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Hong Kong Protests: ‘The City is Starting to Feel Like a Police State’
Steve Shaw on worrying developments in Hong Kong residents’ fight for freedom – a quest which has now gone beyond concerns about the island’s controversial extradition bill.
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Therese Coffey: The Worrying Votes and Views of Boris Johnson’s Latest Right-Wing Appointment
Following Amber Rudd’s resignation from the Cabinet over the Prime Minister’s plans for a ‘no deal’ Brexit, a hardline figure has been handed her job at the Department for Work and Pensions.
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Netanyahu’s Claims of Voter Fraud are Undermining Israel’s Democracy – Not Just Helping him to Another Victory
By accusing Palestinian Israeli voters of trying to steal next week’s election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is taking a tip out of the Donald Trump playbook
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The Return of the Taliban’s Reign in Afghanistan?
A report from Kabul on what a post-peace environment in Afghanistan could look like – and the main players looking for power.
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The Compromising of Our Civil Service with Propagandists Matters Now More than Ever
Jonathan Portes, professor of economics and public policy at King’s College London, on why untruthful claims by civil servants in their quest to support government policy must be called out. “A free trade agreement between the US and the UK could increase trade between our two countries three to four times,” US Vice President Mike…
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Judges Cannot Save Us from the No Deal Brexit Cliff Edge
Court reporter James Doleman’s analysis on the role of the courts in Boris Johnson’s Brexit saga.
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Parliament Takes Back Control
This week began the fightback of representative parliamentary democracy against populism.
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The Curious Evangelical Christians Propping Up Trump
The stubborn loyalty white evangelical Christians have shown the US President – despite his moral transgressions – raises questions.
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Boris Johnson Grabbed the Crown he Always Wanted – But it is Falling Apart in his Hands
As the Prime Minister’s Shakespearean comedy rumbles on, there is still a very real risk that it all might turn to tragedy instead.
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Odeon of Death: Cecil B DeMille’s Cain & Unable (1949)
The Odeon of Death takes a look at the week’s events through the medium of cinema. Cecil B DeMille’s Cain & Unable (1949) And it came to pass in the land of Angels there were two brothers, one brutish with hair like unclean corn, and one a bit nicer. And lo, when Unable saw what…
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Islam is in My Heart Not in My Clothes: Why I Removed My Hijab
Parveen Ali explains why she decided to permanently remove her headscarf following five years of negativity from those she interacted with – including harassment from the far-right.
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The Insider who Revealed the Russian Money Nexus in Latvia
15 years ago, John Christmas blew the whistle on fraud at Latvia’s Parex bank. But some of the players he exposed are still at the forefront of Putin’s destabilisation of the West.
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‘Democracy Dies when Fact and Information is Denied’
Stephen Colegrave speaks to crossbench peer Lord Victor Adebowale about how our democracy is teetering dangerously on the edge of a cliff.
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THE JUSTICE TRAP: Why the Miscarriages of Justice Watchdog is in Crisis
Jon Robins on the case of Oliver Campbell and what it reveals about our creaking criminal justice system.
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Boris Johnson’s No Deal Brexit Plot for the Lords Crashes and Burns
The fatal flaw in the Prime Minister’s plans to create 100 new ‘no deal’ Brexit-supporting peers.
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The Day I Met Gavin Williamson – Westminster’s Machiavelli
Oliver Murphy begins his political reporting for Byline Times with a look back at his run-ins with our elected representatives.
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Putin’s Funding of Italy’s Far-Right: The Pivotal Role of Aleksandr Dugin
Zarina Zabrisky provides a timeline of Aleksandr Dugin’s career and his connections to Russian Intelligence.
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Londoners Need to Pay Less Attention to Sadiq Khan’s Spats with Donald Trump and More on What his Planners Are Up To
The Labour Mayor of London’s plan for the capital makes clear that the spirit of neoliberalism still haunts City Hall.
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Putting Indian and Chinese Soldiers in Charge of Protecting the Rohingya Muslims is No Solution
Anti-Muslim animus within the ranks of India and China’s security forces remains extreme, so how can they be called upon to protect the Muslim minority exiled from Myanmar?
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‘Incontinent Mendacity’: Prime Minister Lied About Plans to Suspend Parliament, Court Documents Suggest
James Doleman on explosive revelations from Scotland’s Court of Sessions as Boris Johnson faces a legal challenge over proroguing Parliament.
