
Byline Times Audio Articles
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Byline Times Audio Articles presents the latest pieces from Byline Times, a UK-based investigative journalism outlet, in audio form. Each episode is a narrated version of a recent article, allowing listeners to stay informed on current affairs and in-depth reporting while on the go. The podcast focuses on politics, media, and accountability, offering accessible audio versions of the publication's written content.
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Death Threats, Doxxing and Burnout: Charities Say They Feel Under Threat Amid Far-Right Attacks
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The Reform Councillors Embedded in Britain's Masked 'Patriot' Anti-Migrant Network
'Vile Threats'
Royal British Legion Says It Wants 'No Association' With Anti-Migrant Group Behind Poppy Fundraisers
Open Letter to the PM in Full
To Prime Minister Andy Burnham: "Protect our charities"
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'Impartial' Council Lawyer on £1,350 a Day Posed With Nigel Farage at Reform Mayor's Invitation
American-Run European Far-Right Platform Books UKIP Leader Who Wants Reform and Restore United
A Construction Firm That Gave Reform UK £100,000 Has Collapsed Owing Taxpayers More Than £400,000
Reform UK Named 'Authoritarian-Leaning' Party in Index of Far-Right Cooperation Across Europe
Local Reform Deputy Accused of Misleading Councillors Over Poll Used to Defend £150,000 Security Patrols Near Asylum Site
Reform UK's Crypto Billionaire Donor Could Profit From Military Exports to Israel Approved After Arms Suspension
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Charities say they are battling against a growing wave of intimidation, harassment, and threats from the far-right, according to a new report.
Service users, volunteers and staff from over 200 charities say they've faced death threats, assaults, racist abuse, their addresses being

Oleshky: The Kremlin's Potemkin Plan Failed, but Will Its Trojan Horse Succeed?
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The Drone Siege and Ceasefire
The Potemkin Village Operation
The Trojan Horse Operation
Oleshky: A Microcosm of Ukraine
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After Ukrainian forces liberated Kherson on 11 November 2022, Russian troops retreated across the Dnipro River to the occupied left bank, from where they continued attacking Kherson. Russian forces used Ukrainian civilians in Oleshky and surrounding villages as human shields to pro

Simon Woolley: 'It Still Feels Unsafe… A Black Person Such as Myself Could Not Call Out What Happened to Jason Arday Without Being Attacked, Vilified and Invalidated'
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'The Fancy Car and the Big Home Is Not the Driver'
'Institutions for the First Time had Pulled Back the Curtains'
'There Has Been Turbulence'
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"It still feels unsafe. The disproportionate scrutiny will continue… I'm worried that it's not done yet."
Lord Simon Woolley would not be surprised if more questions are raised about his 'fitness' to lead Cambridge University's Homerton College, where he is marking five years as Pr

'Impartial' Council Lawyer on £1,350 a Day Posed With Nigel Farage at Reform Mayor's Invitation
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Reform UK's Basildon Leader Accused of Bullying After Filming Council Staff and Residents With Meta-Style Smart Glasses
The June Email
Local Reform Deputy Accused of Misleading Councillors Over Poll Used to Defend £150,000 Security Patrols Near Asylum Site
Sandwell and Rotherham
Reform UK Mayor Has Firm Struck off as Another Files No Accounts in Six Years
Local Plan, Legal Storm
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'Impartial' Council Lawyer on £1,350 a Day Posed With Nigel Farage at Reform Mayor's Invitation
American-Run European Far-Right Platform Books UKIP Leader Who Wants Reform and Restore United
A Construction Firm That Gave Reform UK £100,000 Has Collapsed Owing Taxpayers More Than £400,000
Reform UK Named 'Authoritarian-Leaning' Party in Index of Far-Right Cooperation Across Europe
Local Reform Deputy Accused of Misleading Councillors Over Poll Used to Defend £150,000 Security Patrols Near Asylum Site
Reform UK's Crypto Billionaire Donor Could Profit From Military Exports to Israel Approved After Arms Suspension
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The top lawyer for an Essex council has been accused of rolling out the "red carpet" for Reform UK after he and a colleague posed for photos with Nigel Farage during the party leader's recent visit.
The Reform UK leader visited Basildon, Essex, on 15 October at the invitation of th

The DOGE Reckoning: Congress Is About to Put Elon Musk's Government Takeover on Trial
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Musk's Conflicts of Interest and Self-Dealing
Big Tech Helped Elon Musk Meet Jeffrey Epstein Four Times After Conviction
Musk's Ties to Putin and Russia
DOGE 'Election Interference' Scheme
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After pumping a record-breaking $474 million into midterms in the hopes of electing Republicans to protect his bottom line and avoid congressional investigations, Elon Musk found out the hard way after the US midterm elections not everything — or everyone — can be bought by the hig

The Migrant Care Workers Left 'Living In Limbo' by Shabana Mahmood's Immigration Reforms
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A Systemic Failure
Shabana Mahmood Accused of Treating Asylum Seekers Like 'Lab Rats' as Home Office Moves Migrants Into Army Camps
Living in Limbo
'Government-Sponsored Modern Slavery'
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The Future for Migrant Care Workers
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Fuelled by the pandemic, and the post-Brexit NHS and care sector crises, the last Conservative Government created a five-year pathway, back in 2022, for migrant care workers to settle in the UK.
But four years on, as migrant workers fill a third of all care worker roles, a trail of

