Denis MacShane MP Articles

1) David Cameron’s acceptance in Brussels yesterday that Britain would place no obstacles in the next stage of European development is the biggest U-turn by a British prime minister in the decades-long tortuous history of the UK’s relationship with Europe. Six weeks...

Holocaust Memorial Day is a moment to reflect on a unique evil. Man's inhumanity to man is known throughout history. But never before have the entire resources of a people and a state been placed at the service of  the extermination a people whose condition was...

The prime minister’s flying visit to the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly today is mission undeliverable, even if many may feel Cameron has a good case. But the way he has pandered to the worst atavistic elements of the Europhobe right and the clamour of the...

If Nick Clegg returned to earth as an animal he would be a magpie. He flits down and steals other ideas and then shows them off as glittering Clegg-made originals. It is his contribution to the coalition. He talks the talk about helping the poor, reconnecting to...