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What does Boris Johnson’s ‘Faustian Pact’ with Farage Really Mean?
The director of Labour for a Public Vote explains why he thinks next month’s General Election is still wide open, despite Nigel Farage’s apparent altruism towards Boris Johnson’s Tories.
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NUNEATON: A Tory Marginal but a Leave Constituency – What Does Corbyn Do?
Jake Lynch visits the Warwickshire constituency with a slim Conservative majority of 4,000 high on Labour’s list of targets.
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How Many Palestinians have to be Killed before the UK Stops Selling Arms to Israel?
CJ Werleman explores why the UK has failed to condemn the murders and violence in the occupied Palestinian territories.
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How I Fell Down a Right-Wing Brexit Rabbit Hole – and Came Out the Other Side
Steve Jones recalls how Facebook took him on a dark journey and why he now regrets voting to Leave the EU.
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Where has the BBC’s Quest to Inform through Uncovering Truth Gone?
In the weeks before the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the BBC’s news team went out of its way to show the world the factual reality of East Germans protesting for a better life. Does it have the same desire now?
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Our Democracy Emergency Needs Urgent Action
he electorate must remain vigilant and prepared for the tactics used by political parties through digital platforms which electoral safeguards weren’t built to cater for.
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Russian Influence Part I: What Johnson Doesn’t Want You to Know
With the British Prime Minister personally intervening to suppress a parliamentary report into Vladimir Putin’s ‘active measures’ in UK politics, Peter Jukes reveals what Boris Johnson wants to hide.
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Boris Johnson’s Brexit Withdrawal Bill ‘Power Grabs’ Torpedoed by House of Lords Peers
The Lords’ Constitution Committee rushed out a report on the last day of Parliament to provide the only clause-by-clause scrutiny of the Prime Minister’s EU withdrawal legislation.
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John Sweeney: ‘For the First Time I’m Watching My Step as an Investigative Journalist’
The former BBC reporter speaks to Nicola Driscoll-Davies about his new book exploring the assassination of Malta’s Daphne Caruana Galizia.
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WORD OF THE WEEK: hugger-mugger
Rely solely on the headlines and you’d be forgiven for thinking not much of any consequence has happened this week, save for two former Labour MPs endorsing Boris Johnson in the upcoming December election. It’s true, Ian Austen and John Woodcock’s words were hardly beneficial to Jeremy Corbyn (not least in the opening week of…
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When will we Return to the Hope we had when the Berlin Wall Fell 30 Years Ago?
Otto English recalls what it was like growing up in a world where the threat of the Cold War loomed large – and the surprise and optimism when, one day, this came to an end.
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Housing First Manifestos: Labour Inspired by Europe – Conservatives by Landlords
With Conservative landlords profiting from homelessness, Iwan Doherty explains how the Labour Party takes inspiration from Finland
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THE UPSIDE DOWN: Making Better People – Why Eugenics Refuses to Die
Even if we could make fitter, cleverer humans, would that make them more valuable people?
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How the Daily Mail’s ‘Hate Crime Hoax’ is Gaslighting the Nation for Boris Johnson
Zeeshan Ali debunks attempts to deny the rise in racist attacks in the UK as an attempt to legitimise Boris Johnson’s Islamophobic remarks.
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Odeon of Death: The Twat in the Hat
(With apologies to Theodor Geisel) Who’s that creeping in the fog?
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Jacob Rees-Mogg: A Relic of the Past, A Danger to the Future
Musa Okwonga explores the controversial Conservative politician’s popularity and what it represents about modern England.
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The 2008 Financial Crisis Paved the Way for Brexit – Why Don’t We Talk About it Anymore?
A decade ago, the financial crisis presented the most pivotal economic, political and social moment since the fall of the Berlin Wall. We need to examine its effects if we are to learn lessons in Brexit Britain.
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Trump Can’t Wage War on the Cartels Without Reforming America’s Gun Laws and Ending its ‘War on Drugs’
The US has spent more than $2.5 trillion on prohibition despite there being no empirical data to support its supply-side focused policy, writes CJ Werleman.
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The Strange Death of Middle Class England
As part of the March of the Oligarchs series, Stephen Colegrave looks at the impact of the super rich on the English middle class.
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THE BOX SET: Byline Times on Boris Johnson
From jacuzzi justice to toxic masculinity, dodgy think tanks to Russian oligarchs and hedge fund backers, Trump, Steve Bannon, Dominic Cummings and Farage: here’s all you need to know about our Prime Minister.
