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Ann Clwyd

Ann Clwyd was MP for Cynon Valley from 1984 to 2019

July 2016

  • K man and his child killed in the chemical attack on Halabja in 1988.

    I’d still vote to go to war in Iraq

    Ann Clwyd
    Saddam Hussein was brutal, and I’ve met the families of many of his victims. Military action was the right thing to do

February 2014

  • Under Milk Wood

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 1 February 1971: Welsh village set for 'Under Milk Wood'

    Originally published in the Guardian on 1 February 1971: The film, with Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, and Peter O'Toole, is being made on £1/4 million from the National Film Federation

August 2013

  • Rainbow over Ynys Llanddwyn (Llanddwyn Island), Anglesey, North Wales

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 7 August 1973: Wales 'heads for political violence'

    Originally published in the Guardian on 7 August 1973: Plaid Cymru newspaper warns of politically motivated arson attacks against holiday cottages in rural Wales

May 2011

  • Bradley Manning

    The British government has a duty to Bradley Manning and his family

    Ann Clwyd
    Ann Clwyd: The Guardian Films investigation asks the questions surrounding Manning's treatment to which we must get answers

April 2008

  • Blood on his hands

    Ann Clwyd

    Ann Clwyd: For some, Tariq Aziz is the benign face of the Ba'ath regime in Iraq. Not so: he is as culpable for its crimes against humanity as other senior leaders

July 2004

  • The Iraqi 'resistance' offers only bloodshed and chaos

    Ann Clwyd
    Ann Clwyd: We should back the attempt to build democracy, not the men of violence.

March 2004

  • Iraq is free at last

    Ann Clwyd
    Ann Clwyd: The evidence of Saddam's atrocities I collected was enough to vindicate invasion, but it wasn't taken seriously.

February 2002

  • Whose finger on the export trigger?

    Ann Clwyd
    Comment: It is time MPs were given prior scrutiny of contentious arms deals, writes Ann Clwyd.

January 2001

  • Cyril Taylor

    Pioneering doctor who brought community medicine to Liverpool.