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
Lucas goes ludicrous
Caroline’s crank plan for an all-woman remainiac revolt show the Green’s have nothing to envy, says NICK WRIGHT
Green Party leader Caroline Lucas speaking on stage at an anti-Trump protest in London
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
ONE of the things I like most about Caroline Lucas, the Green Party’s sole MP, is that she is nowhere near as nice as she seems. The self-imposed task of giving direction to that quarrelsome assembly of semi-autonomous self governing identity groups that is today’s Green Party would try the patience of a saint.
And, in the various manoeuvrings that have seen the party’s leadership several times reconstituted and its policies realigned, she has operated with a skill-set that makes her a First Division practitioner of the Machiavellian dark arts. All this with the added utility of a sympathetic smile and a winning manner.
It is still possible to hold on to a fair measure of respect for Britain’s Greens. They played a mostly constructive part in the anti-war movement although Lucas did later resign as vice-president of the Stop the War Coalition when she encountered an imperial war waged on a regime of which she disapproved almost as much as war itself.
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