Transparency records reveal senior trade officials held dinners and strategy meetings with the notorious lobbying firm even as controversy over its Epstein links deepened, says SOLOMON HUGHES
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The Gorbachev years – what went wrong?
KATE CLARK, the Morning Star's Moscow correspondent from 1985, reflects on her tumultuous years covering glasnost and perestroika for our paper
Kate Clark, Morning Star Moscow correspondent
Starmer promised a reset after Labour’s dire electoral performance, but the government’s programme still falls far short of the bold action needed, says ANDY McDONALD MP
ANDREW DRAPER reports on the deliberate targeting and torture of Palestinian journalists by the Israeli state
Author Michael Rosen asked people how we confront a takeover by Reform. The Labour Party would do well to listen to the answers rather than shuffle more deckchairs on the Titanic, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
What began as a purported ‘anti-drugs mission’ has evolved into a permanent regional military operation, write ROGER D HARRIS and JOHN PERRY
KEITH FLETT looks at a post-election London
IN ALL the fulsome media tributes to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, as the statesman who ended the Cold War, there is one thing missing: there were two sides in that decades-long war.
Gorbachev did his bit, withdrawing troops from eastern Europe and Afghanistan, disbanding the Warsaw Pact — and what did the West do in return? Nothing.
In February 1991, when the Warsaw Pact ceased to exist, did Nato disband? No. Nato started its expansion eastwards in 1999, and by 2004 all the former Warsaw Pact countries were in Nato.
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