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
Cop26 betrayed the global South
Real action to deal with the climate emergency will require system change – without it, money will always outweigh the interests of the world’s poorest, argues ROGER McKENZIE
Indigenous people in ceremonial dress march from the McLennan Arch, Glasgow Green Park, to the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow to announce their arrival at the Cop26 summit
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 26th UN Climate Change Conference (Cop26) has ended in Glasgow. Every year (with the exception of the Covid-stricken 2020) the 200 countries who are party to the United Nations Framework Convention established at the first Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 come together to talk about the climate emergency.
But don’t believe the hype — Cop26 was an elaborate hoax on the people of the world. It was designed by politicians to make the world believe that there was a genuine seriousness to tackle the climate emergency. No such seriousness exists.
The discussions leading up to the summit talked about how we were drinking in the last-chance saloon. It is now close to last orders: the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C was never close to happening.
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