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‘Peter Mandelson’s Sacking Is an Opportunity for Keir Starmer to Rethink His Trump-Pandering’
Starmer must square his claimed disgust about Mandelson’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, with his embrace of Trump, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
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Keir Starmer’s Reluctant Sacking of Peter Mandelson Over Epstein Connections Gives the Lie to His ‘Crackdown on Cronyism’
The Prime Minister and his advisers spent years dismissing questions about Mandelson’s relationship with the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein
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Reform UK Accused of ‘Betraying Residents’ for Benefit of Fossil Fuel Donors as More Net Zero Targets Scrapped
Nigel Farage’s party is scrapping green initiatives in local authorities across the country after taking millions of pounds in donations from oil and gas interests
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‘There Is Still Time to Save the Labour Party From Itself and Forge a New Political Mainstream’
Keir Starmer is presiding over the decline of social democracy in Britain, but an alternative path is still possible, argues Neal Lawson
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‘Calling Reform Racist Doesn’t Work’ Say Unions as They Shift Strategy to Counter Nigel Farage’s Party
Union leaders are changing tack amidst rising support for Nigel Farage’s party among their members
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BBC Accused of Pro-Reform Bias as Lib Dems Launch Campaign to End ‘Wall to Wall’ Farage Coverage
They accuse the BBC of “following Farage around like a lost puppy” and have complained to Ofcom to demand fair coverage
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How Reform UK Is Importing Conspiracy-Fuelled MAGA Politics to the UK
Reform’s annual conference was filled with anti-vaxxers, climate change deniers and senior advisers to the Trump administration
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UK Surveillance Flights Over Gaza: Are We Israel’s Useful Idiots?
The UK may inadvertently be helping Israeli forces bomb civilian areas in Gaza, explains Iain Overton
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‘A Serious Escalation’: Putin Launches Russia’s Largest Aerial Assault on Ukraine Since 2022
Russian aggression against Ukraine continues to escalate, despite Putin’s pretence at seeking peace, reports Zarina Zabrisky
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‘Racists Started Hurling Rocks and Abuse at My Family’: New Deputy Green Leader On His Own Experience of Far Right Hate
Mothin Ali, co-deputy leader of the Green Party, on being on the receiving end of racist abuse – and his ‘disappointment’ in Jeremy Corbyn’s new project
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Angela Rayner: Understanding the Pressures That Cost the Deputy PM Her Job
Where once honour, public service, even a sense of historical duty could command respect, today those values are dimmed in comparison to the pursuit of material position, argues Clive Lewis MP
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The Big Tobacco, Climate Denial Lobbyist and Crypto Firms Sponsoring the Reform UK Conference
Big corporations and lobby groups are putting their cash behind the rise of Nigel Farage’s party
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Reform Deputy Leader Owns £4m Mansion and Belgravia Pad While Attacking Angela Rayner’s ‘Property Mountain’
EXCLUSIVE: Richard Tice MP co-owns Buckinghamshire estate with tennis court and lake – despite his attacks on Rayner’s £800,000 flat purchase
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Reform UK Conference: Anti-Vax Misinformation Doctor Given Prime Health Slot
Leading doctors have accused Nigel Farage of putting lives at risk by letting Aseem Malhotra give the only health-related address at the conference
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Neo-Nazi Music Festival Cancelled After Opposition From Anti-Fascists
The “biggest white power gig in Britain in 10 years” was called off following opposition from local residents and anti-fascist campaigners
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Kemi Badenoch’s ‘Free Speech’ Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Party Conference
The ban on covering the party’s annual gathering came despite Badenoch’s repeated commitment to “fight” for free speech and a free press
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Palestine Action Arrests Condemned as ‘Deeply Alarming’ While British Press Remains Silent
The Liberal Democrats described the arrests of campaigners against the ban on the group as a “dangerous precedent” for free speech, yet the British press remains largely silent about it
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‘The Forgotten Human Impact of Yvette Cooper’s Cruel Anti-Refugee Policies’
The Home Secretary’s decision to stop people fleeing from war and torture from reuniting with their families should shame this Government, argues refugee rights campaigner Nick Beales
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The Full Cost of the Ministry of Defence Afghan Data Leak Will Be Much Higher Than the Government Claimed
The breach, under the last Conservative Government, put the lives of thousands of Afghans at risk, while costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of pounds
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Councils Face Legal Challenges for Continuing to Invest in Firms Accused of ‘Aiding Genocide’ in Gaza
Exclusive: New legal opinion suggests local authorities and central Government are at legal risk if they continue to invest in firms involved in human rights violations in Gaza
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Red Flags: The Far-Right Warning Signs Keir Starmer Is Refusing to See
The Prime Minister must wake up and stop trying to appease the very forces trying to exploit anti-migrant hate in order to destroy his Government, argues Adam Bienkov
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Sacked, Expelled, or in the Dock: All the Reform UK Councillors Nigel Farage Has Lost in Just Four Months
