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
Bringing beavers to west London
JOHN GREEN reports on rewilding attempts in the capital and beyond in order to give a boost to rare or endangered wildlife
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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
IN AN attempt to counter the horrendous loss of wildlife as a result of population increase, urban spread and particularly the extensive use of intensive farming, there have been increasing calls for “rewilding.”
What does that term mean? Well, it involves an attempt to reintroduce animals and plants that used to be widespread but are today either extinct or facing extinction.
Can we, though, really bring back some of the diversity and variety of wildlife that our parents and grandparents knew or is it simply a utopian dream?
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