There have been penalties for those who looked the other way when Epstein was convicted of child sex offences and decided to maintain relationships with the financier — but not for the British ambassador to Washington, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES
‘Common sense’ – or nonsense?
A group of 22 Tory bigwigs are making a noise about ‘liberals rewriting our history in their image’ and blaming ‘cultural Marxism.’ BEN COWLES takes a look
Sir John Hayes (left) and 22 other Tory MPs and lords wrote a letter in The Telegraph last week spreading the ‘cultural Marxism’ conspiracy theory, which echoes many of the same ideas as Joseph Goebbels (right, centre) and the Nazi's Cultural Bolshevism conspiracy theory
Labour’s new Treasury unit will ‘challenge unnecessary regulation’ by forcing nominally independent bodies like Ofwat to bend to business demands — exactly what Iain Anderson’s corporate clients wanted, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
DR DYLAN MURPHY looks at a Big Brother Watch report which exposes the government as an enabler of DWP secret spying on benefit claimants
The EU faces a critical choice: will it remain in the shadow of an increasingly unreliable US ally, or will it forge its own path in a multilateral world where co-operation with China is essential, asks MARC VANDEPITTE as leaders meet for the EU-China Summit
A lot of discussion about how the left should currently organise – including debate on whether the Green Party is a useful vehicle for advance – runs the risk of refusing to engage with or learn from the reasons the left was defeated previously, argues KEVIN OVENDEN
For Egypt trade trumps the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but how long can the country’s ‘misleaders’ – and others in the region – continue their indifference against the popular will of their own people, asks ROGER McKENZIE
A GROUP of 22 Tory MPs and lords, describing themselves as the Common Sense Group, took to the letters pages of The Telegraph last week to rail against “powerful, privileged liberals rewriting our history in their image.”
How dare the snowflakes at the National Trust “implicitly tarnish one of Britain’s greatest sons,” Winston “gas-the-natives” Churchill, “by linking his family home with slavery and colonialism,” the 22 wrote in the billionaire Barclay brothers’ newspaper.
How could the social justice warriors at the National Maritime Museum cave into the PC brigade by promising to provide “multiple perspectives on history,” the letter cries, before going on to praise the “chairman [sic] of the Charity Commission, Baroness Stowell,” for reminding charities to stay out of politics.
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