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
Polarised politics has allowed the far right to rise
We need to continue to stress that whether people voted Leave or Remain, we must unite in opposition to the far right, says WEYMAN BENNETT
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
THE crisis rapidly unfolding over Brexit is exposing this Tory government as one of the most profoundly weak and divided governments ever seen.
The unnerving phenomenon that has developed over the last week, with groups of the far-right hanging around outside Parliament, launching attacks on anyone perceived as opposing Brexit — whether Owen Jones or Tory MP Anna Soubry — sharply illustrates the chaos and polarisation in the bizarre atmosphere of politics today.
Far-right protesters have attempted to seize the “anti-Establishment” mantle of the gilets jaunes, or “yellow vest” movement in France, and attacked an RMT union picket line.
The movement in France — centred on taking on Establishment austerity — is a long way off being a movement of the far right.
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