin is hoping that Tory MPs will succeed in their assault on human rights in Europe. Like Britain, Russia is a member of the...

1.    Russia is a business, not a functioning constitutional, let alone democratic nation-state.  There is no distinction between political and business life, between state employees and those who run enterprises of any shape. From the collapse of communism onwards,...

The economic roots of the Arab and Maghreb crisis have not been properly examined. The spark that fuelled the first uprising in Tunisia was the humiliation of a street vendor. Denied his chance to make some money he set himself on fire and like Jan Palach in Prague or...

Can a tweet kill? Yes, if you live in Saudi Arabia and have Interpol working for the killers. All a 23-year-old Saudi provincial journalist, Hamza Kashgari, did was tweet last February, on the anniversary of the birth of the Prophet Mohammed. His tweet read: ‘On the...