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
More needs to be done to improve workplace mental health
NASUWT’s latest teachers’ survey shows shockingly high levels of work-related stress, anxiety and even self-harm. Dr PATRICK ROACH calls for greater protections for educators’ wellbeing
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
AT THE TUC Congress this week the mental health of the working population will deservedly come under the spotlight, with calls for greater awareness of the issue of suicide and how to prevent it.
Alarmingly there are a rising number of suicides and suicide attempts among public-sector workers and the occupations at the highest risk include education and healthcare staff.
But, while suicides are now one of the biggest causes of work-related deaths each year, under the last government, funding for the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has been slashed.
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