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Paul Richards Articles

French lessons for UK politics

The return of former French prime minister Laurent Fabius to serve as François Hollande’s foreign minister has got the French buzzing with gossip over their copies of Le Monde. Not his vision for the European Union, of course, but the revelation that he had a ‘brief...
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Democracy in the cradle of civilisation

I’ve had a couple of weeks to reflect on the short time I spent in northern Iraq. I am one of those many Labour party members who backed Tony Blair over Iraq. In retrospect, I can see what all the intelligence agencies and governments of the world couldn’t see at the...
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A good night for Labour

I write this in the rosy afterglow of the local election results, but before the tempest in London and Glasgow. It is always a mistake to rush to instant analysis, especially after so little sleep, but I’m going to do it anyway. First, it is encouraging that Labour is...
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Yellow fever

There’s a breathless, somewhat desperate, tone to the Liberal Democrats’ website appealing for council candidates. It’s like a low-rent dating site. The site says: ‘By joining the Liberal Democrats, and by becoming a councillor, you will become an active part of a...
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