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
African antiquities: time to return the loot
The British Museum still refuses to follow countries such as France in returning artefacts stolen during the colonial era — this enables white supremacy and the belief that Africans were too primitive to be able to produce great works of art, argues ROGER McKENZIE
A Benin Bronze plaque on display in the British Museum
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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
AN early scene in the iconic hit movie Black Panther shows the anti-hero, Killmonger, in a museum arguing that an artefact was not made by the Fula tribe as advertised but instead had been taken by British soldiers in Benin and was from the kingdom of Wakanda. A work of fiction informed by fact.
Earlier on this year the government of Germany at last agreed to return to Nigeria its share of the priceless artefacts that were stolen from the kingdom of Benin in 1897.
These treasures, the Benin Bronzes, were looted by the British from the ancient kingdom of Benin. Situated in what is now Nigeria, the kingdom was razed to the ground by the British in retaliation for the killing of a British force a year earlier that had tried to capture the ruler, known as the Oba.
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