UK Government, Amazon and eBay Investigate AI Chatbot Toy Bunny Marketed for Toddlers Which Gave Sexualised Responses to Questions
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Software and Hard Questions
UN Acknowledges 'Conflicts' of Interest After Byline Times Exposes AI Panel's Ties to OpenAI and Anthropic Funders
Beyond Orwell's Worst Nightmares: How China Uses Artificial Intelligence to Commit Genocide
Calls for a Ban
Inside the UK's Frontier Artificial Intelligence Taskforce: Conflicts of Interest and the Spectre of Effective Altruism
Government and Industry Respond
The Funder of Parliament's Pro-Israel Group Was Reimbursed With Cash Sent From Israel Via Gibraltar
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American-Run European Far-Right Platform Books UKIP Leader Who Wants Reform and Restore United
A Construction Firm That Gave Reform UK £100,000 Has Collapsed Owing Taxpayers More Than £400,000
Reform UK Named 'Authoritarian-Leaning' Party in Index of Far-Right Cooperation Across Europe
Local Reform Deputy Accused of Misleading Councillors Over Poll Used to Defend £150,000 Security Patrols Near Asylum Site
Reform UK's Crypto Billionaire Donor Could Profit From Military Exports to Israel Approved After Arms Suspension
Former Ofcom Standards Chief Condemns Watchdog's 'Two Tier' Approach to GB News
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The Government is investigating an AI chatbot toy on sale in the UK which is marketed at toddlers and which gave sexualised responses to questions when tested by a campaign group, Byline Times can reveal.
An AI "companion" plush bunny sold on Amazon UK and eBay, and marketed for ch

Andy Burnham Could Make Wealthier Households Pay More to Cut Poorer Families' Energy Bills
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Campaigners' Response
From Coal Tip to Clean Energy The UK Projects Turning Former Mines Into Renewable Powerhouses
Elsewhere in the Bill
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American-Run European Far-Right Platform Books UKIP Leader Who Wants Reform and Restore United
A Construction Firm That Gave Reform UK £100,000 Has Collapsed Owing Taxpayers More Than £400,000
Reform UK Named 'Authoritarian-Leaning' Party in Index of Far-Right Cooperation Across Europe
Local Reform Deputy Accused of Misleading Councillors Over Poll Used to Defend £150,000 Security Patrols Near Asylum Site
Reform UK's Crypto Billionaire Donor Could Profit From Military Exports to Israel Approved After Arms Suspension
Former Ofcom Standards Chief Condemns Watchdog's 'Two Tier' Approach to GB News
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Andy Burnham's Government is creating a mechanism that could allow "progressive" billing for household energy bills – where the wealthier pay more to slash bills for those less well off – Byline Times can reveal.
On Wednesday the Government introduced its Energy Independence Bill,

American-Run European Far-Right Platform Books UKIP Leader Who Wants Reform and Restore United
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Reform UK Repeatedly Refuses to Explain Why Nigel Farage Met and Posed with Man Criminally Convicted for Violent Attack on Anti-Racism Meeting at a Church
Tenconi's Push to Unite Reform and Restore
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Progetto Rinascita Italiana
The Reform Councillors Embedded in Britain's Masked 'Patriot' Anti-Migrant Network
Patriots Network
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Imperial Independent Media
Nigel Farage's 'Project 2029': The Pro-Trump Lobbyist Pushing His Agenda Into the UK
Turning Point UK and UKIP
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UKIP leader Nick Tenconi, who has publicly urged Reform UK and Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain to unite, is due to speak at the inaugural Rome conference of a far right think tank founded and run by the chair of New York's Metropolitan Republican Club.
The think tank is led by pro-Tr

The Funder of Parliament's Pro-Israel Group Was Reimbursed With Cash Sent From Israel Via Gibraltar
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What the Israeli Filings Say
UK Charity Sanctioned Over 'Distressing' Fundraising Video for Israeli Military
The Money Trail in 2024
UK Government Promotes Israeli Arms Firms Profiting From Gaza War and a Bank Enabling Illegal Settlements
Rules and Registers
Reform UK's James Orr's Foundation Hosted Sanctioned Israeli Minister
Parliament and Palestine Groups Respond
Reform UK's Crypto Billionaire Donor Could Profit From Military Exports to Israel Approved After Arms Suspension
holding farage to account #reformUNCOVERED
American-Run European Far-Right Platform Books UKIP Leader Who Wants Reform and Restore United
A Construction Firm That Gave Reform UK £100,000 Has Collapsed Owing Taxpayers More Than £400,000
Reform UK Named 'Authoritarian-Leaning' Party in Index of Far-Right Cooperation Across Europe
Local Reform Deputy Accused of Misleading Councillors Over Poll Used to Defend £150,000 Security Patrols Near Asylum Site
Reform UK's Crypto Billionaire Donor Could Profit From Military Exports to Israel Approved After Arms Suspension
Former Ofcom Standards Chief Condemns Watchdog's 'Two Tier' Approach to GB News
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When the former Brexit negotiator Lord Frost went on a "fact-finding delegation" to Israel and the West Bank last month, shortly before the Israeli elections, his flights, accommodation and hospitality were paid for by a little-known company called Cedarsoak Ltd.
So, what, or who,

Money Can't Buy You Love: The Lesson for Nigel Farage From Trump's US Midterms Defeat
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As US voters headed to the polls on Tuesday to deliver what turned out to be their damning verdict on the Trump administration's record, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage took to his GB News show to suggest that the pundits had got it all wrong.
Predicting a "big surprise" for the worl

UK Government Promotes Israeli Arms Firms Profiting From Gaza War and a Bank Enabling Illegal Settlements
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Official Access
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Bank Finance for Illegal Settlements
Mod-Backed Drone Maker Bought by US Group Now Developing Attack Drones for Israel
DefenseTech Week
Gaza Three Years On: The Changing Politics of Genocide Denial
Supporting Israel's Military-Industrial Complex in 2026
IDF Lies About 'Independent' Army Investigator Ties to AI-Targeted Killing Technology in Rafah and Gaza
Reform UK's James Orr's Foundation Hosted Sanctioned Israeli Minister
British Support Across the Occupied Territories
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The UK Government is formally backing an Israeli trade chamber that counts among its members the arms firms profiting from the war in Gaza, and among its leaders a bank enabling illegal settlement construction, a Byline Times investigation has found.
The British Ambassador to Israe

