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Jacob Rees-Mogg and the Brexiters’ Persistent Myths of Empire
Britain has not really faced up to losing an empire and the unresolved cost is playing out through the traumas of Brexit.
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Calling the North East of England ‘Brexit Central’ is Simplistic and Snobbish
Newcastle resident Molly Greeves’ take on how people in the north east feel about the decision to leave the EU three years on.
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Boom in Car Tax Evasion as Tax Discs Disappear
Half a million cars avoiding tax is leading to over a hundred million pounds of lost revenue reports David Hencke. The abolition of the need for every car and van in the UK to display a car tax disc has led to the tripling of the number of untaxed cars and soaring prosecutions and fines…
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Ed Davey: ‘I’ll Push for Formal Remain Alliance if Johnson and Farage do Election Deal’
Stephen Colegrave speaks to Ed Davey, Liberal Democrat Party leadership contender about climate change, green party deals and what will happen if Johnson and Farage form an electoral pact. Ed Davey is preparing for an election. Not his party’s leadership election, but a general election. He knows that Brexit will be the big issue and…
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Councils Monetising Housing to Pay for Public Services in an Age of Austerity
Tom Cordell continues his series on the housing crisis by looking at plans in Lambeth, south London, to use land assets to plug the gap in Government funding for local services.
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Science Museum Under Fire for Propping Up Arms Companies as Artists’ Group Pulls Out of Exhibition
A new exhibition on concerns around privacy in a digital age at London’s Science Museum is being sponsored by a company selling arms reportedly used to slaughter civilians in Yemen.
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“Indescribably Hideous” – China’s Harvesting of Uyghur Muslim Organs
CJ Werleman reports on China’s horrific persecution of the Uyghur Muslim minority in Xinjiang.
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Katie Hopkins on White Minorities and the Great Replacement Theory
Footage reveals the British commentator, promoted by Donald Trump, promulgating the conspiracy theory of Muslim immigration that inspired the Christchurch terror attack.
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The Times uses ‘Freedom of Expression’ as its Defence in Transgender Case
At an employment tribunal in Edinburgh, the Murdoch owned broadsheet was accused of inaccurate, misleading and prejudicial reporting of trans issues.
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We Should be Grateful but Not Complacent that ‘Tommy Robinson’ is in Prison
Byline Times’ court reporter James Doleman gives his personal take on the jailing of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon and his conviction for contempt of court.
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England’s Cricket Team Could Not Have Made History Without Immigration
With MP Jacob Rees-Mogg pontificating that England’s cricket World Cup victory shows “we clearly don’t need Europe to win”, Faisal Khan argues that immigration was key to the team’s success.
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Ex-MEPs Head to Lisbon to Demand Release of Football Leaks Whistle-blower
Members of the EU’s anti-corruption committee warn Portugal over treatment of Rui Pinto ahead of crunch meeting tomorrow.
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Is Pakistan Winning its Fight to Tackle Corruption?
Faisal Khan on Pakistan’s long history of corruption and Imran Khan’s quest to tackle it.
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We Must Fight this Dangerous Attack on Our Civil Service
Dr Jennifer Cassidy on why Kim Darroch’s resignation after leaked emails revealed his criticisms of Donald Trump’s administration are such a blow for the rule of law.
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WORD OF THE WEEK: corbie-messenger
(n.) a messenger who arrives too late to be of use, or not at all
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The Double Attack on Liberal Democracy
The far right’s collusion with Vladimir Putin is now well-documented, but support from the left puts democracy in even greater danger.
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Between Two Worlds: The Secrets of the Shaman of Bad Dürrenberg
On a recent trip to Germany, Mike Stuchbery came across the remains of a woman who lived some 8,500 years ago – astonishing, not only for the impressive manner in which she was buried, but the secrets that her bones contained.
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The Blindness of the Anti-War Left is Helping Undermine Democracy and Human Rights Everywhere
CJ Werleman on the rise of authoritarianism in Asia and why some on the left are aiding the advance of illiberal regimes, not fighting it.
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PESSIMISM IS FOR LIGHTWEIGHTS: Celebrating Others
Salena Godden with an excerpt from the new book Others, published by Unbound, about her sister Jo-Ann who has Williams Syndrome. Others is published this week. This tremendous anthology celebrates how words can take us out of the selves we inhabit and show us the world as others see it. Fiction writers and poets make…
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THE JUSTICE TRAP: A Miscarriage of Justice is a Lifelong Sentence
The injustice of how our justice system deals with its own errors was a key theme at the launch of Proof magazine this week.
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Odeon of Death Review of the Week: Old Mr Corbyn’s Fudge Shop
The Odeon of Death takes a look at the week’s events through the medium of cinema.
