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Israel Inches Closer to All-Out Regional War as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Fights for Political Survival
‘Netanyahu is really the biggest danger to the state of Israel’
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Voters Say They Aren’t Hearing Enough About the Climate in This Election, Amid ‘Silence’ on Issue in BBC Debate
The final head to head debate between Starmer and Sunak didn’t have a single question on climate or nature.
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Dismay as Starmer Backs Westminster’s ‘Winner Takes All’ Voting System as Labour Eyes Big Majority
During his Labour leadership election, Starmer hinted at backing proportional representation. But he now appears to support continuing with Westminster’s First Past The Post voting system
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Conservative Party Blitzes Facebook with Hundreds of ‘Desperate’ Campaign Adverts Falsely Claiming Labour Plans to Hit Drivers With a ‘National ULEZ’
Rishi Sunak’s party has been accused of lying to the public after posing as independent fact checkers during the BBC Leaders Debate
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Labour Urged to Increase Support for Ukraine and Play ‘Leading Role’ in Ensuring It Can ‘Defeat’ Russia
An appeal, backed by prospective Labour MPs and members of the Trade Union Movement, has identified a number of key changes it wants a Starmer-led government to make to ensure that Ukraine wins the war
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Conservative Donor and Government Trade Advisor ‘Caught on Tape Attempting to Secretly Take £100,000’ From Fellow Tory Donor and Business Associate
David Meller CBE allegedly appeared to acknowledge on the recording that the money belonged to Michael Sherwood and asked that the request be kept “secret”
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Vulnerable Children Still Barred From Celebrity-Run Children’s Care Home After Scathing Tribunal Judgment
A judge has ruled that Ampika Pickston’s AP Care Homes Ltd has a ‘very serious history of failure in a very short time’
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The Veteran’s Vendetta: ‘Why Johnny Mercer’s Attacks on a Former Serviceman and Political Rival Are So Problematic’
Mercer has said it is the ‘long-standing policy of successive governments not to comment on the activities of our Special Forces’ – but expects his political rival, Fred Thomas, to deviate from it
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Julian Assange’s Wife Urges Supporters to Keep ‘Eyes’ on Case as He is Freed from UK Prison and Set to Appear Before US Judge
The WikiLeaks founder is currently on his way to the Northern Mariana Islands where he will plead guilty to a single charge before returning to Australia
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A Revealing Argument from The Times of London: ‘Don’t Worry About Journalistic Ethics, What Matters is the Money’
Columnist Gerard Baker glossed over the Murdoch press’ criminality in a recent comment piece – and the accusations against his own Editor. Why?
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New Parliament To Be Loaded with MPs From Water Industry – Amid Concerns ‘Bias’ Won’t Help Combat Sewage Discharges
‘There is a long history of industry leaders and lobbyists becoming politicians. In principle, this can be beneficial – but rarely is’
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‘By Mobilising Their Members Onto the Streets, Is this a New Dawn for the Power of Conservation Charities to Enact Change?’
The influence of wildlife charities has been insignificant in the face of the financial and lobbying might of the vested interests profiting from nature destruction, writes Charlie Gardner
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Top Banker Who Advised Gambling Commission to Award National Lottery to Czech Company Was Helping Winner Just Weeks Before
The Gambling Commission is being sued for mishandling the bidding process – which comes as it investigates suspicious betting activities ahead of the General Election
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‘Nigel Farage’s Endorsement of Andrew Tate’s Matrix Won’t Win My Vote’
There are three legal cases against Tate pending – involving accusations of abusive behaviour towards women, human trafficking, and sexual assault
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The Conservatives Claim a Website Design Firm They Handed £100,000 in Taxpayer Cash is ‘Independent’ but it’s Listed at an Address Owned by a CCHQ Staffer
Records seen by Byline Times throw doubt on the party’s claims about the tech firm employed by Conservative MPs
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The 1900 Club and the Conservative Party: An Inside Look at the Secretive ‘Dining Club That Does More Than Dine’
A recently unearthed booklet on The 1900 Club sheds some light on the history of the organisation and its ties to the Conservative Party
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Returning to Putin’s Russia: Why People Who Dodged Mobilisation for the Ukraine War Are Returning Home and Happy About it
When Putin tried to mobilise an army to boost troops in his war on Ukraine, some 700,000 people fled. More than two years on, many have returned home. Why?
