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‘Sunak’s Climate Betrayal is a Retreat Into the Politics of Unpopulism’
The Prime Minister is abandoning a popular green agenda in order to benefit a shrinking minority of voters, writes Josiah Mortimer
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‘The Northern Ireland Troubles Amnesty Could Push us Towards a United Ireland’
A new bill passed by the UK Government has reopened deep wounds in Northern Irish politics
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Government Rejects Call For Voters To Boot Out No-Show MPs Like Nadine Dorries
Nadine Dorries has prompted a debate over whether MPs should be forced to attend Parliament – rather than attend their lucrative TV gigs.
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MPs Demand Answers From GB News on ‘Serious Accusations’ Against Dan Wootton
The Chair of Parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport Committee wrote to the Channel following the extensive allegations against Wootton, as reported by Byline Times.
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Migration Policy Mired in Hyperbolic Rhetoric Won’t Help if it’s Targeted at the Wrong People
If the West really wants to end migration, there is a solution: spend more money in the countries migrants are fleeing.
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Beyond Ukraine’s Western Allies, Condemnation of Putin has Been Lacking. Can Ukraine Appeal to the Global South?
As Brazil assumes the presidency of the G20 and the UN offers concessions to Russia, is Ukraine losing the war of hearts and minds?
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The Affluent and the Effluent: Conservative Environment Secretary Slammed for ‘Lack of Leadership’ and ‘Complacency’
From growing sewage pollution to rising water bills and lack of investment, Lord Hollick criticises Therese Coffey’s failure to address a Lords report
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Activist Who Held Sign Outside Court Informing Jurors of ‘Right to Acquit’ Insulate Britain Activists Could Face Two Years in Jail
The Attorney General’s office has said it plans to push forward contempt of court proceedings against retired social worker Trudi Warner.
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Putin’s Post-Truth Politics: The Impeachment of Biden is History Rewritten as Farce
The spurious Republican inquiry treads the same treacherous ground of Russian propaganda exposed in the impeachment of Trump
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Gendered Violence: The Hidden War Against Women in Northern Ireland
Why is Northern Ireland one of the most dangerous places in Europe for women, with femicide levels outranked only by Romania?
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Rishi Sunak Should End His ‘War on Woke’, Say Voters
Exclusive new poll finds the public is far more tolerant of diversity and cultural change than the Government appears to believe, Adam Bienkov reports
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The Trials and Tribulations of Court Reporting in the Social Media Age
Reflecting on a decade of court reporting, James Doleman explains how the apparent formality helps take the emotion out of awful events and focus on the evidence
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London Arms Fair Showcases Record Exhibitors Amid Ukraine Invasion – Byline Times Finds UK Company Secured £1 Million Drone Contract for Ukrainian Special Forces
The world’s largest arms fair promises peace in the world
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Insurance Firms Won’t Provide Financial Backing for Cumbrian Coal Mine
Four companies have ruled out underwriting the controversial plans for a deep mine off the coast at St Bees
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Rishi Sunak’s ‘100,000 Migrants Under Labour’ Lie is Proof of his Weakness
An increasingly desperate Prime Minister is resorting to false claims about his opponents in order to cling to office, writes Adam Bienkov
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Dan Wootton’s Conflicting Accounts Over Phillip Schofield’s ‘Outing’
The GB News presenter has said he would ‘never out’ anybody – but our returning special three-year #MediaToo investigation examines his role in revealing men as gay through the pages of The Sun and News of the World
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Sunak’s Government Accused of Allowing UK Businesses to Profit from Chinese Slave Labour
Human rights groups say the UK is turning a blind eye to human rights abuses in China
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‘A Poor Country with a Few Rich People in it’: Renowned Inequalities Expert Speaks Out as Bereaved Families Give their Accounts of ‘The Unequal Pandemic’
A new short film reveals the heart-wrenching stories of those who lost their loved ones to COVID – and exposes the politics of poverty behind the crisis
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Mother Fears her Child Becoming the ‘Next Awaab Ishak’ as Damp and Mouldy Home is Left Untreated
Grace Oppong told Byline Times that her daughter has been repeatedly hospitalised due to mould and damp
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The Upside Down: Why Our Rituals of Death Need Re-Thinking
John Mitchinson reflects on what he learned about the ‘baffling presence of absence’ when his father died in his arms
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Singer Will Young Reveals Why He’ll ‘Never Forgive’ the Conservatives as He Launches New Animal Rights Campaign
“While I was at the funeral for my brother…there were only four people, because of social distancing. I will never forget that,” song-writer and actor Will Young tells Byline Times.
