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
No Thatcher: the imminent blandness of Liz Truss
SOLOMON HUGHES recalls the Tory hopeful’s championing of tax havens at party conferences as one of the few distinguishing features of her unremarkable political career — nine of which have been as a minister
The record seems to be Truss is always happy to perform for an offshore tax avoidance lobby, as long as it is paying for the drinks to win over the crowd — it feels a lot more spiv than Tory patriotism
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
WITH the coronation of Liz Truss approaching, I had a look back through my files to see if I could find any clues to what Truss would do as PM.
Truss is trying to give off Thatcher signals, but her crass cosplay doesn’t seem very convincing.
Truss tried to hit her Iron Lady notes after the England women’s team Euro 2022 victory, claiming she would “channel the spirit of our Lionesses” and beat Keir Starmer, whom she branded a “plastic patriot.”
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