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Heidi Siegmund Cuda revisits that time Reform UK leader Nigel Farage was part of an operation to divide California known as Calexit, which collapsed after it was revealed to be funded by Russia
Activists in Cornwall say the scheme – while welcome – will barely touch the sides as 23,000 languish on a council waiting list
Big questions remain about Russia’s attempts to interfere in US elections
US reporter Heidi Siegmund Cuda on why Trump’s legal woes could prompt a flight to more authoritarian climes
The Fulton Country District Attorney is looking at the same facts as the federal indictment, but under different laws and with the potential for new uninvestigated evidence
Cancelled Out Digital Edition26 May – 2 June 2023 Latest articles ME FIRST Don’t miss a story Sign up to the Behind the Headlines newsletter (and get a free copy of Byline Times in the post) Voter ID = VOTER SupPrEssion In a rich man’s world SYSTEMIC PROBLEMS Exclusive weekend investigations, more US coverage, more…
Simon Speakman Cordall explains how China’s unparalleled access to African markets is also causing the kind of political turmoil that undermines its interests
With inflation up, growth down, and 80% of Britons unsatisfied with the political system, Matthew Gwyther explores a catastrophic loss of faith in our economic system
For those who want quicker access to exclusive content, more stories from the US, and more long reads with a more magazine-like feel, we’re proud to launch Byline Supplement on Substack. David Henningham is your guide to one of Britain’s most entrancing and dangerous spots A brave group of journalists, lawyers and researchers are amassing…
For those who want quicker access to exclusive content, more stories from the US, and more long reads with a more magazine-like feel, we’re proud to launch Byline Supplement on Substack. Heidi Siegmund Cuda examines the culture of lies perpetuated by Murdoch’s news network and the very personal harms it causes to families around the…
For those who want quicker access to exclusive content, more stories from the US, and more long reads with a more magazine-like feel, we’re proud to launch Byline Supplement on Substack. Heidi Siegmund Cuda examines the culture of lies perpetuated by Murdoch’s news network and the very personal harms it causes to families around the…
Matthew Gwyther looks at the public’s contradictory ideas of leadership and how women are (on the whole) confounding them
For those who want quicker access to exclusive content, more stories from the US, and more long reads with a more magazine-like feel, we’re proud to launch Byline Supplement on Substack. The Byline Podcast talks to Windrush campaigners, after Suella Braverman abandoned a series of key pledges made to the UK’s Caribbean population Byline writer…
For those who want quicker access to exclusive content, more stories from the US, and more long reads with a more magazine-like feel, we’re proud to launch Byline Supplement on Substack. New poll, conducted in the wake of revelations about Nadhim Zahawi and Boris Johnson, suggests that trust in the Government is reaching new lows…
For those who want quicker access to exclusive content, more stories from the US, and more long reads with a more magazine-like feel, we’re proud to launch Byline Supplement on Substack. Matthew Gwyther reports on how the titans of Big Tech spectacularly overplayed their hands
Sian Norris analyses how the modern Republican Party has been infiltrated by far-right rhetoric and conspiracy, not least in its determination to wage a ‘war’
The promotion of MPs who have voted against abortion rights is a worrying precedent, as is the closeness of the new Government to reactionary US think tanks, argues Sian Norris
It’s two months since the US Supreme Court ended the nationwide right to abortion, and the horror stories are already piling up. Worse is yet to come, reports Sian Norris
A Russian national backed by the Russian state has been indicted by the US Justice Department for funding and using members of American political groups as foreign agents of Russian Intelligence in nearly a decade of malign influence operations
Boris Johnson’s grandfather Sir James Fawcett
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