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 need to reclaim Black History Month as a time for organising radical resistance
The month has been hijacked by too many people intent on showing how right-on they are and as an opportunity for them to reveal their performative ‘againstism’ – a pose soon forgotten by November, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Protesters outside the US Embassy in London, as part of an anti-racism demonstration coinciding with the start of the trial of the four police officers charged with the murder of George Floyd in the US
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
OCTOBER is a month where, if you know where to go, you could spend the entire time without ever having to cook or buy your own African, Caribbean or Asian food. You can just go from meeting to meeting and get more than well fed.
Your main problem will be getting to the food across the liberals taking a knee or being able to eat in peace as you’re told how much these people are against anything bad to anyone.
Of course, it wouldn’t be Black History Month without being constantly told about the decline of West Indies cricket and how wonderful Bob Marley was.
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