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
Energy policy needs powering up
MATT KERR laments that, in keeping with its predecessors, the government is unwilling to countenance public ownership and control of Britain’s energy, leaving promises of a ‘just transition’ with no mechanism to deliver
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
ENERGY security has made a comeback, but sadly not the willingness to actually deliver it.
The concept is of course not exactly an earth-shattering idea, I remember shamelessly pilfering the NUM line on energy security arguing to keep pits open with pals at school in the early ’90s.
By then British Gas, BP and BritOil has all been flogged off for a song by Thatcher’s government, though even as she scrapped the British national Oil Corporation and she understood the need to hang on to a “Golden Share” in BritOil, until the miracle of the market saw oil prices plummet, at least.
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