Radio GA GA: How GB News Plan to 'Take Back Control' of Music
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GB News Hosts Reform UK and Conservative Politicians and Activists Posing as Ordinary Voters
GB News Presenter Denied Racist Violence in Belfast Was a 'Riot' and Claimed 'Not a House Has Been Burnt Down'
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GB News' owner Paul Marshall has decided that it's time to reimagine rock and roll through the prism of blood and soil.
It's not enough, apparently, to tap your toes along to a hit in Marshall-land. You must first examine Kate Bush's ancestry, or work out how Irish Johnny Marr is,

A Construction Firm That Gave Reform UK £100,000 Has Collapsed Owing Taxpayers More Than £400,000
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Who Loses Out
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Payback Time
The Troubled Firms That Gave Reform UK Tens of Thousands of Pounds Whilst on the Brink of Collapse
Criminal Checks for MPs, Donations Caps and Electoral Reform: Labour Rebels Push for Tougher Elections Bill
Reform UK Named 'Authoritarian-Leaning' Party in Index of Far-Right Cooperation Across Europe
Rule Change
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A Construction Firm That Gave Reform UK £100,000 Has Collapsed Owing Taxpayers More Than £400,000
Reform UK Named 'Authoritarian-Leaning' Party in Index of Far-Right Cooperation Across Europe
Local Reform Deputy Accused of Misleading Councillors Over Poll Used to Defend £150,000 Security Patrols Near Asylum Site
Reform UK's Crypto Billionaire Donor Could Profit From Military Exports to Israel Approved After Arms Suspension
Former Ofcom Standards Chief Condemns Watchdog's 'Two Tier' Approach to GB News
How Reform UK's Leaders Embraced Far- Right Racists
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A construction firm donated £100,000 to Reform UK just nine months before going into liquidation – with the collapsed company now owing more than £400,000 to HMRC.
The insolvency process could see Nigel Farage's party, or the firm's directors, asked to hand back the cash to pay cre

"Tommy Robinson' Drove Me Out the Country and I'm Thrilled He's Now Getting What He Deserves'
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An Unwelcome Visitor
Tommy Robinson and the London News Website Linked to a Putin-Backed Propaganda Network
A Long-Awaited Reckoning
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More to be Done
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Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka 'Tommy Robinson' has been found guilty of harassment causing fear of violence against two Daily Mail journalists.
The harassment started after the pair tracked him to a Cyprus hotel during the riots that followed the Southport murders, and reported that h

UK Pushes Bulgaria to Sell Lukoil Refinery to British-Linked Buyer
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Sanctions Waivers in London and Washington
A Potential UK Buyer
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The UK Government is pushing its Bulgarian counterpart to sell the biggest refinery in the Balkans, owned by Russian energy giant Lukoil, to a buyer connected to London and Washington, according to several letters seen by Byline Times.
As the US and the Kremlin discuss the future o

Reform UK Named 'Authoritarian-Leaning' Party in Index of Far-Right Cooperation Across Europe
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The Channel Memorandum
Rupert Lowe and Restore Britain Figures Listed as Backers of Europe-Wide Far-Right 'Remigration' Campaign
Mutual Legitimisation
Local Reform Deputy Accused of Misleading Councillors Over Poll Used to Defend £150,000 Security Patrols Near Asylum Site
Courting Foreign Partners
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Reform UK Named 'Authoritarian-Leaning' Party in Index of Far-Right Cooperation Across Europe
Local Reform Deputy Accused of Misleading Councillors Over Poll Used to Defend £150,000 Security Patrols Near Asylum Site
Reform UK's Crypto Billionaire Donor Could Profit From Military Exports to Israel Approved After Arms Suspension
Former Ofcom Standards Chief Condemns Watchdog's 'Two Tier' Approach to GB News
How Reform UK's Leaders Embraced Far- Right Racists
Reform UK's Richard Tice's Property Firm Pays £800,000 in Dividends Despite Falling Profits
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Reform UK has been branded "authoritarian-leaning" in a report by an international non-profit group that includes renowned academics, a former US General, and ex-diplomats on its advisory board.
A paper from Action for Democracy, the 'Authoritarian Collaboration Index', finds autho

UAE's Candidate for Top UN Post, Lana Nusseibeh, Lobbied for Epstein Associate
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Jeffrey Epstein Met Privately with Bill Gates and Peter Thiel to 'Rebuild His Reputation' Through Philanthropy
Nusseibeh in the Files
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The Letter to NYU
Big Tech Helped Elon Musk Meet Jeffrey Epstein Four Times After Conviction
The UAE's Image
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Judgment and Vetting
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Every candidate for UN Secretary-General should be vetted against archives such as the Epstein files, the millions of pages of documents on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein released by the US Department of Justice. A review of this kind would reveal how ties to contr

Rupert Lowe and Restore Britain Figures Listed as Backers of Europe-Wide Far-Right 'Remigration' Campaign
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European Movement
Who Is Really Bankrolling Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain
Conspiracy Chats
Coordinated Actions
Inside Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain With Neo-Nazis, Reform Defectors and Associated Rogues
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Local Reform Deputy Accused of Misleading Councillors Over Poll Used to Defend £150,000 Security Patrols Near Asylum Site
Reform UK's Crypto Billionaire Donor Could Profit From Military Exports to Israel Approved After Arms Suspension
Former Ofcom Standards Chief Condemns Watchdog's 'Two Tier' Approach to GB News
How Reform UK's Leaders Embraced Far- Right Racists
Reform UK's Richard Tice's Property Firm Pays £800,000 in Dividends Despite Falling Profits
Reform's 'Independent' Donations Inquiry Was Led By The Lawyer Who Defended Donald Trump Over Russian Collusion
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Rupert Lowe and senior Restore Britain figures are listed as backers of a pan-European far-right initiative to introduce remigration, a policy of mass expulsions which anti-racism campaigners say amounts to ethnic cleansing.
Prominent Restore Britain activists are organisers of the

