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
The importance of knowing our own strength: the anti-war movement and British foreign policy
We must resist the tendency to see our protests for peace as failures if they do not end a specific conflict: looking at the evidence from Vietnam to Iraq, they have had a profound effect on curtailing military aggression, explains IAN SINCLAIR
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
THOUGH considered an abject failure by many, the enormous British anti-war movement against the 2003 Iraq War has had a number of long-lasting impacts on British politics and society.
One unfortunate effect is, nearly 20 years later, the movement’s inability to stop the invasion continues to breed defeatism when it comes to the general public influencing British foreign policy.
For example, discussing the large-scale British protests against the recent Israeli bombardment of Gaza, one Middle East scholar quipped on Twitter, “If history has taught me anything, when people in Britain march against immoral actions in the Middle East, their government will almost certainly ignore them.”
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At the very moment Britain faces poverty, housing and climate crises requiring radical solutions, the liberal press promotes ideologically narrow books while marginalising authors who offer the most accurate understanding of change, writes IAN SINCLAIR
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As the cover-ups collapse, IAN SINCLAIR looks at the shocking testimony from British forces who would ‘go in and shoot everyone sleeping there’ during night raids — illegal, systematic murder spawned by an illegal invasion
