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
Amid the Brexit muddle, we need to get back to the basics of workers’ rights
The world of work must be our number one political issue, however Brexit turns out, argues DAVE WARD
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
AFTER another night of Brexit votes in Parliament this week, it feels like the government is no closer to finding a way forward.
After dragging us into this mess in the first place in the name of party management, this week has been about nothing more than patching up the Tory Party once again so it can limp on in government.
For all the triumphalism about being able to win a vote in Parliament, Theresa May is now heading back to Brussels with a plan that the EU has already rejected. The reality is that we are now closer to a cliff-edge, with a Prime Minister at the mercy of the hard right of her party.
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