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Welsh opera, dance and theatre companies are marking 100 years since the Russian Revolution. The R17 series of events includes the re-staging of a celebrated 1917 ballet and a season of Russian operas. The organisers say the communist revolution, which overthrew the Tsar, was a critical cultural ...
Former Foreign Office minister and MP for Pontypridd, Kim Howells, was a communist in his early life. Growing up in Penywaun near Aberdare, he said people of the Welsh valleys were greatly influenced by the Russian Revolution in 1917 and the overthrowing of the Tsar. Describing the notion of ...

It became clear on June 9 that Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May's decision to call a snap election was ill judged. This election has highlighted the ... In a 2003 radio interview, then MP Kim Howells laid into the grime scene, calling its artists “macho boasting idiots”. In the aftermath of the election, ...
Rhodri Morgan, the first First Minister of Wales, who passed away on May 17, will be sorely missed not only by his family and friends but also, if the ... by entering a coalition deal with Plaid Cymru had, in the words of the loquacious Pontypridd MP Kim Howells, “brought nationalists to the gates of power”.
Former Pontypridd MP and ex-Foreign Minister Kim Howells said the party needed to clarify its position on policies other than Brexit. He said: “The big problem is if they are going to fight it on issues other than Brexit – and they've got to do that because the Labour is in a terrible mess on Brexit – [then] there ...
Former Pontypridd MP and ex-Foreign Minister Kim Howells said the party needed to clarify its position on policies other than Brexit. He said: “The big problem is if they are going to fight it on issues other than Brexit – and they've got to do that because the Labour is in a terrible mess on Brexit – [then] there ...

British Labour Party Leadership contender Jeremy Corbyn (C) poses for pictures with supporters after addressing a rally at the Rock Tower in north London on September 10, 2015. Voting closed in the leadership contest for Britain's main opposition Labour party on Thursday after a campaign dominated by ...
A return to "Soviet-style" publicly-owned industries would be "nonsense", a former Labour minister has said. Kim Howells was responding to calls from Labour leadership contender Jeremy Corbyn to return services like railways and the Post Office to public hands. The former Pontypridd MP, who served ...
"I don't think that many of the people who stood even concede that we got things wrong last time. Some of them are daft enough to think we weren't left wing enough. "God knows how they even arrived at that but there we are." Kim Howells - not one of those politicians often accused of sitting on the fence.
Former Labour minister Kim Howells has said the party is in the "deepest crisis" he can remember. The ex-Pontypridd MP blamed Labour's lack of "radical thinking" for its election defeat. Mr Howells said the party must have a "radical analysis" of society if it is to increase its numbers in parliament.
He said: “Once a war has been started, there's always a tendency to say let the generals get on with it, they know best. Within the MoD I always had the impression that the last thing they needed was interfering politicians.” Last month a former ambassador to Afghanistan told the committee that ministers, ...
With British troops withdrawing from Afghanistan it has been a week to reflect on UK actions there. Former Foreign Office minister Kim Howells, who has now retired from politics, has painted scenes from the country based on sketches he drew while on official visits. In a Daily Politics film, the former ...
... by a block of concrete thrown from a bridge as he took a working miner to a pit in South Wales. Dr Howells won a majority of 13,191 over the Liberal Democrats at the 2005 election. Pontypridd's Welsh Assembly member, the environment minister Jane Davidson, is also standing down at elections in 2011.
Former Foreign Office minister and MP for Pontypridd, Kim Howells, was a communist in his early life. Growing up in Penywaun near Aberdare, he said people of the Welsh valleys were greatly influenced by the Russian Revolution in 1917 and the overthrowing of the Tsar. Describing the notion of ...
Kim Howells is a former Foreign Office minister and was MP for Pontypridd until 2010. He was a communist in his early political life after ...
Former Foreign Office minister and MP for Pontypridd, Kim Howells, was a communist in his early life. Growing up in Penywaun near Aberdare, ...
... by the Prime Minister after consultation with Opposition leaders. ... be the result of the scenario that Kim Howells so inelegantly envisaged.

