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
Energy giants get out the begging bowl
SOLOMON HUGHES reports from Tory Party conference where E.ON and EDF were calling for government action to preserve their profits as thousands of customers struggle to pay their bills
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 chief executive of E.ON UK, one of the “Big Six” British energy firms, told Tory conference it was “imperative” the government step in this winter because people are “struggling to pay” for heating as “a section of our customers cannot pay their energy bill.”
A UK director of EDF also told the same fringe meeting the government had to act as people are “struggling.”
It was a grim message, delivered to Treasury Minister Gareth Davies at a fringe meeting of the Thatcherite Centre for Policy Studies (CPS).
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