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Paying for COVID-19: Local Government Braces Itself for Second Wave of Austerity
After years of underfunding, local governments are being tipped over the edge by centralised COVID-19 incompetence, argues former council accountant Gary Gowers
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Nagorno-Karabakh Ceasefire Evaporates as Putin’s Options Narrow
The conflict between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces continues unabated despite Russia’s resolution attempts, explains Nikola Mikovic
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COVID-19 ‘Rule of Six’ Flouted by Fox Hunts
Claire Hamlett reports on a worrying rise in fox hunts breaking the law as they enjoy being exempt from Coronavirus restrictions
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Why is the UK Taking So Long to Ban Conversion Therapy?
Two years after the Government pledged to end the controversial practise, Molly Greeves hears from survivors about their experiences
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Government Dodges PPE Procurement Scrutiny
Boris Johnson’s administration is stubbornly refusing to answer questions from MPs about the PPE procurement scandal, reports Sam Bright
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The Premier League’s Power Play Will Entrench Football’s Deep Inequalities
Adrian Goldberg explains how big Premier League clubs have hatched a plan to ‘save’ lower league sides, while compounding their own dominance over the game
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Priti Patel’s Proposals for Prison Ships Show No Lessons have been Learned from the Windrush Scandal
The Home Secretary’s recent actions suggest that her department is nowhere close to dismantling the ‘Hostile Environment’
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Did the Right Experts Advise Boris Johnson on how to Tackle COVID-19?
Byline Times’ chief medical officer John Ashton looks at how England has been on the back foot in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic since the first cases were recorded at the end of January
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Koch-Funded PR Agency Aided Great Barrington Declaration Sponsor
The company Emergent Order has provided extensive multimedia public relations support services to a network of climate science deniers bankrolled by the Charles Koch Foundation, Nafeez Ahmed reports
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Looming Brexit Catastrophe for Booming UK Services Sector, Warns Lords Report
One of the UK’s best exports is at risk of being sabotaged through Brexit negotiations, peers claim
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The North Will Soon Be Calling Last Orders on Boris Johnson
The Government’s contempt for the North has been exposed, and we won’t forget in a hurry, writes Jane Thomas
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Cutting the Fringe: The Media is Chasing Clicks Rather Than Reflecting Science
Amplified by the media, fringe scientists are allowed to present simplistic yet dangerously shareable solutions to complex problems, reports Zack King from Independent SAGE
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A Fatal Fallacy: Trump’s ‘Silent Majority’ Myth is Fomenting Civil War
The President of the United States has legitimised radical, deeply-conservative groups that believe their values are being attacked, contends CJ Werleman
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Government Targeted by Fraudsters and Counterfeiters During First COVID-19 Wave, Insider Claims
HMRC is investigating cases of fraud by health equipment importers, a procurement insider suggests
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Inside Berlin’s Anti-Gentrification Rebellion
30 years after German reunification, the country’s capital is experiencing a change in its culture and character, Craig Stennett reports
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The Internal Market Bill is a Legal Wrecking Ball
Stephen Delahunty reports on the concerns of senior public lawyers about the disputed Internal Market Bill
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Climate Science Denial Network Behind Great Barrington Declaration
The ‘think-tank’ behind the Great Barrington Declaration is part-funded by right-wing American billionaire Charles Koch
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Government Cultural Recovery Spend Leaves North Out in Cold
The Government’s new bid to save cultural institutions is heavily concentrated in the South of England, reports Sam Bright
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Brexit Spin Masters Jump on Unconvincing Cambridge Analytica Conclusions
Former MP Ian Lucas scrutinises a recent letter from the Information Commissioner addressing the links between Cambridge Analytica and the pro-Brexit campaigns
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COVID-19 and the End of Economic Fatalism
In the global response to the Coronavirus pandemic, Anthony Barnett sees an epoch-defining moment as governments are forced to put people’s health and wellbeing before market fundamentalism
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Daniel Morgan Independent Panel: ‘A Jigsaw with a Million Pieces’
As the public inquiry draws to a close, Duncan Campbell reports on the testimony of former Detective Chief Superintendent Dave Cook who has been silenced for nearly nine years
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Heroes & Villains: Witnessing the Assange Hearing
James Doleman reflects on the Old Bailey hearing into the Wikileaks co-founder’s contested extradition to the US for the publication of classified documents
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Fox in Ermine: From Revolutionary Communist to Lady Buckley
Otto English charts the rise of a brand new member of the unelected, unaccountable House of Lords
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£70 Million Government PPE Contract for Small ‘Luxury Packaging’ Firm
The Government awarded the deal to a firm with just £46,000 in the bank, reports Sam Bright
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QAnon and Coronavirus Conspiracists are in Denial about what ‘Freedom’ Really Is
Joe Haward explores the modern conflation of ‘freedom’ with ‘choice’ and the concept’s historic definition of human flourishing through caring for the whole community
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How Can Power Be Snatched Back from this Vote Leave Government?
