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
Cop28: in the land of the bland
The contradictions of oil-producing nations hosting and leading a climate change summit have been unavoidable. They could easily transition to renewable-based economies – we just need a new ‘1945 moment,’ explains ALAN SIMPSON
Mitzi Jonelle Tan, of the Philippines, embraces Adriana Calderon Hernandez (right) and other activists, lamentimg the lack of action to end fossil fuels at a protest outside Cop28
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
SCENES at Cop28 have been a retreat from nativity into pantomime. For the real world, it drifted closer to tragedy. As the deadline approached, climate activists held their breath — but fossil lobbyists held the pursestrings.
A host of good people worked their socks off in Dubai, all urging world leaders to grasp the existential emergency we face. But the 2,456 accredited fossil-fuel lobbyists at Cop28 had other plans.
They were determined that no wise men or women would arrive on camels. No precious gifts would be offered as tributes to the wonders of creation. Instead, the great unwise, descended from private planes, only offering trinkets and small change; all as a distraction from the greatest threat to life as we know it.
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