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
Sinn Fein faces its choices
Will the ‘socialist republican party’ turn to the left and lead the emerging housing rebellion, asks OLIVER EAGLETON
People take part in a sit down protest in O'Connell Street, Dublin following an eviction last night from a house at 34 North Frederick St in Dublin's city centre
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
THE last Irish general election upended decades of political orthodoxy.
The country’s largest parties, Fine Gael and Fianna Fail, had passed power back and forth since Eamon de Valera took office in 1932.
Their shared commitment to free-market dogma and IMF-backed austerity made this process especially seamless in recent years, as did their comparable reputations for cronyism and parochialism.
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