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
An everyday tale of Islington folk
A member of the Islington Friends of Jeremy Corbyn campaign, JULIA BARD, explains its motivation and goals
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
TODAY is the first anniversary of Jeremy Corbyn losing the Labour whip. The previous day, the national executive committee (NEC) had reinstated him into the Labour Party after a patently unjust decision to suspend him, only for the Labour leader Keir Starmer to announce on Twitter: “I have taken the decision not to restore the whip to Jeremy Corbyn. I will keep this situation under review.”
There has been no review and no discernible process behind his decision — only Starmer’s claim that “the disciplinary process does not have the confidence of the Jewish community.”
This was not, and still is not, the view or experience of the Jewish residents of Islington North, orthodox and secular, with whom Corbyn has built strong and constructive relationships over many years.
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Decades after Dale Spender’s groundbreaking work on how language embeds male dominance, the struggle to reshape words that accurately reflect women’s experiences remains both vital and unfinished, writes JULIA BARD
It’s myopic to suggest that fascist ideology has been ‘imported’ into Britain and could not possibly be home-grown, argues JULIA BARD
Pro-Palestine Jews don’t need ‘keeping safe’ on our own demos, writes JULIA BARD, following yet another heavy-handed attempt to link religion and ethnicity to political positions by the police
Think knitting is sedate and harmless? JULIA BARD begs to differ – knitting has a long history of radicalism and rebellion
