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
Trump’s tariffs – the shocks and the after-effects
While the immediate impact is disastrous, the US president’s actions could lead more nations to seek greater trading stability by refocusing their economies towards each other and countries such as China, writes ROGER McKENZIE
GLOBAL ANGER: Indians burn a US flag at a protest against Trump’s tariffs in New Delhi, India, April 5 2025
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
ECONOMICS is known in some quarters as the dismal science and is often presented as an overly complicated set of facts, figures and formulas.
In reality it’s an analysis of the choices that individuals, businesses, governments and nations make to allocate resources and, it must be said, to exert political power. Through it we can analyse the impact of class and the class struggle.
I am not any sort of economist — as I’m sure some reading this will be quick to agree. But even I can see that the trade tariffs that United States President Donald Trump has just slapped on the world are utterly ridiculous.
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