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EXPOSED: How Viktor Orbán Bankrolled the Network Around Reform UK
As Hungary’s Prime Minister suffers a historic electoral defeat, Byline Times maps out how his government’s funding arm channelled hundreds of thousands of pounds into organisations at the heart of Britain’s hard right.
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Reform-Run Kent Council Sells Off Antony Gormley Sculpture After Raising Taxes
Nigel Farage’s flagship council quietly sold Two Stones, one of the sculptor’s earliest commissions, as part of a wave of publicly owned art disposals that critics call “shameful”
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The Neo-Nazi Enforcer Who Helped Build Peter Thiel’s Online Influence Empire
New Epstein-linked revelations show how neo-Nazi operative Andrew Auernheimer became a crucial link between Peter Thiel and the online far-right subcultures waging ‘memetic warfare’ against their enemies
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The British Tax Havens Shielding Big Oil’s Iran War Windfall
As Shell and BP prepare to pocket billions from Trump’s war in Iran, a Byline Times investigation reveals how British jurisdictions are quietly doing the work of protecting them
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Conservative Candidate Tells British MPs to ‘Go Back to Pakistan’
EXCLUSIVE: Kemi Badenoch suspends the Conservative party’s candidate for North Harrow, after a Byline Times investigation uncovered a series of vile messages he posted over recent months
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Matt Goodwin’s Lucrative Hungarian Fellowship Could Be in Line for the Chop Following Orbán’s Defeat
The Orbán-controlled body for which the Reform UK and GB News commentator is a ‘visiting fellow’ is facing investigation over alleged misuse of public funds
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Reform UK Energy Prize Winners Had Nominated Party’s Own Branch Chair
As Greater Manchester Police confirm they are reviewing a complaint into the prize draw, Byline Times can reveal that the party’s Wigan branch chair – nominated by the winners – was present at the doorstep prize ceremony
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GB News Hosts Reform UK and Conservative Politicians and Activists Posing as Ordinary Voters
The individuals were presented as ordinary members of the public, without informing viewers of their political affiliations, a new Byline Times investigation reveals
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The Green Party Has No National Binding Rules on Selecting Local Candidates
Exclusive: A formal complaint exposes the absence of any nationally-binding selection rules in the Green Party. Zack Polanski has admitted it is a “real challenge” to vet its local election candidates
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14 Government Reforms the Media Has Largely Ignored Over Recent Weeks
You probably won’t have read much about these announcements designed to improve people’s lives across the UK
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From Coal Tip to Clean Energy: The UK Projects Turning Former Mines Into Renewable Powerhouses
Solar farms, wind turbines and geothermal heat pumps are breathing new life into former collieries. So why don’t we hear more about them?
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James Orr and the Messianic Transatlantic MAGA Alliance Trying to ‘Save’ Britain
Peter Jukes and Nafeez Ahmed reveal how James Orr, Nigel Farage’s new head of policy, is the key religious and ideological linkman for Palantir’s Peter Thiel and Sir Paul Marshall’s GB News
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Greens Could Be ‘Kingmakers’ in Wales as Leader Reveals Power-Sharing Demands
EXCLUSIVE: Welsh Green leader says the party’s support in a potential coalition “doesn’t come free”
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How the US Christian Right and Anti-Abortion Lobbyists are Reshaping NHS Policy
A new investigation exposes a global network of anti-abortion groups and US Christian nationalists using UK courts to target bodily autonomy
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Protest Leaders Convicted Over Gaza March Pledge to Appeal ‘Extraordinary’ Ruling
Palestine Solidarity Campaign director and Stop the War vice-chair convicted over Gaza demonstration that Met Police and Judge say broke restrictions
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Liz Truss Appointed by Trump to Dismantle the ‘Deep Space Blob’
“The President is a big fan of the Prime Minister’s YouTube channel,” the White House Press Secretary told reporters
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Spy Games and the Global Far Right Loom Over Historic Hungarian Election
As Viktor Orbán trails in the polls he is seeking help from the global far right and the intelligence services, reports Ábel Bede
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Voters in Reform Seats Don’t Like Nigel Farage’s Plan to Rip Up Workers’ Rights
Even voters in Nigel Farage’s own constituency support the new workers rights that he has committed to tear up, a major new poll suggests
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Kemi Badenoch Campaigns For North Sea Drilling at Company Owned by Oil and Gas Executive Who Donated £250,000 to the Conservatives
The Conservative party, which calls the Government’s plans for replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy “crazy” has also taken millions of pounds from funders and directors of anti-Net Zero lobby groups
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Reform UK Promised ‘17 Billion in New Healthcare Spending’ but None of It Is for the NHS
New analysis reveals Nigel Farage’s healthcare plans involve funnelling public money and tax cuts towards private healthcare companies
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Spinning on His Axel: The Right-Wing Politics of the Billionaire Businessman Taking Over the Telegraph
Julian Petley investigates what really motivates the German media mogul taking over Britain’s leading conservative broadsheet
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‘Orwell Knew the Moment You Discover that the Other is Also You, a Whole Range of Bullshit Just Drops’