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One Alleged Chinese Spy Simply Means There Are Many More
China has emerged as a greater threat than Russia, despite Ukraine. In the New Cold War, China is richer, more populous, and the dominant power pitted against the West
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Plans to Massively Expand UK’s Largest Private Jet Airport Face Mounting Local Opposition
“We must stop expanding aviation until the technology exists to provide emission free, low-noise flights.”
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Lords Report Slams Office for Students as a Potential ‘Smoke Screen’ for Post-Brexit Culture Wars
UK higher education qualifications have been suspended from the European quality standards body because of the way the Office for Students was regulating universities.
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Voter ID Made it Harder for Young, Poor and Ethnic Minorities to Vote, Official Study Finds
The study suggests that those groups less likely to vote Conservative were more likely to be turned away
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‘For me to return to Afghanistan… It’s Death’: The Reality of Demonised Asylum Seekers
What are the forces driving refugees across the Channel? What are they fleeing? What are they hoping for?
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Putin is Consolidating Power: It’s Time to Help Ukraine End the War
New Kremlin purges only cement Russia’s hardline commitment to the disastrous invasion
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Home Office Faces Legal Challenge Against ‘Appalling’ Use of Bibby Stockholm Barge to House Refugees
“Human beings do not belong in barges or camps. The correct way to house people is to house them in communities.”
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The Departure Lounge
Byline Times regular court reporter James Doleman reflects on his terminal diagnosis and the kafkaesque bed blocking situation many like him find themselves in
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Westminster’s Two-Party ‘Duopoly’ Leaves Voters with ‘Little Choice’ and Lacking ‘Meaningful Voice’, Study Finds
Political distrust has often “been the first step in a sequence of autocratisation, resulting in the breakdown of democracy itself” the report notes.
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Government Changes to UK’s Emissions Trading Scheme: More Evidence of Sunak Abandoning the Green Project
An adjustment to the scheme will make it cheaper for companies to pollute, boosting their corporate profits
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Press Watchdog Writes to Conservatives and Party Chairs Over ‘Misleading’ Fake Newspapers
The party is “misleading voters into believing what they are reading is the work of local journalists from independent publications”
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‘Sunak’s Failure to Attend the UN General Assembly is a Disrespectful Missed Opportunity’
Britain cannot assume other countries will automatically bend the knee to it based on the country’s past historic greatness, writes former diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
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‘Rather than Blaming Capitalism, the Right Blames the Immigrant’
The significant gains made by the right across Europe in recent years haven’t appeared out of the blue, writes Simon Speakman Cordall
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Saudi Sportswashing and the Silence of the Fans
As Saudi Arabia prepares to play two ‘home’ international matches in Newcastle this weekend, Adrian Goldberg asks if Saudi money has muzzled outrage at the Kingdom’s well-documented human rights abuses
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Britain’s Best Days are Behind Us Under the Conservatives, Say British People
A majority of voters believe “nothing in Britain really works” and say Rishi Sunak’s party has made public services worse, according to an exclusive new poll
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‘Noisy Reporting’ by Media of COVID Financial Scandals led to UK’s Slump in Corruption Index, Cabinet Office Claims
A new parliamentary report reveals that, apart from the £16.4 billion estimated tax and benefit fraud found by the National Audit Office last year, ministers have no idea about the level of fraud in the rest of government
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Another Russian War Crime and the Question of Genocide
Russia’s attack on a crowded market in Kostiantynivka was the latest in a long line of mass casualty strikes that have been inflicted on Ukrainian citizens
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Dozens of Tory and Labour MPs Can Claim Extra Allowance for Third Child – Despite Backing ‘Cruel’ Two-Child Benefit Cap
422,000 households across the UK are estimated to be affected by the two-child allowance limit – but not Members of Parliament
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‘This Is Ethnic Cleansing… They Want to Finish What They Started’: Inside the Siege of Nagorno-Karabakh
Decades of war and the memory of genocide add to the threat of starvation in the blockaded Armenian enclave
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Climate ‘Sceptic’ MP Steve Baker in War of Words Over Local Campaign Group Bidding to Unseat Him
The former European Research Group chairman was a prominent Brexiteer but has now turned his attention to anti-Net Zero campaigning.
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‘Yes Gillian, the Tories have done a F**cking Good Job… of Ruining Britain’
Like some effluent King Midas, everything the Conservative Government has touched has turned to crap, writes Otto English
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Courts to Face Wave of Protests as Climate Campaigners Say Right to Jury Trial ‘Under Attack’
Climate campaigners say the right to jury trial faces unprecedented threats – with several activists facing court proceedings for telling jurors of their ‘right to acquit’ on conscience
