Howells leaves in Brown reshuffle
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Pontypridd MP Kim Howells is the biggest Welsh casualty in Gordon Brown's Cabinet reshuffle.
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Over-seeing the spooks
David Cornock's other blog (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
One more Welsh angle: Kim Howells loses his job as a Foreign Office Minister. He gets the consolation prize of the chair of the security and intelligence committee, which oversees the work of MI5 and MI6. The Pontypridd MP is said to be happy with his new role, which has become a traditional one for Ministers on their way out of government. He takes over from Marget Beckett, who's returning to government...
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More on PII from Private Eye
The Lockerbie Case (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
The current issue of the magazine Private Eye contains the following article: LOCKERBIE APPEAL: Howells of outrage Foreign Office minister Kim Howells has revealed that the Scottish judges hearing the Lockerbie bombing appeal have agreed to the [UK] government’s request to keep under wraps evidence that is crucial to the defence of [Abdelbaset] Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, the Libyan serving life for the...
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Wales MP Asks British House of Commons to Take Up Case of al-Khaiwani
Armies of Liberation (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
Yay!!! Wales on Line CYNON Valley MP Ann Clwyd has asked the Foreign Office to do what it can to free a Yemeni journalist from jail, writes Mike Prosser. She told Foreign Office Minister and fellow South Wales Valleys MP Kim Howells “The Yemeni constitution guarantees freedom of expression, but in reality that is not the case. “Will you [...]
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The Howells-Blunt Correspondence
My Right Word (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
Here : The following letter was received today from the UK Foreign Minister, Dr Kim Howells MP in response to a letter from CAABU . It confirms that measures are being put in place to ensure that Israeli settler leaders will not be invited to Embassy parties in the future. CAABU welcomes the Minister's response and also with regards to his reiteration that the UK position on illegal Israeli settlements...
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More of Kim Howells Activities
My Right Word (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
Kim has declared me persona non grata. From Parliament : Israel: Overseas Trade Dr. Starkey: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he has recently had discussions with UK retailers and trade bodies representing companies which source goods from illegal Israeli settlements. [219691] Dr. Howells: We are concerned that goods from illegal Israeli settlements may be...
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Britain condoles Naina Devi stampede deaths
Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
London, Aug 4 (IANS) The British government Monday condoled the deaths of worshippers in a stampede at the Naina Devi temple. Foreign Office Minister Kim Howells said he was “deeply saddened by the tragic loss of life of over 145 worshippers at the Naina Devi temple in Himachal Pradesh on Sunday”. “I was especially disturbed [...]
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Diplomatic coup! Charlie hammers out deal with UK
Florida Politics (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008
And you thought that trip was a waste of cash. "Gov. Charlie Crist is promising to work with Britain to develop clean energy technology and to prevent climate change. Crist and British Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister Kim Howells watched in London on Tuesday as three agreements were signed between British and undisclosed Florida universities to share equipment and research on energy and
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House of Commons debate on Israel and the Occupied Territories
Flesh is Grass (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
I miss all of these - found this one because my MP said something. The atmosphere was of concern, which made a positive contrast with the sinister apoplexy or ostentatious one-sided empathising you get with Socialist Worker Party members, Stoppers, The Guardian, The Independent &tc. Kim Howells said: I should like to think that my hon. Friend [...]
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Kim Howells And Colombia
Mask of Anarchy (Free subscription) | 28/04/2008
A little while back, Kim Howells made some rather misleading comments about Justice for Colombia . During an interview with the Western Mail, Howells claimed that the organisation is closely affiliated with the FARC , a disgraceful smear. Appalled by his language, and the fact that his words put many union members' lives in jeopardy, I wrote to the MP to express my disappointment with his attack on...
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History repeated
Paul Flynn - Read My Day (Free subscription) | 25/03/2008
No Kim Howells to answer my debate at lunchtime today on the Helmand disaster. It was the lugubrious Bob Ainsworth, a relative newcomer to the Foreign Office. Happily he ran out of speech after complaining that I had not left...
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In defence of Kim Howells
Luke's Blog (Free subscription) | 25/03/2008
This is one of those posts guaranteed to make me unpopular (including with quite a few of my friends and close political allies on other issues), but I think Kim Howells should be applauded for standing up to Tribune et al over Colombia. He may have been wrong to claim that Justice for Colombia supports the FARC narco-terrorists, but it's an easy mistake to make as their main campaign at the moment...
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Johann Hari: Why is Britain allowing money and weapons to pass into the hands of right-wing militias?
The Independent (Free subscription) | 24/03/2008
On the website of the British Foreign Office, a small photograph recently appeared. It shows Kim Howells, our Foreign Office minister, looking into the camera, smiling, as he is surrounded by gun-yielding men accused of murder. He had not been taken hostage. No: he was there to represent a government that gives these men money and military aid.
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Step down, Kim Howells
NewerLabour (Free subscription) | 23/03/2008
If 'Kim Howeller' did indeed make the comments ascribed to him in Tribune,which he has not denied, and for which he has not apologised, he should resign. It is unnaceptable for any elected representative, especially a government minister, to peddle untruths to the public, including the notion of an association existing between Justice for Colombia and FARC. As if it was not disgraceful enough for Mr...
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Guerillaheat off Howells
icWales (Free subscription) | 23/03/2008
FOREIGN Office minister Kim Howells will not be sacked by Gordon Brown after apologising for claiming that a union-backed campaign group supported the Farc guerilla movement in Colombia.
