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James Orr: Reform UK’s Religious Cambridge Professor’s Politics of Contradictions
Nigel Farage’s Head of Policy provides a veneer of respectability to a politics that seeks fewer restraints, fewer mediating institutions, and less liberal democracy
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The Missing Part Of Keir Starmer’s Plan To Clamp Down On Foreign Election Meddling
The UK Government has announced a series of major reforms designed to prevent foreign interference in our politics, yet campaigners fear they have left the “biggest loophole” of all untouched
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Nigel Farage’s ‘Pro-Sleaze’ By-Election Is A Sign Of Terminal Weakness
The Reform leader’s desperate decision to call a back-me-or-sack-me by-election is a sign of a politician who knows he is finally being exposed for the man he really is, argues Adam Bienkov
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‘There’s No Money In Politics If You’re Straight’: How Farage’s Words Are Coming Back To Haunt Him
The Reform UK leader once claimed that only the corrupt could make money in politics. Now questions about his own multi-million pound fortune threaten to bring him down
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Why has BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme Never Had a Black Editor or Presenter?
The absence of non-white journalists on the BBC’s flagship news programme is not just a symbolic failure – but one of diversity in power, authority, and leadership, writes the director of the Sir Lenny Henry Centre at Birmingham City University
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Reform UK Donations From Collapsing Firms Are ‘Not Under Investigation’ Says Elections Watchdog as It Calls for Loopholes to Be Closed
Anti-corruption campaigners warn the UK’s political system is open to abuse and infiltration by unlawful foreign finance
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‘Why Andy Burnham Must Break With Israel’
The likely incoming Prime Minister must break with Keir Starmer’s “morally bankrupt” legacy on Gaza in order to restore his party’s reputation with the public, argues genocide scholar Martin Shaw
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Edinburgh Attacks Expose ‘Two-Tier’ Coverage of Racism in UK, New Data Shows
The Edinburgh attacks on five Muslim men received seven times less coverage than a comparable antisemitic attack in London two months earlier, reports Hugh Wilkinson
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Keir Starmer’s Promised Clampdown on Second Jobs Has Been ‘Glacial’ Admits Minister, as Nigel Farage’s Millions Come Under Spotlight
The Reform leader’s multiple outside jobs and repeated absence from the House of Commons has led to calls for action
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Six in 10 Russian Billionaires Are Still Not Being Sanctioned by the UK Government
A series of billionaires with ties to Britain remain untouched by the UK’s supposedly tough sanctions regime, reports Molly Gordon and Iain Overton
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Ofcom Taken to Court After Clearing Talk TV’s ‘Torrent of Transphobia’
The regulator is accused of allowing the Murdoch-owned station to “serve as a megaphone for billionaires to spread toxic lies and amplify dangerous, far-right rhetoric”
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Trump’s Crackdown on Dissent Won’t Stop With Antifa
The sentences handed down to protestors at an immigration detention centre were all more severe than even the longest prison sentence given to any of the January 6 insurrectionists
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Masks, Flares and Climbing Statues: The Protest Bans That Quietly Came Into Force This Week
New powers criminalise face coverings at demonstrations and ban protests outside politicians’ homes
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Why the British Press Is Really Angry About the Government’s Planned Media ‘Prominence’ Law
Julian Petley on the real reasons why the right-wing press are so worried about plans to ensure online platforms prioritise trustworthy news over disinformation
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Elon Musk Amplifies Tommy Robinson’s Call to Expel Half of All British Muslims in Speech Staged by Neo-Nazi Linked Group
The demand for the expulsion of millions of Muslim people from the UK received 36 million views after being shared by Musk on his X platform
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The Troubled Firms That Gave Reform UK Tens of Thousands of Pounds Whilst on the Brink of Collapse
Anti-corruption campaigners question why firms are choosing to donate tens of thousands of pounds they apparently don’t have to Nigel Farage’s party
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David Hencke: The Journalist Who Made Us All Better
Byline Times tips its hat with love and gratitude to our acclaimed investigative reporter who has died aged 79 of liver cancer
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Exposed: Reform Councillor Shared White Supremacist and Covid Conspiracy Posts
Jamie Pullin’s accounts shared a series of far-right videos and conspiracy theory posts
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Crimea Isolated: Putin’s Strategic Prize Turned Into a Strategic Weakness
As the governor of Russian-occupied Crimea declares a state of emergency, what are the options for Ukraine?
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How Nigel Farage Twists the Facts About White Boys in Schools to Manufacture Racial Tension
Official data completely contradicts Nigel Farage’s false claim that ethnic minorities are favoured at the expense of white children, reports Nafeez Ahmed
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‘The Oxford Union’s Far-Right Problem Goes Much Deeper than Tommy Robinson’
Insider accounts reveal a culture of chasing shock value and clicks, which systematically advantages the radical right over progressive voices, argues Guilherme Lopes
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Is Britain’s Plug-In Solar Revolution Really Just Months Away?