Party faces questions over candidate screening after string of resignations, expulsions and criminal investigations
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Undue Influence: The Reform-Supporting Online Network Using AI to Monetise Anti-Migrant Hate
A prominent social media campaign for Brexit and Boris Johnson has morphed into a large-scale network boosting Reform and pushing anti-migrant hate, reports Katherine Denkinson
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‘The Super Exploitation of the Cheapest Possible Workforce’: The Hidden Cost of University Funding Cuts
A dispute over the marking of a student’s work at one London university illuminates a much bigger problem, writes Mathilda Mallinson
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‘Progressive Parties Must Start Working Together or Concede the Next General Election to the Nationalist Right’
If parties on the left can’t find a way of working together, then the Conservatives and Reform will, argues Neal Lawson
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Reform UK’s Darren Grimes Under Investigation Over Fake AI Asylum Video of Keir Starmer
Grimes faces an official complaint to the council after using manipulated imagery and attacking asylum seekers as ‘deviants’
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‘Trump’s National Guard Takeover of Washington DC Threatens a Creeping Tyranny’
What we are starting to witness is the nascent elements of a complete authoritarian takeover, reports Alexandra Hall Hall from Washington
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Far Right and the Press Accused of ‘Weaponising Violence Against Women’ to Fuel Hatred of Migrants
More than 100 women’s rights groups condemn politicians and the media for spreading false claims about migrants while failing to back calls to fund actual support for sexual violence victims
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Reform UK Councillors ‘Exploited Legal Loophole’ to Dodge Spending Limits on Farage Election Leaflets
Exclusive: At least 12 newly elected Reform UK councillors in Durham did not declare costs for mass mailings from party leader that attacked local council’s spending
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The Martyrdom of Saint Lucy
The right is desperately seeking to make a martyr out of Lucy Connolly in order to distract from the real victims of the hate she helped to spread, argues Otto English
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Concierge Nationalism: How the Far-Right Is Selling Extremism as a Lifestyle Service
Vigilantes with links to Neo-Nazi groups are whipping up fear about migrants while soliciting donations for accompanying children to supposed safety
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A Russian ‘Drone Siege’ Threatens to Cut Off the Ukrainian City of Kherson
60,000 civilians risk being trapped as the Russian military adopts a deadly new form of warfare, reports Zarina Zabrisky
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‘Notting Hill Carnival’s Success Shows That Hate and Division Will Never Win’
Sadiq Khan, Labour’s Mayor of London, writes for Byline Times on why the city’s haters need to admit that “diversity is a strength to be celebrated, not a weakness to be hidden”
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Labour Mayor Accuses Treasury of Blocking Tourism Levy Despite Devolution Pledge
Exclusive: Labour’s Mayor of the North East Kim McGuinness says Government’s progress on devolving power has been “slow” because “our leaders haven’t trusted local people”
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Shock and Orr: Meet the Farage-Supporting ‘Philosopher King’ of British Authoritarianism
The Cambridge professor providing the intellectual underpinning for JD Vance and Nigel Farage, is described by one academic colleague as being ‘more Tommy Robinson than St Thomas Aquinas’
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The Trump Administration’s Partisan Global Human Rights Report Will Have ‘Devastating Consequences’
The Trump administration’s attempts to downplay human rights abuses globally suggests they want to make it easier to violate them domestically, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
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‘Let No One Believe the Lie That Zelensky Could Have Avoided War by Spurning NATO’
It’s time to bury this myth for good, argues Derrick Wyatt
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Ofcom Refuses to Investigate GB News Over Call to Shoot Disabled Benefit Claimants
The watchdog also refused to investigate a complaint about a presenter’s use of an anti-trans slur, saying the comments were “in line with audience expectations for this channel”
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The Reform and Conservative Politicians Mingling With Neo-Nazis and Fascists at Asylum Hotel Protests
The recent wave of anti-migrant protests are providing a bridge between right-wing elected politicians and extremist groups
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Russia Sanctions Byline Times Journalists and Contributors for Exposing Putin’s War Crimes
The Russian foreign ministry added multiple Byline Times and Byline TV contributors to its “stop list” following our award-winning investigations into the Putin regime
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‘Dancing with the Devil’: Unite Condemned For Invite to Reform’s Anti-Trade Union Mayor Andrea Jenkyns
Leading union criticised for reaching out to anti-trade union politician and Nigel Farage ally Andrea Jenkyns, despite her anti-worker stances
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Where Is the Political Leadership Against This Violent Far-Right Movement Terrorising Britain?
The silence of senior mainstream politicians and media organisations against the rise of a new well-organised far-right movement on Britain’s streets is a disgrace, argues Adam Bienkov
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Reform UK Accused of Breaking Climate Law as Opponents Challenge Local Net Zero Ban
Opposition councillors in one of the party’s flagship new councils are challenging the legality of its decision to ban all climate and Net Zero pledges