Kim Howells, who also served as a foreign minister while Pontypridd's MP, welcomed Prime Minister Theresa May's speech in which she ...
Prime Minister Theresa May made the announcement on Saturday. ... Former counter terrorism minister Kim Howells said there is still a ...
Rhodri Morgan, the first First Minister of Wales, who passed away on ... in the words of the loquacious Pontypridd MP Kim Howells, “brought ...
But former First Minister Rhodri Morgan hopes that Labour can make ... Former Pontypridd MP and ex-Foreign Minister Kim Howells said the ...
He said he was told of the tap on the former DUP leader's phone by then prime minister Tony Blair in 2005. Former Labour MP Kim Howells has ...
Kim Howells, a Labour Foreign Office minister under Tony Blair, warned the party will not win the 2020 general election ahead of a potentially ...
"I don't think that many of the people who stood even concede that we got things wrong last time. Some of them are daft enough to think we weren't left wing enough. "God knows how they even arrived at that but there we are." Kim Howells - not one of those politicians often accused of sitting on the fence.
Former Labour minister Kim Howells has said the party is in the "deepest crisis" he can remember. The ex-Pontypridd MP blamed Labour's lack ...
Britain made terrible mistakes during its campaign in Helmand and at times military strategy in Afghanistan was “completely bonkers” a former ...
With British troops withdrawing from Afghanistan it has been a week to reflect on UK actions there. Former Foreign Office minister Kim Howells, ...
After Labour came to power in 1997, Dr Howells served as a minister in the departments of Education, Trade and Industry, Culture, Media and ...
Kim Howells, who also served as a foreign minister while Pontypridd's MP, welcomed Prime Minister Theresa May's speech in which she ...
Prime Minister Theresa May made the announcement on Saturday. ... Former counter terrorism minister Kim Howells said there is still a ...
A former counter terrorism minister said "there is still a likelihood of an ... Speaking to BBC Wales, Kim Howells said security over the bank ...
But former First Minister Rhodri Morgan hopes that Labour can make ... Former Pontypridd MP and ex-Foreign Minister Kim Howells said the ...
He said he was told of the tap on the former DUP leader's phone by then prime minister Tony Blair in 2005. Former Labour MP Kim Howells has ...
Ex-Pontypridd MP Kim Howells chaired the Intelligence and Security Committee and argues that the religious motivations of Islamist terrorists ...
Oh, it quite takes one back to the good old days when Kim Howells, once upon a time Labour arts minister, remarked of the 2002 Turner prize ...
Former Labour minister Kim Howells has said the party is in the "deepest crisis" he can remember. The ex-Pontypridd MP blamed Labour's lack ...
With British troops withdrawing from Afghanistan it has been a week to reflect on UK actions there. Former Foreign Office minister Kim Howells, ...
After Labour came to power in 1997, Dr Howells served as a minister in the departments of Education, Trade and Industry, Culture, Media and ...
As plans are drawn up for a new National Gallery of Modern Welsh Art, we asked artists and thinkers which pieces should it feature.
Ministers have declined to comment on unconfirmed reports that his alleged assailant was shot dead by a member of Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon's close protection team, who happened to be at the scene, rather than a uniformed officer stationed ...
Prime Minister Theresa May said the Commons debate had shown "normality" and defiance of terrorism. Arrests have been made in Birmingham and London, and there has also been related police activity at a ... Earlier, Kim Howells, the former Pontypridd MP ...
Ex-Pontypridd MP Kim Howells chaired the Intelligence and Security Committee and argues that the religious motivations of Islamist terrorists must be countered head-on.
... in Westminster at the time with the Minister of State at the DfT with responsibility for rail between June 2003 and September 2004 when the Wales and Border franchise agreement started the Member of Parliament for Pontypridd, a certain Dr Kim Howells.
And in 2002, Culture Minister Kim Howells described that year's nominated work as "cold, mechanical, conceptual bullshit".
Oh, it quite takes one back to the good old days when Kim Howells, once upon a time Labour arts minister, remarked of the 2002 Turner prize shortlist that it was "cold, mechanical, conceptual bullshit".
When they come out of jail they will become real criminals and terrorists while British foreign minister has said that Muslims are law abiding and committed citizens.
Dizzee's win came in the same year that the then Culture Minister, Kim Howells, dismissed rappers as "boasting macho idiots" in a radio interview about the tragic deaths of two girls in Birmingham who were caught in the crossfire between rival gangs ...
A prominent former MP has criticised a Welsh Islamic leader, accusing him of declaring "war on women". Kim Howells, a former Foreign Office minister, criticised Cardiff Imam Ali Hammuda for telling women who posted selfies on Facebook in makeup that ...
It was previously held by Kim Howells, a friend of his father. He tripled his majority in 2015 and was re-elected to the seat.
A political miracle worker who can unite Labour's warring factions to win a general election many in the party think will happen sooner rather than later, whatever the new prime minister says. He says he wants to "save the party" and prevent it from ...


 

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