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
Labour’s Britain is at war with Palestine
Starmer is going to go down in Labour history as as much a warmonger as Tony Blair – and the issue will prove his nemesis, says HUGH LANNING
Mohammad Naser, sits by a fire as he takes cover from the rain under the destruction of his house caused by the Israeli air and ground offensive in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip, February 6, 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
WE ARE part of the axis of war fighting to deprive the Palestinians of their birthright. We have been for decades. We are not just passive observers, supporters and suppliers — we are active participants in that war.
Most obviously, we supply and buy arms, but more importantly we co-operate on signals and other intelligence, on military systems we provide operational support and equipment, we allow the use of Cyprus as a supply base, we use the air force and navy for flyover and other logistics support. We trade, we supply unfettered access to finance and we fund and aid the occupation.
We need much more than an arms embargo — although it would be a start. We need Britain to withdraw from its long-standing alliance with the US and Israel to eliminate Palestine from the political and, now, the physical global map. We need to decouple from the US and decolonise from Israel.
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Labour must recognise Israel’s true aims of total colonisation of Palestine and massive regional expansion — and therefore end the arms sales and trade deals that enable the destruction of any two-state solution, writes HUGH LANNING
As the slaughter in Palestine continues and the solidarity movement’s calls for accountability and a shift in international policy grow, political leaders must realise they face a reckoning for their silence, writes HUGH LANNING
