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Touching but Untouched: Visiting Joey
Stephen Unwin’s first reunion in months with his severely disabled son under strict conditions of isolation reveals what we all should hold dear
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Johnson’s ‘Science Super Power’ Ignores the Basic Principles of Science
Byline Times’ Secret Scientist considers the paradoxical scientific ambition of the Prime Minister and his complete disregard for science itself
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Living in My Black Skin is for a Lifetime Not a ‘Moment’
Musa Okwonga reflects on the Black Lives Matter movement and explains why Keir Starmer’s actions have been so revealing of entrenched structural white supremacy
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Revealed: Boris Johnson’s Hidden History of Islamophobia
Iggy Ostanin unearths troubling new evidence of anti-Muslim racism in a rediscovered personal blog of Britain’s Prime Minister
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‘Lazy, Slapdash, Badly Organised’: The Backbench Grumblings on Boris Johnson’s Future Have Begun
Adrian Goldberg speaks to Conservative insiders about how the Prime Minister is viewed by his own MPs and his chances of leading the party into the next General Election
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UK’s Rival to Galileo: A Brexit Farce
In space, as in so many policy areas, no one can hear you scream. Alex Andreou on another multi-million-pound fiasco driven by narrow nationalism
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The Great Loan Charge Scandal
Ahead of a vote in Parliament, Steve Packham from the Loan Charge Action Group, argues that botched tax legislation and ruthless enforcement is driving thousands to despair
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‘We Are Moving Towards a Human Rights Apocalypse in Kashmir’
CJ Werleman speaks to Pakistan’s former Ambassador to the United Nations about India’s Hindu nationalist ambitions in the disputed region
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Mad Rush Towards a Second Wave
Byline Times’ chief medical officer Dr John Ashton considers why and how the Government is so keen to return to ‘business as usual’
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Government Resumes Business As Usual with Benefits ‘Blame and Shame’ Game
Mary O’Hara explains what the Government’s announcement that benefits sanctions will be reinstated after a COVID-19 hiatus reveals about its whole approach to poverty
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The Daniel Morgan Murder: Lead Detective Became a Scapegoat for Scotland Yard
As the Channel 4 true-crime series finishes, Byline Times looks at the extraordinary five police investigations into the only Metropolitan Police officer the Morgan family ever trusted
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As Prevent Fails Again, It’s Time to Defund Counter-Terrorism and Rethink Safe Societies
As failings continue, we must acknowledge that the counter-terrorism industry cannot keep people safe, argues Muhammad Rabbani
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For Once, Gove Was Right – Britain Needs a Roosevelt-Style New Deal
With a historic depression looming and millions of jobs at risk, Mike Buckley argues that now is the time to do more than echo the words of the President who rescued the US from the Great Depression
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‘A Hard Rain’: Johnson, Gove and Cummings Drive Britain Towards Elective Dictatorship
David Hencke reports on the radical moves to undermine parliamentary democracy by Boris Johnson’s chief advisor and the Cabinet Office Minister
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Behind the Red Wall: A Former BNP Councillor to Become Mayor of Stoke on Trent
Adrian Goldberg reports on how a cross-party deal with the Conservatives has brought back the spectre of the hard-right to a divided town
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Automated Social Control: the Biases of the Algorithms
Almaz Ohene reports on how real-life structures of oppression are being replicated online through automated moderation and censorship
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On the COVID-19 Frontline in India
Saniya More speaks to health workers in Kolhapur to find out how they are preventing community-wide Coronavirus infections with little money
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The Roar of the Greasepaint: Can British Theatre Survive the Coronavirus Crisis?
Vida Adamczewski interviews the artistic director of the Young Vic on the future of a crucial industry that defies social distancing
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In the Search for Truth, We Have to Take Off Our Masks
Reverend Joe Haward considers what the pursuit of truth really involves and how knowledge of this is being manipulated by our politicians
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‘National Crime Agency Officials Investigating Me Are Brexiteers’, Claimed Brexit ‘Bad Boy’ Arron Banks
Byline Times reports on claims made by the businessman that the UK’s specialist law enforcement organisation was politically compromised in its dealings with him and his Brexit campaign group
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To Alabama and Back: The Memorial that Holds Up a Mirror to Racism
Hannah Charlton takes a journey into America’s dark history of segregation and subjugation of black communities and wonders how Britain could do the same
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Trust in Government’s Coronavirus Communications Collapses
Ivor Gaber reveals how lack of trust in government and the prevalence of social media conspiracy theories is leading to harmful health outcomes in the UK
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When it Comes to Trump and his Supporters, Can Intolerance be an Act of Love?