Byline Times’ Editor in Chief speaks to the award-winning Haitian film-maker and director Raoul Peck about his new documentary, Orwell: 2+2=5, exploring the prescience of the English writer’s warnings of authoritarianism through his own words
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Deaf Residents in Reform Councils Say They Have Been ‘Shut Out’ as Party Replaces Collapsed Deaf Charity With Just £22,000 in Funding
Local hearing impaired people say they are losing a vital lifeline, with opponents of Nigel Farage’s party accusing them of a political attack on perceived ‘woke’ services
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Blow to Nigel Farage After Government Bans Crypto Donations in Urgent Crackdown on Foreign Political Interference
Keir Starmer’s Government acted following publication of a review launched in the wake of Reform’s Welsh Leader Nathan Gill being jailed for taking pro-Russian bribes
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The Right-Wing Misinformation Campaign Against Decriminalising Abortion Debunked
The move to decriminalise abortion for women has sparked a wave of misinformed outrage on the political right, argues Max Colbert
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Reform UK Councils Are Dismantling the Fight Against Climate Change
Nigel Farage’s party is spreading climate change denial, while blocking any localised action to deal with the threat, an academic analysis of Reform councils has found
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Revealed: Tony Blair’s ‘Dodgy Iran Dossier’ Helped Shape Trump War Plan
Controversial polling promoted by the Tony Blair Institute, and criticised by academics, helped make the case for ‘regime change’ in Tehran
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MattGPT: The Sorry Tale of Matt Goodwin’s AI-Assisted, Fake-Quote-Filled New Book
It turns out that even ChatGPT has a more stringent approach to accuracy than the former professor, Matt Goodwin, reports Mic Wright
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UK-Linked Components Traced to Tomahawk Missile That Struck Iranian School
Debris analysis and US procurement records reveal British links to the weapon that killed over a hundred school children in Iran, reports Isa Osman and Iain Overton
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Why the Iran War Could Last Far Longer Than Either Side Wants to Admit
With the Strait of Hormuz closed and US munitions dwindling, it is Iran that will ultimately be able to set the price of peace, argues US defence analyst Brynn Tannehill
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Trump’s Iran War Is Pushing the Post War International Order to Breaking Point
The US President’s reckless actions risk destroying the global political order, but could something good emerge from the wreckage, asks Alexandra Hall Hall
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Reform Kent Council Suffers Walk Out After Party Declares ‘Immigration Emergency’ During Meningitis Outbreak
The motion by Nigel Farage’s party blamed the spread of “infectious diseases” on undocumented migrants
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The UK Could Be Quietly Heading for a Solar Power Revolution
As fossil fuel prices soar due to Trump’s Iran war, the UK Government’s plans for ‘energy independence’ could transform how British households power their homes, reports Josiah Mortimer
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How Trump Is Manufacturing Enemies Out of His Own Citizens
The Trump administration is using disinformation against anti fascists in order to criminalise dissent, argues Caroline Orr Beuneo
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Kemi Badenoch Defends Shadow Minister Who Called London Muslim Celebrations an ‘Act of Domination’
The Conservative Leader’s spokesman told Byline Times that she stands by Shadow Lord Chancellor Nick Timothy, who said that the annual event was “not welcome” in the UK
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Reform UK Skip Mandatory By-Election Debate After Nigel Farage Called Defectors Who Avoid the Ballot Box ‘Disgraceful’
Nigel Farage previously said that defectors who refuse to hold by-elections are “disgraceful” and guilty of a “complete insult” to the electorate
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Daily Mail Forced to Correct Electric Car Price Claim After Misleading Readers
Self-appointed press regulator IPSO initially refused to investigate the paper, until polling suggested that nearly two-thirds of readers had been misled
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The Elections Watchdog Doesn’t Know Where Reform UK’s Crypto Donations Are Coming From
The UK’s electoral watchdog tells Byline Times it wants tough new legal powers to prevent overseas donors from secretly bankrolling British political parties
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Is Paris About to Swing to the Right?
As voters prepare to go to the polls in the ‘City of Light’, Olly Haynes examines whether growing unity between the right and far-right in the French capital could be about to take it on a dark turn
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The Oil Lobby Is Using the Iran War to Revive North Sea Drilling but Official Data Shows It Won’t Cut Bills
Fossil fuel funded think tanks, petrostate-linked policy institutes and oil market insiders are all being presented as impartial observers by the media, reports Nafeez Ahmed
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Trump: ‘When You Think of It, We Shouldn’t Even Have an Election’
As his approval ratings slide amid growing discontent over his unpopular war in Iran, the President is looking at multiple ways to subvert the mid-term elections, reports Owen Bennett-Jones
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Trump’s Iran War Threatens a Refugee Crisis on a Scale That Dwarfs Syria
A former senior US defence analyst warns that the assault on Iran risks causing a refugee crisis up to four times larger than what happened during the Syria conflict
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‘Why I’m Concerned the Government’s Definition of Anti-Muslim Hostility Won’t Help Most Victims’
The chief executive the Islamophobia Response Unit has some reservations about the Government’s definition of ‘intent’ in the new definition
