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Denis MacShane

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Denis MacShane is the UK’s former minister of Europe who dealt with Greece, Cyprus and Turkey when at the Foreign Office.

<p>The Parthenon marbles were all sawn off or hacked off with axes in the early 19th century by a syphilitic Tory minor aristocrat </p>
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The British Museum is expert in handling stolen art — ask the Greeks

<p>This is part of a deeper crisis of Macronism </p>
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France may be opening the door for the next Trump

<p>Britain has become the butt of every joke across the Channel </p>
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Merde! France is wondering what on earth Britain has done to the water

<p>The disgraced former leader of the Conservative Party, Boris Johnson, seems moderate and almost a centrist by comparison</p>
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The end of Boris Johnson does not mean the end of Brexit

<p>Ambassadors from several European countries including Germany and Italy listened in puzzlement to Starmer</p>
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Puzzled, bored: I read the room at Starmer’s ‘Make Brexit Work’ speech

<p>For Britain, there can be little comfort in a weaker France</p>
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This is how Macron’s defeat will affect the whole of Europe

<p>The anti-Putin alliance was stabbed in the back by the United Kingdom </p>
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Britain cannot backstab its allies over Putin’s chemical weapons again

<p>Activists stage a protest in support of a British teenager accused of fasely claiming she was raped by Israeli tourists, during her trial in eastern Cyprus in 2019 </p>
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Cyprus is too busy playing politics to care about justice

<p>Boris Johnson: ‘This is a chance to get a great deal for Britain’ </p>
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Here are the 10 guilty parties responsible for Brexit

<p>Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who has died aged 90 </p>
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Tutu was a born preacher who exposed the stupidity of apartheid

<p>Lord Frost said Covid restrictions were the reason for his resignation</p>
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What happened to the amiable, hard-working David Frost I first met?

<p>‘The question of the future of the monarchy can not be put off much longer’ </p>
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The Queen now has two big questions to answer

<p>Les Républicains’ candidate for the 2022 French presidential election, Valerie Pecresse </p>
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France has a chance to bury the demons of its darkest political era

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France has a chance to bury the demons of its darkest political era

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Denis MacShane
<p>Les Républicains’ candidate for the 2022 French presidential election, Valerie Pecresse </p>
<p>‘If Michel Barnier gets Les Républicains nomination, he will be Emmanuel Macron’s biggest threat’ </p>
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Boris Johnson’s worst nightmare? President Michel Barnier

<p>A man lays flowers in memory of Sir David Amess in Leigh-on-Sea </p>
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Meeting people is central to an MPs work – but they need to be safe

<p>Jonas Gahr Støere’s Labour Party has ousted Norway’s centre-right-led government</p>
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The left is sweeping to power across Europe – why?

<p>‘My twice-jabbed left arm is a witness to that export policy Brussels defended in contrast to our vaccine nationalism’</p>
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The sooner we all have vaccination passports, the better

<p>‘My twice-jabbed left arm is a witness to that export policy Brussels defended in contrast to our vaccine nationalism’</p>
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The sooner we all have vaccination passports, the better

<p>People queue outside an NHS mass vaccination centre in Stevenage, one of several opening this week, to receive a Covid-19 jab</p>
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Brexit Britain is the envy of Europe thanks to the NHS

<p>Boris Johnson with European Commission president Ursular von der Leyen</p>
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The problem with Brexit is both sides are negotiating separate things

Joe Biden addressing crowd at campaign rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2 November, 2020
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A Biden loss will end the 1968 generation’s political influence

Cousins was widely recognised as one of the best minds amongst his contemporaries (Pichan Sujaritsatit)
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Mark Cousins: Leading theorist who guided forward-thinking architects

Italy's Matteo Salvini meeting with Hungary's far-right prime minister Viktor Orban
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The onward march of the nationalist far-right across Europe is over

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20 Brexit problems that still haven’t been solved

Greece and Cyprus have been trying to get more support from the EU amid tensions with Turkey and Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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Turkey is the biggest threat to Europe today, and the Greeks need help

The New People's Party is  a world away from the political tactics of Vladimir Putin
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A new party in Russia hopes to do politics the ‘normal’ way

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20 Brexit problems that still haven’t been solved

Greece and Cyprus have been trying to get more support from the EU amid tensions with Turkey and Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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Turkey is the biggest threat to Europe today, and the Greeks need help

