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
We have to stand up and be counted
The race to the bottom in education cannot be allowed to continue, writes DANIEL KEBEDE
Protesters outside Sheffield Girls' School, as teachers at 23 independent schools within the Girls' Day School Trust (GDST) go on strike over pensions, with around 1,500 members of the NEU teaching union involved
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
TEACHERS’ strikes take place today amid a crisis, not just for teacher pay, but for our education system.
The government has once again missed targets for teacher recruitment in secondary schools this year, recruiting only 59 per cent of the teachers needed.
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We face austerity, privatisation, and toxic influence. But we are growing, and cannot be beaten
In fighting against racism and fascism, it helps to clearly make the case that division and hatred emerge from the elites and those who stand to benefit from a fractured working class, argues DANIEL KEBEDE
Every student needs an anti-racist education and teachers need appropriate training and encouragement to help bring about an end to racial exclusion and fear, writes DANIEL KEBEDE of the National Education Union
The trade union movement needs to step up to confront the menace of fascism head on, argues DANIEL KEBEDE
