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Fake Ads and Weak Regulations Are Creating a ‘Perfect Storm’ for Election Disinformation
A new report exposes the glaringly misleading political campaign ads threatening to derail our democracy
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All the Big Government Reforms the Media is Missing During Keir Starmer’s Leadership Crisis
No 10 says its plan for the UK is starting to work but will anyone hear about it?
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He Who Pays the Piper: The BBC, Tony Blair, Rishi Sunak and a Failure of Journalism
News organisations need to be much clearer about the potential conflicts of interests that surround the ‘interventions’ made by former politicians, argues Adam Bienkov
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Reform-Run Council Cuts Opposition Time to ‘Make Way’ for Lord’s Prayer and National Anthem
Christian Nationalism in action: “prayers and songs prioritised over a water catastrophe” claim opposition councillors
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The Three Sharp Points of the Ukrainian Trident
Paul Niland explains how short, medium and long term drone and missile attacks are turning the tide in Ukraine’s defence against Russian invasion
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How ‘Anonymous Quotes’ Are Used by Political Journalists and Spin Doctors to Deceive the Public
A startling admission by a Times journalist has revealed how political journalism and power really works in Westminster, reports Peter Oborne
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Nigel Farage Took £50,000 from Crypto Firms Then Said He Was ‘Not Aware’ of the Industry Funding His Party
The self-proclaimed ‘straight-talking’ Reform UK leader has been far from straight about who is funding his attempted rise to power, reports Iain Overton
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Times Journalist Reveals Westminster Fake News Scam
Stories quoting three sources can be nothing of the sort, according to the Times parliamentary sketch writer: they are all from the same person – a single Labour spin doctor
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‘This EHRC Code Will Make the UK a Hostile Environment for Trans People’
Keir Starmer’s Government promises trans people ‘dignity and respect’ but is overseeing a colossal failure to protect their rights and safety, argues Helen Belcher
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£6 Billion Was Wasted on Failed and Abandoned Conservative Government Schemes
MPs slam the “egregious waste” of billions of pounds being wasted on projects that failed to deliver the promised results
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Reform Council Sacks Long-Serving Vicar as Standards Chief, in Wave of Cuts to Scrutiny
Reverend Canon Hilary Barber says he was given no warning or thanks by Nigel Farage’s party for his years of service
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Government Urged to Act Fast to Prevent ‘Taps Running Dry’ Due to AI Data Centres and Climate Crisis
A new parliamentary report warns that rising temperatures, widespread leaks and the demands of a growing AI industry are putting unsustainable pressure on our water supply
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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
Sam Journet has been accused of bullying, intimidation and filming residents and staff with Meta-style camera glasses
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Reading the Riot Act: Reform UK’s Makerfield By-Election Candidate During the Summer of Trouble
The archive of Robert Kenyon’s suspended X account reveals intense activity after three children were murdered in Southport in 2024
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Ofcom Upholds Met Office Complaint Against Talk TV for Claiming Forecaster ‘Made Up’ Temperature Data
Exclusive: Broadcast regulator censures now-sacked Mike Graham’s show for unfairness to Met Office in landmark case
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Reform UK Councillor Shares Racist and Islamophobic Content and Backs Tommy Robinson
The newly-elected Wakefield councillor repeatedly shared extreme and racist content, and backed multiple far-right figures
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Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting’s Brexit Conundrum
As the tenth anniversary of Brexit approaches, the debate about whether to rejoin the EU is dominating the Labour leadership race, writes Chris Grey
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Reform UK Councillors Told to Speak Only to GB News’ as Party Shuns Local Press
Local news editor in Ipswich says Reform party chair instructed his councillors to shut out the press in favour of only speaking to the right-wing news channel
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‘Flag Man’ Behind Nazi-Linked Anti-Migrant Protests Pleads Guilty to Assaulting Woman
Craig Kitts, who says he is fighting to ‘protect our women and children’ from migrants, admitted to assault by beating
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Reform UK Councillor Who Claimed Social Media Post Had Been ‘Misinterpreted’ as Racist Shared Multiple Other Offensive Posts
Posts uncovered by Byline Times show newly-elected Reform UK Councillor Ken Tranter comparing Muslims to cockroaches, who would “take over” the country
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How Tommy Robinson Disguises White Supremacism In the Coded Language of Anti-Islam Politics
Robinson repeatedly uses “native” for white, “invader” for non-white and “African” and “Somali” for black across 140 posts examined by Byline Times
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Ministry of Defence Slammed For ‘Incompetence’ After Sending F35 Jets to Gulf Without Spare Parts
The MoD’s Permanent Secretary warned of severe staff and equipment shortages, with some of the jets also grounded due to rust
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Toxic Pesticides Could Be Banned From UK Farms as Government Urged to Align With EU Rules
Ministers are considering a new report by a cross-party body which recommends closer alignment with European rules on limiting the use of harmful chemicals in our agriculture
