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Where are we Going to Build the Council Houses we Desperately Need?
Tom Cordell on why a longer-term strategy of building houses and creating employment in tandem across the UK may be the only way out of the housing crisis.
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Pessimism is for Lightweights: Episode 10 – No Room for Fear
Poet Salena Godden reflects on the life and passing of the inspirational Toni Morrison.
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Life on the Street: 24 Hours in Manchester – NIGHT & MORNING
Byline Times’ regular cartoonist, who has worked with homeless people and experienced periods of homelessness himself, continues his picture essay on Manchester from street level.
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The Truth About Trump: Neutrality Gets Us Nowhere
Jonathan Lis argues that the inability to call out Donald Trump’s white supremacism is not impartiality and caution – it’s a dereliction of duty.
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‘Profiting from Destruction’: French-Based Insurance Giant Accused of Destroying Palestinian Livelihoods
AXA and its affiliates are heavily invested in occupied territory settlements and illegal Israeli Security Wall.
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Art and Disaster: ‘The Delft Thunderclap’
Mike Stuchbery on how terrible moments of devastation can be overcome with creativity and vision.
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A Duty to Inform or Channel for Disinformation? BBC Defends Bannon’s ‘Build the Wall’ Interview
The public service broadcaster still refuses to explain how it agreed to stage Jon Sopel’s interview at the under investigation ‘WeBuildtheWall’ fundraising event near El Paso.
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Trick or Treat? Is Halloween the Ominous Date for the Next General Election?
David Hencke speculates on Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s limited options as he tries to keep hold of power in the face of a disorderly Brexit and a rebellious Parliament.
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Good Cop, Bad Press: How a Key Witness in the Daniel Morgan Murder has been Silenced for 7 Years
Peter Jukes, host of the hit Untold: the Daniel Morgan Murder podcast, looks at a recent damages claim and a further twist in this decades-long saga.
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Brexit Party MP Candidates – Chums and Comrades: The Intrigue Continues
Otto English’s investigation into the parliamentary candidates selected so far by Nigel Farage’s party – and those who paid the non-refundable £100 online application fee but haven’t made the cut.
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‘We are Not in the Battlefield, We Are Not Fighters, Why they are Killing Us?’ The Human Cost of the Quest for Peace in Afghanistan
Sayed Jalal, based in Kabul, explores how the Afghan civilian population is living through a conflict which impacts ordinary people the most.
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Criminal Investigation Launched into Money Raised to Build Trump and Bannon’s US-Mexico Border Wall
‘We Build the Wall’ is having questions asked about how it spent $1.7 million of the funds it raised.
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Bannon’s Mexican Wall may be Impossible but the Hate it Creates is Real
As Bannon’s PR stunt near El Paso is swiftly followed by a horrific mass shooting, Hardeep Matharu looks back the Cambridge Analytica origins of ‘Build the Wall’.
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The El Paso Shooting and the Gamification of Terror
Robert Evans, who first analysed the role of 8chan in online radicalisation after the Christchurch attacks, looks at how far-right terrorism ‘body counts’ have been turned into an online game.
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‘A 17-20% Drop in Contracts’ – The Brexit Exodus has Already Begun
British manufacturing already suffering from as Boris Johnson gambles on a ‘no deal’ crash out of the European Union.
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White Supremacist Extremism Can Never Be Curbed in America without Changing its Gun Laws
CJ Werleman on why America must discuss the right to bear arms as the main reason why mass shootings keep happening.
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MOOD-BASED TRAVEL: The Pleasures of Porto
In the latest in his series exploring how to experience travelling as an antidote to your mood, Kyle Taylor recounts the pleasures of Porto.
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Cash-Strapped Victims’ Charities Must Be Given a Boost Alongside Extra Police Officers
Years of neglect for groups supporting victims of crime must be rectified by Boris Johnson, argues North West England’s former Chief Prosecutor.
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Odeon of Death Review of the Week: The Long Good Friday Agreement
The Odeon of Death takes a look at the week’s events through the medium of cinema.
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Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage’s ‘World for Brexit’: What is their Opaque New US Lobbying Group About?
In the wake of Labour concerns about ‘dark money’ influencing British elections, Turlough Conway looks deeper at Nigel Farage’s US registered World for Brexit.
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China Calculates on Turning Economic Power into Military Might
CJ Werleman sees a menacing trend in Beijing’s repression of human rights at home and abroad and its readiness to use military force in alliance with the Kremlin.
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THE JUSTICE TRAP: The Carl Beech Case Reveals the Potential for Injustice with Historical Allegations of Abuse
Jon Robins on what the imprisonment of the fantasist known as ‘Nick’ shows about how false allegations can ruin lives.
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Watch Out Boris Johnson, the Chickens are Coming Home to Roost
Otto English on why the realities of high office are dawning on our new Prime Minister.
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‘You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet’ – Steve Bannon’s Brexit Catastrophe was All Part of his Wider Plan
Peter Jukes dissects the populist, nationalist ideologue’s BBC performance and the Prime Minister’s failure to account for his relationship to him and his company Cambridge Analytica.
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Behind Boris Johnson’s Rhetoric of Home Ownership, His Government Promises a Far Crueller Society
Tom Cordell on how the new Government’s plans to increase home ownership will only result in housing inequality rising further in the UK.
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Regeneration Will Only Come by Accepting Our Grief Over a Broken Britain
The first step towards rebuilding our country is to acknowledge the profoundness of the damage symbolised by Boris Johnson’s rise to power.
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The Art of Dying – A Medieval Blockbuster for Terrible Times
Mike Stuchbery on reading one of the first printed bestsellers – a book on how to die properly – from his hospital bed.
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The Second Summer of Love – North v South?
DJ and writer Chris Sullivan on the debate about where Rave culture first took hold in Britain.
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Young People Need to Transform Performative Activism on Social Media into Real Action Offline
Molly Greeves on why online platforms should be the beginning, not the end, for those wanting to get involved in the political and social issues of our time.
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Who Killed David Holden? How the Murder of a Sunday Times Reporter has Lessons for Journalists Today
With journalists increasingly assassination targets, Peter Gillman, a former staff member on the Sunday Times’ Insight team, looks at the murder of his colleague in Egypt in 1977.
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‘The Great Hack’: The Fightback Begins in the Brexit-Trump Culture Wars
Sheridan Flynn on the new Netflix documentary following Carole Cadwalladr’s ongoing mission for the truth about how our data is being weaponised to change the world.
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How Trump is Using the Myth of the ‘Violent Left’ to Undermine Democracy
In seeking to categorise Antifa as a terrorist organisation, the US President is adding fuel to the fire of right-wing white supremacists.
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Brexit Britain’s Love Affair with its Navy is Rooted in a Foolish and Costly Obsession with the Past
How Brexiteers’ obsession with the sea and Boris Johnson’s promise of more money for ship-building represents a yearning for the days of Empire.
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Russia Didn’t Need to Hack Votes to Help Elect Trump – It Hacked Voters’ Minds Instead
By overstating the threat, or continually pushing the idea, that Russia hacked votes in the 2016 US presidential election, we may be playing right into our adversary’s hands
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Fear and Loathing in Whitehall
Will a cleansing anti-cyclone come and blow the oppressive suspicions and rumours away and re-establish the primacy of public service in the interests of the nation rather than party, and the principle that no one is above the rule of law?
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Cummings, Elliott, Westley – Boris Johnson’s Game of Russian Roulette
Otto English on how the new prime minister’s appointment of the toxic trio Dominic Cummings, Matthew Elliott and Chloe Westley is a massive hostage to fortune.
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Empty Promises: Boris Johnson’s 20,000 New Police Officers won’t Provide a Solution to Britain’s Creaking Justice System
North West England’s former Chief Prosecutor, Nazir Afzal, on why the new Prime Minister does not have a coherent crime and justice strategy – despite his ‘law and order’ rhetoric.
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Thousands of British Citizens Living in EU would have to Re-take Driving Tests in ‘No Deal’ Brexit Chaos, says Government
New guidance published by the Department for Transport reveals the upheaval a ‘no deal’ Brexit will cause for those looking to drive in EU countries.
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Odeon of Death Review of the Week: Doctor Who – The Out of Time Lord
The Odeon of Death takes a look at the week’s events through the medium of cinema.
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Eco Anxiety: The Heat Wave Heralds the Climate Emergency To Us All – Why Won’t We Wake Up?
CJ Werleman on the psychological effects of climate change, its deniers and why younger generations are right to be so disturbed by the future planet that awaits them.
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THE JUSTICE TRAP: How the Cash-Strapped Miscarriages of Justice Watchdog is No Longer Independent or Doing Its Job
Jon Robins explores the state of the Criminal Cases Review Commission and the dwindling number of potential miscarriages of justice being referred to the Court of Appeal.
