Transparency records reveal senior trade officials held dinners and strategy meetings with the notorious lobbying firm even as controversy over its Epstein links deepened, says SOLOMON HUGHES
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Funds for aircraft carriers, but no money for Universal Credit
This shameless government wasted billions on its shambolic, compromised Covid response and now wants to waste more on cold war nukes, not nurses, writes DIANE ABBOTT
Boris Johnson at Westport Care Home in Stepney Green, east London last week
Starmer promised a reset after Labour’s dire electoral performance, but the government’s programme still falls far short of the bold action needed, says ANDY McDONALD MP
ANDREW DRAPER reports on the deliberate targeting and torture of Palestinian journalists by the Israeli state
Author Michael Rosen asked people how we confront a takeover by Reform. The Labour Party would do well to listen to the answers rather than shuffle more deckchairs on the Titanic, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
What began as a purported ‘anti-drugs mission’ has evolved into a permanent regional military operation, write ROGER D HARRIS and JOHN PERRY
KEITH FLETT looks at a post-election London
IT IS clear just how recklessly reactionary this government really is. The liberal commentators who continue to insist that Boris Johnson is also a liberal are telling us much more about their politics than his.
Politics is always about choices and this government always chooses the option that is most damaging to ordinary people that it can get away with.
Future historians may wonder how they did manage to get away with it even for this long, and marvel at the lack of opposition they faced.
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