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Having Outlawed Foreign Influence, Georgian Dream Initiates Anti-LGBTQ+ Law
Tbilisi Pride says that it is in the ‘ultimate battle for our lives… and if we lose, we will have to go into exile’
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‘Britain’s Long History of Corruption and Cover-Ups and the Dire Consequences for Those the Government Chooses to Ignore’
If a likely new Labour government wants to truly mark a difference from the Conservatives, it needs to fix the systemic failings, writes former diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
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Veterans Won’t Be Able to Use Veterans’ ID Cards to Vote in General Election – Despite Rishi Sunak Claiming he is ‘Proud of Our Record Supporting’ Them After Skipping D-Day Event
A leaked memo by Veterans’ Affairs Minister Johnny Mercer revealed Rishi Sunak’s circle initially denied requests to allow the cards to be accepted over fears it would ‘open the floodgates’ to student ID cards
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The Conservative Voters Secretly Hoping for a ‘Wipeout’ of Rishi Sunak’s Party
Exclusive new polling finds that even among current Conservative voters, many believe a wipeout for the party would actually be a “positive” result
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‘A Person Lost Everything and We Call It Illegal Migration? It’s Not Fair’
The latest episode of the hit Media Storm podcast focuses on the more positive narratives around refugees that journalists could disseminate – and why they selectively choose not to
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‘Elections are a Chance to Make Money’: How the Conservative Spivocracy Cashed in
The Conservative election betting scandal is just the tip of the iceberg from a party whose senior figures and donors have treated their time in Government as a ‘gift that keeps on giving’
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Will Lewis and The Washington Post: ‘Real Journalists Don’t Ignore the Failings of Their Own Industry the Way the UK Press Does’
In the US, reporters on The Washington Post are investigating their own bosses – and their stories get published. It is hard to even contemplate such fearless reporting happening in the UK, writes Brian Cathcart
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‘It’s Far More Complicated Now Because of Voter ID’: Unprecedented Challenges Facing the Poll Workers Who Deliver Our Democracy
Matt Gallagher examines elections staffs’ repeated warnings of electoral ‘delivery failure’
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How Labour’s ‘Plan to Make Work Pay’ Could Mark a Turning Point for the UK Trade Union Movements
The question for workers and bosses alike is not whether change is coming, but how far-reaching and transformative it will be
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Overseas Voters Could Swing UK Election in Seats Around the Country – Latest Figures Revealed
Around a quarter of a million Brits living abroad could vote on 4 July, affecting results in areas they no longer live
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Voter ID: Hundreds of Thousands Risk Being Turned Away From Polls, Leading Human Rights Group Warns
Human rights group Liberty says there is a “huge risk” of large numbers of voters being denied their democratic rights
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Tactical Voting and the Tyranny of the MRP
Tactical sites should acknowledge the limitations of MRP projections for their advice, and look hard at how – and whether – they should publish the MRP data, and be more willing to press their manual override buttons
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Now is the Time for the West to Transform Armenia into a Major Non-NATO Ally
Now is the time for the West to undo past mistakes and integrate a valuable country into becoming a future non-NATO ally
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The Five Questions Nigel Farage is Never Asked About Brexit, Trump and Russia
As the media provides the Reform Leader with a prominent platform, Peter Jukes considers all the concerning lines of enquiry that journalists never confront him with
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Nigel Farage Claims ‘Corruption’ in the UK’s Postal Vote System – and Suggests Trump Lost to Biden due to ‘Ballot Harvesting’
Nigel Farage echoes Trump supporters’ conspiracy theories about electoral fraud in 2020 and makes unevidenced claims of corruption in the UK postal voting system
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‘Marina Hyde’s “The Rest is Entertainment” Comments on Fossil Free Books and Baillie Gifford Completely Miss the Point’
The politicisation of literary events and artistic institutions began when corporate sponsors bought their way into these spaces, writes Russell Warfield
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BBC Question Time: Analysis of Guests Over Nine Years Suggests Overuse of Right-Wing Voices
Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, Media and Culture can reveal some troubling insights into the flagship political debate programme
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How Conservative MPs Became the New ‘Shy Tories’ – Attempting to Win Votes by Distancing Themselves From their Party
The ‘Shy Tory’ effect now extends beyond voters to Conservative incumbents as critics complain that voters shouldn’t need a ‘magnifying glass to work out’ who they are voting for
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Meet Zviad ‘Khareba’ Kharazishvili, Georgia’s Alleged Minister for State Violence
“He’s emotionless, unblinking, a special kind of animal. When financial sanctions finally drop, Khareba needs to be one of the first people targeted”
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Brits Living Overseas Register to Vote in Large Numbers After Government Change – But Non-British UK Residents Locked Out
This is the first general election in which every Brit living overseas can vote, but many non-British workers living in the UK feel deliberately excluded
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‘In the Sixth-Richest Country in the World, How Can You Build a Welfare State on Food Banks?’ The Stats that Reveal Just how Widespread Food Poverty Is In the UK
Combined Trussell Trust and Independent Food Aid Network data lays bare the breadth of food banks in the UK – themselves symptoms of a far deeper food poverty crisis
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Criminal Barrister Makes Case for Why Main Political Parties Missed Chance to Combat Crime and Fix Justice System this Election
A lawyer with 25 years of experience in the criminal justice system critiques the “underwhelming” pledges made in party manifestos
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‘Keir Starmer’s Defence of the Two Child Benefit Cap is Indefensible’
The Labour leader’s refusal to commit to scrapping George Osborne’s austerity-era policy risks committing hundreds of thousands more children into poverty
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‘The West Should use Frozen Russian Billions to Fund Ukraine Victory – Fear is the Only Thing Holding Them Back’
Why is the West holding back from the opportunity to seize the $300 billion of frozen Russian money sitting in its banks?
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Anti-Conservative Tactical Voting Website for General Election Crashes Due to ‘Extremely High Demand’
The guide is designed to oust the Conservatives from Government – but smaller parties have questioned some of the recommendations
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Large Numbers of Brits are Still Misinformed About Voter ID – and It Could See Them Blocked from the Ballot Box
Exclusive polling reveals that four-in-ten voters wrongly believe they will just need a polling card in order to vote in the general election
