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
Greens, vaccines and military manoeuvres
VICTOR GROSSMAN considers what a Green Party advance means in an increasingly militarised and aggressive Germany — and what would the real left might do
Polish infantry at Justice Sword 21 exercise in
Romania, last Tuesday, part of Defender 2
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
IN RECENT months the air in Germany has been overfull. But the fog, thick as in old London, was not humid but political.
The thickest was Covid fog. How many new cases? How many deaths? Who could go out, when, in what size groups and till what hour? Which state wanted tougher restrictions and which wanted easier ones?
Whether decisions should be by the federal cabinet, the Bundestag legislature or every state for itself, which vaccine was 100 per cent safe, which might not be and why? When house doctors could vaccinate and how soon they’d get enough vaccine for which age and patient group?
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