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Fear and Loathing in Zugdidi: Dirty Tricks on the Georgian Campaign Trail
Amid mounting authoritarianism and widespread allegations of election-rigging, will Georgia’s democracy survive parliamentary polls scheduled for 26 October?
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UK Sanctions on Israeli Settlers are ‘Wholly Insufficient’ – the Violence Should be ‘Treated as Terrorism Rather Than Criminality’
The Foreign Secretary David Lammy is being urged to go much further in response to violence by Israeli settlers
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‘We Are All Palestinians’
A free preview of Anthony Barnett’s new monthly column exclusive to the Byline Times print edition
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Harris Fights Off Fox Grilling, but Polarised US Presidential Election Still Misses the Bigger Picture
Americans will go to the polls in less than 20 days but the race still dominated by personality rather than growing international crises
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‘Wes Streeting’s Weight-Loss jab Plan to get Obese Unemployed People Back to Work Puts Economic Value Before Health’
The Health Secretary’s initiative shows that fatphobia is now one of the last acceptable forms of prejudice
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‘Keir Starmer’s Belief that Endless Growth Creates Stability is a Dangerously False Misrepresentation of the Situation we face’
A fixation with economic growth has led humanity to the brink of catastrophe, argues Tom Scott
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The Upside Down: The Surprisingly Racy History of Lettuce
In his monthly column, John Mitchinson reflects on why the old lettuce leaf is not so dull (Liz Truss aside)
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The House of Commons Wants Your Views on Modernising Parliament – Just Don’t Say ‘Knock it Down’
It’s a bid to clean up Parliament’s act after years of sleaze and lobbying scandals
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The Media is Displaying the Same Blind Spots that Allowed the Conservatives to Push Britain to the Brink
The British press’ selective scrutiny of the new Government is letting the country down, writes Hardeep Matharu and Peter Jukes
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Robert Jenrick Accepted £25,000 Donation from Firm Controlled by Sanctioned Oligarch
The Conservative leadership candidate received the money from a company controlled by billionaire Sir Len Blavatnik – who has been sanctioned by the Ukrainian government
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Indifference for the Disabled: A Traumatising Night Affecting My Every Day
In her monthly column, Penny Pepper describes the aftermath of a terrifying break-in, which she fears may have been a disability hate crime
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From the Sea to the Thames: Ocean Rowing MP’s Bid to Put ‘Climate and Nature’ at the Heart of Everything Government Does
Liberal Democrat MP and former ocean rower Dr Roz Savage is challenging the Government’s “narrow” environmental plans
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Conservatives Mount Bungled Defence of Hereditary Peers in Bizarre Commons Debate
Does the Conservative Party support or oppose the idea of hereditary peers? Most of them won’t say…
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Court Martial Data Exposes Dark Secrets of the Ministry of Defence and a ‘Severe Culture Problem it Doesn’t Know how to Deal With’
Byline Times investigation finds that 40% of all sexual offences committed by Royal Air Force personnel between 2014 and 2024 involved children
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Hezbollah Drone Attack Causes Panic Over Iron Dome as Israel’s war on UN Peacekeepers Accelerates
Hezbollah managed to breach the Iron Dome with an attack on a military base that resulted in the deaths of four soldiers and the wounding of over 60 – amid concerns Hamas may have found a way to breach the iron curtain dividing Gaza from Israel
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How the US Presidential Election may Turn November’s European Political Community Summit Into a Fight Over Ukraine
The summit, which is being hosted by Hungry’s far-right President Viktor Orbán, will take place days after the US goes to the polls.
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Politics in the Trenches: Ukrainian Soldiers Express Concern About US Support As Election Looms
The troops are fighting on as the race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump puts Ukraine’s future on the frontline of US politics
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Government to Reject SNP Bid to Scrap the House of Lords – But Hereditary Peers Will Go
Lords reform bill is “114 years too little, too late” Scottish National Party says as Commons prepares to debate scrapping hereditary peers
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Keir Starmer’s First 100 Days in Power: A Report Card
The Prime Minister reached the milestone as his popularity plummets in the aftermath of a freebies scandal and Sue Gray’s resignation. But has it all been bad?
