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Jack Straw

Jack Straw

Jack Straw pays tribute to Janet Anderson
Obituaries
By Jack Straw
Jack Straw pays tribute to Janet Anderson
Motivated by a detestation of social and economic injustice, Janet Anderson had a lust for life and a talent for cutting observations
Mikhail Gorbachev introduced freedoms his country had never seen before – or since
Foreign affairs
By Jack Straw
Mikhail Gorbachev introduced freedoms his country had never seen before – or since
Feted in the West but widely reviled in Russia, Gorbachev's profound changes restored human values to a country previously held together by repression
The Home Office always was a graveyard for aspiring ministers
Home affairs
By Jack Straw
The Home Office always was a graveyard for aspiring ministers
Google “Home Office” and “failings,” and a long list will emerge of failures of every description: staff allegedly not caring; new IT systems delayed and inadequate; the Home Office castigated by senior judges for failures to disclose documents.
The education of a generation of girls and thwarting of al-Qaeda means Britain's role in Afghanistan was worthwhile
Defence
By Jack Straw
The education of a generation of girls and thwarting of al-Qaeda means Britain's role in Afghanistan was worthwhile
A few months after the mid-November 2001 defeat of the Taliban, I made the first of many trips to this benighted country.