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David Clark

David Clark was special adviser to Robin Cook at the Foreign Office 1997-2001, and now works as an analyst and business intelligence consultant specialising in foreign policy and European affairs

March 2023

  • Leader of the house of commons Robin Cook speaks to the chamber on the day of his resignation, 17 March 2003.

    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

March 2014

  • Vladimir Putin

    Ukraine: Putinism is not the smart option for Russia

    David Clark

    David Clark: Vladimir Putin should shed his streetfighter mentality and use Crimea as a bargaining chip, rather than risk 'losing' the rest of Ukraine to the west

September 2013

  • Ed Miliband conference speech 2013

    The panel
    Ed Miliband speech: panel verdict

    Diane Abbott, Jackie Ashley, John McDonnell, Melissa Kite, Hopi Sen, Caroline Lucas and David Clark

    Diane Abbott, Jackie Ashley, John McDonnell, Melissa Kite, Hopi Sen, Caroline Lucas and David Clark: How has Ed Miliband done in his speech to the Labour conference in Brighton? Over to our panellists …

June 2013

  • Ed Miliband

    How would Prime Minister Miliband perform on the world stage?

    David Clark
    David Clark: Unlike Cameron in opposition, the Labour leader has international experience, and a clear sense of where he stands

April 2013

  • Ed Miliband

    Ed Miliband is thinking about government, not just the next election

    David Clark
    David Clark: The Labour leader's egalitarian politics are far more nuanced than the Blairite old guard would have us believe

May 2012

  • Rubbish piles up in the streets of London during the 'winter of discontent', 1978-79

    Ed Miliband should seize the chance to call time on a failed consensus

    David Clark
    David Clark: As in the 1970s, British politics is in a state of upheaval. Miliband needs to challenge Labour if he is to reap electoral success

March 2012

  • George Osborne

    Budget 2012: let's see George Osborne's tax return

    David Clark
  • Ed Mliband

    Market fundamentalism has failed. Now is the time for a new vision

    David Clark

October 2011

  • libya body Gaddafi

    Libyan intervention was a success, despite the aftermath's atrocities

    David Clark
    David Clark: No military intervention is ever free of moral hazard. But what Nato did in Libya can hardly be called a 'catastrophic failure'

May 2010

  • Gordon Brown at the Labour party conference

    General election 2010: Cif at the polls
    Labour can't be written out of the progressive script

    David Clark
    David Clark: No party has a monopoly on virtue, and both the Lib Dems and Labour have much to contribute to liberal-left politics

February 2010

  • Unlike Clare Short, Robin Cook would not be conned. Chilcot needs him

    David Clark
    David Clark: The witness the Iraq inquiry really misses is Robin Cook. But even from the grave my old boss's testimony is damning

December 2009

  • Yukos comes back to bite Putin

    David Clark
    David Clark: Russia's authorities may not have expected international law to expose them to billions in claims over their seizure of the oil firm

August 2009

  • Military action is dangerous fantasy. We could live with a nuclear Iran

    David Clark
    David Clark: Pre-emptive strikes have no part in serious debate. We must deal with the clerics as self-interested statesmen, not fanatics

July 2009

  • We have the politicians we deserve

    David Clark
    David Clark: The outrage at parliamentary corruption is disingenuous – me-first politics is simply the product of a me-first society

June 2009

  • Politicians' trivial pursuits

    David Clark

  • Brown must fall on his sword

    David Clark

April 2009

  • Kosovo was a just war, not an imperialist dress rehearsal

    David Clark

    David Clark: Ten years on, the conflict should be remembered as a responsible western intervention. It is a very different example to Iraq

March 2009

  • Those cabinet minutes, at last

    David Clark

    David Clark: In the public interest, and for the first time, I am making the information on the decision to invade Iraq exclusively available

February 2009

  • Don't waste time on the minutes

    David Clark

    David Clark: We can be sure that British cabinet minutes about the Iraq war will reveal nothing of interest

October 2008

  • Conference season 2008
    Tories rising

    David Clark

    David Clark: For the first time in donkeys' years, the Conservatives are acting like they will win the next election

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