VIJAY PRASHAD looks at the web of militias and drug-trafficking gangs that emerged in the Sweida region through the Syrian civil war, and how they relate to recent clashes and Israel’s intervention

PRIVATE contractors are being overpaid on a £1.7 billion scheme for the unemployed, according to the National Audit Office (NAO), the government spending watchdog.
Some of the contractors getting too much cash for too little work include infamous privatisers like Serco and G4S.
The scheme, Restart, was designed to stop post-Covid unemployment from rising. This is another Covid contractor rip-off story. Despite this, the NAO report was entirely ignored by the newspapers.

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

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

US General Stanley McChrystal has been invited to advise on creating a ‘team of teams’ for healthcare transformation. His credentials? He previously ran interrogation bases where Iraqis were stripped naked and beaten, reports SOLOMON HUGHES