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 must come together to prevent climate calamity
Ahead of a planned ‘autumn of action,’ JEREMY CORBYN says that communities from every corner of the country are coming together in a demand for the system change needed if the future of our precious planet is to be defended
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
LAST week, Britain recorded its hottest temperature on record. The heatwave exposed the fragility of our crumbling and ill-prepared infrastructure and showed that the urgent need to act is no longer a choice, it is a necessity.
The cost-of-living scandal and existential threat caused by the climate crisis have opened the eyes of many.
Millions are struggling to pay their bills and being forced into debt, as well as feeling the uncomfortable and unsustainable impacts of rising temperatures here and around the world.
Unless we act quickly, these levels of extreme heat will soon cease to be unprecedented. They will become common, a devastating norm that will obliterate farming, agriculture and livelihoods, most severely in the global South — countries who contribute least to the world’s CO2 emissions.
No longer can we distinguish between a set of individual crises — they are one and the same, interlocked, without action, destined to destroy our society, communities and planet.
The whole system, which creates billionaires and starves hundreds of millions, is the crisis. It can’t be resolved, it must be overcome and transformed.
This urgent call for action has led to the coming together of We All Want To Just Stop Oil, a coalition of activists from across the environmental and progressive labour movements, including the Peace & Justice Project and Fuel Poverty Action.
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