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Clare Short

October 2023

  • Clare Short

    Is Keir Starmer misremembering Labour’s 1997 victory? I was there, and we were radical

    Clare Short
    The opposition leader seems to think that Labour needs to water down policies on tax and the climate crisis, writes former Labour cabinet minister Clare Short

March 2023

  • David Clark

    The Iraq invasion: 20 years on
    On this day 20 years ago, Robin Cook tried to stop the Iraq war. I helped write that historic speech

    David Clark
    He grieved that he was unable to avert the conflict. But look at his words: he was so right, says writer and former special advisor David Clark

June 2018

  • Shaista Aziz

    Clare Short is wrong. No wonder sexual abuse is rife in the aid sector

    Shaista Aziz
    Months after Oxfam whistleblowers went public, nothing has changed. And the plight of women of colour is still hidden, says the former aid worker Shaista Aziz

December 2016

  • Thandie Newton, Patti Smith, Nicola Adams, Elton John, Lauren Laverne and Woody Allen.

    The G2 interview
    What George Clooney, Lupita Nyong’o, Elton John and Eddie the Eagle taught us in 2016

    George Clooney called Donald Trump a fascist, Lupita Nyong’o took on Hollywood racism, Elton John discussed money and Eddie the Eagle admitted he skied like an ostrich – what we learned in a year of Guardian interviews

July 2016

  • Iraqis burn a British flag in Baghdad to protest at the 2003 killing of Baha Mousa

    Legal and military failings of the Iraq war and its aftermath

  • Geoff Hoon, Tony Blair and Jack Straw at the Labour party conference in 2003

    Key figures scrutinised in the Chilcot report

June 2016

  • Clare Short, the former Labour MP for Ladywood in Birmingham.

    The G2 interview
    Clare Short: ‘The Chilcot report is longer than the Harry Potter books put together’

    The former Labour MP and cabinet minister first supported Tony Blair’s plan to invade Iraq, then resigned in protest. She’s seen some of the long-awaited inquiry’s findings. Why does she think no one will read it?

February 2016

  • Unicef employee measures the arm of a malnourished child in the besieged Syrian town of Madaya

    Syria: former UK development secretaries appeal for safe havens

    Clare Short and Andrew Mitchell call for no-fly zones if sieges starving civilians, deemed potential war crimes, are not lifted

August 2015

  • Sir John Chilcot

    Chilcot defends long-delayed Iraq inquiry – but sets no date for publication

    Inquiry chairman expressed sympathy over ‘anguish of the families of those who lost their lives in the conflict’ but families frustrated at continued delay
  • Sir John Chilcot, author of the much delayed inquiry into the Iraq war.

    The Guardian view on the Chilcot delays: undermining his own work

    Editorial: The Chilcot inquiry has many purposes. The one that matters most is to help to rebuild trust in politics
  • Clare Short arrives to give evidence at a hearing of the Iraq inquiry

    Chilcot inquiry: Clare Short blames delays on 'poor first draft'

    Ex-cabinet minister contradicted by Sir John Chilcot, who says Maxwellisation process of consulting people criticised in report is not yet complete

January 2015

  • Campaigners from Object and Turn Your Back On Page 3 protest over the Sun's daily photos of topless

    The Guardian view on the end of the Page 3 pin-up: a modest victory

    Editorial: The disappearance of the Sun’s daily topless model feature is but a skirmish won in the battle against gender discrimination, although one that matters

November 2014

  • Gordon Brown

    Guardian Comment Network
    What Gordon Brown got right as prime minister

    Peter Hoskin for ConservativeHome, part of the Guardian Comment Network
    Peter Hoskin for ConservativeHome: As the political heavyweight prepares to leave parliament, here are three things he nailed … possibly four. That’s up to you

August 2013

  • John Kerry speaks on Syria

    Syria: military strike useless, says Clare Short - video

    Clare Short , Labour's former international development minister says military intervention in Syria is inevitable but will do little for progress

May 2013

  • Township In South Africa

    Guardian Africa network
    Why Britain is wrong to cut aid to South Africa

    This slap in the face represents a failure to recognise that the UK is partly to blame for ongoing inequality and poverty in the region , says Jeremy Kuper

February 2013

  • Page 3 model Samantha Fox The Sun

    Rupert Murdoch hints at ending Page 3

    Topless models have featured in the Sun for 40 years but the media mogul tweeted that they may belong in the past

December 2012

  • Clare Short and Ha-Joon Chang

    The conversation
    How effective is overseas aid?

    Interview by Aida Edemariam
    The conversation: The government has ringfenced overseas aid, but is that the right thing to do? Former development secretary Clare Short debates the issue with economist Ha-Joon Chang

October 2012

  • Frankenweenie Martin Short

    My family values
    Martin Short: My family values

    The actor and comedian talks about his family life. Interview by Nick McGrath

September 2012

  • Greenslade
    Sun editor Mohan is asked, sweetly and politely, to drop Page 3

    Woman launches campaign to stop paper publishing topless model pictures

March 2012

  • Tony Blair is expected to be questioned for six hours ate the Iraq war inquiry

    Blair deliberately misled colleagues and public over Iraq, says Clare Short

    Foreign Office is trying to overturn a decision to disclose details of a conversation between Blair and George Bush
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