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
As after World War II, we can never go back
The coronavirus has seen the state mobilised in support of its people in a way we were told was impossible. Just as the working class refused to go back to poverty after WWII, we must do the same now, writes IAN LAVERY
An aerial view of (from the left), High Level Bridge, Swing Bridge, Tyne Bridge and Gateshead Millennium Bridge, which span the River Tyne in Newcastle. The North East looks set to become the latest area in England to come under local restrictions as coronavirus cases rise
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
THIS weekend would ordinarily have seen tens of thousands of Labour members heading to Liverpool to our annual conference.
2020 however has been a far from ordinary year. Indeed, as I write this I do so from a north-east that has had fresh restrictions imposed after cases of coronavirus reached worrying levels.
Labour Conference has been replaced with an online version — and many people are left worrying about what might happen next.
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