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
Fighting climate colonialism is a global necessity
The ecological crisis caused is already hitting the global South harder than the regions where the capitalists responsible live — anyone disrupting ‘business as usual’ should be applauded, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Flames from the Donnie Creek wildfire burn along a ridge top north of Fort St John, British Columbia, July 2, 2023
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 planet is burning. Everybody knows it. Everyone can see it.
If the planet goes on burning at anywhere near the same rate as it is now, the result will be the end of life as we know it.
Sounds dramatic doesn’t it? Maybe — but that doesn’t alter the fact that what I have just said is true.
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