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
Forget the 'progressive alliance' — only outright victory will do
NICK WRIGHT argues that despite the nationwide abandonment of the blatantly corrupt and venal Tories, any lash-up with the Lib Dems is doomed to fail — the left must instead mobilise the voiceless and voteless
The vagaries of Britain’s unrepresentative first-past-the-post election system has induced a deluded state of mind in some people who conclude that a “progressive alliance” is the way to remove the Tories from office — it won't work
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
BORIS JOHNSON seems set to win the unpopularity stakes. He has managed this by his own efforts and with little help from the Right Honourable Sir Keir Starmer, leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition, whose own popularity rating has slipped even as the Prime Minister’s plummeted.
The old Cold War joke had it that the biggest political party in Britain was the party of ex-communists — a category that once included a Labour chancellor of the exchequer and today includes the odd Guardian leader writer — and even odder Times columnist.
Today the Party of Defecting Tory Voters, which by all accounts, may allow the election of a Lib Dem in place of the disgraced Tory Owen Paterson, is even more substantial.
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