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
Britain is broken – a Labour government is ready to rebuild
As things get desperate we need to unite behind a new anti-austerity mass campaign, writes RICHARD BURGON MP
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 night I was delighted to speak at the launch of the People’s Assembly Against Austerity nationwide launch of the Britain is Broken campaign. This is all about showing the truth behind the Tories’ claim that “austerity has ended.” It clearly isn’t over for millions of people who desperately need it to be.
The campaign will tour the country, including the areas of the country worst hit by this government, in order to uncover the reality of what eight years of the Conservatives’ political choice of austerity has done to our communities.
In my own advice sessions for constituents, I regularly see the harrowing effects of Conservative austerity. In a recent advice session, a woman showed me the fresh scar on her wrist from when she’d tried to commit suicide as her life fell apart due to having her benefits reduced and not being able to cope any more. She also showed me the agreement from a heartless loans company that was charging her over 500 per cent interest to lend her the money she needed to pay her gas and electric bills.
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