Local Reform Deputy Accused of Misleading Councillors Over Poll Used to Defend £150,000 Security Patrols Near Asylum Site
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What the Poll Actually Found
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No Competition
Police Contradict Reform Council Over Claim Town Centres are 'Unsafe' Due to Asylum Seekers
Founders of 'Apolitical' Patrol Group in Bournemouth Include Asylum Hotel Activist and Reform Candidate
Colchester Figures Respond
The Reform Link
Reform UK Mayor Has Firm Struck off as Another Files No Accounts in Six Years
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Reform UK Named 'Authoritarian-Leaning' Party in Index of Far-Right Cooperation Across Europe
Local Reform Deputy Accused of Misleading Councillors Over Poll Used to Defend £150,000 Security Patrols Near Asylum Site
Reform UK's Crypto Billionaire Donor Could Profit From Military Exports to Israel Approved After Arms Suspension
Former Ofcom Standards Chief Condemns Watchdog's 'Two Tier' Approach to GB News
How Reform UK's Leaders Embraced Far- Right Racists
Reform UK's Richard Tice's Property Firm Pays £800,000 in Dividends Despite Falling Profits
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A polling firm has distanced itself from a survey a senior Reform UK councillor used to defend private security patrols in Essex towns visited by asylum seekers living at the local Wethersfield base.
Cllr Russell Quirk, deputy leader of Reform-run Essex County Council (ECC), cited

Budget 2026: John Healey's 'Do No Harm' Strategy Puts the UK Economy on Borrowed Time
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Andy Burnham's 'Breathing Space' Budget Leaves Britain Holding Its Breath
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There are several ways to think about John Healey's very boring budget. The first is that his "do no harm" approach was exactly the right way forward for a new government trying to navigate an extremely challenging fiscal situation against a highly volatile international backdrop.

Andy Burnham's 'Breathing Space' Budget Leaves Britain Holding Its Breath
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Three Labour Peers Spoke at a Festival Sponsored by a Reform Mega-Donor – And Which Hosted a Far-Right Bookshop
Somewhere Over the Rainbow Budget
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Andy Burnham has repeatedly insisted that he is on a mission to "end 40 years of neoliberalism".
However, all the evidence from his Chancellor's first budget suggests that this mission will be a very long time coming, if it comes at all.
Absent from John Healey's address on Wednesd

The Conviction of Estonia's 'Lord Haw-Haw' Links Russian Intelligence to Moscow's Interference in Brexit
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Saying the 'Unsayable': Russian Interference
The London Trail
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Follow the Money
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The role of Sergey Nalobin, the senior 'diplomat' at the centre of my story about Russian political interference in the run up to the EU Referendum, was among the key evidence that clinched the successful criminal prosecution in a Russian interference case by Estonian law enforceme

Mod-Backed Drone Maker Bought by US Group Now Developing Attack Drones for Israel
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Rotron's Drones and the Ondas Acquisition
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Ondas's Israeli Military Contract
Reform UK's Crypto Billionaire Donor Could Profit From Military Exports to Israel Approved After Arms Suspension
The Re-Export Question
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A British drone maker that has received Ministry of Defence funding has been bought by a US group developing attack drones for the Israeli military.
Rotron Aerospace, based in Wiltshire, develops long-range 'kamikaze' drones. It trialled its SkyLance system under the Ministry of De

Three Labour Peers Spoke at a Festival Sponsored by a Reform Mega-Donor – And Which Hosted a Far-Right Bookshop
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The Reform Connection
Far-Right Bookshop Praised by Reform's James Orr Faces Police Warning Over 'Racist' Post About Muslim Men
Sponsors and Sessions
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Reform UK's Crypto Billionaire Donor Could Profit From Military Exports to Israel Approved After Arms Suspension
Former Ofcom Standards Chief Condemns Watchdog's 'Two Tier' Approach to GB News
How Reform UK's Leaders Embraced Far- Right Racists
Reform UK's Richard Tice's Property Firm Pays £800,000 in Dividends Despite Falling Profits
Reform's 'Independent' Donations Inquiry Was Led By The Lawyer Who Defended Donald Trump Over Russian Collusion
Reform UK's James Orr's Foundation Hosted Sanctioned Israeli Minister
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Three Labour peers have been criticised by one of their party colleagues after speaking at the 'Battle of Ideas' festival, which is sponsored by a Reform mega-donor and which partnered with a far-right bookshop, which sells books by Joseph Goebbels and Oswald Mosley.
Labour MP Phil

'We Intend to Succeed': French Student Protesters Explain Why They're at the Barricades
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The Far-Right Billionaire Who Is Buying Up French Culture
How French Activists Are Leading an 'Urgent' Fight Against the Surging Far Right
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Bins were piled up in front of the Lycée Claude-Monet in the 13th arrondissement of Paris when I arrived. Students milled around, standing on top of them, some performed dances. Others had placards and banners. This was not part of some elaborate drama class performance, it was in

UK Universities Accused of 'Silencing' Pro-Palestinian Students and Academics
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Attack at Edinburgh Protest
Gaza Three Years On: The Changing Politics of Genocide Denial
Campus Bans at LSE
How Britain's Political-Media Machine Enabled Slaughter in Gaza
Bath and Warwick
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Reform UK's Crypto Billionaire Donor Could Profit From Military Exports to Israel Approved After Arms Suspension
Former Ofcom Standards Chief Condemns Watchdog's 'Two Tier' Approach to GB News
How Reform UK's Leaders Embraced Far- Right Racists
Reform UK's Richard Tice's Property Firm Pays £800,000 in Dividends Despite Falling Profits
Reform's 'Independent' Donations Inquiry Was Led By The Lawyer Who Defended Donald Trump Over Russian Collusion
Reform UK's James Orr's Foundation Hosted Sanctioned Israeli Minister
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A raft of UK universities have restricted solidarity with Palestinian people amongst students and academics, including speech that could be perceived as critical of Israel, according to a new report from Amnesty International.
The Silencing Dissent report finds that universities ha

