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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Johnson may be going – but defeating his policies is the bigger battle ahead
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO says the labour movement must provide the political alternative notably absent at Westminster
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
BORIS JOHNSON is going. A divided Tory Party will battle away the summer as ministers battle for the crown.
We can already hear the lines from Labour: that the country cannot afford these divisions, we need a functioning government.
Actually our problem is the opposite. Through a constant stream of scandals, Boris Johnson’s government has not been distracted from its legislative programme, one bent on building a permanently more authoritarian state.
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