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
‘Coronavirus has highlighted deep-seated problems in the arts industry’
The new leader of actors’ union Equity, PAUL FLEMING, talks to Will Stone about the impact of coronavirus on the performing arts, the union’s Four Pillars plan to aid recovery and the crisis of representation and equality in the world of culture
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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
BRITAIN’S arts industry is in the midst of an “existential crisis.” So says Paul W Fleming, newly elected leader of actors’ union Equity.
The stark stats would certainly suggest so. A huge 40 per cent of Equity members haven’t been able to get financial help through the government’s coronavirus support packages, according to the union’s own figures.
More than a fifth have applied for universal credit and a similar number are either working outside the entertainment industry or are actively looking for other work.
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