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
Punishing the poor, but yet more handouts to the rich
The Tories’ latest assault on the sick and disabled is deadly and economically illiterate, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak opens the Global Food Security Summit in London November 20, 2023
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 government’s renewed assault on Britain’s poor and disabled is shameful — but it is entirely in line with the behaviour of a party whose disregard for the wellbeing of ordinary people and contempt for human rights, the law and our legal system have been growing, year on year, for more than a decade now.
Tony Benn once said that we should watch how governments treat refugees because it shows how they will treat us if they can get away with it. He was right — and the homogenisation of the political landscape, with the Tories and the “opposition” marching almost in lockstep on spending and human rights, has clearly convinced this government that it can get away with a lot.
Rishi Sunak’s determination to bypass the Supreme Court’s decision against his government’s deportation of refugees to Rwanda rightly made headlines last week, but Sunak and his Chancellor Jeremy Hunt also turned their fire again on the sick and disabled.
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