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
Abortion is healthcare – campaigning for decriminalisation
The 1967 Abortion Act always was regarded as a compromise — now is the time to further cement and improve the right to free, safe, legal abortions for all women, argues ANN HENDERSON
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
LAST WEEK representatives of Abortion Rights Scotland, Engender, the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare (FSRH) and a number of other organisations met the Scottish government minister for women’s health and public health to discuss taking forward the First Minister’s commitment “to exploring a review of the law on abortion to ensure that it is first and foremost a healthcare matter.”
The Scotland Act 2016 devolved responsibility for abortion law to the Scottish Parliament.
The Scottish Parliament already had full responsibility for delivery of abortion care services, which have remained within the remit of NHS Scotland, framed by the 1967 Abortion Act.
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