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
Building an economic alternative during Covid-19
Our movement must use the pandemic to unite around a clear set of demands that protect public health and advance an alternative economic vision that puts working people before private profit once and for all, writes HELEN O'CONNOR
Staff preparing bays at the NHS Nightingale North East hospital in Sunderland
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
IT IS clear that the government strategy to prevent the transmission of Covid-19 is at best not working and at worst seriously compromised by the interests of big business.
It should be of concern to all that there are open and public admissions that this Tory government is ignoring scientists. In the meantime, a new language has been invented to try to convince the public that the government is doing a good job, as ineffective, partial lockdowns in which most public venues remain open are graded into “tiers” — and it would be easier for the public to visit the moon than benefit from “operation moonshot.”
Billions are being wasted on a failing test, track and trace system. Some £12 billion has already been handed over to these companies, some consultants are on over £6,000 a day.
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