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‘More Empty Promises on Health and Social Care Let Disabled People Down Again’
Do I really need to keep saying that this is where the personal is the political? writes Penny Pepper
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How a Police Crackdown on Climate Protests Made Me Join the Frontline for the First Time
“For me, the act of civil disobedience was a stand against the increasing erosion of a fundamental pillar of democracy – our right to protest”
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Met Police Could U-turn on Gaza Protest Restrictions After Widespread Backlash
Force likely to allow Gaza demonstration near Broadcasting House following criticism from MPs and campaign groups
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The Confidence Trick That Propelled Donald Trump and the National Populists Into Power
How Donald Trump won the support of working class Americans, while selling out their interests to global plutocrats like Elon Musk
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‘Trump May Be Returning But the Post-War World Order Is Not’
Donald Trump is throwing his second US administration into an already volatile mix – adding his own blend of disorder, writes Alexandra Hall Hall
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Kemi Badenoch’s Spokesman Ties Himself in Knots Over Her ‘Peasants’ Grooming Gang Comments
The Conservative party leader and her Shadow Justice Secretary have made a series of inflammatory comments over the past week
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Keir Starmer’s Government Promises Urgent Crackdown on Elon Musk Donations Loophole to Stop Foreign Interference by ‘Malign Actors’
The Government says it will prevent donors from evading laws designed to prevent foreign funding of UK political parties
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Elon Musk, Nigel Farage and the Second Cummings
A transatlantic coalition of extreme misfits and weirdos is plotting regime change on both sides of the Atlantic, reports Tom Scott
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Special Needs Child Provision in Crisis as 40% of Local Authorities Risk Going Bust
There is a looming crisis of growing special needs requirements and threatened council bankruptcies, according to a damning new report by MPs
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‘Modernising’ Behind Closed Doors: The Committee for Bringing Parliament Up to Date Holds All Its Meetings in Private
Exclusive: Cross-party group meant to help restore trust in politics has so far refused to hold any of its sessions in public
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MPs Cashed in More Than £1 Million From GB News and Other Media and Speaking Gigs Last Year
New analysis by Byline Times reveals the scale of earnings being raked in by Members of Parliament on top of their £91,346 salaries.
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‘Keir Starmer Must Join a Progressive Alliance for a Fairer Voting System or Get Steamrollered by a Reform-Conservative Pact’
The Labour Government is heading for an electoral reckoning unless it backs a more proportional voting system, argues Neal Lawson
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Strike-Leading Trade Union Office ‘Targeted’ in Break-In with Laptops and Valuables Stolen
The union believes it “may have been a targeted break-in, possibly linked to corporate espionage”
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The Times Is Forced to Correct a Misleading Article Claiming Electric Vehicle Demand Is Falling When It’s Actually Rising
Britain’s ‘newspaper of record’ had two complaints over inaccuracy upheld against it in one day
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Joining the EU Single Market Could Be the Gamechanger for Keir Starmer’s Government
Both the UK economy and the new Labour Government needs an urgent shot in the arm. Could this be the solution?