Mike Buckley argues that only Conservative MPs worried by the Boris Johnson administration can now save the country from further wrack and ruin through its handling of Brexit and the Coronavirus
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Mike Pence’s Dangerous Vision for an Extremist Christian America Should Not Be Overlooked
The Vice-Presidential Debate should remind the US electorate that Pence only appears somewhat acceptable in comparison with Donald Trump, argues CJ Werleman
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Sanitising War: How the UK Media Turned Its Back On Syria
In failing to report on individual instances of war’s devastation, the media risks losing sight of the inhumanity of conflict
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Solidarity Forever? Len McCluskey’s War on Labour Electability
The Unite union’s decision to cut funding to the party led by Keir Starmer has come at a time when it is finally looking capable of winning power again, argues Sam Bright
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To Save US Democracy, American Muslims Must Resist Foreign Interests Backing Trump
Nafeez Ahmed digs deeper into the censorship of an article he wrote attacking those on the left who are boycotting the largest campaign to get Muslims out to vote in next month’s Presidential Election
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Kyrgyzstan Turmoil: Is Russia Losing its Hold on Central Asia?
Nikola Mikovic reports on the third domino to fall among Putin’s allies and questions around the Kremlin’s ability to influence its neighbours
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Fraudsters Could Have Claimed ‘Billions’ From Sunak Loan Scheme
A new report has crystallised concerns that Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Coronavirus loan scheme left the taxpayer exposed to fraud
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Chinese University Associated with Uyghur Repression Signs Partnership with Exeter
Academics at Tsinghua University in Beijing have been accused of fuelling China’s persecution of Uyghur Muslims by laying the intellectual foundations of the minority’s abuse
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Spitting Image: Why Politicians Collude with their Latex Lampoons
As the classic TV puppet satire show returns, Jon Bailes thinks satire needs to get much more serious
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The Brain Drain: Government Plans to Double Cost of Moving to UK for EU Students
In keeping with Boris Johnson’s closed-borders mentality, prohibitive financial barriers now face EU students wanting to move to the UK, reports Sam Bright
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The Death of a Journalist ‘Blame the Russian Federation’
Kseniya Kirollova reports on the death of Irina Slavina, editor of the best known independent newspaper in the Volga region of Russia
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How Trump is Working with Russian Intelligence
Stephen Komarnyckj on reports US Intelligence services are suppressing evidence that the US President is still colluding with Putin’s influence operations
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Mohammad bin Salman Faces Lurking Threats to his Brutal Regime
The Saudi Crown Prince has crushed dissent, yet his position still remains precarious, reports Jonathan Fenton-Harvey
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‘A Single Source of Truth’: More Government Outsourcing Projects to Controversial Tech Firms Revealed
A new report lays bare details of the Government’s Coronavirus work conducted by Dominic Cummings’ favourite tech companies
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THE UPSIDE DOWN: Very Like a Whale – We Need to Rethink Our Relationship with Nature
John Mitchinson is back with another fact and fun-filled insight into the human animal and what we can learn from orcas and octopuses
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Rape and Caste Supremacism in India
CJ Werleman argues that the rape and murder of a Dalit woman in Hathras is another alarm bell indicating the extent of the human rights crisis in India
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Azerbaijan–Armenia Conflict: Braced for Escalation
Nikola Mikovic reports on the intensification of violence between Azerbaijan and Armenia, as foreign superpowers wait in the wings
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From Hostile Environment to Prison Island
Sam Bright exposes the hostile environment hypocrisy of Priti Patel, who has in one week promised to learn from the Windrush scandal and threatened to imprison asylum seekers on a distant island
