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
Iran and the US in make-or-break negotiation in Vienna
Palais Coburg, where closed-door nuclear talks take place in Vienna, Austria, Dec. 17, 2021. Iran is insisting that the United States and its allies promise to allow Tehran to export its crude as negotiations on restoring the tattered nuclear deal are to resume in Vienna
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
SINCE early December 2021, Vienna has been host to high-level negotiations between the Islamic Republic of Iran, the US, Britain, France, Russia, China and the EU, in an effort to avert a devastating new war in the Middle East.
The negotiations to revive the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) began last April but halted at the sixth round in June due to the presidential elections in Iran and the subsequent change of administration.
Iran has opposed the official participation of the US delegation — headed by Joe Biden’s special envoy on Iran, Robert Malley — in the negotiations, though it essentially wants the immediate removal of crippling US sanctions.
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