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
Who's afraid of a general election? The rich
KEVIN OVENDEN argues the revolt in France shows how powerful a threat the left are to the EU elite, which is why their apologists are doing everything to avert a general election in Britain
France's President Emmanuel Macron (right) attends a meeting with the representatives of the banking sector at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, yesterday
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
“O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
It wad frae mony a blunder free us,
An’ foolish notion”
ROBERT BURNS’S poem sprang to mind on several occasions over the last few days.
First, on reading a plea from social democratic MEPs to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. It was to abandon the party’s manifesto commitment, spurn the result of the 2016 referendum and embrace the Europe policy of the Liberal Democrats.
The letter was headed by former Greek prime minister George Papandreou. It was both part of a coordinated push to turn Theresa May’s Brexit crisis into Corbyn’s and Labour’s and also a reply to his speech in Lisbon last week to European social democratic parties.
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