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
Defections show that only Labour MPs will fight austerity
Joan Ryan might have left Labour to join the Independent Group, but the battle against universal credit, poverty and homelessness in Enfield will continue without her, writes local councillor KATHERINE CHIBAH
Former Labour MPs Ann Coffey, Luciana Berger, Chris Leslie, Chuka Umunna, Gavin Shuker, Joan Ryan, Mike Gapes and Angela Smith at a press conference
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
OVER the past five years I have knocked on thousands of doors in Enfield as a councillor and heard about how Tory austerity is damaging lives.
I have sat in surgeries with mothers and young children in despair as they face eviction under impending universal credit.
What a difference from when I moved to Enfield more than 15 years ago, when homelessness in the borough was a relative rarity.
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