Jason Arday Again Cleared of Plagiarism as His Attackers Launch an 'Independent Inquiry'
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The US Far-Right War on British Institutions ##LIGHTUPTHEDARK
The Two Professors and a 'War On Ideas'
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'Andy Burnham Has an Opportunity to Lead the Fight Against Russian Interference'
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Andy Burnham's statement that Russia interfered in British elections over recent years caused a huge amount of controversy. However, what commentators objecting to his observation have forgotten is that Boris Johnson, when Foreign Secretary in 2017, said very much the same thing. I

'Trump's Russia Strategy Is Opening Himself Up to an Inevitable Humiliation'
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Maybe Donald Trump likes being humiliated? Maybe that's another thing to add to the very long list of possible reasons why the US President is seemingly always open to doing the bidding of his opposite number in Moscow.
If, as the most powerful man on the planet, you ask someone to

Reform UK's Crypto Billionaire Donor Could Profit From Military Exports to Israel Approved After Arms Suspension
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Reform UK's James Orr's Foundation Hosted Sanctioned Israeli Minister
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Christopher Harborne, the billionaire financier who has donated or pledged more than £61 million to Nigel Farage's political parties, holds a substantial financial interest in a British defence company authorised in 2025 to undertake military-related exports involving Israel despit

The Media 'Manufactured' Millionaire Exodus From UK, Campaigners Tell IPSO in Open Letter
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An open letter to Culture Secretary Nandy and Chancellor Healey
Since 2024, around the world about 30 news articles have been published every day about an exodus of millionaires and billionaires fleeing taxes. The UK, we're told, has had the worst of it thanks to the Labour Governm

What Ukraine's Strikes On Data Centres Really Revealed About Russian Information Warfare
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When Ukrainian drones struck Yandex's data centres in Russia recently, social media users were quick to declare victory over Russian bot farms, touting claims about reduced internet traffic as proof that Russian bots on platforms like X had been wiped out in the strikes. Those clai

Mysterious Right-Wing Think Tank Demanding Charity 'Transparency' Won't Say Who Runs or Funds It
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A new right-wing think tank which has made the headlines over recent months demanding charities be more transparent about their backers has gone to significant lengths to hide the people behind it.
Cambridge Circus Research (CCR) launched at the end of May 2026 with Breaking the Bl

James Orr, Silence, and Sponsorship: Hungary Confirms End of Media Agreement with 'Times Higher Education'
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The Hungarian Government has told Byline Times that it has ended its media sponsorship agreement with a leading British higher education title – after this publication raised questions about why Times Higher Education had not reported on recent allegations surrounding the former Re

A Short History of Trump's Long-Held Connections to Russia
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In the final weeks before the US midterm elections, Donald Trump has made a number of concessions which benefit the Russian President Vladimir Putin.
These have included reported restrictions on the Ukrainian military's use of Starlink and interruptions in US intelligence sharing,

Former Ofcom Standards Chief Condemns Watchdog's 'Two Tier' Approach to GB News
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Ofcom has created a false distinction between 'current affairs' and 'news' which is allowing highly-partisan political figures to present what are effectively news shows on TV, according to the former official who wrote the regulator's broadcasting code.
Chris Banatvala, Ofcom's fo

How Reform UK's Leaders Embraced Far- Right Racists
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Farage's Far-Right Alliances
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Reform UK is currently attempting to fight off new allegations of systemic racism amongst its members and councillors. Yet Byline Times investigations over several years have documented how senior figures of the party have cultivated far-right extremists, promoted racist pseudoscie

The BBC's Dangerous Attempt to Balance Truth With Lies
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As the BBC thrashes around trying to impose deep cuts to tackle funding problems which are teetering from a crisis into an emergency, its confusion over the concept it thinks of as "balance" has once again led to some strange editorial decisions.
Let's start with Newsnight. Since t

Reform UK's Richard Tice's Property Firm Pays £800,000 in Dividends Despite Falling Profits
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A company controlled by Reform UK's deputy leader paid out dividends of £803,228 last year, and another £359,501 this January – despite its performance appearing to falter.
Richard Tice owns, both directly and through interests connected to him, around 91% of commercial property fi

Far-Right Bookshop Praised by Reform's James Orr Faces Police Warning Over 'Racist' Post About Muslim Men
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Prominent Backers, and a Police Report
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Tommy Robinson, Nigel Farage and the 'Pure Cold Rage' Used to Trigger a Racist Pogrom in Belfast
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Reform Council Leader Denies Climate Change Crisis After Record Heat Deaths
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A far-right bookshop endorsed by a series of prominent right-wing figures – which sells books by Hitler, Goebbels, and Mosley, and whose social media account called for millions of people to be removed from Britain – has found itself being looked into by police.
Until August, Oldsp

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Reform UK's internal inquiry into alleged foreign donations, which found no breach of electoral law, was conducted by a British barrister who represented US President Donald Trump in failed litigation over the Trump–Russia dossier.
Adam Richardson has also acted personally for the

Brexit Turning Point as MPs Line Up to Make the Case for Rejoining the EU
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Labour backbenchers have been unleashed to push strongly for rejoining the European Union, after the Prime Minister opened the door to reversing Brexit, during his Labour conference speech and a pro-European statement in Parliament on Monday.
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'Trump's Crazy Russia Deal Leaves Kyiv Angry and Moscow Gleeful'
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The Non-Starting Diesel Deal
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The weekend that has just passed was pretty fast-paced. The crazy announcements being issued from Washington were met with anger in Kyiv, and glee in Moscow.
US President Donald Trump has one main focus, and fear, right now. The midterm elections are looming fast and so he's focuse