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‘My Three-Year Battle with the DWP Over PIP: I Just Didn’t Want to Go On’
‘My Three-Year Battle with the DWP Over PIP: I Just Didn’t Want to Go On’
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The Laundromat: Inside the World of Money Laundering
Byline Times today launches a new series on how organised crime is destabilising entire economies by rinsing its dirty cash through the legitimate finance system.
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How Englishness was Created – A Culture, Not an Ethnicity
The Count of the Saxon Shore continues exploring the origins Englishness through the ‘game of thrones’ of seven kingdoms and the ‘Norway plus’ model of the time.
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‘THE BRINK’: Steve Bannon Doc is Scariest Movie of the Summer
Alison Klayman’s new documentary follows the right-wing media executive and one-time Trump confidante Steve Bannon on his mission to create a populist US and Europe.
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Senior Figures Warn of Imminent ‘Penal Populism’ and Attack on Liberalism
Experts across the board fear a Trump-style Boris Johnson Government would be a threat to the criminal justice system.
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Is Nigel Farage Fit to be the Next US Ambassador?
With the Brexit Party leader mooted to take up the position of our Man in Washington, Byline Times has some important security and background checks for him.
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The Attraction of Iran: The Middle East’s Locked Up Treasure Trove
It’s not just a wealth of natural resources that makes Iran such a target, but the fact they’re nationalised explains Adi MacArtney
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Who are the 112 Brexit Party MP Candidates? It’s Anyone’s Guess
Otto English on his attempts to discover who Nigel Farage’s parliamentary candidates – announced by the Brexit Party leader last month but never formally identified – actually are.
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A Fresh ‘Failing Grayling’ Ferry Fiasco?
A report by the Public Accounts Committee reveals that time is running out for the Transport Secretary to re-order contracts to bring in supplies if the Hallowe’en Brexit deadline is met.
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MOOD-BASED TRAVEL: Havana Ooh Na Na
In the latest in his series exploring how to experience travelling as a antidote to your mood, Kyle Taylor sets out the hotspots of Havana.
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Living with Attention Deficit Disorder
Mike Stuchbery on his recent ADD diagnosis and why this has provided the breakthrough he needed.
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The Trials of ‘Tommy Robinson’: How Yaxley-Lennon was Always Going to be Convicted
Byline Times‘ court reporter James Doleman looks at Stephen Yaxley-Lennon’s weak defence and shaky demeanour throughout his long-awaited contempt of court Old Bailey trial. It was an odd couple of days at the Old Bailey. When I arrived on Thursday morning, the first thing I saw was that the normally busy street was closed off…
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OUR NETWORK: How Campaigners are Putting the Public Back into Public Transport
The struggles over Manchester’s expensive and inaccessible bus services show the public can have an impact. When Andy Burnham announced his plan to bring bus services in Greater Manchester (a recently devolved authority of nearly 3 million people and an economy bigger than Wales) back into public control, the bus companies immediately threatened to sue…
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How the Shooting Down of a Malaysian Jet Reveals Corbyn’s Putin Problem
Paul Canning reveals the Labour Leadership’s alarming tendency to mitigate the crimes of the Kremlin.
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‘We would Rather Die Now than be Kept in Here Forever’ – Life Inside a Saudi Detention Centre for Rohingya Refugees
CJ Werleman documents his conversations with Faisal Thar Thakin, a Rohingya Muslim who has been held in the kingdom’s notorious Shumaisi detention centre for the past six years.
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Civil Servants Enjoy Bumper Bonuses while Government Watchdog Slams ‘Errors’ which Punish the Poorest
Both overpayments and underpayments by the Department of Work and Pensions have soared to unprecedented levels according to the National Audit Office
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‘TOMMY ROBINSON’ GUILTY: A Fair Trial is at the Centre of Our Justice System
Nazir Afzal highlights why Stephen Yaxley-Lennon’s conviction for interfering with a child sexual abuse trial in Leeds in 2018 goes to the heart of justice itself.
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The Myths of Immigration Just Don’t Add Up
Jonathan Portes, Professor of economics and public policy at King’s College London, on why the UK has long been a country shaped by immigration and immigrants – and how the reality of this is not as bad as the rhetoric portrays.
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How Can Our Rage Over Alabama’s Abortion Ban Achieve Justice for Northern Ireland?
Molly Greeves on why Alabama’s abortion ban should jolt those in the UK into action to secure rights to the procedure in Northern Ireland.
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Haringey – Reinforcing Not Breaking the Power of the Market Over Housing
Tom Cordell reports on an endangered proposal by local people in north London to force developers to provide genuinely affordable homes.
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Brexit and Empire: Nostalgia for a Nation that Never Was is Driving Britain over a Cliff
With the likely next Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, praising Britain today as the ‘Greatest Place on Earth’ all the unlearned lessons of Empire are coming back to haunt us.
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Brexit Party Parliamentary Candidates: Another Money-Making Scheme?
After an Electoral Commission investigation into Brexit Party PayPal donations, Otto English has questions about their recruitment of MPs.