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THE BOX SET: Byline Times’ Own Russian Interference Report
With Boris Johnson suppressing a report into Russian interference drawn up by Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee, Byline Times provides you with everything the Prime Minister doesn’t want you to know.
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Inside the BBC Disinformation Group: The Fake News Hunters
Stephen Colegrave meets the BBC Disinformation Group, dedicated to monitoring fake news and disinformation around the world.
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Fighting Division and Disinformation – from Outside the Westminster Media Bubble
After 18 years, and with an important role in Parliament’s landmark fake news inquiry, a veteran Labour MP diagnoses the real echo chamber in politics.
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Trump is Encouraging a New Civil War – How Many Americans Will End Up Paying the Price?
CJ Werleman on more worrying developments in the US, where President Donald Trump is spinning his potential impeachment into a ‘coup’ which will require retaliation.
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Tory ‘Starter Homes’ Manifesto Pledge Never Got Started, Watchdog Finds
The National Audit Office has found that the funding for starter homes for first-time buyers has instead been spent on acquiring and preparing brownfield sites for housing more generally.
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“It’s Not Our Responsibility”: PayPal Joins Facebook in Disavowing a Role in Electoral Fraud
At the last session of the historic Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee on disinformation and fake news, the online payment system giant joins other tech companies in declaring ‘we’re just a platform’.
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Why Scottish Politics Matters Again – But Probably Not for Long
Glaswegian James Doleman considers the possible repercussions of the 2019 General Election and Brexit on Scotland’s relationship within the UK.
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My Local Labour Party Candidate Took in a Homeless Family – That’s Why I’m Supporting Her Campaign
Natalie Bloomer explains a personal experience which convinced her that journalism and campaigning can mix – and that Sally Keeble is best placed to become Northampton North’s next MP.
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Humanitarian Crisis Worsens as New Frontline Opens in North-East Syria
Stephen Delahunty on the broken ceasefires and continuing Turkish threats to Kurdish forces
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Second Time Lucky? Can Corbyn Defy History in his Second General Election as Labour Leader?
Insurgency general election campaigns almost invariably succeed on their first attempt, observes Jake Lynch. But there is one example the Labour leader could hope to emulate.
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War and Amnesia: Tales My Grandfather Never Told Me
A personal story from Otto English about how the past is far too often sanitised to make people who were never there feel better about their family, our collective past and our country.
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Rod Liddle and Fraser Nelson Pervert Press Freedom to Publish Vile Racism
The stones thrown by the likes of the Spectator hit people and freedom of expression cannot be used to justify this
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California is Burning – But we Can Only Walk as Fast as the Slowest Among Us when it comes to Climate Change
Why do irrefutable scientific data and observable changes in climate patterns still not compel the US to take action on climate change?
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The March of the Oligarchs: 1979 to 2019
Peter Jukes with the historical background to a new Byline Times series on a global phenomenon that best explains Boris Johnson and Donald Trump.
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How Russia will Fan the Flames in Britain’s General Election
Paul Niland, founder of Lifeline Ukraine, has a warning and some advice for the British public about Putin and his digital warfare as it heads to the polls.
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Liz Truss’ Korean Trade Deal Torn Apart for Failures by Lords
A report by peers contests Government claims that separate British deals would be better than those secured with the EU.
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‘Democratic Institutions Captured by Politicians Places All Investigative Journalists Under Threat’
Nicola Driscoll-Davies speaks to David Casa, a senior Maltese MEP, about the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia.
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Odeon of Death: Halloween
Halloween (2019) Notice: the Odeon regrets to announce the cancellation of tonight’s screening, in which Michael Myers may or may not end up dead in a ditch. The show will be rescheduled for late January 2020. Maybe. The Odeon of Death can be found on Twitter at, perhaps not altogether surprisingly, @OdeonofDeath.
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Byline Times’ Election Manifesto
The 2019 General Election promises to be a poll unlike any other – so will our coverage.
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Brexit: The Great British Con
After Thatcherism and austerity, Brexit is the third part of a heist designed to wreck the social fabric of Britain
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How the Brexiteers Warped Margaret Thatcher’s Idea of Europe
Paddy Briggs looks at the career and restoration of Thatcher’s legacy by Tory Brexiteers and asks whether she would agree with them if she was alive today.
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Gove Wasted Hundreds of Millions on Technical Colleges, Watchdog Finds
A new report by the National Audit Office reveals that 17% of the university technology colleges pioneered by Michael Gove as Education Secretary have closed.
