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
Bow to none
Speak up for your community, for your class, build platforms for those who would be silenced, posits MATT KERR
NOT EVERYBODY’S CUP OF TEA: (Above) Nigel Farage, on a general election trail, recoils when a cup is thrown at him in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, August 28 2024
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
FOR some time now, the New Year has for me fallen into a bit of a routine. Hogmanay happens also to be my birthday, and drink, as they say, was taken. A low key affair though, our house had something working on us, and we stayed at home.
The wind howled outside when I ventured out at the bells to blow on the post horn. For another year the neighbours demonstrated their tolerance. As this little ritual took place, there was to have been the big Hogmanay in Edinburgh.
The city has become synonymous with the celebration, over the years, as council and businesses alike cash in on the picture-postcard sight of the castle illuminated by fireworks after the ramparts had echoed to the sound of the big gun.
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