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 the price hikes: Glasgow residents take on one of the Big Six
SNP promises to address fuel poverty, make power greener and found a publicly owned provider have come to nothing — now tenants are fighting back against energy giant SSE themselves, reports STEPHANIE MARTIN
For the last three months Wyndford Residents Union has been campaigning to get energy giant SSE round the table, staging multiple demonstrations — Stephanie Martin is fourth from left.
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 cost-of-living crisis has the working class under assault on multiple fronts. Serving on the committee of the Wyndford Residents Union, I witness first hand the devastating impact that runaway inflation has upon the lowest earners in society.
But there lies great opportunity in times like these too, when the extraction of wealth from the bottom to the top of society has never been more flagrant. Members of my community in Maryhill, Glasgow, spend an average of 54 per cent of their income on energy bills, with our energy provider SSE (formerly Scottish and Southern Energy) reporting a 15 per cent year-on-year increase.
While most consumers have a degree of “flexibility” to their fuel tariffs by changing energy provider 1800 homes in Wyndford are tied to SSE due to its lease of our district heating system.
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From education to care sector struggles, Scotland’s women workers must build up a resistance network on all fronts and drive their unions’ demands for transformative change to victory, writes STEPHANIE MARTIN
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