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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Bad faith arguments over Ireland and the EU
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
GUARDIAN columnist Polly Toynbee never tires of writing features detailing how one force or another “must” do everything possible, including sacrificing dearly held principles if necessary, to keep Britain in the European Union.
She’s not bothered whether this is achieved through recourse to another referendum or by the combined Remain forces in both houses of Parliament uniting to flout the decision voters plumped for in June 2016.
Toynbee surpassed herself last week by moving beyond her “Labour must” and “business must” pleas and roping in Sinn Fein MPs as possible collaborators in service to the EU superstate.
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