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
All the Tories should go
None of the characters vying for leadership of the Conservative Party have any interest in owning up to the lies of the Johnson regime — instead it is the workers' movement that must force the government's hand, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
A cabinet meeting in January 2020
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
BORIS JOHNSON could not even manage a resignation speech. Instead, he grudgingly offered a notice to quit at a later date in an outburst which was full of the bombast, self-regard and refusal to acknowledge facts that are his trademark. It is right to say “good riddance” to Boris the Brief.
What now for the huge number of his colleagues now pressing themselves forward as the next potential leader of their party and Prime Minister? The situation reaches farcical proportions, with many of them barely known even to other Tory backbenchers and others who have besmirched their office through a combination of rank incompetence and completely reactionary politics.
The argument is made that there is no need for a general election with a change of Prime Minister, as we elect parties in this country, not presidents. Precedent is also cited, as every Prime Minister since Callaghan either came to office without an election, or departed without one.
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Our Foreign Secretary now condemns Israel in the Commons, yet Britain still supplies weapons and intelligence for its bombing campaigns — as the horror reaches perhaps the final stage, action must finally replace words, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
The BBC and OBR claim that failing to cut disability benefits could ‘destabilise the economy’ while ignoring the spendthrift approach to tens of billions on military spending that really spirals out of control, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP
Europe is acquiescing in Trump’s manoeuvrings — where Europe takes over the US forever war in Ukraine while Washington gets ready for a future fight with China. And it’s working people who will be left paying the price, says DIANE ABBOTT MP
DIANE ABBOTT MP argues that Labour’s proposals contained in the recent white paper won’t actually bring down immigration numbers or win support from Reform voters — but they will succeed in making politics more nasty and poisonous