The New People's Party is  a world away from the political tactics of Vladimir Putin
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A new party in Russia hopes to do politics the ‘normal’ way

Related video: National Obesity Forum says sugar tax needed in junk food crackdown
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Johnson has 10 Brexit options to ponder before the end of the year

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Johnson has 10 Brexit options to ponder before the end of the year

Related video: National Obesity Forum says sugar tax needed in junk food crackdown
Geert Wilders, leader of Dutch party PVV, Italy's Matteo Salvini and Marine Le Pen, leader of the French National Rally party, at the rally
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The rise of the populists is finally going into reverse

It is clear now that Xi is making mistakes. Firstly, he thought Trump would be as compliant as all previous US presidents in seeking to curry favour
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It’s time for us to start speaking the truth about China

Ophthalmologist Dr Li Wenliang at The Central Hospital of Wuhan on 3 February 2020, four days before he died.
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China needs to face a full reckoning for its secrecy over coronavirus

The prime minister told the nation it would enter into lockdown via a televised speech on 23 March
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If Brexit is about listening to the people, call it off

The prime minister told the nation it would enter into lockdown via a televised speech on 23 March
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If Brexit is about listening to the people, call it off

Rejecting cooperation and patient dialogue with Europe will seem like a bad misjudgement
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Boris Johnson’s Brexit bluster is his Suez Canal moment

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This is how to solve the issue of freedom of movement post-Brexit

The British teenager accused of lying about a rape arrives at Famagusta District Court in Paralimni for sentencing
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The dark political motives behind the Cyprus rape case

Related video: Brexit will harm UK more than EU, warns Ursula von der Leyen
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Boris promised he’d ‘Get Brexit Done’. Now he has to decide how

Protests grow in Hong Kong at Polytechnic campus
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2019 was the year of democracy that changed nothing

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Will Johnson right our colonial wrongs and return the Elgin Marbles?

What seriously threatens Corbyn’s beliefs is him remaining to fight for them
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Jeremy Corbyn, you can help Labour to win. Just step down now

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Can Boris Johnson win a ‘Brexit-coupon’ election like Lloyd George?

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Macron delivered a diplomatic masterclass at the G7

Vote Leave campaigner Dominic Cummings claims the EU is 'dominated by France' when questioned by the Treasury select committee in April 2016
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Dominic Cummings a political genius? Hardly

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Zelensky's victory in Ukraine is a strategic loss for Putin

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Zelensky's victory in Ukraine is a strategic loss for Putin

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How do we solve the Kim Darroch affair? Put him in the House of Lords

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Greece rejects Syriza while welcoming back Varoufakis

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Macron emerges victorious as a new EU leadership rejects populism

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon gestures during the Nordic Media Festival
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The ‘gravediggers’ of Europe aren’t as successful as they seem

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon gestures during the Nordic Media Festival
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The ‘gravediggers’ of Europe aren’t as successful as they seem

Former Labour Party leader John Smith in 1992
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Labour’s Brexit slipperiness must have John Smith turning in his grave

Sanchez is close to Macron and other progressive EU political leaders who resist the Le Pen-Salvini-Brexit axis of ultra-nationalist anti-European politics
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The Spanish election shows Europe’s far right insurgency can be tamed

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Labour could destroy the Brexit Party and Tories chances in Europe

Nigel Farage at a Leave Means Leave rally in London
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Don’t fear European Parliament elections – they could drain the swamp

The French president has called attention to the sorry picture of Brexit Britain to highlight the need to bring new populist nationalism under control
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Why Macron's open letter to Europe is a new front in the Brexit war

The move represents a significant blow to party leader Jeremy Corbyn, and comes just weeks after nine MPs quit Labour
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Corbyn's referendum pledge is a fragile fix for a splintering party

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Theresa May’s Political Declaration is what we should be worried about

President Nicolas Maduro attends a military exercise in Turiamo, Venezuela
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Centre-left leaders are uniting against Maduro – it’s time for change

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Tsipras’s support of Maduro ignores Greece’s painful history

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If we can pause for thought on universal credit, why not on Brexit?

