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Jack McConnell Articles

The Red Book: children under pressure

Today, Action for Children has launched new research showing thousands of children across the UK are struggling to cope with serious problems that no child should have to deal with. Poverty, family illness and separation are having a devastating and potentially...

Mutual respect and the Scotland-Malawi Partnership

The next two years will see a really important debate about the global partnership for sustainable development after 2015. There are many calls for this or that area of policy to be important, but personally I hope peacebuilding and freedom from violent conflict are...

Observing a rush to the polls in the DRC

November 28, 2011 was historic in the DRC; the first ever democratic national election organized by the Congolese themselves. This relatively undeveloped voting system left the electoral process vulnerable to systemic and local corruption that could erode its very...

Building a better future

Jack McConnell and Rhodri Morgan look back on the achievements of devolved government in Scotland and Wales