Transparency records reveal senior trade officials held dinners and strategy meetings with the notorious lobbying firm even as controversy over its Epstein links deepened, says SOLOMON HUGHES
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Starmer promised a reset after Labour’s dire electoral performance, but the government’s programme still falls far short of the bold action needed, says ANDY McDONALD MP
ANDREW DRAPER reports on the deliberate targeting and torture of Palestinian journalists by the Israeli state
Author Michael Rosen asked people how we confront a takeover by Reform. The Labour Party would do well to listen to the answers rather than shuffle more deckchairs on the Titanic, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
What began as a purported ‘anti-drugs mission’ has evolved into a permanent regional military operation, write ROGER D HARRIS and JOHN PERRY
KEITH FLETT looks at a post-election London
The maxim “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,” often erroneously attributed as a direct quotation by Voltaire, has been much in usage in the last few days.
The atrocity that saw the murder of eight journalists and cartoonists, a visitor, a caretaker and two police officers at French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo this week — and the hunt for the killers which at time of writing appeared to be approaching a bloody denouement yesterday — has rightly dominated the global news agenda.
It is shocking in this day and age that journalists and satirists should be gunned down merely for the act of poking fun at a concept, albeit one dear to many millions around the world.
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Israel and the US talk as if they’ve won a victory, but the reality is that world opinion has turned decisively against the Israeli regime, says RAMZY BAROUD
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