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
Broadband supply: public money for private ineptitude
The Tories screwed up the energy market by artificially boosting phoney competition with lots of little firms that went bust and had to be bailed out — incredibly, they are now doing the same for broadband, reports SOLOMON HUGHES
Broadband installation has tended to favour wealthier urban areas
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
WHEN big corporations supplying critical services exploit their dominant positions, there are two common solutions: from the left, public ownership, and from the centre and right, “more competition.”
The “more competition” plan was tested in energy supply: instead of bringing lower prices and more choice, “more competition” just let a load of spivs cash in while the public was left with a £6 billion-plus bill. Now it looks like the same might be happening in broadband supply.
In energy, the government and the regulator Ofgem were under pressure over the behaviour of the big six energy suppliers. Many felt the top energy firms used their dominance to overcharge customers and generally treat them badly.
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