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
Privatisation is not the answer
We need a proper strategy to revitalise our public services – expecting privateers to rush to the rescue is no answer to the problems in the NHS and elsewhere, warns DIANE ABBOTT MP
TALLY SELF-RIGHTEOUS: Keir Starmer and shadow health secretary Wes Streeting, meet nursing staff and Labour’s candidate for the East Midlands Mayor Claire Ward (left) current chair of the Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust, during a visit to Kings Mill Hospital Sutton-in-Ashfield, in the East Midlands on April 8 2024
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
PUBLIC services in this country are in crisis, which is now widely acknowledged even by those in government. Fixing that crisis is imperative for the livelihoods of millions of people in this country, and the wellbeing of almost all of us. A failure to do so will have drastic social and political consequences.
The problems of public services are so profound that they are even acknowledged by the Tories. The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak recently apologised for his failure to correct the problems his party has created in the NHS.
Yet the depth of that crisis is not fully understood among those who accept the essential truth of the point. As a result, the onus is on politicians and political parties to say how they will tackle it.
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DIANE ABBOTT MP argues that Labour’s proposals contained in the recent white paper won’t actually bring down immigration numbers or win support from Reform voters — but they will succeed in making politics more nasty and poisonous
