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
Palestine champions honoured with Solidarity Iftar
Journalists, campaign groups and protest leaders received recognition from the Muslim community for their courage in standing against genocide amid growing police repression and media smears, reports BEN CHACKO
Muslim Association of Britain president Anas Altikriti gives an award to Jewish Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos
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
PALESTINE solidarity champions were honoured with special awards by the Muslim Association of Britain at a Ramadan iftar on Sunday evening.
The In Faith and Solidarity: Honouring our Movement iftar brought together an audience of multiple faiths and none to hear speeches and prayers for Palestine before breaking the Ramadan fast together.
Among those honoured was Jewish Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos, who said his regular presence among the Jewish bloc on Palestine demos was an important way of demonstrating that they are not the “hate marches” depicted in Establishment media and were a welcoming space for Jews.
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