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
Codir joins calls for the release of incarcerated opposition leaders in Iran
Freedom now for former PM Mir-Hossein Mousavi and other political prisoners
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in a meeting with a group of defense officials, in Tehran, Iran, February 12, 2025
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
COMMITTEE for Defence of Iranian Peoples Rights (Codir) has been following, with growing concern, the developments under way inside Iran pertaining to protests and rallies that have been ongoing since Friday February 14.
This date marks the 14th anniversary of the incarceration under house arrest of three of the country’s major opposition figures: former prime minister and presidential candidate, Mir-Hossein Mousavi; his wife, prominent academic Dr Zahra Rahnavard; as well as senior reformist clergyman and another former presidential candidate, Mehdi Karroubi.
On Thursday, February 13, a large protest in front of the University of Tehran was broken up by regime security forces and dozens were detained. Security forces and agents from the Islamic Republic’s Ministry of Intelligence had already moved to arrest several figures, all central members of the Campaign to Lift the House Arrest, a reference to the continuing detention of Mousavi, Rahnavard, Karroubi and his wife, Fatemeh Karroubi.
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