CJ Werleman argues that if the US President is a shape-shifting salesman, his customers bear responsibility for his deadly racism and bigotry
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COVID-19: A Testing Time for Us All
Ivor Gaber’s experience of the UK’s testing regime suggests that complexity and contamination may be suppressing Coronavirus numbers more than containment.
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Black People are Dying in the West due to COVID-19 – How Can Africa Avoid the Same Fate?
With black people being disproportionately affected by the Coronavirus in the US and the UK, African governments must be proactive in protecting their populations and prevent the virus’ damaging social side-effects
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‘Betrayal’ and Intrigue: A Russian Politician’s Life in Exile
Kseniya Kirillova hears warnings from a dissident former Russian politician, whose father is a close friend of Vladimir Putin, of renewed attempts to subvert democracy.
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Communities Need to Take Contact Tracing into their Own Hands
‘Test, trace and isolate’ is not working and is unlikely to work well anytime soon. With the Government failing, community medics and volunteers reveal how we can save ourselves
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OUR LIVES MATTER: I Have Died Many Times – A Black Woman’s Experience
Chantel K Watts shares her thoughts on the Black Lives Matter movement and asks: who is standing up for black women?
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The Radicalisation of Katie Hopkins
In the week her Twitter account was suspended, Otto English looks back on how the mainstream media and the tabloid press paved Katie Hopkins’ path to the extremes
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SWEENEY INVESTIGATES: What Connects Robert Jenrick to the Gambino Crime Family and Putin’s Oligarchs?
John Sweeney investigates the Minister’s ties, not only to Richard Desmond and his alleged run-in with the New York Mafia, but to a law firm that worked for Vladimir Putin’s favoured oligarchs
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Hubris and Technology Triumphalism in the Government’s £12m COVID-19 Contact Tracing App
Paul Dempsey shows how ‘big data’ cannot replace ‘no data’ and that the UK’s centralised plan to combat the Coronavirus was flawed at the outset
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As with Air Travel, Take-Off and Landing are the Most Dangerous Parts of a Pandemic
Byline Times’ chief medical officer, Dr John Ashton, explores the Government’s failings in entering lockdown and now leaving it
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Why America Never Stops Genocide
CJ Werleman explores why reports of Donald Trump’s support for China’s Uyghur Muslim camps is not surprising given the gap between the US’ rhetoric and reality on it being the ‘policeman of the world’
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The HSBC Loan Scandal Leaving Small Businesses On the Edge
Adrian Goldberg speaks to business owners who say their attempts to secure a Bounce Back Loan from the bank during the Coronavirus crisis has only added to their problems
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Secondary Infektion: How a Russian Operation Subverted British Politics
Stephen Komarnyckyj reports on a Kremlin-friendly online operation that tried to sow division between the UK and its allies remained undetected for years
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Jeux Sans Frontieres – Boris Johnson Gives Up Controlling the UK Border
Though it made much of controlling the borders, Mike Buckley reports how the Vote Leave Government is abandoning the principle at great cost to business and the NHS
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Rashford and Racism: Not Just A Political Football
Daniel Harris explains why the star footballer’s fight to right injustices provides an example for us all of how to delve into pain and confront the truth
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Putin Sets his Sights on Pussy Riot Activist Ahead of Vote on 2036 Power Grab
Sarah Hurst reports on the targeting of Petr Verzilov and how the President is pulling out all the stops to ensure a 1 July vote on sweeping changes to the Russian Constitution goes in his favour
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Will the EU Start Standing Up to China Over Repression in Tibet?
As a summit between the EU and China takes place today, Steve Shaw looks at why it is important for the bloc to make clear to Beijing that it will not tolerate any attempts it makes to reshape Western democracies
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Hope Carved from Bone: The Prehistoric Treasures of the Swabian Jura
In the 40,000-year-old fragments of evocative animals and figurines, Mike Stuchbery finds inspiration and resilience in dark times
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Johnson & Brexit – Patronising Etonian Alienates the World
The Prime Minister’s attempts to show his understanding of Aussies and New Zealanders fell flat this week – as have his attempts for post-Brexit trade
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Another Great British World-Beating Fiasco
David Hencke reports on how much money has been wasted on the Government’s NHSX tracing app, which it has now ditched to follow one being used by other countries for some time
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From Stone to Phone: Modern Day Cobalt Slavery in Congo
James Melville explains why slavery isn’t just a historic issue of statues and how your mobile phone contributes to the modern enslavement of 40 million people
