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
The things that could be done with Labour in power
Scotland needs a government that will work with the trade union movement for change, not simply blaming Westminster for problems we have the powers to solve, argues NEIL FINDLAY
Rosa Gatta and daughter Millie Sordillo has a picture taken with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn after he spoke to party members in the Red Lion, Winsford while on the local election campaign trail, yesterday
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
THIS year has been one of significant victories for Scotland’s labour movement — the Glasgow equal pay settlement and the teachers’ pay award being the most notable examples.
But it has also been one of industrial setbacks with major body blows to workers at Michelin in Dundee, the Caley railway works at Springburn, HES in Shotts, McGills in Dundee and Kaiam in Livingston.
This is not to mention the year-on-year job losses across the public sector, especially in Scotland’s beleaguered councils. While headline employment figures may paint a rosy picture the reality for many working people is quite different.
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