Ten turbulent years in the hot seat of Ulster politics
In the final part of our series about Blair's legacy in Northern Ireland, we tell how secretaries of state from Mo Mowlam to Peter Hain tackled the jobThe Guardian has interviewed Tony Blair's four...
View ArticleJulie Walters to play Mo Mowlam in Channel 4 drama
Oscar-nominated actor Julie Walters is to play the late Mo Mowlam, the former Northern Ireland secretary, in a new single drama for Channel 4.Continue reading...
View ArticleMPs to live on council estates for Channel 4 documentary
Show featuring Iain Duncan Smith to join Mo Mowlam drama starring Julie Walters in broadcaster's spring lineupChannel 4 axes Wife Swap and How Clean is Your House?MPs including Mark Oaten, Austin...
View ArticleRevealed: the real Mo Mowlam | Feature
She was the much-loved Labour minister in charge of bringing peace to Northern Ireland. We knew she had a benign brain tumour but only her doctor knew the truth: it was malignant and probably affecting...
View ArticleHow Mo Mowlam misled Tony Blair for nine years about her killer cancer
Doctor tells of a 'professional nightmare' as the Labour minister ignored his advice and kept her condition secret while in officeMo Mowlam, the former Northern Ireland secretary, was respected for her...
View ArticleMo Mowlam: a step closer to the truth | Michael White
Mo's infectious and impulsive ways meant she got away with a great dealThe weekend revelation that Mo Mowlam deceived Tony Blair, her own family and most of the country about the seriousness of that...
View ArticleMedia Monkey: Why was Peter Mandelson absent from Mo Mowlam drama screening?
Minister for Women and Equality Harriet Harman, former home secretary Charles Clarke, and Channel 4's head of diversity Oona King were among the Labour grandees on hand to speak glowingly about the...
View ArticleMo and The Virtual Revolution | TV Review
Julie Walters as a dying Mo Mowlam could have brought peace to Ireland in an instantAt first, it was hard to get beyond the fact that Julie Walters doesn't look anything like Mo Mowlam. It's not just...
View ArticleYou don't have to be crazy to run the country but it sure helps | Catherine...
We wouldn't tolerate an airline pilot with issues of anger management, so why do we overlook it in government?A lot of people, including her former physician, Mark Glaser, think that the late Mo Mowlam...
View ArticleBafta TV special/Julie Walters: Queen of the screen
She's won more Baftas than any other actress. Here, Julie Walters tells Euan Ferguson about her hippy years, life in the country and why it's never been a better time to be a woman on TVOther multiple...
View ArticleITV's Jeff Pope: 'Crime was my entree into drama'
The executive producer of Mrs Biggs reveals the inspiration behind TV drama hits such as Mo and Appropriate AdultJeff Pope, the writer of Mrs Biggs, the Ronnie Biggs drama that starts on ITV on...
View ArticleLetters: Blair's pain and passion meets with glib howls of derision
I can't imagine what possessed you publish Tony Blair's self-serving piece (Comment, 25 October), albeit about a real success of his premiership, the Northern Ireland peace process. It was indeed a...
View ArticleWomen MPs must man up. We need more battleaxes, fewer shrinking violets |...
Laura Sandys has joined the exodus of female MPs. How much is macho posturing in the Commons to blame?As yet another female Tory MP announces she is to stand down, the soul-searching has begun about...
View ArticleJulie Walters: 'To hell with it… Fetch the razor' | Mo Mowlam
From singing in Mamma Mia! to shaving her head to play Mo Mowlam in a new TV drama, Julie Walters is anything but vainJulie Walters said yes! when asked to play Mo Mowlam in a Channel 4 biopic, and...
View ArticleBert Ward obituary
My friend Bert Ward, who has died aged 94, was a working-class intellectual and activist who played a key role in changing Labour party attitudes to Ireland through his tireless campaigning and his...
View ArticleRay Wilkins had clever feet and a clever mind | Brief letters
London’s gang violence | Mo Mowlam | Ray Wilkins | Spring lambs | Easter bunnies | KakuroWhen is someone going to notice that gang violence only occurs where there is acute poverty (Police ‘have lost...
View ArticleWhat's the best way to get written out of history? Be a middle-aged woman |...
The omission of Mo Mowlam from a lineup of the architects of the Good Friday agreement shows how older women are forgotten – even ones who changed the worldHistory erases the contribution of...
View ArticleWhy deny Mo Mowlam, my stepmum, credit for the Good Friday agreement? |...
Amid this week’s official celebrations her name was barely mentioned. But ordinary people know what she didAs I watched the 20-year celebrations of the Good Friday agreement play out, my frustration...
View ArticleDress mutton up as lamb for the best shepherd’s pie | Brief letters
Mo Mowlam | Gillian Ayres | Felicity Cloake | Bridge puzzleIn 1998 Mo Mowlam (My stepmother Mo helped to achieve peace, 13 April) was made an honorary freeman of the City of Sheffield, not only in...
View ArticleTheatrical dames who set up the actors’ union Equity | Letters
Former union president Harry Landis on the roles played by Dame May Whitty and Dame Sybil ThiorndikeZoe Williams says quite rightly that all social movements of any importance were started by...
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