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
'I see European people with blue eyes and blond hair being killed every day'
Odious racist and xenophobic attitudes surface in Ukraine conflict. ROGER McKENZIE reports
AGGRAVATED UNCERTAINTY: African residents in Ukraine wait at the platform inside Lviv (western Ukraine) railway station seeking refuge in neighbouring countries
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
ALTHOUGH the Black Lives Matter (BLM) campaign has been around since 2013 many only started crying about what was happening to black people after the murder of George Floyd in 2020.
Many of these new converts to black liberation suddenly tripped over themselves saying just how much our lives had always mattered to them. Not that there was often much evidence of it but better late to the party than not to come at all.
Black activists were in demand for advice on what these folks could do to help and for the best books to read so they could get better educated about the struggle.
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