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‘Elon Musk’s Venal ‘Rape Genocide’ Claims About Keir Starmer and Grooming Gangs Are Absurd’
The truth is Starmer made profound improvements to tackling crimes against women and girls while Director of Public Prosecutions, reveals a veteran barrister
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‘2024 Was the First Year Above 1.5C of Global Warming – Here’s How We Should Respond’
Extinction Rebellion UK reflects on the meaning of this historic moment
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‘I Am Troubled When the BBC Treats This as a Serious Story’
Keir Starmer’s biographer Tom Baldwin on how the national broadcaster has helped to amplify Elon Musk’s lies
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‘Keir Starmer’s Transformational Political Project is Being Grossly Underestimated’
The relentless criticism of the Labour Government from a hostile media is completely at odds with its record and the historical context
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Elon Musk Is the One Bond Villain None of Us Asked For
A sinister far-right oligarch seeking to overthrow western governments from his seat in the White House is a story too strange for fiction
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President Zelensky Exposed Lex Fridman’s Own Bias on Ukraine
Elon Musk’s favourite podcaster was ill-prepared for the Ukrainian President’s demolition of Russian propaganda claims about the war
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2025 Is the Year Extinction Rebellion Demanded We Should Go Zero Carbon but ‘Britain Has Woefully Failed’
The Government is ‘absolutely not going to save us… 2025 needs to be the year we start to save ourselves’
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Kemi Badenoch’s Refusal to Distance Herself From Elon Musk is an Act of Moral Cowardice
The Conservative Party leader’s refusal to criticise the X owner’s dangerous misinformation campaign against the UK should exclude her from ever returning to high office
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Time to Build a Wall – Against Autocracy
Sergei Cristo, the whistleblower behind the new podcast series Sergei and the Westminster Spy Ring, warns about the real threats from abroad
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2024 In Review: The Year The Tory Story Ended
Russell Jones looks back at how the ‘worst parliament in history’ came to its calamitous conclusion
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Will Young: ‘It Got Much Worse After Pop Idol. I’m Surprised There Hasn’t Been an Exposé on The X Factor’
The first Pop Idol winner – and Byline Times supporter – speaks to Josiah Mortimer about the pressures of fame and the stories he believes are still to come to light about the reality TV music world
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The Centrists Cannot Hold: Client Journalism and Our ‘Concierge Media’ Are Threatening Liberal Democracy
Obeying in advance by US and British media means they cannot combat the march of the hard right Broligarchs
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‘Fiscal Nimbyism Makes It Far Harder to Fix Public Services’
Fed by an irresponsible media, neither voters nor political leaders are willing to accept the trade-offs inherent in fiscal choices, writes Chris Grey in his monthly column for the Byline Times print edition
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The Upside Down: Mummers The Word
In his monthly column, John Mitchinson explores why so many Christmas rituals boil down to fun and money
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The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks
The broadcaster provides an oversized platform for representatives from opaquely-funded libertarian lobby groups, says media academic Julian Petley
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Left-Wing Media Mogul? Environmental Campaigner Dale Vince ‘Interested’ in Funding Breakaway Observer Title
The owner of energy firm Ecotricity tells Byline Times he is open to funding a new media project staffed by Observer journalists opposed to its sale to Tortoise Media
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Keir Starmer’s Government Is Stuck in a ‘Right Wing Doom Loop’ That Will Only Help Nigel Farage
The Prime Minister’s acceptance of right-wing economic orthodoxy is pushing his party and the country towards disaster, argues his former adviser Simon Fletcher
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All the Big Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About
You won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks
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The Cosy and Comfortable Liberal-Democratic Political-Media Class and the Darkness Ahead
Who will – truly – hold the line with the prospect of a more extreme politics coming to Britain via the ballot box?
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‘The Pelicot Rape Trial Shows How Pornography is Contributing Towards an Epidemic of Sexual Violence Against Women’
The law must be changed to tackle the impact of easily available sexually violent imagery, says Criminal Barrister Gareth Roberts
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Those Demanding a Swift ‘Peace Deal’ for Ukraine Don’t Understand How Complex This War Really Is
Donald Trump’s pledge to end Putin’s war “in 24 hours” is a fantasy that will be quickly met by painful reality
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Ukrainian Refugees ‘Unfairly’ Blocked From Route to Seeking Permanent Life in the UK
The UK Government is denying those fleeing Ukraine the same rights to permanent residency afforded to those fleeing other parts of the world
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Tortoise and the Heir: The ‘Slow News’ Media Firm Behind the Observer Sale and the Curious Company It Keeps
As the Guardian announces the ‘sale’ of the 233-year-old Observer to Tortoise Media, Carole Cadwalladr takes a closer look at its moneymen
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Climate Groups Demand Gatwick and Luton Airport Expansion Decision is Delayed
The Government has already approved some airport expansion plans, but these two will be a bigger test of Ministers’ climate commitments
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The Reform UK MPs Already Being Bankrolled by Elon Musk
Nigel Farage is already benefiting financially thanks to the billionaire owner of X
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Conservative MPs Want to Scrap Workers’ Rights to Paid Holiday and Annual Leave
They are also seeking to overturn workplace protections from sexual harassment, calling them an attack on “free speech”
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The LGBTQ+ People Fleeing Donald Trump’s America
“We don’t feel safe here. It’s not just Trump, it’s the fact half our country voted for him”
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‘The West Will Regret Abandoning the Georgian People to the Clutches of Russia’
Europe and the US must wake up to the threat posed by Georgia’s repressive Russian-aligned regime, writes the UK’s former ambassador to the country
