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MYTH AND TABOO: Can Integration Ever Solve Racism?
Far from being topics of taboo, integration, immigration and racism have been politicised for years in dishonest narratives. Are Tony Blair and other centrists going down the same path again as populism rears its ugly head once more?
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The Light of the Beguines: Medieval Europe’s Altruistic Women
The story of the Beguines is important to remember in a time of increasing social fracturing.
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The Global South – a New Focus after Extinction Rebellion London Protests
Climate debate focus shifts to the Global South as thousands gather in Parliament Square to demand a climate emergency
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Brexit Party Spiked – Nigel Farage’s Disastrous Revolutionary Communist Party Candidates
Otto English on how it’s not only Claire Fox who is taking the wheels off the Brexit Party bus.
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Thousands of Homeless People Excluded from London’s Flagship Support Service
Thousands of homeless people have been turned away from London’s flagship No Second Night Out (NSNO) scheme in recent years, Byline Times can reveal.
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Julian Assange is a Misogynist — and Yes, that Matters
Sexism is a potent political force and an important part of Assange’s legacy. We ignore it at our own peril.
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Sheriff Slams Former MP Natalie McGarry for Trying to Change Plea to Not-Guilty over Embezzlement
McGarry was sobbing throughout today’s hearing, with the court being told that she had suffered from “serious mental health issues”. Court 1 at Glasgow Sheriff Court isn’t the kind of courtroom you see on TV. It’s in a small windowless basement with no jury box – juries don’t sit there – and no witness box,…
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Two Days In April: Did Love at First Sight Change the World for Ever?
Mike Stuchbery argues that Petrarch’s passion for his muse Laura triggered the Renaissance imagination and paved the way for modernity.
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Paypal Man: Why won’t Farage reveal who is funding his Brexit party?
Populist, anti-elitist, libertarian? Nigel Farage’s new party doesn’t have any ‘members’ and is secretive, authoritarian and looks like a one man dictatorship.
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Criminal Inquiry Looms into Maltese Government Officials Named by Assassinated Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia
Konrad Mizzi and Keith Schembri – both named by the murdered Maltese investigative journalist fir their offshore ‘Panama Papers’ accounts – are now under fresh judicial scrutiny.
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Extinction Rebellion Meets the Establishment: Showdown, Sell Out, or Something Else?
Extinction Rebellion is meeting London Mayor Sadiq Khan today, and tomorrow Environment Secretary Michael Gove and Shadow Chancellor John Mcdonnell. But the hope lies in fearless cities, not tepid symbolism.
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The Global Terror Network – From the Christchurch Mosque to the San Diego Synagogue
CJ Werleman on the spreading ‘white genocide’ ideology and online radicalisation behind the rising tide of Far-right terror attacks.
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On the Ruin of Britain – the First Great National Remoaners
The Count of the Saxon recalls the first book to record the timeless British refrain – ‘things aren’t what they used to be’.
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THE JUSTICE TRAP: ‘No Hope’ of Justice for Eddie Gilfoyle after 18 Years in Prison for his Wife’s Hanging
The Criminal Cases Review Commission provides no effective safety net for victims of a miscarriage of justice – Eddie Gilfoyle is a striking example.
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A Blood-Soaked Birth: the 25th Anniversary of a Democratic South Africa
Exactly a quarter-century ago South Africans went to the polls in elections that would bring Mandela to power and end almost 350 years of white domination. But it was tense and violent.
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WORD OF THE WEEK: recrudescence
(n.) a recurrence of something undesirable after a period of dormancy A bad penny, as the saying goes, always turns up. The earliest record of that proverb comes from William Langland’s Piers Plowman, written sometime in the late 1300s, proving that people have been having problems with bad pennies since the Middle Ages at least.…
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‘Tell the Truth’ – Journalism, Activism and Extinction
Byline Times will never let activism lead our journalism, but our journalism will sometimes – we hope – lead to activism.
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At his BBQ Bonfire of the Vanities, Tommy Robinson Reinvents Himself – Yet Again
After predicting his run for the European Parliament, Louise Raw assesses Tommy Robinson’s rhetoric of betrayal at his ‘exclusive’ launch event.
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Kurdish Hunger Strikers Occupy Amnesty International HQ
Kurdish Hunger Strikers Occupy Amnesty International HQ to Demand Action on Turkish State Torture
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Unpaid Labour – How Climate Change Protests are leading to a ‘Birth Strike’
The threat of environmental catastrophe has led a growing group women to become so concerned about bringing that they have gone on birth strike.
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Alleged Russian Mafia Boss found Dead after Football Corruption Arrest
A senior member of a suspected Russian mafia accused of laundering money through Spanish football has been found dead at his home while on bail.
