She declared war on cancer; we must take her death as an injunction to action
- Matthew dÁncona
- The Guardian
She was my friend.
It was one of the great privileges of my life to know Tessa Jowell well, and one I shared with so many.
At the dinner table, at the tea party to celebrate her introduction to the House of Lords, at book launches, at Labour conferences, she was always surrounded by friends, making new ones, and bringing together previously unconnected members of her prodigious circle of affection and…
When Hashi Mohamed, the barrister and broadcaster, and I met at a conference in Warwick last November, our very first instinct was to take a…