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Brexit Party Paypal Investigation: Rampant Impermissible Donations Revealed by Watchdog’s Visit Tip of the Iceberg?
Byline Times’ exclusive report on the loopholes in the Brexit Party PayPal funding led to a visit from the elections watchdog which subsequently revealed impermissible donations – but questions remain.
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History’s Rhyme: Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell, Johnson and Cummings
As cliff-edge Britain searches around for historical analogies to a ‘No Deal’ Brexit, Arthur Snell discovers an infamous King and his ill-fated adviser are the most telling of all.
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Boris Johnson’s Rising Crime – The Lie Justifying the Proroguing of Parliament
Why the Prime Minister’s claim that his Government must tackle violent crime urgently by shutting down Parliament doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.
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Brexit from Abroad: The Language of a Country Falling Apart
Chris Keulemans has spent the past three years at our sister organisation, Byline Festival, listening to a great national debate – going nowhere as truth crumbles.
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Inside Generation Identity: What Next for the Far-Right Group in the UK?
Ben van der Merwe, who spent five months infiltrating Generation Identity, the international far-right group linked to the Christchurch terror attacks, looks at the future of the UK group after its split from Europe.
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DYING QUIETLY: ‘If You Cut Drug and Alcohol Treatment Services, People Will Die’
In their series exploring the deaths that go unnoticed, Natalie Bloomer and Samir Jeraj examine the impact of the scarce support available for those with problematic drug use.
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‘Children Dying from Deep Fake Videos and Anti-Vaxxer Messages Spread on Social Media Platforms’
The threats posed by technology to our democratic processes will only get worse in the years to come unless action is taken, MP Damian Collins warns.
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The Vote Leave Wrongdoers are Now in Power and Britain is Under Threat Like Never Before
BeLeave whistleblower Shahmir Sanni named various individuals involved in electoral wrongdoing during the 2016 EU Referendum – now they’re in power.
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Review of the Week by Odeon of Death: The Cummy
In Ancient Egypt, a heretical high priest named Dominhotep is brought back to life by a wicked Pharaoh (Boris Snarl-off) @OdeonofDeath’s review of the week
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BBC Finally Insists Opaquely Funded Think Tanks Declare their Interests
After Carole Cadwalladr challenged Director General Tony Hall over dark money lobbyists, the BBC have responded with new guide lines.
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A Paradise Lost
Otto English returns from a trip to St Lucia with fresh insights on the madness of Brexit and our frustrating sense of British complacency.
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Marching for Freedom in Hong Kong
Steve Shaw reports from Hong Kong on the revolution sweeping the streets of the island and its fight for democracy.
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Transgender Discrimination Case Against The Times Thrown Out
An employment tribunal found that the newspaper did not unfairly dismiss or victimise Katherine O’Donnell as a transgender employee.
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Who’s Behind Boris Johnson’s Coup? The Murky Lobbyists Who’ve Taken Over the Government
Simon Roach reveals the main players and interests in the Boris Johnson regime – and most lead back to Vote Leave and Donald Trump
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Other Democracies Won’t Stop India’s Warehousing of ‘Undesirables’
As well as its aggression in Kashmir, India has been rounding up and detaining Muslims in Assam since 2016 – but what’s to stop it doing so?
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‘Brexiters Used Empire in the Mind to Weaponise People’s Prejudices and Fantasies’
A sense of British exceptionalism based on our colonial past is “alive and kicking” in hearts and minds – and we must make ourselves aware of it, warns Lord Victor Adebowale
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The Amazon is Burning in a Right-Wing Backed Corporate Arson Attack
Those handed responsibility for saving our planet are determined to terrorise us into extinction so that their super-rich backers can become ever richer.
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‘We Need a Moratorium on Facebook Political Ads to Keep our Elections Safe’
“Facebook should be nowhere near politics,” warns investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr.
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George Clooney Scrapped Phone Hacking Movie over Hollywood’s Fear of Upsetting Rupert Murdoch
Plans for Hack Attack, based on journalist Nick Davies book on the phone hacking scandal, never got off the ground due to the tycoon’s great “passive power”.
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From Professional Armed Robber to the ‘Black Widow’: The Story of Linda Calvey
Crime writer Duncan Campbell explores the societal perception of women and illegality.
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We Should Bury the Likes of Lord Bell Not Praise Them
Iain Overton on the death of advertising tycoon Lord Timothy Bell, an advisor to Margaret Thatcher and co-founder of the controversial firm Bell Pottinger.
