Peter Hain Articles

Securing redress and justice for victims of the Troubles Labour’s 1998 Good Friday Agreement, and the historic 2007 settlement which established devolved government with old enemies sharing power, has now delivered seven years of peace and stability nobody imagined...

John Harris was not yet 30 when he went to the gallows. Convicted of the bombing of Johannesburg train station, he was the only white person to be executed by the South African apartheid regime for crimes committed in resistance to apartheid. The account of Harris’...

Labour’s proposal to cut winter fuel allowances for higher-rate taxpayers suggests we may be joining the Tories and Liberal Democrats in dismantling the inheritance of Clement Attlee, Nye Bevan and William Beveridge – at the top of a slippery slope towards a US-style...

Today was the second time that I have gone to Canary Wharf to hear Ed Balls speak. The first time was the evening before his celebrated Bloomberg speech in the summer of 2010 in which he warned George Osborne ‘against ripping out the foundations of the house just as...