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
What was behind Starmer’s ‘tough-cop’ clampdown on Saturday’s Palestine protest?
ANDREW MURRAY considers whether the mass arrest of peaceful protesters was an attempt by the PM to appease his right-wing critics following his crackdown on last August’s race rioters — and a dark omen of the tyrannies to come
HEAVY HANDED: (Above) Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell (first from left) and Khalid Abdalla (third from right in the back) at the national march for Palestine on Whitehall in central London last Saturday
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
SATURDAY must have been a good day to be a criminal on the streets of London.
Because a very sizeable chunk of the police was focused on their main mission — upholding the social order, in this case by criminalising protest against a British-supported genocide.
Supported by the British state that is, not by the people. Telling that truth outside the headquarters of the state broadcaster is now a truth that can’t be handled.
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