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
There is no future for Labour in bureaucratic centrism
The left-behind masses that Labour must represent — both to be a progressive party and to win elections — will not be won over by anything other than a politics that promises radical change, writes IAN LAVERY
Whilst the status quo might be working for establishment politicians and journalists, it certainly isn’t for millions of hard-working families up and down the country: people are looking for change, not a return to the centre
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
WITH the events of last week still reverberating in Labour circles, in the rest of the country the pandemic still rages, we have returned to lockdown and the Tories have again socialised the wages of millions of people.
In the US the Democrats are edging towards a victory that many thought only days ago was a foregone conclusion, with razor-thin majorities in an election with an unprecedented turnout.
Whilst many in the media and party establishments are keen to turn back the clock to the bureaucratic centrism that once defined the battleground in middle England and the suburban US, there can be no going back.
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