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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Government policy is driving the Covid crisis
The Tories are using the pandemic as cover to push though their austerity agenda, which falls hardest on workers, the poor and the oppressed, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
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
IT IS A strange fact that the some of the richest countries in the world have some of the worst outcomes in the pandemic, along with other countries like Brazil.
Given that social conditions, housing and, above all, health services are far better resourced in the richest countries, this can only mean one thing. It is government policy that it is driving the crisis.
Frequently, government claims on the pandemic lapse into unverifiable or even demonstrably untrue assertions.
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