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
The spat with China shows the US no longer always gets its way
Trump’s readiness to use trade threats is not some new departure for US imperialism, as the decades-long blockade of Cuba shows, but in the past these threats were always directed at vastly weaker countries, with little or no leverage to hit back, writes KENNY COYLE
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, left, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, right, arrive
at a news conference at the State Department in Washington on Wednesday
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
TRYING to make sense of US President Donald Trump’s foreign policy often seems more an area of expertise for child psychologists than political analysts.
If Trump seems permanently befuddled, this lack of direction is also a reflection of the serious policy divisions within not only the Republican Party but the broader US elite.
There are radically diverging differences emerging about how to handle a world that the US can no longer shape and channel as effectively as it once did.
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