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

ANDREW FEINSTEIN, who is challenging Keir Starmer as an independent in the Labour leader’s Holborn and St Pancras constituency, called his opponent’s comments about the British Bangladeshi community “disgusting” during a campaign stop on Thursday.
“He decided for unfathomable reasons to target the Bangladeshi community and Bangladeshi people,” said Feinstein. Starmer’s remarks, he added, were another symptom of “just how reactionary Keir Starmer’s Labour Party have become.”
During a televised interview with The Sun on Monday, Starmer boasted that “on the first few days in government” he would start putting migrants on planes back to their countries of origin.

Waves of protesters are refusing to comply with the latest crackdowns on dissent, but the penalties are higher in Starmer’s Labour Britain than in Trump’s autocratic United States, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

Funds are being raised to bring the bombed al-Shifa hospital back from the ashes, reports Linda Pentz Gunter

From Labour’s panic over the Corbyn-Sultana formation to Democratic Party grandees distancing themselves from Zohran Mamdani, centrist cliques on both sides of the Atlantic are quick to throw the same old insult, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

Trump’s cruel Bill will deprive millions of essential medical support while escalating deportations and rewarding the super-rich, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER