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Dear White Gay Men: Racism is Your Problem, not Ours.
Whistleblower and digital activist Shahmir Sanni launches his column: RACE AND REBELLION
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The Catastrophe of Success
The catastrophe of success: Trump, Gove and Johnson never expected to win. What now?
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Tribalism is Killing Us: 40 Years of Zipper Blues
Tina Gharavi launches her new regular column on Tribalism with a tour of the Iranian Revolution, Exile The Smashing Pumpkins, and how Brexit is making Britain an alien place.
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COMMENT & ANALYSIS
What is ‘SENSITIVE’? – The suppressed No Deal Impact report This week’s Contempt Committee hearing followed the successful threat of contempt proceedings being used by MPs to force the release of Brexit-related Cabinet papers. “It really would be to the eternal shame of the Conservative party if it were to continue to support a no-deal…
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Contempt Inquiry challenges Government bid to stop MPs releasing ‘sensitive’ Brexit documents
The Government would like its own legal advice and Cabinet papers to be off-limits to Opposition MPs Parliament’s Procedure Committee has held its final hearing on how Theresa May’s minority Government was found In Contempt of Parliament last December. The MPs’ inquiry – known officially as the “Powers of the House of Commons to Call…
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Lessons from the Clubmen: How the English Civil War can Make us More Civil
Increasingly, when I think of the divisions within British society – Left and Right, Leave and Remain, for example – I can’t help but think of the Clubmen.
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Cohen’s Testimony Could Prove Trump Lied To Mueller About WikiLeaks
Clearly, Mueller isn’t afraid to bring charges against those who lie to investigators — and based on Cohen’s testimony, that may even include the president.
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Cohen’s Explosive Testimony on Trump and Wikileaks puts Farage back in the Spotlight
Roger Stone’s speakerphone conversation with Trump about Wikileaks and hacked emails coincides with a secretive meeting between Stone and Nigel Farage at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland that year.
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Minister Tells Bereaved Families She Stands By Decision Not to Give Those Whose Relatives Die in State Care Automatic Legal Aid
As a new campaign is launched calling for the Government to introduce non-means tested legal aid for families who lose relatives in a state-related death, a Government minister defends the status quo.
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Contempt threat by Breakaway Independent Group MPs forces Cabinet to release £13bn cost of No Deal Brexit
The revelations in the Government’s ‘Implications for Business and Trade of a No Deal Brexit’ report are an Alarming Wake-Up Call. But can the public hear it?
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Online Endgame for ‘Tommy Robinson’ – but What Next for the British Hard Right?
Mike Stuchbery wonders whether British populists will ever rally round a strongman figure and whether something worse could replace it
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My Old Dutch: How Megan Markle Exemplifies Englishness
The Count of the Saxon Shore welcomes the Duchess of the South Saxons, and the arrival of her heir, with that ancient Mercian salutation: “‘Ay up me duck.”
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RADICAL THINKING: INSIDE PREVENT
Byline Times launches an investigation into Prevent, the Government’s controversial counter-terrorism strategy.
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Trump-Russia Axis Scores Major Victory in Battle over European Energy Autonomy
Trump allies join forces with Putin proxies to seize control through the Trojan horse of Russian gas.
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Correction of the Week – 25th February
While other newspapers hide their errors, we promise to make their corrections prominent – and ours.
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THE UPSIDE DOWN: Dead Centre – the Collective Avoidance of Dying
For most of us in the so-called developed world, death is rarely confronted head-on. At best, it’s ‘the rumble of distant thunder at a picnic’.
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Tommy has No Clothes
The truth of things, deep down, is that the man calling himself ‘Tommy Robinson’ isn’t the leader or figurehead he’s been sold as… On Saturday, many of his strongest supporters began to realise that – and that’s something to worry about.
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Contempt Committee: Theresa May’s Government has ‘Not a leg to Stand On’ Withholding Information from Parliament
The Government’s attempts to block MPs from requesting the release of “sensitive information” is being scrutinised by a parliamentary committee.
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‘Probation Workers Supervising Offenders who Commit Murder and Rape on their watch “Scapegoated” over Chris Grayling’s Failed Reforms’
With the number of serious further offences by those on probation rising by over a third since the service was reformed in 2014 by Chris Grayling, the probation workers’ union asks: where is the political accountability for the failings?
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Justice for Daphne: Passport Investments Company Replies to Accusations of a ‘Faustian Pact’ with Cambridge Analytica
In her first of a series investigating the assassination of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, Nicola Driscoll-Davies explores new revelations from the recent Parliamentary report into Fake News and Disinformation
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The Real Militant Tendency: ERG and the Brexit Layercake
Otto English looks into the background and funding of Jacob Rees-Mogg’s ERG, alleged to operate like a ‘party within a party’ by senior Conservative MPs
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No Deal Scenarios – Secrecy, Dark Money & Hidden Hands
In Brexit negotiations the transparency of the EU is in stark contrast to Britain, dominated by the hidden hand of think tanks and dark money
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In Contempt – Democracy in Darkness
Alex Varley-Winter announces her new Investigation into Executive Overreach in the Tumult of Brexit, and Calls out for Inside Information
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Justice for Daphne: the Avalanche of Legal Cases Before Caruana Galizia’s Murder
Maltese Investigative Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was subject to a staggering number of legal challenges before she was assassinated in 2017
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How to Steal a Trillion Dollars
True kleptocracy is a creation of globalisation; its hybrid vigour born of the intermarriage between autocracy and a globalised financial system.
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Vienna: Get your Schnitzel on
Seen historically as Germany’s sleepy neighbour, Austria – and Vienna in particular – is having a moment all its own. Don’t miss it.
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Occupied Ukraine: the Land of Make Believe
How the Narnia-like countries created by Russia manipulated western coverage of the occupied Donbas
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The Count of the Saxon Shore: Migration Watch Since 270 AD
As I stare out at that grey whale-road the English Channel it no longer seems absurd to make that boldest of historical parallels for Brexit: the end of the Roman Empire in Britain. Well, at least gives me an opportunity to properly talk about English identity. Yes, I want my country back. I want us…
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Shamima Begum and the Case for Mercy
Otto English argues that ‘an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind’ and that an advanced democracy like Britain should not seek to punish a naïve girl for the sins of those who groomed her.
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How Russian Bots Amplify Britain’s Jacob Rees-Mogg
As his online influence has grown, so have revelations of other relationships between Rees-Mogg and entities with strong Russian connections.
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Kick Back – Suspicious Bets in Global Soccer
Football and tennis topped the list of European sports most vulnerable to suspicious gambling activity during 2018 – accounting for 86% of all cases referred by the continent’s betting integrity body.
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Parliament Kept in the Dark About Brexit Trade Deals while the Sun Shines
International Trade Secretary Liam Fox claimed he showed MPs a list of Brexit trade deals. He never has. The Sun got it first.
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THE UPSIDE DOWN: Search Me –when did Google Become So Shallow?
As Facebook and other global tech giants come under scrutiny over the way they amass our data, John Mitchinson reveals how Google has less information
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International Women’s Day 2019: What’s On
With International Women’s Week fast approaching, Ms. Suffragette gives her pick of the most interesting events to attend.
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Explosive Report Exposes the Molten Core of the Brexit, Trump, Russia Scandal
The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee’s final report on disinformation and fake news reveals new evidence and calls for new investigations into dark data, dark money and Russian influence in British elections.
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Announcing KICK BACK: the Ugly Side of the Beautiful Game
The Kick Back team will look into corruption inside the sport, money laundering, match-fixing and illegal betting – bringing football’s huge global audience up to speed with the latest attempts to tackle activities which act as a scar on the face of the Beautiful Game.
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‘Tommy’ & Facebook: Kicking the Habit
Mike Stuchbery challenges Mark Zuckerberg to stop enabling Stephen Yaxley-Lennon’s hate and asks you to help him
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The Fake News Around Viennese Coffee Houses Shows How We Twist Reality to Suit Our Myths
The Viennese take coffee very seriously – nigh on a religion. If you go, you’ll undoubtedly hear about how coffee was introduced to the city in the late 17th Century… The story is, of course, complete rubbish.
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Killing Democracy, Softly
Without a written constitution, our governance relies on abiding by norms of good behaviour with the backstop of the criminal law. Now both are vulnerable to soft corruption. Ten months after the Metropolitan Police received a file on potential illegality within Brexit referendum campaigns, Byline Times has learnt that Scotland Yard has still not decided…
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Senior Labour MPs Accuse Met Police of ‘Cover-Up’ and ‘Unacceptable Delays’ in Investigating Brexit Wrongdoing
Criminal investigations into Leave campaigns still stalled amid allegations up to a dozen MPs in the frame.
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The Deadly Anti-Vaxxer Movement: Started in Britain, Co-opted by Trump, Boosted by Putin
As Washington State declares a state of emergency over measles, populist misinformation over vaccination is putting children’s lives at risk
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Time to Speak for Britain – Before It’s Too Late
As Ford threatens to quit the UK and each day brings more catastrophic news – staying silent is no longer an option.
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Rolled Over: Liam Fox Keeps MPs in the Dark about 750 Brexit Trade Deals
MPs today pressuring Trade Secretary Dr Liam Fox to explain hundreds of trade agreements had to ‘play detective’ on the web to discover the facts.