'A Clear Answer': Russia Intervened in the Brexit Vote
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The Five Questions Nigel Farage is Never Asked About Brexit, Trump and Russia
The Johnson-Lebedev Letters: A Back-Channel to Vladimir Putin?
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It has taken ten years: ten years since the first evidence emerged of Russian social-media accounts pushing for Brexit. Eight years since the FBI's Mueller Report and the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee exposed the extent of Kremlin "information warfare" against

Reform UK's James Orr's Foundation Hosted Sanctioned Israeli Minister
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'If Anyone Can Become an Englishman, What is an Englishman?': Reform UK's James Orr on the 'Great Replacement'
The Kahane Connection
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Reform UK's suspended head of policy James Orr is the UK chairman of a foundation which hosted an Israeli minister, Bezazel Smotrich, sanctioned by Britain for inciting violence against Palestinians, Byline Times can reveal.
Orr's fellow director at the Edmund Burke Foundation, and

Russia's Plan to Target Ukraine's Water Supply Would Set a Dangerous Precedent
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How the Strike War has Evolved
Ukraine Comes Under Assault From Putin's Terror and Trump's Delusions
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Russia is reportedly preparing to strike Ukraine's water and electrical infrastructure this winter, as the war stalls, Russian casualties mount and more of its jet-powered drones and ballistic missiles get through Ukraine's defences. If Russia faces no meaningful consequences, Ukra

Green Party Would Force Daily Mail Owner to Sell Up Papers
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Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000
The BBC, AI and Advertising
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Reform Council Leader Denies Climate Change Crisis After Record Heat Deaths
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The Green Party overhauled its policies on the UK's media at its conference last weekend, in a largely ignored move towards a radically-toughened stance on the press.
The party's previous policy committed the Green Party to "campaign to restrict ownership so that no individual or c

Why Did Polymarket Trading Surge an Hour Before the Iran War Started?
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A Surge Before the Strikes
Trump Went to War In Order to Break Iran and Left It More Powerful Than Before – US Defence Analyst
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A Bet or a Financial Instrument?
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When US and Israeli forces attacked Iran on February 28th, conventional financial markets were largely closed for the weekend. But on Polymarket, an American cryptocurrency-based prediction market where users bet on future events, trading continued.
And in the hour before the first

Russia Scrambles to Cover Up Potential Plague Outbreak After Years of Spreading Biolab Conspiracy Theories
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A Kremlin Cover-Up?
Tulsi Gabbard Revives Russian Disinformation Campaign About Ukraine Biolabs
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After fear-mongering for years about Ukrainian biolabs, Russia is now the culprit behind a possible plague outbreak that has left at least one person dead and hundreds of others being monitored for the deadly disease.
On Friday, a lab worker in a region of Siberia called Irkutsk wa

'Even Nazi Psychologists Acknowledged Jewish Intelligence': The Posts of the Academic Who Targeted Jason Arday
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Cofnas Saved by Trump
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Jason Arday: We Must Rage – Rage Against the Journalism of Cruelty
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Jason Arday: The Story Behind the Story of The Times' 'Impossible Data'
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A Byline Times review of Dr Nathan Cofnas' social media output has found that he posted comments about "Jewish IQ", racial purity and miscegenation that appear to be racist and antisemitic, and shared an essay arguing that the "emptying" of Gaza should be seen as "a realistic optio

Andy Burnham Urged to Put Compulsory Voting at Heart of His Electoral Reform Plans
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Andy Burnham should use his National Commission on Electoral Reform to launch a conversation on making voting compulsory, experts have suggested.
The Prime Minister announced the plans – which are set to endorse a new voting system for Westminster elections – in his Labour conferen

Gaza Three Years On: The Changing Politics of Genocide Denial
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Israel, Gaza and the Spectre of Genocide
Suppression and Confusion
A Genocide Consensus Emerges
Carnage in Gaza: What Really Happened at the Al-Ahli Hospital?
The New Wave of Denial
Famine on the Gaza Strip: 'We See Children So Weak and Hungry They Cannot Even Cry'
Interpretive Denial in Labour Political Discourse
UK Government Flouted Own Rules Designed to Stop Gaza Intelligence Harming Palestinian Civilians
Denying the Implications of Genocide
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'Why Andy Burnham Must Break With Israel'
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When Israel launched its ferocious bombardment of Gaza within 48 hours of Hamas's massacre, few, even of those who were alarmed, took seriously the charge of emerging genocide, which I made in Byline Times on 13 October 2023. This was despite Israeli leaders having proclaimed their

Conservative Plan to Scrap Solar Rules for New Homes Would Lock Millions Into Gas Use
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The Conservatives' new policy to abolish the Future Homes Standard, which supports the installation of solar panels on new homes in England, will lock millions of people into reliance on fossil fuels for their energy needs, energy experts have warned.
Households are currently set t

'Why Andy Burnham Will Ultimately Back Rejoining the EU'
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'Ten Years On, Brexit's Real Legacy Has Been an Assault on Human Rights'
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Who knows what lay behind Andy Burnham's surprise announcement last week that he would soon be setting out options for a new long-term relationship between Britain and the European Union.
Was it part of some cunning plan to reverse Brexit, or was he winging it? It's hard to know wi

Reform UK Mayor Has Firm Struck off as Another Files No Accounts in Six Years
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Police Admit Error After Failing to Seize Phone of Reform Councillor Arrested Over Stalking Claims
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Reform UK's 'Meta Glasses' Councillor Who Was Accused of Shaming Disabled Man and Dyslexic Colleague Is Put in Charge of Special Educational Needs
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The Reform UK Mayor of Basildon – who is also Essex County Council's Cabinet Member for Education, SEND and Skills – has had one of his companies struck off the official register after it failed to file legally required documents, while another has never filed accounts in more than

