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
Peace negotiators must be protected
BOB NEWLAND shines a light on the case of Josu Urrutikoetxea, who helped bring about an end to Basque armed conflict but who now languishes in jail facing charges of ‘criminal conspiracy with terrorist intent’
IMPRISONED: Josu Urrutikoetxea
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
JOSU URRUTIKOETXEA was a key figure in the Basque movement Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (Eta) and played a major role in ending the armed conflict in the Basque Country and Spain.
He led peace negotiations on behalf of Eta from the 1980s. In 1989 he was arrested in the middle of a truce and spent 10 years in prison.
Urrutikoetxea led further negotiations from 2005 to 2007 in Geneva and from 2011 to 2013 in Oslo.
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