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Dazed and Confused: How the World Must Respond to Trump’s Assault on the Global Trading System
Former EU Trade Negotiator John Clarke on how to counter the method behind the madness of current US trade policy
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Prisons Overcrowding Crisis to Force Keir Starmer to Release Thousands More Prisoners Early
The crisis followed the last Conservative Government’s failure to fulfil its promise to build up to 20,000 more prisons places before leaving office
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Guerrilla Ad Campaign Attacks UK Government For Doing Trade Talks with Israel ‘War Criminals’
Anonymous activists plaster adverts on Tube trains showing Foreign Secretary David Lammy with “war criminal” Israeli PM Netanyahu
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Populist Simplicity in a Hyper-Complex World: Will Trump Overplay His Hand?
Hardeep Matharu dissects what the now infamous Oval Office meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky revealed about the American President’s approach – and speaks to political scientist Brian Klaas about why his ‘alternative realities’ don’t stack up against real-world complexities
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Trump’s Mob Rule: An Offer We Can Only Refuse
If Europeans come from Venus, Peter Jukes observes, it’s only because they are aware (unlike Elon Musk) of the bleak devastation of Mars
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Starmer’s Moment of Truth: ‘Britain Must Align Itself with Europe’s Regulated Capitalism and Collective Security’
The PM’s pronouncement that Britain need not choose between the US and Europe is ‘downright reckless’ and an ‘exercise in dangerous delusion’, argues Clive Lewis
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Free Speech Union to Work With Elon Musk as X Owner’s Influence in UK Spreads
Toby Young said he hoped it would be the first of ‘many’ legal collaborations between X and his organisation
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Leading Economists Rebut Business Lobby’s Claims Workers’ Rights Bill Will Cause ‘Havoc’
Open letter argues stronger worker protections boost productivity and create economic stability as Labour MPs challenge Reform UK to clarify position on popular legislation
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‘Letters To My Younger Selves – And the Quiet Women Who Made Me Who I Am’
The voyage of my life could never be described as ‘easy’, writes Penny Pepper, but it has been built around friendships that brought illumination in the toughest of times
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New ‘Emergency Board’ Puts Pressure on Thames Water and Government Amid Court Chaos
Activists tap into public anger over ‘fundamentally broken’ water industry
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Women Launch Legal Challenge Against Watchdog Over ‘Bullying’ Employment Judge
Ten complainants, including doctors and a nuclear whistleblower, claim judge displayed misogynistic behaviour in employment tribunals – but judicial regulator refuses to investigate
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The Brutalist: How Europe Can Respond to Trump’s New World Order
For all its chaos in operation, Trump’s regime has a strategic rationale and must be fought strategically, argues Jon Bloomfield
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Republican Activist Wins Police Settlement After Unlawful Arrest for Shouting at King Charles’ Proclamation
Thames Valley Police acknowledges arrest was unlawful but offers no formal apology as campaigner Symon Hill warns of ‘wider struggle’ to protect protest rights
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Cabinet Office Misled the Public Over Michael Gove’s Involvement with VIP Lane’s Biggest Winner
Unispace Global were awarded £679 million in PPE deals from the government after the company’s offer “came through” Cabinet Minister Michael Gove – contradicting the then-Government’s claims of no involvement
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One Hundred Days of Protests: Georgia on the Crossroads between East and West
Zarina Zabrisky explores the cultural and political tensions of a country caught in the crossfire of global conflict
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‘The Media is Misreporting Why People Aren’t Having Children’
These are the real reasons birthrates are falling, argue Mathilda Mallinson and Helena Wadia
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Keir Starmer’s ‘Geo-Political Minefield’ Between Donald Trump and Europe
With Starmer thrust into a damage limitation exercise by the Ukraine crisis, Chris Painter reflects on the fluctuating relations between British Prime Ministers and American Presidents.
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Warning Over UK ‘Slide Towards Authoritarianism’ After Raft of Just Stop Oil Prison Sentences Are Upheld
The Court of Appeal upheld sentences totalling 35 years for climate activists
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Clouds Darken Over Ukraine: But Is There a Sliver of a Silver Lining?
