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
Potential for HIV cure beyond the state of the ART?
Medicine has long been able to guarantee HIV patients an almost normal life and now it can fully cure the virus too — but the treatment is not appropriate for all, explain ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL
COMPLEX: Watercolour and ink on paper illustration of HIV maturation. After full assembled virus particles have been released from an infected target cell (usually CD4 T cells, a type of white blood cell found in the immune system), they undergo a process of maturation in order to become fully infectious viral particles.
[David S Goodsell / Welcome Collection / Creative Commons] 
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
THE development of antiretroviral therapies (ART) has meant that, where available, people living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) now have a normal life expectancy.
Yet despite this achievement, ART is not a cure for HIV and people living with HIV need to keep taking ART for the rest of their life to prevent the development of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (Aids).
As of this moment, two people have been — or at least appear to have been — completely cured of HIV infection, the virus was eradicated from their body and they no longer needed to take ART.
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What’s behind the stubborn gender gap in Stem disciplines ask ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT in their column Science and Society
While politicians condemned fascist bombing of Spanish civilians in 1937, they ignored identical RAF tactics across the colonies. Today’s aerial warfare continues this pattern of applying different moral standards based on geography and race, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
The distinction between domestic and military drones is more theoretical than practical, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
Nature's self-reconstruction is both intriguing and beneficial and as such merits human protection, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
