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Peter Hain

Peter Hain was the Labour MP for Neath from 1991 to 2015 and secretary of state for Northern Ireland from 2005 to 2007

May 2024

  • The Dictionary People by Sarah Ogilvie; Biography of X by Catherine Lacey; Minor Detial by Adania Shibli.

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March 2024

  • African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela is greeted by British prime minister Margaret Thatcher at 10 Downing Street on 4 July, 1990.

    Rishi Sunak’s government would ban the very boycotts that helped to end apartheid

    Peter Hain
    A bill now in the Lords is intended to protect Israel from any criticism. It goes further than Thatcher ever did when she tried to stop us protesting to free Nelson Mandela, says former government minister Peter Hain

January 2024

  • An area in the northern Gaza Strip hit by Israeli shelling.

    Israel and its allies must face facts: peace talks are the only way forward, and they will have to include Hamas

    Peter Hain
    My experience tells me this: tough negotiation will achieve what bombs cannot, says Peter Hain, former UK Middle East minister and Northern Ireland secretary of state

August 2023

  • Michael Parkinson with Damian D'Oliveira, son of Basil D'Oliveira in 2012.

    Michael Parkinson was a radical anti-racist as well as a national treasure

    Peter Hain
    He and John Arlott led the press campaign against the sordid deal to exclude Basil D’Oliveira from playing for England in South Africa

April 2023

  • Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern, US senator George Mitchell and British prime minister Tony Blair on 10 April 1998 after signing the Good Friday agreement.

    Thanks to Brexit, 25 years on, the Good Friday agreement faces its toughest test

    Peter Hain
    More challenges to the peace process are on the horizon, says Peter Hain, former secretary of state for Northern Ireland

December 2022

  • Illustration: Dominic McKenzie

    The signs are clear. Our destiny lies with Europe, not a ‘sovereign global Britain’ fantasy

    Peter Hain
    There is a path out of this prosperity-killing shambles and Labour can lead the way

June 2022

  • A protester holds a sign in support of the Northern Ireland protocol

    I negotiated a Northern Ireland deal that worked. Johnson’s Putinesque strategy will wreck it

    Peter Hain
    The 2007 settlement I worked on aimed to deepen the peace process – the vandals now in charge of Britain don’t care about it, says former Northern Ireland secretary Peter Hain

May 2021

  • Police speak with an Extinction Rebellion activist, Monday 15 April 2019.

    Putting Extinction Rebellion activists on trial isn’t in the public interest, so let’s stop

    Peter Hain
    After the recent acquittal of climate activists by a jury, it’s clear public sentiment is on their side, says former Labour cabinet minister Peter Hain

November 2020

  • Lungi Ngidi shows his solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement before the 3TC Solidarity Cup match in July

    How Black Lives Matter exposed old wounds in South African cricket

  • Anti-apartheid demonstrators clash with police at a match between the Springboks and the Barbarians, January 1970.

    I've been spied on by undercover police. The system is too open to abuse

    Peter Hain

January 2019

  • Hugh Lewin.

    Hugh Lewin obituary

  • Brexit Is Already Changing Daily Life on Ireland’s U.K. Border<br>A sticker reading “No Border, No Brexit” sits on a road sign near the ‘Hands Across The Divide’ sculpture in Derry, Northern Ireland on Sunday, July 22, 2018. How to keep the Irish border open after the U.K. leaves the European Union has become the trickiest issue in Brexit negotiations. Photographer: Mary Turner/Bloomberg via Getty Images

    An invisible Irish border is crucial. That’s why we support the backstop

    Peter Hain and Paul Murphy

November 2018

  • An anti-Brexit billboard on the northern side of the border between Newry in Northern Ireland and Dundalk in the Republic of Ireland.

    As former Northern Ireland secretary I support the Irish backstop

    Peter Hain
    Theresa May must reject the hardline Tory dogma and abide by the law, says former Northern Ireland secretary Peter Hain

April 2018

  • Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (L) raise their clenched fists at Soweto Soccer City stadium, during a rally.

    Winnie Mandela helped Nelson become the radical that he was

    Peter Hain
    At a pivotal point in South Africa’s history, Winnie urged Nelson to risk ANC alienation and embrace young activists, writes former Labour minister for Africa Peter Hain

November 2017

  • (FILES) This file photo taken on June 29, 2017 shows a view of Stormont castle, seat of the Northern Ireland assembly in Belfast on June 29, 2017. Lawmakers in Britain voted to impose a budget on Northern Ireland on November 13, 2017, in a move seen as a step towards taking direct rule of the semi-autonomous province, which has been deadlocked for months by a dispute between nationalists and unionists. / AFP PHOTO / Paul FAITHPAUL FAITH/AFP/Getty Images

    Paralysis has gripped Northern Ireland. But politicians are just looking blithely on

    Peter Hain
    The mutual stubborness of Sinn Féin and the DUP is bringing Stormont to its knees, writes former secretary of state for Northern Ireland Peter Hain

September 2017

  • Brexit secretary David Davis and the EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier.

    How to avoid a bad Brexit? Rediscover the art of British diplomacy

    Peter Hain
    Theresa May’s team seems not to grasp the most basic rules of negotiation, writes former Northern Ireland secretary Peter Hain

June 2017

  • Production line at Jaguar Land Rover plant.

    Labour should lead the drive to stay in the single market. Here’s why

    Peter Hain
  • A bus crossing along the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland passes a sign campaigning against a hard Brexit.

    A deal with the DUP will be painful for Theresa May, and put peace at risk

    Peter Hain

April 2017

  • Gibraltar once rejected a deal on its status. It will have to think again

    Peter Hain
    I tried to negotiate a co-sovereignty arrangement with Spain in 2002. This is still the best way forward

March 2017

  • Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness - the ‘Chuckle Brothers’ – taking power in May 2007

    Theresa May must call a Northern Ireland summit – or risk a return to direct rule

    Peter Hain
    I thought I’d be the last minister to govern from London. But after the collapse of power-sharing, and now this seismic election result, I’m not so sure.
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