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OUT NOW – EDITION 70 – FEBRUARY 2025
Cover Story
The Westminster Spy Ring and the Crocodile of Autocracy
Sergei Cristo
How Russian Information Warfare Primed the World for the Tech Autocracy of Musk and Trump
Peter Jukes
From Brexit to X: We Live With the Consequences of Why Nothing Was Done About Russian Interference
Ian Lucas
‘The Spy Game Has Changed’
Charles Beaumont
The Tech Bros Move Fast and Break Things – First Up: Democracy
Manasa Narayanan and Sabrina Provenzani
Plus: Special Investigation
Who Really Profits From Pornography?
Iain Overton
exclusive to the print edition
trumpocracy
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Trump’s Meme Coin Debacle Reveals a President Ushering in a New Era of Institutionalised Grift
Donald Trump and his associates are already cashing in handsomely from his presidency
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Anti-Trump Campaigners Fear Starmer’s US Ambassador Pick Peter Mandelson Could Slash UK Regulations to Secure Trade Deal
They worry Starmer’s Government will ‘slash and burn’ consumer regulations and protections in order to sign a UK-US trade deal with Donald Trump
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‘Trump’s Return Must Be a Turning Point for the UK to Stop Pandering to America and Forge a Brighter Future With Europe’
Trump is taking the US in a dark direction and we must not let ourselves be dragged along with him, argues Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer
the broligarchs
Labour struggles
Denying the emergency
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How a Police Crackdown on Climate Protests Made Me Join the Frontline for the First Time
“For me, the act of civil disobedience was a stand against the increasing erosion of a fundamental pillar of democracy – our right to protest”
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‘2024 Was the First Year Above 1.5C of Global Warming – Here’s How We Should Respond’
Extinction Rebellion UK reflects on the meaning of this historic moment
the crisis in British journalism
BYLINE PODCAST
Behind the Headlines
BACK IN THE NEWS – The Far-Right Grooming of Survivors of Child Sexual Exploitation
Byline Times’ Back Catalogue to Help Join up the Dots
Special Investigation: ‘The Far-Right Is Cynically Taking Advantage of Child Sexual Exploitation Survivors’
Andrew Kersley spent five months speaking to survivors of child sexual exploitation and experts on the ‘grooming’ of vulnerable women by far-right groups to understand why it is happening
Special Investigation: ‘Muslim Grooming Gangs’ – An Old Conspiracy Mainstreamed by Today’s Politicians and Press
Part Three: In 2020, a two-year study of crime data and academic research by the Home Office concluded that ‘group-based offenders are most commonly white’
Special Investigation: ‘Muslim Grooming Gangs’ – An Old Conspiracy Mainstreamed by Today’s Politicians and Press
Part Three: In 2020, a two-year study of crime data and academic research by the Home Office concluded that ‘group-based offenders are most commonly white’
Special Investigation: Society’s Reluctance to Acknowledge the Scale of Child Sexual Abuse and a Lack of Political Support for Its Survivors is Keeping the Vulnerable At Risk
Part Four: The far-right is able to present itself as ‘filling the gap’ left by a lack of services with its own range of ‘support’ for survivors
ISRAELI AGGRESSION
Exclusive weekend investigations, more US coverage, more long reads, and weekday forums
- A Byline Podcast with Adrian Goldberg and Dan Evans
- In her exclusive column, Heidi Siegmund Cuda offers personal reflections on her fire-scarred community and the weaponization of disaster
- Instead of demonising them, right wing politicians and media organisations need to accept the growing role migrants will have in our democracy, argues the Bear
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