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
Stopped clocks and the corporate media
Rather than dismissing it the left should be intelligent consumers of the mainstream media, argues IAN SINCLAIR
Front pages of national newspapers reporting on the inauguration of US President Donald Trump on January 21, 2017
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
THERE seems to be an increasing and dismaying tendency among some people who self-identify as left wing to dismiss mainstream media reporting out of hand.
Anything the Guardian or other corporate newspapers report is ridiculed and ignored. For example, I recently tweeted about a Guardian article which gave an overview of the ongoing protests around the world. I quickly received this sarcastic response: “From the newspaper that supports Assange [the Guardian has repeatedly smeared Julian Assange] … The Sun seems honest in comparison.”
What part of the article did my correspondent take issue with? “I’d rather ignore that rag’s liberal pretensions from here on. They’re just a collection of churnalists and presstitutes,” they replied.
I agree, of course, that the Guardian and the rest of the mainstream media are horribly compromised and Establishment-friendly in much of their journalism and political positions.
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