'Digital Armies' and Disinformation: How Big Tech Is Hitting Brazil's Upcoming Election
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Information Warfare in Brazil
Revealed: Reform UK Crypto Partner's Ties to Pro-Trump Big Tech and Kemi Badenoch
Big Tech Sets its Sights on Brazil
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Far-right populists worldwide are using AI to bypass traditional media gatekeepers and spread disinformation at scale. Nowhere is that more true than Brazil, which has been rocked by political disinformation in recent years and is expected to face even more daunting challenges with

Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
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Kemi Badenoch's 'Free Speech' Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Party Conference
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Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán's Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations
Nigel Farage-Backed Bitcoin Firm to Buy Gold Dealer That Paid Him £685,500
Reform Council Leader Denies Climate Change Crisis After Record Heat Deaths
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Byline Times' chief reporter has been blocked from attending the Conservative Party conference, just weeks after leader Kemi Badenoch called Reform's decision to bar several journalists from their own conference "authoritarian" and an attack on the "free press".
Josiah Mortimer was

Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán's Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations
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Andy Burnham's Labour Conference Speech Offers a Clear Break From the Politics of Despair
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Times Higher Education (THE), which also publishes the annual World University Rankings, has failed to provide coverage of the legal and misconduct allegations engulfing Dr James Orr, a Cambridge academic and suspended Reform UK policy chief – who is also chair of the Hungarian gov

'Andy Burnham's Plans to Make Britain Great Again Are the Polar Opposite of Trump's'
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Andy Burnham's speech to the Labour Party Conference has been hailed by many British commentators as one of the most consequential in a generation, with his ambitious plans to reform social care and pensions, tackle festering deficiencies in Britain's housing stock, energy supply a

Andy Burnham's Pledge for Electoral Reform: What We Know So Far
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Years of Growing Pressure
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Keir Starmer Rejects Call for 'Fairer Votes' Despite MPs Voting in Favour of Proportional Representation
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Reform Council Leader Denies Climate Change Crisis After Record Heat Deaths
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The Prime Minister has announced a national commission to review Westminster's First Past the Post voting system – and has promised to include an overhaul in Labour's next manifesto.
Andy Burnham made the announcement in his leader's speech at Labour Party Conference in Liverpool o

Andy Burnham's Labour Conference Speech Offers a Clear Break From the Politics of Despair
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Burnham Wins in Makerfield: Can the 'Politics of Place' Now Offer an Antidote to the Poverty of Possibility?
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Political conferences are meant to be about bringing parties together. Yet under Keir Starmer, Labour's annual gathering often felt like it was about doing the complete opposite. Far from seeking to show that he understood his party's hopes and fears, Labour's former leader often a

UN Acknowledges 'Conflicts' of Interest After Byline Times Exposes AI Panel's Ties to OpenAI and Anthropic Funders
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The United Nation's "Independent" AI Panel warning governments about the dangers of advanced artificial intelligence has financial and personnel ties to OpenAI and Anthropic – the frontier AI companies building the technology the panel was created to assess – a Byline Times investi

Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000
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Reform Council Leader Denies Climate Change Crisis After Record Heat Deaths
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Kemi Badenoch was gifted an £8,177 trip from News Corp to meet Rupert Murdoch and other senior executives in Greece over the summer.
The Conservative Party leader has just reported a donation-in-kind for the summer jaunt with the Murdochs worth thousands.
The trip was marked as "in

Ukraine Comes Under Assault From Putin's Terror and Trump's Delusions
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The Cat-and-Mouse Race of Technical Advancement
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Trump Pardon Buries FBI's Secret Work for Putin's Oligarchs
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Ukraine's capital, my home for a quarter of a century, has been under terrorist siege for the last 48 hours. The definition of terrorism is the calculated use of violence to achieve political goals. Putin's goal is the subjugation of Ukraine, and so the country's capital of Kyiv is

Nigel Farage-Backed Bitcoin Firm to Buy Gold Dealer That Paid Him £685,500
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Nigel Farage Handed Platform by GB News to Defend Reform UK's £72m Donations From Crypto Billionaires
Reform's Crypto Policy
Reform UK Could Pocket Nearly £500,000 in Interest if They Are Forced to Return £72 Million Crypto Billionaire Donations
Timeline: Farage, Crypto and Gold
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Reform Council Leader Denies Climate Change Crisis After Record Heat Deaths
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A bitcoin firm in which Nigel Farage holds a stake is set to buy the gold dealer that pays him as its 'brand ambassador' – further entrenching the Reform UK leader's financial interests in the cryptocurrency world.
On 15 September, Stack BTC – which announced Farage as a 6.31% shar

Royal British Legion Says It Wants 'No Association' With Anti-Migrant Group Behind Poppy Fundraisers
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Nigel Farage Funder George Cottrell's Inner Circle Hosted Indicted Cocaine Trafficker
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The Royal British Legion has distanced itself from an anti-migrant group that has been accused of misleading the public through its fundraising, by using the charity's Remembrance poppy branding.
Rushmoor People First (RPF) is an activist organisation in Hampshire which has led a s

'Almost Started A War': Trump Administration's AI Policies Are Hurtling Towards Catastrophe
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A Heated Debate Over AI Safety
Trump Went to War In Order to Break Iran and Left It More Powerful Than Before – US Defence Analyst
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The US military "almost started a war" with China this spring due to a faulty AI-generated intelligence report that falsely concluded that China was transporting nuclear materials aboard a ship in the Middle East, according to an alarming new report.
Citing four unnamed sources, CN

Bonnie Greer: The Golden Thread
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The first time I met Bonnie Greer she was laughing with delight as she hurtled down the hill at our first Byline Festival nearly ten years ago. She thought she was coming to a journalism conference and was thrilled by the mix of comedy, music and talks in the middle of a forest. Sh

Reform Council Leader Denies Climate Change Crisis After Record Heat Deaths
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Reform UK Members Dismiss Climate Crisis as 'Farce' After Record Summer Heatwaves
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Nigel Farage Funder George Cottrell's Inner Circle Hosted Indicted Cocaine Trafficker
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The leader of Reform UK's flagship local authority, Kent County Council has denied man-made climate change exists and mocked climate science concerning the record-breaking extreme heat over the summer, in a fiery exchange on Thursday.
Reform's Kent County Council leader, Cllr Linde

