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
Welfare state or warfare state?
From ‘moral duty’ to ‘military Keynesianism,’ Labour manipulates language to justify slashing welfare but pouring billions into warfare, condemning communities like Glasgow South West to deeper poverty, writes MATT KERR
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves meeting military personnel during her visit to Wellington Barracks, London, to meet with defence personnel spearheading defence and security innovation, after she delivered her spring statement to MPs at the House of Commons, March 26, 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
THERE were two ways of dealing with the last fortnight. Hands over face, peeking out at the carnage unfolding, or step out into the world.
For the purposes of science, obviously, I tried both.
It began with Liz Kendall’s announcement on welfare reform. Literally millions of lives to — at best — be turned upside down to save a rounding error in the national budget. The language was that of tough love, the delivery was closer to that of the coked-up pal of the pub bully. Letters had been written by a collection of crawlers in advance to big up the “moral duty” of it all, to plant the seeds in our consciousness that this was a just fight.
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