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Why Yvette Cooper’s Claim That Middle East Conflict is Behind UK Hate Crime Spike ‘Completely Misses the Point – The Problem Runs Far Deeper’
A Home Office report on October 10 found that nearly 40% of religiously motivated hate crimes in the UK target Muslims
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Clean Water Protesters to March on Parliament Launch as They Urge Labour to Review ‘Failing, Greedy’ System
A clean water coalition is calling for the new Government to enforce existing laws and comprehensively review the UK’s entire water infrastructure and will march on parliament on 3 November
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Revealed: The Government’s 24 Extra Commitments on Workers’ Rights which go Way Beyond the New Employment Rights Bill
There are even more pro-worker reforms on their way, provided they avoid being kicked into the long grass amid employer lobbying
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Hurricane Milton: How Right Wing Media Ignored a Report Showing Climate Change Made the Storm Much Worse
As destruction spreads across Florida this week, Media Storm examines why the media is choosing to ignore the real causes of such extreme weather events
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Robert Jenrick Accepts Donations from ‘Family Friend’ Who Ships Arms to Israel
The Conservative leadership hopeful has received large donations from Quantum Pacific corporation, which is owned by Idan Ofer who featured in an earlier lobbying scandal involving the MP
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‘Darkly Comic’: Former Conservative Chairman Calls for Electoral Reform… But Only for His Party, After Leadership Voting Debacle
Is it one rule for them and another for everyone else?
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Kakhovka Dam Disaster: More Than a Year on Dnipro River is ‘Actively Recovering’ as Wildlife Returns in ‘Large Numbers’
An explosion collapsed the Russian-occupied dam on 6 June, killed 59 people and unknown amount of wildlife in the largest environmental catastrophe of the war so far
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The Shocking Consequences for Mums Whose Children are Taken Into Care and the Absence of Support Services Available to Them
A study released Thursday shows 22% of women who died during pregnancy or in the six weeks afterwards, were known to social services
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Starmer’s £22 Billion Carbon Capture Gamble is a ‘Waste of Money and Helps Polluting Sectors Avoid Changing How They Operate’
The Government is making a huge bet on a technology that has never previously delivered, argues climate campaigner Alethea Warrington
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Labour’s Workers’ Rights Bill: Nearly 50 Changes Could be in Government’s Plan for Employment Rights Law Shakeup
Behind the noise and spats in No 10, the Government is pushing ahead with laws that could define its time in office
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‘The Most Horrific Film Ever’ Depicting Aftermath of Nuclear Attack on UK to Air Again 40 Years After it First Shocked Audiences
Threads, a BBC drama-doc, first aired in September 1984, but, as the last two years have shown, the threat of nuclear war is as real now as it ever was
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COVID Inquiry: ‘The Headlines That Show the Media Failed to do its Job Before the Second Wave Hit’
When it became apparent that natural immunity would not prevent a second wave, right-wing media backed calls to remove measures and allow immunity to build up via infections
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Call for Palestine Solidarity Marchers to ‘Pay to Protest’ Slammed by London Assembly Members as ‘Completely Unworkable’
A renowned lawyer said the proposal, put forward by Lord Walney, shows ‘a real misunderstanding’ of the Human Rights Act
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Israel and US Plot to Reshape Middle East as ‘Compensation Package’ Offered to Stop Strikes on key Iranian Targets
The growing conflict, an analyst suggests, ‘represents a real opportunity to redraw the political map… and dismantle the Axis of Resistance’
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The Pro-Trump Money Pushing Libertarian ‘Young Voices’ on British TV
Talent agencies funded by right-wing American fossil fuel billionaires are helping to funnel hard right views onto our TV screens
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‘The Higher Education Act is a Culture War Tactic Designed by Right-Wingers to Ensure Their Views are Heard’
‘It is difficult not to regard the Act as a classic piece of doublethink designed to censor freedom of expression in the guise of protecting it’
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Why Reform UK is Far-Right – and why Using the Right Terminology Matters
As Reform UK draws the UK’s media eye at a press conference today, Hope Not Hate argues it’s time for journalists to call it out
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#MediaWatch: Sky Slammed for ‘Enabling Hate’ by Selling Ads for GB News for Years
Campaigners blast media giant for ‘supporting’ right-wing channel accused of fuelling racist riots, despite Sky’s claims of backing diversity
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Israel Targets Presumed new Hezbollah Leader in Beirut Strikes as Iran’s Leader Issues Warnings in Rare Speech
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the October 7 attack on Israel was the ‘minimum punishment’ it deserved for ‘astonishing crimes’
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‘How the ‘Terrorist’ Label is Used to Shut down Grievances and Ignore Human Rights – and is Less About How You’re Fighting, Than Who’
Why Israel has a ‘right to defend’ itself, but Iran’s ‘revenge’ does not qualify as ‘self-defence’. Unpicking the double standards playing out in Western media
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Claim of a Deal Between The Sun and Starmer Is ‘Conspiracy Theory Created For Clicks’, News UK Insiders Say
‘No such deal was done with Starmer. It simply did not happen’, one of a number of sources told Byline Times
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Kemi Badenoch’s Plans are a Mirror Image of Donald Trump Backers’ ‘Project 2025’ Agenda
The Conservative leadership candidate plans to dismantle Britain’s institutions, in a hard-right overhaul that echoes that of Trump supporters in the US
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How the Online Safety Act Risks Pushing Young People to Dangerous Spaces Online
Age-verification requirements offer a false sense of safety, and risk both privacy and national security
