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
Is the end of global tax-dodging in sight?
To make the super-rich pay their fair share, Britain must back the UN Tax Convention, argues NURI SYED CORSER of War on Want
LEVELLING THE PLAYING FIELD: (L to R) Brian Niccol of Starbucks and Charles III
[(L to R) Phi Delta Theta/CC - cartoon by Songi] 
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
INDUSTRIAL-SCALE tax-dodging by the super-rich and big corporations is one of those galling injustices that feels so everyday that it’s hard to stay outraged.
This week, we learnt that governments around the world lost half a trillion dollars to tax-dodging.
Starbucks, whose new CEO commutes to work by private jet, paid just £7 million on its £548m of UK sales. Meanwhile, global inequality is skyrocketing.
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