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Rediscovering Northern Soul: The Territorial Injustice of Austerity
James Melville explores how Boris Johnson can respond to a protest vote against the territorial injustice of austerity.
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Odeon of Death Film of the Week: Starmer Wars
The Odeon of Death takes a look at the week’s events through the medium of cinema. This week Starmer Wars (2020)
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Harry and Meghan are Taking on the Corporate Press – Fighting for Issues which Should Matter to Us All
Brian Cathcart, Professor of Journalism at Kingston University, on why Britain’s right-wing press will be intent on destroying the marriage of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex now more than ever.
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Can Protests Save India’s Muslims or is it Too Little, Too Late?
CJ Werleman considers whether the Modi Government’s crackdown on Muslims is indicative of India never having been a liberal democracy in the first place.
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The Harder the Brexit, the More Likely a United Ireland
MEP and leader of Northern Ireland’s Alliance Party says the DUP were fools for trusting Boris Johnson who was always going to betray Unionism.
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Life-Saving Technology? The New Tools Journalists Can Use to Expose Human Rights Violations Around the World
How technology is being used for dark purposes, but is also helping to expose persecution.
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Could Trump have Started a Terrible New Era for Suicide Bombers?
Following the US President’s attack on Iran, the Shi’a suicide bomber – a human weapon that first emerged in the Middle-East in Iran – could resurface again
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Why did Cabinet Office Rush through Procurement of Controversial Electoral Services Company Idox Just Before the General Election?
David Hencke investigates why Boris Johnson’s Government handed out £1.7 million for election management services without a competitive tender.
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We are now Living in ‘American Psycho’
Bonnie Greer finds clarity about the desecration of US society under Donald Trump in the premise of Brett Easton Ellis’ famous 1991 novel.
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Global Britain and the Great Retreat
Musa Okwonga makes the case that Boris Johnson’s relative silence on the US’ assassination of Qasem Soleimani is a sign of things to come for a more isolationist, inward-looking Britain.
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Defending Wikipedia from Tabloid Hit Jobs and Political Shenanigans
Though writing sensationalised news about Wikipedia is a profitable occupation, John Lubbock argues that we all must make a stand against disinformation.
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Boris of Bolsover? Johnson and the Empathy Gap
Stephen Colegrave delves into the Prime Minister’s empathy gap and why it will inevitably let down the Conservative Party’s new northern voters.
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‘Omnicide: Who is Responsible for the Gravest of All Crimes?’
Danielle Celermajer calls for accountability for the destruction unfolding in Australia – a crime against humanity she believes is akin to genocide.
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We need ‘Smart Justice’ More than ‘Tough Justice’
The former Chief Inspector of Prisons, Nick Hardwick, argues that time is running out for a progressive alternative to Boris Johnson’s backward plans for the criminal justice system.
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What does Trump’s Escalation of Conflict with Iran Mean for the Region?
Jonathan Fenton-Harvey argues that Iran will avoid direct action against the US, but will now be unconstrained in proxy wars.
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Scotland: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
James Doleman looks at the potential constitutional crisis as the two nations drift apart and sees no easy solution.
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Australia Can Only Save Itself if it Fixes the Rot in its Political System
A media dominated by Rupert Murdoch and big mining political interests are leading Australia to a climate catastrophe
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The Political Climate – Heating up in Russia
Sarah Hurst reports on Putin’s increasingly desperate attempts to suppress dissent in Russia, where nothing is what it seems.
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For British Muslims the Outlook for 2020 is Continuing Racist Abuse from the Press
Even the outgoing chair of Britain’s main press regulator admits there’s a problem with Islamophobia, but Brian Cathcart reveals how his successor thinks powerful white people are the victims.
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HIGHLIGHTS OF 2019: A Year in the Life of Byline Times
To celebrate our first eight months of publication, here are some of our favourite articles in a digital edition. Please feel free to download or share.
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Not a Class Act: British Establishment Honours the Man who Ruined Thousands of Lives
The knighthood for Iain Duncan Smith shows the disdain of the ruling class for the most vulnerable people in society, argues Natalie Bloomer
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The End of a Decade Without a Name: Right-Wing Populism, Referendums, Digital Darkness and Self-Harm
Part Two of Otto English’s take on the 2010s, charting the death of Lee Rigby, the rise of Nigel Farage’s UKIP and the forces that led to the UK voting to Leave the European Union.
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The End of a Decade Without a Name: From Austerity to the Isles of Wonder
Part One of Otto English’s take on the 2010s, exploring how Britain stumbled from the financial crisis into the euphoria of the London Olympic Games – only for a repressed and angry populism to rear its head.
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Death and Loss: Hope and Renewal – A Message from Stuttgart
After a tumultuous year politically and personally for Mike Stuchbery, he reminds how humans have survived the darkest hours.
