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
These cuts betray Labour’s basic principles
The decision to cut billions from support for vulnerable people while refusing to tax the wealthy shows how far our party has drifted from its core purpose, writes BRIAN LEISHMAN MP
LABOUR PRINCIPLES: I didn’t join the Labour Party to cut welfare for people who desperatly need help, says Brian Leishman MP (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
THE planned cuts to welfare is a defining moment for this government.
Keir Starmer has a political choice to make — does he dish up more of the same austerity that the Conservatives inflicted on the most disadvantaged people in our society, or does he do the right thing and look after our most vulnerable citizens?
Last summer, people who voted for a Labour government believed they were voting for “change.” A change from the cruel policies of austerity that have created gross inequality. A change from austerity that more than 330,000 excess deaths have been attributed to by an academic study.
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