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After the Oxi landslide many Greeks are fearful. ‘I am scared. But if we leave Europe we are alone. Turkey, Syria, Russia, the banks are closed and our economy in crisis. What we do?’, one friend asks It was the young who, overwhelmingly, gave Alexis Tsipiras the Oxi...

Nigel Farage is presiding over the Europeanisation of British politics Political history is littered with ironies. Anthony Eden, who prided himself on his expertise in world affairs, was forced from office by his disastrous intervention in Suez. James Callaghan was...

When Angela Merkel arrives for talks in London tomorrow she will no doubt be publicly supportive of Britain’s continued membership of the European Union. She has previously made clear Britain is a valued member of the EU and that Germany wants Britain to stay in. On...

On 9 November 1989 as senior international officer of the Labour party I was in Warsaw as a member of a delegation of about 10 members of the Socialist International Disarmament Advisory Committee led by Kalevi Sorsa, the former foreign minister and later prime...