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10,000 People Sign Official Petition Demanding Government End ‘Capture of UK Democracy by Media Billionaires’
Ministers will be forced to respond to the proposals for a new ‘Media Sovereignty Act’ after campaigners passed a key threshold
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The Political and Media Myopia That Has Paralysed Keir Starmer’s Government
Distorted and biased media coverage and short-sighted politics in Westminster have both prevented Starmer’s Government from reaching its potential, argues Professor Chris Painter
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The More Than 30 Scandal-Hit Reform Candidates Elected Last Week
Voters last Thursday returned dozens of Reform councillors who have variously pushed Islamophobia, antisemitic conspiracy theories, Covid denial and praise for Tommy Robinson and Enoch Powell
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‘The Speech I Wish Keir Starmer Had Given’
Alexandra Hall Hall delivers the big reset speech she wishes the Prime Minister actually had made after Labour’s local elections defeats
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Sadiq Khan Interview: ‘I Know I’m Clickbait, I Know I’m Being Monetised’
The London Mayor talks to Byline Times about how ten years of rising algorithmic online hate has transformed our politics and put his own safety at risk
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‘Labour’s Leader Must Change Not Just Because Keir Starmer Is Unpopular, but Because of What Made Him Unpopular’
Replacing Keir Starmer won’t be enough to solve the far deeper problems of how a Labour Government lost the trust of the British people, argues his former adviser Simon Fletcher
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Rick Wilson’s Warning From America: Nigel Farage Will Be Your Donald Trump, Unless You Act Now
The former Republican strategist and Lincoln Project founder has some hard lessons for Conservatives and Labour alike
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‘Andy Burnham’s Return to Westminster Would Be About National Resilience’
The media psychodrama about Burnham’s potential return to Parliament misses a far more serious point, argues Labour MP Clive Lewis
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Local Election Results 2026: Morgan McSweeney’s ‘Blue Labour’ Legacy Lives On
Keir Starmer’s former adviser’s strategy of focusing on Reform-sympathetic ‘hero voters’, whilst spurning Labour’s natural supporters on the left, has led to a disastrous set of local election results for the party, reports Adam Bienkov
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American Democracy: A Race to the Bottom
A gerrymandering war between Republican and Democrat states risks devastating consequences for the functioning of our democracy, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
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Ukraine’s ‘Frozen’ Frontlines Are Shifting Significantly
A series of drone attacks on Russian oil facilities by Ukraine been a more significant blow to Putin’s war machine than Western sanctions
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Reform UK Treasurer and Donors Share London Address with Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs
Reform UK’s Treasurer and three other donors have handed £1.55 million to Nigel Farage from Britain’s most expensive apartment block which is home to sanctioned Russian oligarchs and massive post-Soviet wealth
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Reform UK Candidate Accused of Mocking Disabled Residents as ‘Benefit Scroungers’ and ‘Skanks’
Harry Phillips, who is standing for Nigel Farage’s party in Surrey, allegedly described a constituent and his wife as ‘ponces of society’ in leaked messages seen by Byline Times
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‘There Is No Land Called Palestine’: The Reform Pastor Preaching the End Times in Coventry
Reform candidate John Quintanilla tells his congregation that Islam brings “darkness” and the existence of Palestine is a “media lie”
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Exclusive Poll: Half of Labour’s Voters Set to Abandon Party in England as Keir Starmer’s ‘London Wall’ Crumbles
Support for Labour and the Conservatives set to fall severely at Thursday’s local elections, as Reform and the Greens make gains, an exclusive Omnisis poll for Byline Times suggests
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Reform UK Candidate Shared Antisemitic and Anti-Muslim Posts And Campaigned for Far-Right Restore Britain
Caspar Thomas, who Nigel Farage’s party says has now been expelled following inquiries by Byline Times and HOPE not hate, shared posts including grossly offensive racist slurs
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Reform UK Refuses to Explain Why Nigel Farage Met and Posed with Man Criminally Convicted for Violent Attack on Anti-Racism Meeting at a Church
For a year-and-a-half, Byline Times has attempted to get to the bottom of a photograph showing the party’s leader with far-right activists. Now, this newspaper’s findings cast fresh doubts on Farage’s claim that he refuses to associate with extreme elements of the populist right
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Nigel Farage’s Foreign Policy Chief Hosted Pro-Trump Think Tank Promoting Tariffs and Greenland Invasion
Alan Mendoza brought together serving British generals to the event where material was distributed endorsing the seizure of NATO-owned territory
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Reform’s Plan to ‘Punish’ Green Voters With Detention Centres is ‘Election Interference’ Complaints Argue
Watchdog asked to investigate after party’s home affairs spokesperson ‘guarantees’ areas electing Reform MPs will be exempt from 24,000-capacity migrant facilities
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‘Reform UK Wouldn’t Leave Me Alone’: My Experience Being Hounded to Stand for Nigel Farage’s Party
Reform UK repeatedly cold-called journalist Lucy Gape asking if she would stand as a local candidate. When she looked into it, it revealed a world of poor vetting and murky data practices
