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
We know this election is the fight of our lives
The stakes could not be higher – we know what another five years of the Tories means to this country, says CHELLEY RYAN
Jeremy Corbyn at a rally in Middlesbrough today
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
BACK in May 2015, we lost our second general election under a safe centrist leader putting forward a bland centrist manifesto.
The right of the party jumped eagerly on the defeat as an excuse to push Labour back to the “good old days” of Tony Blair when Britain backed illegal wars, PFI, privatisation and tuition fees.
An era when five million Labour voters became politically homeless and Scotland became essentially lost to us.
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