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
A people’s vaccine not a profit vaccine
Hoarding by the West, in league with big pharma, has seen Africa in particular starved of Covid vaccines — we need an international health service free at the point of delivery, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Workers in Nairobi, Kenya, receive boxes of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine sent from the US, September 2021
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
THE stark reality is that of the more than five billion Covid-19 doses administered globally only 2 per cent have been received in the continent of Africa.
In the US, by comparison, around 52 per cent of people are fully vaccinated and in the European Union it is 57 per cent.
Scotland and Wales have vaccinated around 90 per cent of those aged 16 and over with at least one dose while England has reached around 88 per cent and Northern Ireland in the region of 86 per cent.
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