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
Our democracy needs a revolution
Labour is moving towards backing a radical overhaul of Westminster and the House of Lords, writes SHAVANAH TAJ
The House of Lords
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
NOTHING puts the ridiculousness of our broken political system into perspective like the absurd spectacle of the House of Lords.
With seats for life, they’re unelected, unaccountable and unrepresentative of ordinary working people. Its 800 members are able to claim £305 a day for just turning up and able to spend the day enjoying the perks of Parliament’s subsidised dining rooms. It often seems like more of a private members’ club than a legislative chamber — and that’s before we even get onto the robes.
At Politics for the Many we’ve been campaigning hard to sort out this outdated institution. We’ve been pressing the Labour Party to be unequivocal in its commitment to reform at the next election: scrap and replace the second chamber with one that truly represents the nations and regions of Britain — and represents people’s votes fairly too. A proportionally elected Senate that can speak up for the whole country.
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