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Retired, Rich and Renting Out — Property Landlords Escape Tax Rises to Fund Social Care
The Government’s plan to raise taxes to pay for social care excludes income earned from renting, meaning wealthy landlords are protected from the increase
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Reconsidering the Counterculture
An author of a new book about the Bath Arts Workshop explores the strength of the 1960s and 1970s counterculture – and asks what lessons it has for us today
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Fake History: The New Brexiter Great Crusade
In the second part of his look at Brexit ‘campaigning’ groups, Otto English explores the attempts of those trying to weaponise their versions of British history and turning it into an orthodoxy which cannot be challenged
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How Cambridge Analytica’s Style Propaganda Failed in Afghanistan
Professor David Carroll reflects on the “colonialist, aristocratic, and oligarchic” assumptions of the campaigning firm involved in Trump and Brexit
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‘Cloud of Fear Hanging Above Our Heads’: The Teachers and Parents Dreading the Return to School
With schools in England reopening with no real mitigation measures in place, concerns mount that educational settings could become the epicentre of a new surge in Coronavirus cases and instances of Long COVID in children
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Mandatory Voter ID: The Cost to Taxpayers – and Democracy
The Government’s assessment of how much its proposals to make everyone show ID in order to vote at polling stations will cost represents its ‘staggeringly warped priorities’, according to campaigners
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Back to School and Back to Rising Coronavirus Cases?
An open letter to the Education Secretary by experts urges the Government to rethink its back to school policy, which they say contains no plans for any robust COVID mitigation measures
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Ministry of Mystery: Government Doesn’t Know how Many Civilians it has Killed in Wars Abroad
A Freedom of Information request to the Ministry of Defence has revealed that the Government is failing to record civilian deaths during military operations
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Oil Well Hunt in the Shadow of Ethnic Clashes in Montenegro
The inauguration of the new head of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro was met with protests and accusations that the Church is a tool for Russian interests
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Firm Behind Giant Channel Cable Project is Owned by Former Soviet Oil Men and is Generous Conservative Donor
The Aquind Interconnector project could be ‘dangerous’ and ‘completely against the national interest’ a Conservative minister has warned
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THE UPSIDE DOWN: Less Is More – What Buckminster Fuller Still has to Teach Us
John Mitchinson explores the lessons in the inventor, philosopher and mathematician’s ‘doing more with less’ philosophy
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Blue Hydrogen is an Environmental Dead-End
Celebrated by the Government as part of its green energy solution, it will take more than switching to hydrogen to get the UK to net zero, says Andrew Taylor-Dawson
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Climate Lawsuits: A Weapon in the Fight Against Fossil Fuels?
Thomas Perrett explores how lawsuits which attempt to sue fossil fuel companies for their environmentally destructive business models could yet prove to be effective, particularly given the parallels between Big Oil and Big Tobacco
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Inside the World of Secret Polygamous Marriages
Dating websites offer Muslim men the chance to meet a second wife online – but the practice causes financial stress, trauma and heartbreak for families, the Byline Intelligence Team reports
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The Precariat Generation: Young Conservative Voters’ Attitudes At Odds With Government Policy
New polling has revealed high support among young Conservatives for a stronger social safety net at a time when the Government is set to cut benefits for the poorest families
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The BBC has Blacklisted Peter Stefanovic and his ‘Johnson Lies’ Video. Why?
It’s accurate, it sheds light on a vital question, and it has been viewed tens of millions of times – but our national broadcaster is pretending it isn’t there. Brian Cathcart wants an explanation
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Coded Language: How the UK Newspaper Industry Enables Institutional Racism
The UK’s press is governed by an editors’ code that permits discrimination against groups of people – it’s time we demand better says Richard Wilson
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A Royal Cover-Up: The Hidden Hand of Monarchy Blocking the Public’s Right to See Lord Mountbatten’s Diaries
David Hencke reports on the long-running battle of historian Andrew Lownie against the Government over the release of documents which were bought on behalf of the public for millions of pounds by Southampton University The hidden hand of the Royal Family is behind the Government’s determination to stop the publication of some of the diaries…
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The History Racket: Blowing the Whistle on the Official Versions and Perversions of the Past
Peter Jukes and Hardeep Matharu explore the real threats to history – emanating not from ‘wokeists’ intent on rewriting the past but an establishment elite regularly burying inconvenient truths to maintain Britain’s mythic narratives
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Past Imperfect: Astroturfing History
As the battles of Brexit morph into a culture war, Otto English detects a pattern among the ‘concerned citizens’ demanding Britain ‘takes back control’ of its past
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Discrimination and Ethics: Gypsies and Travellers Should Be Able to Expect Fair Play from the Media
Katharine Quarmby explores why members of the minority communities are so dismayed by an Ofcom ruling clearing a controversial Channel 4 Dispatches documentary about Traveller crime
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Why We Need New Statues Reflecting Britain’s Diverse History
MP Preet Kaur Gill explains why she is backing a new campaign for public artwork commemorating people who are under-represented and forgotten in the country’s narratives about its past
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Government Cannot Say if it has Trained Indonesian Police Forces Implicated in Human Rights Abuses
A Freedom of Information request to the Ministry of Defence found that the Government does not hold information about who it trains in Indonesia
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America Faces Its Biggest Abortion Battle Yet – How Did We Get Here?
