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
Brexit: why October is good to go
FAWZI IBRAHIM argues Labour should support the government’s determination to leave the EU at the end of next month
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
LABOUR must learn from the mistakes Syriza made in Greece, come clean about the incompatibility of Labour’s industrial and economic plans with membership of the EU, and above all avoid doing the establishment’s dirty work.
The genie is out. The people voted to leave the EU. Those who want to put the genie back in the bottle will have their fingers burned. Labour’s support for a second referendum and its declared willingness to contemplate abandoning Brexit if that is what it takes to stop a no-deal Brexit is a death wish. Workers have no truck with their “betters” trying to put them back in their place.
Having voted to leave the EU, those who make it their business to thwart Brexit fall in the same category as those who manoeuvre to hinder and obstruct a workplace strike that was agreed in a democratic vote of a trade union’s membership.
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