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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Opposing Russian aggression mustn't blind us to authoritarian dangers at home
Bans on RT and excommunications of anyone who criticises Nato will have long-term consequences in a Britain that is restricting protests and cracking down on free speech, argues BEN CHACKO
Same hymn sheet: The Tories' Boris Johnson, Labour's Sir Keir Starmer and the SNP's Ian Blackford are pushing military escalation and authoritarianism at home
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
THE old saw has it that the first casualty of war is the truth, and tensions abroad all too often lead to crackdowns on civil liberties at home.
The disastrous consequences of right-wing policy are never acknowledged on the right. We’ve all seen the logic — if Labour loses an election it’s because it wasn’t right-wing enough, even if shifts right produce worse and worse results over time, as they did from 1997-2015.
The same logic applies to war. Twenty years of Britain and the US breaking international law to attack other countries, 30 years of Nato’s eastward expansion and massive military exercises on Russia’s borders are the policies which preceded Russia’s appalling invasion of Ukraine this week. But the warmongers at Westminster will not admit these policies might be at fault.
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While 69 per cent of Ukrainians want negotiated peace, Western leaders are cynically prolonging the war for their own strategic and economic goals, to the immense detriment of Ukraine and Europe, write BOB ORAM and MAGGIE SIMPSON
Washington plays innocent bystander while pouring weapons and intelligence into Ukraine, just as it enables the Gaza genocide — but every US escalation leaves Ukraine weaker than the neutrality deal rejected in 2022, argue MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS JS DAVIES
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