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
Smash the pay freeze and deliver for education workers
Teacher and NEU rep ROBERT POOLE looks at Westminster’s promises for education and comes to the conclusion that if there is hope it lies with the union
STATING THE OBVIOUS: Principle Matt Jones (centre) with students at Ark Globe Academy in London, as they receive their A-Level results in August 10, 2021; a student with a placard that says it all
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 Labour roadshow rolled into Brighton last week. Although you might have been forgiven for thinking it was the Antiques Roadshow going by the speeches from the Parliamentary Labour Party — with fine slogans from the Blair era being wheeled out, such as “tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime” and “education, education, education.”
The leadership and shadow cabinet are trying their best to cosplay as friends of the working class while at the same time watering down or downright blocking any socialist motions, wooing businesses and attacking what is left of the left in the party.
But what are the Labour Party’s plans for education, I hear you cry. You may have missed the party’s announcements mainly because they were just fairly ordinary.
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