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
Fake news surrounds Labour's electoral progress
Last week, Labour built on last year’s historic vote at the general election despite months of unrelenting hostility from much of the media, writes Matt Willgress
Labour councillors in Trafford celebrate as the Conservatives lose overall control of the council.
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
ALTHOUGH you might not have read much about it, there were a lot of good news stories for Labour in the local elections. Nationally, the results show Labour is another step closer to power.
As John McDonnell said, “people thought the general election result was a fluke ... we’ve demonstrated it wasn’t. We’ve consolidated that and we’ve moved it forward in terms of percentage share of the vote.”
To take the results as a whole, Labour won 1,018 seats more than the Tories. The Tories lost 33 seats. Labour gained 77.
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