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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Bob Crow: 13.06.1961 - 11.03.2014
JOHN HAYLETT pays tribute to Bob Crow
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
"When the capitalist press attacks a man like Bob Crow it shows you what a good job he's been doing," says Durham Miners Association leader Davey Hopper.
Hopper is as devastated as the rest of Britain's labour movement at the untimely death of the RMT general secretary, but his assessment of Crow owes nothing to diplomacy.
Durham miners showed their constant appreciation of the RMT and its leader while he was alive and fighting because they could rely on their backing.
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