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Cities are Not Full of ‘Urban Elites’ but So Many Possibilities – Now is the Time to Uphold Metropolitan Values
Bonnie Greer explores the divide between city and country in Britain and how this will be played on in the years ahead to sow more discord, not unity.
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The World’s Midnight: but the Nights are Getting Shorter
To celebrate the Winter Solstice, Byline Times has a ray of light in all the doom and gloom. | To celebrate the Winter Solstice, @RVAWonk has a ray of light in all the doom and gloom.
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From Lying to the Queen to the Queen’s Speech: People Want Accountability for Political False Promises
In the wake of the General Election, Sally Brown and Sarah Musselbrook commissioned a poll on public attitudes to mendacious politicians.
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‘Refusal of Corbyn’s Labour to Fight Back Against the Right’s Culture War a Big Mistake’
Hardeep Matharu speaks to Faiza Shaheen, a Labour candidate in the General Election, about why the British left cannot simply bury its head in the sand over the dangerous politicisation of race and class.
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India’s Divisive Citizenship Law has United All Faiths to Stand Up for Justice
Tasnim Nazeer speaks to those in India on what Narendra Modi’s law prohibiting Muslims from applying for Indian citizenship means for the world’s largest democracy.
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‘English Nationalism is the Real Threat’ says former Ulster Unionist Leader
Brexit is a fault line which has triggered a realignment of loyalties in the island of Ireland – will Northern Ireland be left behind by English nationalism?
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Climate Science Failed By Not Getting Us to Panic Sooner
With more concerning climate emergencies unfolding in the past week in Australia and Greenland, CJ Werleman asks: what will it take for people to wake-up to reality?
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Can the Opposition to Conservatism Finally Find a Common Cause?
The Labour Party first gained parliamentary representation when Liberal chief whip Herbert Gladstone agreed to stand down 51 candidates. Could an alliance of a similar kind work again at the next general election?
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Odeon of Death Film of the Week: The Maligning
The Maligning (2019) Bad spirits are summoned when a caretaker takes a hatchet to a beloved old institution, in this classic horror starring Jack Nicholson as Jeremy Torrance, the man who puts the Red in Redrum. Can Jess Phillips (Shelley Duvall) wrest control of the Overlooked? The Odeon of Death can be found on Twitter…
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‘Citizen K’ Review: A Prescient Warning of Oligarchical State Takeover in Russia
Chris Sullivan reviews the latest documentary from Academy Award-winning Alex Gibney which follows the story of one of Russia’s richest men, now exiled in the UK.
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Labour Lost for Failing to back Remain, Not because it Failed to Back Brexit
The Labour Party must work out how to scrutinise the Government on Brexit and outbid the Tories on the NHS, public services and aspiration to keep its current voters and win back its heartlands.
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Brexit and the Fracturing of British Identity: A Warning From Ireland
Hardeep Matharu speaks to acclaimed playwright Frank McGuinness about where the nationalist Brexit project being trumpeted by Boris Johnson could end up
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Nothing Has Changed: What Brexit Means is Still Up For Grabs
Paul Niland takes inspiration from the Ukrainian EuroMaidan revolution and argues that fundamental forces will stop Britain from moving too far away from the EU.
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This is My England, and Yours: Reclaiming Englishness
Now that English Nationalism has been unleashed, Peter Jukes argues that we must all try to restore England’s buried civic tolerance and historic diversity.
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Labour Must Stop Being Part of the Problem and Start Being the Solution – Here’s why I’ve Joined It
Former senior Lib Dem researcher Gareth Roberts on the wake-up call provided by the 2019 General Election result which means he can no longer sit on the sidelines and lament his feelings of political homelessness. How did you feel at 10pm last Thursday when the BBC declared that the exit poll was projecting a Tory…
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Labour Must Urgently Engage with the Regions if it is to Recover from its Defeat
The former Labour MP for Wrexham – a seat snatched by the Conservatives in the General Election – believes it is an indictment of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership that his frontbench did not engage effectively with the regions. Amid the carnage of the General Election result, Labour must, immediately, start thinking. One of the urgent areas…
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Progressive Scots Don’t Want to LEAVE BRITAIN Britain has Left Them
James Melville explains why the Brexit vote and now a Johnson victory has propelled him away from the Union to Scottish Independence.
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One Nation Conservatism is Dead: Johnson is Held Hostage by Hard Right Forces
Paddy Briggs argues than any hope that Boris Johnson will show a more liberal side underestimates the scale of the coup inside the Conservative Party.
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EGYPT, PALESTINE, SAUDI ARABIA: Boris Johnson’s Win is also a Victory for Human Rights Abuses
Jonathan Fenton-Harvey on the ominous signs of the new Conservative Government’s stance on repressive regimes.
