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
Change will only come from the streets
BEN SELLERS explains why Britain needs a People’s Charter now
TELL IT TO THE MARINES: Homelessness minister Felicity Buchan insists, on March 5 2024, that tackling homelessness remains a ‘huge priority’ for the Conservative Party while acknowledging that a rise in rough sleeping was ‘disappointing’
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
IN TRUTH, this general election campaign has been a depressing spectacle.
Admittedly, anyone who has witnessed the devastation the Tories have wreaked on our economy and public services, with a noxious cocktail of anti-trade union legislation and dog-whistle racism, will cheer when they finally leave office. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
But the tame fare from the official opposition means any celebrations will be short-lived.
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Everything we’ve seen so far from Starmer and Reeves indicates that they remain committed to the economic orthodoxy of cuts imposed by the Tories – which is why we need to revitalise the anti-austerity movement, says BEN SELLERS of the People’s Assembly
We don’t need a weak 2p tax bribe and councils collapsing nationwide: we need to build a mighty coalition to fight austerity and deliver public services for all, writes BEN SELLERS, national secretary of the People’s Assembly
Almost two hundred years on from the Tolpuddle Martyrs, the trade union movement is still having to fight attempts to delegitimise and criminalise its activities, writes BEN SELLERS
As living standards tumble, we mustn’t be fooled into thinking this is the natural order of things. By getting together we can fight back, writes BEN SELLERS