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Battle of the Bucket – So Much Blood Shed over So Little
Tribalism is killing us, wrote Tina Gharavi in our launch issue and Mike Stuchery has a vivid example of this from history.
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‘Hostile Environment’: 1 in 8 Prison Officers Referred with Mental Health Issues
The Government is warned that it must do more to prioritise the mental health of prison officers as new figures reveal thousands have been referred for mental health assessments.
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Neo-Darwinism and Neuro-Bigotry: Toby Young’s Hit Job on Greta Thunberg
Louise Raw argues that the commentator and former free schools boss Toby Young has a track record attacking people with special educational needs.
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The New ‘Al-Qaeda’ – a Right-Wing Insurgency
C J Werleman documents the global threat of Far-right terrorism and argues that Trump might seek to benefit from it.
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The ‘Rising Star of Scottish Politics’ – in the Dock of the Sheriff’s Court
Byline Times’ court reporter James Doleman returns with the curious case of Natalie McGarry
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Met Commander Hints at Tougher Stance Towards Extinction Rebellion Protests
A today’s session of the UK parliamentary committee on Human Rights, Commander Adrian Usher made a surprise shot across the bows of the growing climate change protest movement.
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Government Shows More Disdain for Greta Thunberg and Climate Change
After the PM refused to meet Greta Thunberg yesterday, the Treasury shuns an important committee Inquiry about climate change this morning
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Tommy Robinson is set to Run for European Parliament – What Next?
Louise Raw counters some of the myths around the former EDL founder and argues there is only one antidote if Robinson announces his candidacy
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Fox Breaks Cover – from Revolutionary Communist to Farage’s Right Hand Woman
Otto English on the weird moral maze of would-be Brexit Party MEP Claire Fox and her Spiked Network.
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The Colombo Conundrum: Britain, Sri Lanka and the lingering ISIS Threat
As ISIS claims responsibility for the Sri Lanka bombings, Byline Times looks at the broader threat posed by radicalised supporters returning from conflict zones – and how Britain’s response relies on local public bodies.
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What the Papers Don’t Say about Extinction Rebellion
Stephen Colegrave argues that the media is both uninformed and under-estimating this radical new activist movement.
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Crystal Meth Maze: the Truth behind the Myth of Warhol and his Factory
Chis Sullivan searches for impoverished drug-fueled reality in the late Nat Finkelstein’s Photography Exhibition, ‘In and Out of Warhol’s Orbit’ from his past interviews with Nat and the people who knew the the Factory best.
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England’s Sense of Self — the Disunited Kingdom
On St George’s day, Matthew Durkin argues that Andrew Marr of all people should know the real grievances behind the Brexit vote — English nationalism.
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Rape, Race and UKIP’s MEP Candidate
Carl Benjamin, the would-be UKIP MEP for South-West England, must recognise that he speaks out of both sides of his mouth when it comes to issues such as racism and misogyny.
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Mueller Report – Assange Spread Seth Rich Conspiracy Theory to Cover for Russia
Assange and the “radical transparency” organisation he founded wittingly waged a disinformation campaign to provide cover for themselves — and they used a dead man’s name to do it.
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WORD OF THE WEEK: stratagemous (adj.) consisting of or succeeding by underhand schemes or strategies
consisting of or succeeding by underhand schemes or strategies
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Paying the Polluter: UK feels the Heat on £17bn aid to Fossil Fuel Giants
As hundreds of green protestors are arrested in London, NGOs sound the alarm over the UK’s empty promises
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MUELLER REPORT: Trump and Campaign Officials Coordinated with WikiLeaks
The Trump campaign didn’t have to coordinate directly with the Russian government — because it had a middleman to do its dirty work.
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Europe Votes to Protect Whistle-blowers – but will the UK Play Ball Beyond Brexit?
MEPs have backed “Daphne’s Law” amid concerns over the treatment of citizens and journalists who expose corruption and malpractice in the public interest. But key exemptions remain in place.
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THE JUSTICE TRAP: Was a Police Officer Sacked and Jailed for a Violent Assault actually the Victim of a Cover-Up?
PC Danny Major spent four months in prison for a crime he says he didn’t commit. Faced with an unhelpful and inactive miscarriages of justice watchdog, he is still fighting to clear his name.
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MUELLER REPORT – Attorney General Bill Barr’s Timeline of a Cover-Up
As the world awaits publication of the Mueller Report, Attorney General Bill Barr is readying himself for the final act of a slow-motion cover-up.
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Alt-Right Bantz: Satire-Bros and Ho, Ho, Hos…
Katy Brand takes a withering look at Dankula, Benjamin, Batten and Galloway and how comedy seems to have been co-opted by authoritarians.
