Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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Goldsmith affair exposes New Labour's Putin connection
It's not 'left-wing apologists' in Britain that have helped Putin on his way, it's the Tory and Labour right who were happy to see a strong-man autocrat in power to protect their business interests, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES
Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair holds a bilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G8 Summit in Germany
Washington’s lawless behaviour towards countries in the region it considers its ‘back yard’ should be condemned by all law-abiding people, says LUKE DANIELS
In part I of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY takes a look at the early days of organising government workers
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
The shadow lord chancellor has recently made a name for himself as an rabid hater of immigration – but there are exceptions to every rule, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Plaid Cymru’s front-bench spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in a two-part series, analyses the Caerphilly by-election and the wider political scene in Wales ahead of the 2026 Senedd election
THIS FEBRUARY Labour Lord Peter Goldsmith took a “leave of absence” from the House of Lords, because he did not want to give the details of his foreign clients.
Goldsmith, who was a key minister in Tony Blair’s government, is a lawyer running a firm with many Russian clients. Goldsmith “personally provided services” to the Russian government in 2021, according to the Register of Lords’ Interests.
Last May Goldsmith also represented Sberbank, the Russian state-owned bank. Sberbank is seen as so close to Putin’s government that it was sanctioned in Britain, the US and EU after Putin launched his bloody war on Ukraine.
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