As Texas bans abortion after six weeks and the Supreme Court prepares to hear a case that could overturn the law allowing safe, legal abortion, Sian Norris and Heidi Siegmund Cuda trace the right wing, racist and biblical forces in play
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Afghan MP in Hiding as UK Government Faces Legal Challenge to Bring Her to Safety
A group of lawyers has launched a campaign to secure a visa for an Afghan woman MP in hiding and in fear of her life
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My Message to Boris Johnson: Help Our Families
Ebrahim worked for the British forces as an interpreter before having to flee to a nearby country. Now, his family in hiding in Kabul, he asks: when will you help us? country. Now, his family in hiding in Kabul, he asks: when will you help us?
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The Afghanistan War is Not Over Until the US Legacy of Impunity Ends
With the killing of civilians by an airstrike two days before its forces left, the US exits Afghanistan in the same way it entered it: with zero accountability or resolution of the ‘Forever War’
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The World’s Cheapest Big Mac: What Burgernomics Tells Us About Lebanon’s Economic Crisis
It tastes the same, the packaging’s the same – but the differing costs of a McDonalds Big Mac can hold clues to a country’s economic health, and in Lebanon, the diagnosis isn’t great
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Infurno: July Episode – It’s Coming Home!
Episode Five of Martin Rowson’s underworld epic following Dilyn the Dog’s odyssey through the bowels of Number 10 Downing Street. For Episode Six, subscribe to the August Digital Edition now
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Five Conspiracy Theories Infecting Anti-Lockdown Groups
The Byline Intelligence Team and The Citizens reveal how anti-lockdown groups can be easy prey to pseudo-scientific theories about the Coronavirus and the impact of vaccines
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Peter Oborne’s Diary July 2021: Brammar, Assange and Gove – Government by Journalists for Journalists
Exclusive to print for a month, Peter Oborne shares his observations of the political media class. For the latest diary subscribe to the August Digital Edition
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Just An Empty Egg Box: How the Far-Right Shames Women
Women in the far-right are subjected to both benevolent and malevolent misogyny that reveres them as mothers and degrades them for failing in their ‘duty’
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Exposed: Home Office’s Secret ‘Inhumane’ Policy of Seizing Phones of Refugees Arriving on Boats and Extracting their Data
In a special investigation, Katie Tarrant reveals how the Home Office has taken the phones of more then 7,000 migrants without any official policy in place to do so – a practice now being challenged in he courts
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Carbon Pricing Alone Won’t Solve the Climate Crisis
Decarbonisation cannot be achieved through ineffective and counter-productive carbon pricing measures which fail to raise enough revenue to fight climate change, reports Thomas Perrett
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The Independence of Britain’s Media has been in Jeopardy for a Long Time
With attacks on journalist Jess Brammar’s credentials to be appointed to a BBC role continuing by the right-wing press, Maheen Behrana explores how editorial independence has been eroded in Britain over a number of years
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‘They Do What they Do and Leave Us Without Taking Responsibility’: The Grenfell Survivor Whose Family is Trapped in Kabul
Flora Neda and her son Farhad were the only two people from Grenfell Tower’s top floor to survive 2017’s devastating fire. Now the family faces tragedy again – this time in Kabul
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The Human Cost: Life in the Abattoir
As the meat industry demands prisoners be released to meet labour shortages, Chas Newkey-Burden looks at how abbatoir workers face poor conditions and struggle with nightmares and mental health issues
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Plans for North Sea Oil and Gas Exploration are Incompatible with the UK’s Emissions Cuts
Evidence of the climate crisis has been unavoidable all summer but the UK appears to want to push forward with fossil fuel extraction that will cause more environmental harm
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The Government’s New Disability Strategy is No Strategy At All
Pepper offers her own suggestions for policies that would help remove barriers for disabled people
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As Healthcare Data Breaches Mount, How Secure are Digital IDs?
Kiki Woods explores the potential flaws in plans for digital ID systems based on the supposed safe storage of our most sensitive data
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‘Talichad’: The Far-Right Takes Inspiration from the Taliban Takeover
For many in the ‘incel’ and other far-right communities, the suppression of women’s rights in Afghanistan is a cause for celebration
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The Islamophobic ‘Terror’ Narrative Still Distorts the Truth about Afghanistan
Faisal Hanif argues that islamophobia is still a default fallback position for Western media, and the Taliban provide cover for the misapprehensions to continue
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300 Councils have Declared a State of Climate Emergency – But For Many It’s Just Rhetoric
Claire Hamlett reports on the factors contributing to the lack of progress by local councils to reduce carbon emissions in their areas, despite their pledges to do so