In his regular dispatch from Kyiv, Chris York explains how US actions feel like a complete betrayal in the interests of Putin
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Conservative Peer Lord Feldman Helped ‘Good Friend’ of Michael Gove Win VIP PPE Deal
Documents released by the Covid Inquiry reveal a network of connections between senior ministers, advisers and those handed lucrative Covid contracts
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Needs Musk: Minister Pledges Crackdown on ‘Dark Money’ in British Politics
Keir Starmer’s Government looks set to close loopholes that would allow foreign billionaires like Elon Musk to bankroll UK political parties
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‘Anneliese Dodds’s Principled Resignation Should Be a Warning for Keir Starmer’
The International Development Secretary’s departure was overshadowed by world events this week, but it risks having a much longer lasting impact on the Government’s fortunes, argues Neal Lawson
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Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is Now Britain’s Biggest Far-Right Threat, Finds Report
The ‘State of Hate’ report comes in the wake of last summer’s racist riots and growing waves of extremist sentiment stirred up by public figures like Elon Musk
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Conservative Fixer Lord Feldman Lobbied Boris Johnson to Push Through Dyson’s Ventilator Contract
Private messages between Boris Johnson and his team reveal they were “on a mission” to secure the contract with leading Brexiteer James Dyson
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For Ukrainian Survivors of Putin’s War, Donald Trump is Yet Another Threat to Their Lives
“Let the Trumpists come and spend a few days [here] and feel, hear, and see how Putin ‘wants peace’” a mother of a fallen Ukrainian soldier tells Kris Parker
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Caught in the Net: Star Wars Tactics and Geopolitical Struggles in Kherson
An exclusive Byline Times interview with Oleksandr Prokudin, Head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration
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UK’s £32m Investment in Peter Thiel-backed Autonomous Weapons Firm Revealed Amid Deepening Ties to Trump Administration
The contracts, seen by Byline Times, include £7 million for a fleet of near silent ‘ghost drones’
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The Loopholes That Allow MPs’ Corrupt Conflicts of Interests to Go Undetected
New research exposes the gaps in parliamentary rules which allow MPs to hide their donations, financial interests and client relationships from voters
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Michael Gove Told Officials to Buy 10,000 Ventilators From Dyson During Pandemic in ‘Affront’ to Procurement Rules
Evidence published by the Covid Inquiry reveals that the Conservative Minister was “insistent that an order” was placed with leading Brexiter Sir James Dyson’s firm
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Holocaust Survivor Summoned for Police Interview Over Gaza Solidarity Protest
Stephen Kapos, 87, is among dozens of activists interviewed or charged by police for their part in the January 18th pro-Palestine protest in London
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‘It’s Time to End the Trump Denialism and Admit the US Is No Longer Europe’s Ally’
Keir Starmer’s attempts to be an “honest broker” with Donald Trump are doomed to failure, argues Adam Bienkov
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The British Press Has Been Given ‘Virtual Impunity’ for Bad Behaviour, Warns Media Regulator
The next big media scandal is only a matter of time, says independent watchdog, after successive governments refuse to further regulate the industry
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Millions of People are Unable to Vote in the UK, as Report Reveals Numbers of Foreign Citizens Disenfranchised by Seat
Some parliamentary seats have as many as 30,000 voting-age residents who are unable to vote
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‘Trump’s Embrace of Putin Should Push the UK Back Towards the EU’
The UK must accept that its economic and political interests now lean heavily towards Europe, argues Richard Barfield
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‘I went on Channel 4 Show Go Back To Where You Came From – There’s One Thing We All Agreed on’
Mathilda Mallinson was one of two pro-immigration cast members on the controversial Channel 4 show. She explains what the show taught her
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Fear and Favour: What Does Trump Owe Putin? Maybe His Life
With the increasingly bizarre compliance of the US President to the Russian President, Zarina Zabrisky wonders if the KGB/FSB tradition of assassination and mafia-style intimidation may be key
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How the German Elections Were ‘Successfully Manipulated’ By Foreign Actors and AI-Generated Content
Social media posts using generative AI were widely circulated by far-right supporters and the AfD
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‘If Labour Is Serious About Overhauling Disability Benefits It Must Stop Letting Employees Work People Into Sickness’
Labour has announced plans to make the same amount of welfare cuts proposed by the Conservative Government, writes Kasmira Kincaid and Charles Aprile
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UK Taxpayers’ Cash Is Funding an Arms Firm Whose Biggest Shareholder Is Now Bankrolling Nigel Farage’s Reform UK
The UK Government’s big increase in defence spending will likely hugely benefit Reform UK’s biggest donor
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‘Reform’s Policies Are Dangerously Out of Step With Public Opinion and It’s Time the Media Started Scrutinising Them’
The British press has given Nigel Farage’s party a free ride for too long, argues Salman Shaheen
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The Utter Mismanagement of HS2 Is Now Damaging the UK’s Global Reputation, Say MPs
A new parliamentary investigation details the many billions of pounds wasted on a scheme, the exact future of which still remains in doubt, reports David Hencke
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Trump’s War on ‘Woke’ and DEI: Incubated by a Nazi Eugenics Foundation
Mainstream American conservative icons Christopher Rufo, Peter Boghossian, and Richard Hanania – who inspired Trump’s assault on diversity – were bankrolled by the funder of a Nazi eugenics foundation
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Why Releasing Alaa Abdel Fattah Is the Right Thing to Do
Yasmine Ahmed talks to Lala Soueif who has spent almost 150 days on hunger strike in protest over her son’s imprisonment in Egypt
