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
A significant step in moving our fair work mission forward in Wales
The Social Partnership Bill represents a real opportunity, says SHAVANAH TAJ
COMPARING NOTES: Labour Party leader Keir Starmer (centre) and First Minister of Wales Mark Drakeford (left) during a walkabout in Llangollen as part of Welsh Labour’s Senedd election campaign last Thursday
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
PROGRESS on the Welsh government’s fair work agenda has been stop-start in the two years since the independent Fair Work Commission published its ambitious set of recommendations.
For the most part, the hurdles and delays have been linked to external events — a general election, Brexit, Covid — but nevertheless as a trade union movement we’ve been impatient to see the Welsh Labour administration in Cardiff go further and faster with the powers that it has at its disposal to tackle poor employment practices, inequality, and to strengthen worker power.
This desire for change is driven in Wales by the same trends seen elsewhere in the UK and beyond: a decade of stagnant wages and the sharp growth of insecure and precarious work.
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