Ministers are consulting on rules that will let households plug cheap solar panels straight into their mains. But several big questions remain unanswered, reports Josiah Mortimer
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How Andy Burnham’s ‘Manchesterism’ Could Really Reshape Britain
A new report from key backers of Britain’s likely next Prime Minister sets out what a Burnham Government might look like
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Police Admit Error After Failing to Seize Phone of Reform Councillor Arrested Over Stalking Claims
Essex police privately accepts device should have been taken from Reform Cllr Sam Journet rather than handed to a political ally
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Peter Thiel’s Least Secret Network Is Just One Small Part of a Global Influence Machine
Dialog has been cast as Peter Thiel’s ‘secret society’, but the invitation-only network is only part of much more significant Thiel-backed power web which draws far less attention, reports Dave Troy
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As Extreme Heat Hits London, Fossil Fuel Interests and Global Far-Right Politicians Gather for a ‘Glastonbury of Climate Science Deniers’
Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch are both scheduled to address the event, reports Max Colbert
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‘Ten Years On, Brexit’s Real Legacy Has Been an Assault on Human Rights’
The rise of nationalism that followed Brexit has brought with it a concerted campaign to undermine our fundamental human rights, argues Daniel Sohege
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Whatever Happened to the Brexit Battalion Media Corps?
Ten years and six prime ministers on, Byline Times looks at the fate of Brexit’s most prominent media cheerleaders
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The Real ‘Moral Bankruptcy’ That Brought Down Keir Starmer’s Premiership
The Prime Minister promised to restore morality to our politics, but ended up falling far short of his own standards, argues Adam Bienkov
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Burnham Wins in Makerfield: Can the ‘Politics of Place’ Now Offer an Antidote to the Poverty of Possibility?
Having been on Reform UK’s target list as a winnable seat, Andy Burnham’s new constituency is a microcosm of Brexit Britain and the failed legacies of Thatcher and Blair. Peter Jukes and Hardeep Matharu paid a visit ahead of its seminal by-election
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‘Burnham is a Giant Step Backwards to a Better Sort of British Politics’
Makerfield’s new MP will face deep challenges if he makes it to Downing Street – but he can succeed where others haven’t been able to
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Makerfield By-Election Result: How Voters Rejected Nigel Farage’s Politics of ‘Pure Cold Rage’
For the third time in a row Reform sought to stoke division and violence on Britain’s streets and have been roundly rejected by voters as a result, reports Adam Bienkov
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‘After Burnham’s Win in Makerfield, the Answer Cannot be Managerial Politics with a Different Accent’
Only structural change which seeks to transform a failing system can actually deliver a politics people will believe in, writes Labour MP Clive Lewis
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Trump Went to War In Order to Break Iran and Left It More Powerful Than Before – US Defence Analyst
Brynn Tannehill explains how Trump’s war has resurrected an Iranian regime that sanctions and drought had been on course to topple
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Revealed: The ‘Right-Wing Arms Race’ to Deport Non-White Britons – Backed By the Tufton Street Brexit Lobby
EXCLUSIVE: A dark money lobbying network backed by a Reform UK donor is hosting figures pushing for the forced removal of millions of ethnic-minority citizens from the UK, reports Nafeez Ahmed
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Reform Chairman Bans Green Councillor From Calling Out ‘Neo Nazi’ Photograph
Party accused of curbing free speech after silencing Green councillor who raised Reform councillors’ appearance with neo-Nazi figure
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The Property Moguls and Landlords Funding Reform UK Who Would Gain From Its Housing Policies
EXCLUSIVE: More than half of Reform UK’s corporate donors are property and construction figures who are set to benefit from Farage’s deregulation plans
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Pubs Shut and Streets Close Amid Heavy Police Presence for Oxford Union Tommy Robinson Debate
The world’s most prestigious debating society hosts the far-right agitator just days after his return from Moscow and questioning under anti-terror legislation
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‘Makerfield Is the Right Seat for Andy Burnham to Contest – Precisely Because It Isn’t Safe’
To beat the threat from Reform UK, Labour has to take it on where Farage’s party could be at its strongest – this is exactly what the Makerfield by-election asks Andy Burnham to do
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Reform Councillors Pose with Banner Saying They’d ‘Rather Vote for Jimmy Savile than Labour’
Reform hit by backlash in the Makerfield by-election as they’re accused of “making light of one of Britain’s most prolific paedophiles”
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Nigel Farage’s ‘White Minority’ Prediction Came From the Racist Eugenics Movement
The Reform leader’s discredited ‘Great Replacement’ claim that white people will become a minority in the UK can be traced back to the heart of the eugenics movement, reports Nafeez Ahmed
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Tulsi Gabbard Revives Russian Disinformation Campaign About Ukraine Biolabs
As one of her last moves as head of the US intelligence community,Tulsi Gabbard propped up a Russian disinformation campaign that was used by the Kremlin to justify its illegal invasion of Ukraine four years ago
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Civilian Return from Occupation: Addressing a Policy Challenge in Ukraine’s EU Accession
As negotiations open on Ukraine’s accession to the EU, Zarina Zabrisky reports on a key human rights challenge which must be addressed by the Ukrainian Government
