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 restore and expand the NHS
If we want to save our 75-year-old state-run healthcare system, remembering and recognition are the answer and not ‘reform’ or worker exploitation, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
People gather on Warren Street in London, ahead of a Support the Strikes march in solidarity with nurses, junior doctors and other NHS staff, March 2023
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
AS we mark the 75th anniversary of the creation of the NHS this week, at such a distance in time from its founding it’s easy to skim over the scale of the challenges that the Labour government had to overcome to achieve it — and if we were to believe the majority of political and media narrators, the challenges it now faces require more or less all of its founding principles to be undone to “save” it.
We have been told for more than a decade now by successive Conservative governments that the investment required to maintain the NHS would be “unsustainable” — without the endless series of Tory “reforms,” of course.
At the same time, we’re also told ad nauseam that the Tories are, in fact, putting “record” sums into the NHS — the politicians and talking heads always leave out that a penny over the last budget would be a “record” and yet the NHS budget has faced almost unbroken real-terms cuts disguised as “records.”
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