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
Guzzling at the trough
SOLOMON HUGHES takes a look at the corporate-sponsored events frequented by Tory-turned-Labour-MP Christian Wakeford
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer with Bury South MP Christian Wakeford, who has defected from the Conservatives to Labour, in his office in the Houses of Parliament
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
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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
CHRISTIAN WAKEFORD, the Tory MP who crossed the floor to become a Labour MP, got a long profile in the Guardian which managed to expose not just what is wrong with Wakeford, but the corrupted state of Westminster itself, drawing a picture of shallow, unprincipled careerists grabbing what they can from corporate lobbyists.
It’s all the more surprising because the Guardian profile is very sympathetic to Wakeford.
Wakeford was a newly elected Tory MP in 2019, with a very slim 402-vote majority in a typically Labour seat. A small shift to Labour would see his MP’s career stopped.
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