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
Tinkering round the edges is not enough
While an astonishing proportion of the world is impoverished, the already unimaginably wealthy keep getting richer. Bold and decisive action is needed, says ROGER McKENZIE
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 last few years have seen hard times for many people across the globe. The cost-of-living crisis is a worldwide phenomenon, but we should remember that for many across the globe the crisis is a permanent way of life.
This is not to diminish the hardship many are now experiencing. I just want to point out that more than being a temporary state of affairs, for large parts of the planet, hardship — or rather the most gut-wrenching forms of poverty imaginable — has been made even worse by the current crisis.
The latest figures from the World Bank say that 9.2 per cent of the planet, some 719 million people live in extreme poverty and survive on less than $2.15 a day.
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