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
2024: the year ahead
As we welcome in the new year, we must raise our collective voices for sustainability, peace and justice more urgently than ever, says JEREMY CORBYN MP
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn joins a coalition of campaigners as they hold a protest over immigration policies outside the Home Office in central London, under the banner of Stop the Hate - Unity Not Division - Refugees Welcome
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
IT SEEMS strange to routinely wish everyone a happy new year while there is so much pain and suffering in the world.
For many of us, Christmas was a time of celebration. For those enduring the horrors of war, the past week has been a time of mourning and loss. For refugees feeling conflict and human rights abuses, it has been a time of desperation. And for millions of people in this country, it has been a time of immense stress as they struggle to put food on the table, heat their homes and pay their rent.
None of this should be normal, necessary or acceptable. Over the past decade and a half, we have witnessed a huge drop in living standards, manifesting itself in debt, mental ill-health, foodbanks and thousands of rough sleepers on the streets just to trying to survive. Meanwhile, private corporations are taking home more profit than ever before, hiking up their bills to satisfy the needs of a few over the needs of the many. This is not a cost-of-living crisis. It is a cost-of-greed crisis.
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