Anti-fascist demonstrators hold up placards at a central London anti-Jewish rally
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Europe is not doomed to be run by the hard right

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Europe is not doomed to be run by the hard right

Anti-fascist demonstrators hold up placards at a central London anti-Jewish rally
Politicians from Vox celebrate as the party wins 21 seats, up from nine
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This is what Spain’s pivot to the far right means for British expats

Angela Merkel is standing down as party leader in December and will not re-stand for any political office at the next Bundestag elections
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Why Angela Merkel’s successor will be no help to Brexit Britain

She has always said her last challenge is to put Europe back on its feet
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Squeezed from both left and right, Merkel is finished as chancellor

Comp of Corbyn and May with a considerable centre ground
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If Labour are serious about an election, they need to challenge Brexit

Comp of Corbyn and May with a considerable centre ground
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If Labour are serious about an election, they need to challenge Brexit

The trade union campaign for a new consultation is rooted in working class anxieties and a desire to see Labour lead not lag behind in the debate
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The unions are essential to Labour – now they must guide it on Brexit

Angela Merkel has been chairwoman of the party since 2000
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Angela Merkel should become the president of the European Commission

Protesters from the Campaign Against Antisemitism demonstrate and listen to speakers outside the Labour Party headquarters on 8 April
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Labour's rejection of EU’s definition of antisemitism is morally wrong

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Brexit will decimate the UK on the global stage and everyone knows it

To represent the UK as he had to do in the dying years of a failing Major government was no fun at all
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David Davis is finally able to recognise that the Brexit game is up

Alexis Tsipras rebuffed a request that he draw up plans for further austerity cuts
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How Alexis Tsipras went from being the Greek Corbyn to EU poster boy

Now Gordon Brown has entered the fray with ideas about registering workers and saying that those who do not find work should return home
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Regardless of Brexit, we will still have to accept freedom of movement

The disaggregation of Europe into separate nation states – to be pressurised, picked off one-by-one, or cajoled by sweetheart energy deals so that bilateralism replaces EU multilateralism – is a main object of Russian policy
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Why it’s a big problem for Putin if the Balkan countries enter the EU

Angela Merkel presented the French president with the prize for his ‘European vision’
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Does Emmanuel Macron really deserve the Charlemagne prize?

Vote counting is taking place across the UK
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Ten things we have learnt from the local election results

A decade after I tried and failed to deport some Brazilian illegal immigrants, Theresa May tried and failed to change the policy on visas for Brazil
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Why I failed to deport illegal immigrants as a Foreign Office minister

International campaign to abolish Nuclear Weapons activists wearing masks to look like US President Donald Trump and North Korean Kim Jong-Un pose next to a Styrofoam effigy of a nuclear bomb.
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The West’s policy toward North Korea has been a failure

Denis MacShane and Cyril Ramaphosa
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I worked with South Africa's new President Cyril Ramaphosa in 1980s

Unite the Union and the GMB have signed a statement calling on the Government to 'maintain British membership in the single market and customs union with all rights and obligations.'
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Trade unions are speaking out against Brexit

The former Ukip leader’s latest stunt should be seen for what it is – a further example of his ability to make headlines
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Farage would benefit more than anyone else from a second referendum

What now?
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Nine key points about Brexit and Northern Ireland

Unite the Union and the GMB have signed a statement calling on the Government to 'maintain British membership in the single market and customs union with all rights and obligations.'
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Trade unions are speaking out against Brexit

The former Ukip leader’s latest stunt should be seen for what it is – a further example of his ability to make headlines
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Farage would benefit more than anyone else from a second referendum

What now?
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Nine key points about Brexit and Northern Ireland

Boris Johnson has come under fire for his recent article about Brexit
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Boris's outburst proves that ideology will be the death of the Tories

TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady was instrumental in shifting Labour's Brexit policy
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These are the women responsible for changing Labour's Brexit policy

Jeremy Corbyn put on a good show at the last Labour party conference, but he faces a huge task this year in uniting the party on Brexit
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The party conferences will decide the fate of Brexit

The European Arrest Warrant system has helped European courts bring criminals to justice. But David Davis is worried that hardline Tory MPs want out
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London could become the new 'Costa Del Crime' after Brexit

Hats off to Amber Rudd who is leading this initiative, even if it is years behind schedule
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Amber Rudd is the only Government minister taking Brexit seriously

The results of the UK general election suggest that many people voted based on their Brexit views
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The big winner in this election is the EU

'Chuka Umunna has been playing priorities – and it works'
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Why Chuka Umunna was wise to break with Labour's Brexit line

Leaked details of May's meeting with Jean-Claude Juncker have emerged in the German press
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May's dinner with Juncker suggests Brexit could be worse than expected

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