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
Power to the people
Jeremy Corbyn’s first People’s Forum handed leadership over to the grassroots not the greedy, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
GRASSROOTS FOCUS: Jeremy Corbyn’s People’s Forum highlighted the issue of housing
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
“POWERFUL” and “invigorating” is how Streets Kitchen founder, Jon Glackin, chose to sum up the first Islington North People’s Forum, hosted last week by Jeremy Corbyn, that constituency’s longtime and now independent member of Parliament.
“The flames of hope burn brightly in North London,” Glackin said.
Unshackled by the strictures of the Labour Party, of which he was once the leader but now no longer a member, Corbyn is free to host events of his own creation and initiative. The People’s Forum was his first such venture.
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