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
Britain’s healthcare crisis – a consensus emerges
It’s cuts upon cuts since 2010 that have led to today’s imminent collapse of the NHS – as acknowledged by even that bastion of the Establishment, the Financial Times, says NICK WRIGHT
David Cameron talks to nursing staff during a visit to Birmingham Children’s Hospital, 2012
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 Times leader of September 2 1851, entitled “Literature for the Poor,” spoke to a bourgeois readership with the opinion that “only now and then when some startling fact is bought before us do we entertain even the suspicion that there is a society close to our own, and with which we are in the habits of daily intercourse, of which we are as completely ignorant as if it dwelt in another land, of another language in which we never conversed, which in fact we never saw.”
Learning from this, the most far-sighted of our bourgeoisie — including Winston Churchill by his own account — read the Morning Star as intently as they scour the columns of the Financial Times.
This urgent necessity for class warriors to know what the class enemy is thinking and doing is highlighted in the present storm of industrial action which is nowhere documented, analysed and described more comprehensively than in the Morning Star (although no day passes when it is not imperative for protagonists on either side of this struggle to consult the Strike Map website).
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