Revealed: The Pro-Hitler Messages Behind the 'Neo-Nazi' Libel Case Funded by Reform's Crypto Billionaire Donor
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Reform UK's crypto billionaire donor Ben Delo financed a failed libel case brought by two writers who privately exchanged pro-Hitler messages and agreed between themselves that they should study Mein Kampf, Byline Times can reveal. Yet they lost their case against the defendant, Lu

Nigel Farage Handed Platform by GB News to Defend Reform UK's £72m Donations From Crypto Billionaires
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Nigel Farage has returned to hosting on GB News after a hiatus of six months – and spent most of his own programme defending his own party's mega-donors.
The Reform leader was handed the unparalleled platform to spin his side of the story about the £36 million each that the crypto

The Two Professors and a 'War On Ideas'
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The Two Professors and a 'War On Ideas'
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'Who Influences Those Minds is Fundamental'
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Senate House sits at the heart of Cambridge University. It's the place you walk past most days as a student knowing that, when your time comes to put on the gown with the furry hood, it will be in this brilliant white bright building that becoming a graduate of the world-renowned i

How Reform UK's Crypto Billionaire Donor Christopher Harborne Made Millions From the UK Taxpayer
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Building a Stake in Britain's Defence Industry
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Christopher Harborne's £36 million donation to Reform UK, announced at the weekend, looked at first like yet another story about opaque cryptocurrency money entering British politics.
Harborne, who is based in Thailand, made much of his fortune in crypto. He is also the most import

The Reform Councillors Embedded in Britain's Masked 'Patriot' Anti-Migrant Network
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'Flag Man' Behind Nazi-Linked Anti-Migrant Protests Pleads Guilty to Assaulting Woman
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Masked men gathered in Dover and other coastal towns at the start of September, staging the first direct action from a network that spans at least 15 patriot groups and more than 40,000 followers built up over the past 18 months. Coastal groups within the network are now planning f

Conservative Donor Is Major Player in Gambling Syndicate That Used George Cottrell's Betting Accounts
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Nigel Farage Funder George Cottrell's Inner Circle Hosted Indicted Cocaine Trafficker
How George Cottrell's Reform UK Network in Montenegro Is Tied to Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs
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The Conservative Party has accepted a donation from the director of a company that used convicted fraudster and Nigel Farage aide George Cottrell as a stalking horse to place bets.
In the second quarter donation releases for 2026 with the Electoral Commission, it was revealed that

Reform UK Could Pocket Nearly £500,000 in Interest if They Are Forced to Return £72 Million Crypto Billionaire Donations
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Reform UK Could Pocket Nearly £500,000 in Interest if They Are Forced to Return £72 Million Crypto Billionaire Donations
Nigel Farage Funder George Cottrell's Inner Circle Hosted Indicted Cocaine Trafficker
Reform UK Members Dismiss Climate Crisis as 'Farce' After Record Summer Heatwaves
Reform UK Donations Overwhelmingly Have Overseas or Tax-Haven Ties
Police Contradict Reform Council Over Claim Town Centres are 'Unsafe' Due to Asylum Seekers
Reform's £645,000 'Ghost' Pollster
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Reform UK would be allowed to keep the interest earned on the £72 million in donations received from two billionaire donors over the weekend – even if they're forced to return the gifts.
Crypto billionaires Christopher Harborne and Ben Delo gave the largest ever donations to a UK p

Behind the AI 'Extinction' Power Bid: Soaring Costs Could Hit 10% of World GDP
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Apocalypse Now?
Testing the Runaway
Anthropic's Own Data
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The Human Decisions Behind the Breach
The Rising Price of 'Progress'
Cheaper Rivals Keep Pace
Big Tech Helped Elon Musk Meet Jeffrey Epstein Four Times After Conviction
Ideological Roots of Doom
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Leading artificial intelligence (AI) companies are invoking unproven extinction warnings to justify measures that could protect their market position and expand their influence on industry oversight, a Byline Times investigation has found.
A review of industry research found no dem

Why Reform UK Could Be Forced to Hand Back Their £72m Donations From Crypto Billionaires
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A Narrow Route to Legality
Nigel Farage Funder George Cottrell's Inner Circle Hosted Indicted Cocaine Trafficker
'A Cap on Donations Is Not Anti-Union — It Is Anti-Oligarchy'
What Canada Shows Us
Reform UK Donations Overwhelmingly Have Overseas or Tax-Haven Ties
The Unions Start to Shift
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Reform UK Members Dismiss Climate Crisis as 'Farce' After Record Summer Heatwaves
Reform UK Donations Overwhelmingly Have Overseas or Tax-Haven Ties
Police Contradict Reform Council Over Claim Town Centres are 'Unsafe' Due to Asylum Seekers
Reform's £645,000 'Ghost' Pollster
Raft of Senior Reform Councillors Fail to Declare Interests
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The weekend saw the largest donations to UK political parties ever made: £36 million each, from Reform-backing crypto billionaires Christopher Harborne and Ben Delo.
Both were reported as living – until very recently – overseas. Delo was based in Hong Kong and Christopher Harborne

Nigel Farage Funder George Cottrell's Inner Circle Hosted Indicted Cocaine Trafficker
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Unexplained Wealth
'Posh George', Two Passports, and a Fraudulent Identity: Convicted Fraudster and Nigel Farage Funder's Connections to Reform UK's Murky Financial Structures
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Nigel Farage Funder George Cottrell's Accountant Co-Invested With Russia-Linked Indicted Cocaine Trafficker
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The convicted fraudster who secretly financed Nigel Farage is tied to a Montenegro circle whose members include two suspects charged with involvement in one of the Balkans' most powerful transnational drug-trafficking organisations, Byline Times can reveal.
George Cottrell's partne











