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
The Labour Party reverts to type
CHELLEY RYAN looks at the conundrums facing the left inside and outside the Starmerite party
BLOODIED BUT UNBOWED: Jeremy Corbyn joins protesters outside DP World HQ in Victoria, London, last Friday
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 other night, I attended a Momentum event where the key speaker was a Socialist Campaign Group MP. When I was invited along by a dear friend, who is still an active Labour member, I expressed some reservations, having resigned my party membership a while ago.
She reassured me that ex-members are welcome in Momentum now, so I went along as a non-party and non-Mometum member, primarily to reconnect with some people I had not seen since before the pandemic, but also because I was curious as to how a Labour MP would address a group of people who were not all members of the Labour Party.
Would they get why we’d left? Would they still value our input? The answer appeared to be no on both counts.
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