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EDITION 80 – December 2025
THE CAROUSEL OF SCAPEGOATS
How modern politics became the blame game
Featuring articles by: Jasmin O’Hara, Amy Wallace, Caroline Lucas, Anthony Barnett, Nikesh Shukla, Adam Bienkov, Peter Oborne, Otto English, Martin Rowson
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Labour in Power
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EXCLUSIVEAlf Dubs Accuses Shabana Mahmood of ‘Letting the Country Down’ With Plans to Outdo Reform on Asylum
The veteran Labour peer and lifelong campaigner for child refugees, Alf Dubs, tells Byline Times that the Home Secretary’s plans are “bitterly disappointing coming from a Labour Government”
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‘Rachel Reeves Buys Herself Some Time With a Calculated Bet on the UK Economy’
The Chancellor’s measured statement was quite different from what the weeks of media hype about it had suggested, argues Simon Nixon
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Budget 2025: ‘Rachel Reeves Bakes an Economic Pudding With No Theme’
The seeds of the Government’s current political and economic difficulties were sown a long time ago, argues Neal Lawson
#ReformUncovered
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Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK as Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry ‘I Am Your Champion’
The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne’s company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms
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The Reform-Backed Far-Right Street Patrols Coming to British School Gates
EXCLUSIVEEXCLUSIVE: Nationalist vigilante groups, with links to Neo-Nazis, and the support of senior Reform figures, have been falsely claiming police backing while attempting to infiltrate local school networks
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‘Nigel Farage’s Plan to Scrap Nature Protections Would Speed ‘Demise’ of UK Countryside’
EXCLUSIVEReform UK’s vow to scrap thousands of nature laws risks pushing Britain’s depleted countryside into irreversible decline, argues Stuart Spray
Peace in Gaza?
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EXCLUSIVE
Gaza ‘Humanitarian’ Hub to Function More as US Military Command Centre, Leaked Papers Suggest
The leaked documents suggest Trump’s plans for a ‘humanitarian relief’ centre for Gaza more closely resemble those for a US Army-run command post
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UK Government Flouted Own Rules Designed to Stop Gaza Intelligence Harming Palestinian Civilians
The revelation raises questions over whether the UK applied safeguards designed to prevent information from 600 RAF intelligence flights being used to harm civilians in Gaza
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EXCLUSIVE
Pro-Trump Tech Billionaires Are Poised to Cash In on Gaza’s ‘Peace’ Deal
The same digital technologies that helped the Israeli military target Gazans are now being embedded in its peacetime infrastructure, with Trump-supporting billionaires poised to benefit
BIG TECH’S BRITISH TAKEOVER
Migrant Monstering
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