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
A window on prostitution
LYNNE WALSH reports from the launch of a new film on the sex industry, but warns of discomfort over a focus on the stories of male ‘sex buyers’, rather than female victims
INVITING A RESPONSE: The Buying Her film screening in central London
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
A NEW film aimed at battling prostitution and trafficking had a somewhat controversial airing in London last week.
Buying Her, the latest product from US non-profit organisation Exodus Cry, focuses on men who pay prostituted women. Both the film and its director, the charity’s CEO Benjamin Nolot, use the term “sex buyers” — wording that was hotly contested by some of those gathered at Leicester Square’s Vue Cinema.
I spoke with a dozen or so audience members after the showing and while most were pleased to see a spotlight shone on punters, there was discomfort and even annoyance at some of the men’s stories.
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