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
Over a barrel in the US, Macron spearheads Europe's ‘lose-lose’ era
The US is now energy-rich and looking to export, while Europe is quietly keen to avoid the new cold war interfering in its trade with China: these are just some of the issues that are coming to a head between the two power blocs, writes NICK WRIGHT
The EU is suffering a double whammy. Already in a recession, its exports to the US, hobbled by higher domestic energy prices as a result of the US-Nato sanctions policy against Russia, face a US market made more hostile by US protectionist measures and local energy costs way below Europe’s.
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
LIKE Nato nuts in Britain who imbue our “special relationship” with the US with an exaggerated significance, something of the same sentiment drives the French political elite to make more of the revolutionary origins of their two states than the facts support.
Hence the hullaballoo around Emmanuel Macron’s visit to the US.
Where British imperial interests have been subordinated to the US hegemon — in post-war Latin America, pre-shah Iran, and end of the Suez adventure — the British Establishment, courageous only when outgunning colonial subjects, has prostrated itself before successive US presidents — even Trump.
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