Women are often the losers when the west weighs in | Catherine Bennett

Afghanistan shows their rights tend to be forgotten in our eagerness to intervene. Libya deserves better

Generally speaking, the less that is heard, politically, from a prime minister s spouse, the better. It was the great achievement of Cherie Blair, even if she justified her ubiquity as a form of feminism, that with every intervention she demonstrated, for the benefit of her successors, the difficulty of convincing an audience that knows you to have zero democratic credentials. To be fair,

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