SOLOMON HUGHES uncovers government documents showing hidden dinners and meetings between Labour figures and disgraced Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm, which collapsed after links to Epstein and sleazy influence operations came to light
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Asylum-seekers in the channel: a humanitarian crisis of our government's making
British wars helped create the refugees' plight - it's about time we showed them our humanity, says LINDSEY GERMAN
'Instead of reporting the disastrous situations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya — all of them countries where regime change was effected by Britain, along with its allies — we are presented with a news story which suggests that these refugees have nothing to do with Britain'
In the second of a series of interviews with leaders of progressive parties in Wales ahead of the May 7 Senedd election David Nicholson talks to Welsh Green Party leader ANTHONY SLAUGHTER
Oil and gas prices are rising due to the illegal war against Iran, but new nuclear power plants will only make things worse as their costs also escalate, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
As women dominate public services yet face pay gaps, unsafe workloads and rising misogyny, this International Women’s Day and TUC Women’s Conference must be a rallying point, says ANDREA EGAN
As the government quietly begins reviewing the BBC’s Royal Charter, the moment should be seized to refound the corporation as a truly democratic, regionally rooted public service, writes PAUL W FLEMING
Like the president in Wag the Dog, Donald Trump faces scandal at home and turns to conflict abroad. But the conflict with Iran risks igniting a regional inferno with global consequences, warns ROGER McKENZIE
IN THE past week we have seen Home Secretary Priti Patel take to the seas, the navy called out to police the English Channel, and the BBC and Sky News charter boats to film dinghies full of refugees in distress at sea.
All this in response to a few hundred refugees trying to cross the Channel in tiny boats and in very dangerous conditions, because they are desperate to get to Britain.
This has, typically, been labelled by right-wing media and politicians as akin to an invasion. A YouGov poll showed that nearly half of British people have little or no sympathy for their plight — although figures among Labour voters were much more favourable.
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