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
Whoever is Tory leader will continue their four-decade war on the working class
IAN LAVERY has no pity to spare for the charlatan leaving Downing Street – and says leadership will be found not in the Tory ranks but on the streets of Durham this weekend
The door of 10 Downing Street, London
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
AS I figuratively put pen to paper the nation is breathing a huge sigh of relief with the dastardly Boris Johnson having just announced he would be resigning.
There is no doubt that by the time this is published for the Big Meeting that things will have moved on somewhat and we will have a better idea of what the future holds.
Elements of our fawning media who have always thought he was some sort of celebrity performer, have already begun to describe his speech as being delivered in typical “Boris fashion.”
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