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
A trampling of Enlightenment values
The French Global Security Law, which makes it illegal to film police officers, is part of a rightward tilt by Macron, says DENNIS BROE
SINISTER: A protester holds a board reading: ‘Who protects us from the police state?’ during a demo against the Bill on police images, in Paris last Saturday
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
AGAINST a backdrop of street protest — even in the midst of a Covid lockdown — and increasing police violence and repression, France passed the draconian Global Security Law this week, which could make it an offence punishable by a year in jail and a €45,000 fine to film, post and identify police officers committing violent actions.
Representatives of President Emmanuel Macron’s LREM party, whose title La Republic En Marche claims that they are concerned about rights and liberties, on Tuesday morning would have seen footage on the news of the police brutally rousting homeless people from Republique, the square commemorating these rights.
On Tuesday afternoon they voted in favour of the law, claiming that there was no contradiction between the two events.
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