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‘Scurrilous’ Evidence from Former News of the World Journalist in Pointless Court Case
High Court Judge describes court action as “futile” and characterises part of former tabloid journalist’s evidence as “irrelevant” and “scurrilous”.
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Times Editor’s Oligarch Friend Behind Controversial ‘Muslim Foster Parents’ Front Page, Tribunal Hears
Times editor John Witherow insisted that an award-winning journalist write a story about a “white Christian” girl’s placement with Muslim foster parents, in spite of his “significant misgivings”, because it had been handed to the editor by an oligarch friend, an employment tribunal has been told.
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Brexit Party Donations – Farage’s Miracle Claims Do Not Add Up
Following yesterday’s revelations that the ‘Donate’ and ‘Registered Member’ functions on the Brexit Party site were open to abuse with multiple donations, Turlough Conway finds another huge anomaly in the party’s crowd funding claims.
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DEMOCRACY IN DARKNESS: Brexit Impasse Freezes Anti Poverty Policies
Another day, another example from Parliament on how Brexit paralysis is affecting all levels of Theresa May’s government.
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Around the World in 16 Facts: PostCards from the Edge
Our Inside Whitehall correspondent David Hencke returns from a global tour with some short but shocking observations on climate change, Brexit and the rise of China.
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DEMOCRACY IN DARKNESS: Hiding the Truth of Britain’s Brexit Inaction from Parliament and the World
Though Theresa May’s Government gave itself a deadline of July 2019 to report on progress against UN Sustainable Development Goals, it now seems to be hiding its lack of action.
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THE JUSTICE TRAP: ‘Our courts will bend over backwards to uphold a conviction which is obviously unsafe’
Jon Robins explores why Tony Stock has spent more than 40 years fighting to clear his name for an armed robbery a supergrass admits he had nothing to do with.
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UPDATE: Brexit Party Donations – “It Couldn’t Be Less Secure”
“It couldn’t be less secure” is Turlough Conway’s conclusion as he looks at Nigel Farage’s “Never seen anything like it” claim of mass donations to his new party.
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Iran Crisis: Sketchy Intelligence and Propaganda – We’ve Been Here Before
CJ Werleman sees a familiar pattern in the stoked-up tensions between the US and Iran, and once again the media is failing to check the march to war.
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AstroTurfers of Britain Part Two: Who is Behind Brexit Party Recruitment and its PR Makeover?
Otto English delves deeper into Claire Fox and Spiked Online’s close connection to Nigel Farage’s new party, and discovers another PR executive involved in recruiting potential MEPs.
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JUSTICE FOR DAPHNE: Where the Maltese Authorities Cover-Up, ‘The Sweepers’ Step Up
Nineteen months after the murder of Daphne Caruana Nicola and with no proper official investigation, a group of Maltese journalists are filling the gap
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WikiLeak Leaks: from Transparency to Trolling for Putin
Stephen Komarnyckyj on a cache of hacked materials that shed a disturbing light on the culture of a man and an organisation once hailed as champions of transparency.
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SCIENCE HOOKER: Understanding Extinction – the Facts Behind the Global XR Movement
Adi MacArtney shines some detailed light on the heated debate about the collapse of biodiversity in our ecosystems.
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A New Crusade for White Christian Europe? Not a Good Look
When Far Right and populist figures such as Hungary’s Viktor Orban talk about a ‘crusade’ to defend ‘Christendom’ – this should ring some very shrill alarm bells.
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Health Secretary blind to £35M impact of Babylon’s ‘GP at Hand’ Service
Matt Hancock accused of “wholly untrue” Parliamentary answer dismissing local MP’s plea for cash-strapped Clinical Commissioning Group
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Why the Breakdown of the BBC is a Microcosm of British Politics
Peter Jukes argues that the public broadcaster is easily gamed by bad actors and vested interests who can break the rules with impunity – just like so many other key British institutions.
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How War could be Prevented Globally for Just $2 Billion – and with the Help of More Women
Stephen Colegrave interviews Dr Scilla Elworthy about her business approach to peace, and the qualities of feminine intelligence for women and men as essential skills in building a safer world.
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‘Dodgy Money and Dirty Data’: MP Looking to Future-Proof Elections Suspicious of ‘Brexit Cover-Up’
In an exclusive interview, Labour MP Stephen Kinnock questions why nothing has been done about allegations of electoral wrongdoing in the 2016 Referendum and speaks about how his new parliamentary inquiry will be on the case.
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AstroTurfers of Britain: the Brexit Party’s Artificial Grass Roots Part One
Otto English on the PR person behind the apparently spontaneous Leavers for Britain movement and her Westminster Think Tank connections.
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The Sinister Orders Banning Homeless People from Train Stations
Homeless people risk being banned from their local train station under an increasingly used order called a Withdrawal of Implied Permission (WIP).
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As Epic as Jon Snow and Daenerys – a Glimpse of Roman Britain’s Multicultural Love
The 2nd Century tombstone near Hadrian’s Wall tells a story as exotic as anything out of Game of Thrones, the epic love story of a woman from Hertfordshire and her partner from Syria.
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Christchurch Summit: Mainstream News Sites also ‘Perpetuating Hate’ and Violent Extremism
G7 leaders will gather to discuss calls for a ‘Christchurch Call’ to combat terrorism and violent extremism on social media – but what about the news sites of the traditional press?
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Cradle of Industrial Revolution Lagging Behind in Restoration of Woodlands and Re-wilding
The Government’s ‘Clean Growth Strategy’ will not honour the Paris Accords, MPs are warned.
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‘Amazing Grace’: Aretha Franklin, Gospel Music and its Unsettling Roots
Writer and DJ Chris Sullivan explores how ‘Amazing Grace’, the new Sydney Pollack film finally released nearly 50 years after its original due date, got him thinking about the origins of Gospel music.
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Who’s the Money Man, Nigel?
As Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage dodges more questions about who is bankrolling his new ‘grassroots movement’, Otto English asks: why the need for secrecy?
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Has ISIS been defeated?
Faisal Khan asks: what next for the Islamic State following the loss of its Caliphate?
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THE JUSTICE TRAP: No Forensics, No CCTV – 17 Years in Prison on the Evidence of an “Admitted Liar”
Omar Benguit is still trying to prove his innocence for the murder of a student he is adamant he had nothing to do with. Omar Benguit has spent almost 17 years in prison for the senseless killing of a Korean student in Bournemouth as she walked back from a nightclub in the early hours of…
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Brexiter Psychosis: Delusions, Self Deception and Britain’s Political Disorder
Psychologist and therapist Emmy van Deurzen argues that, beyond the lies and propaganda around Brexit, something more dangerous may be at play – self-deception.
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Missed Opportunities: Muslims are Counter Terrorism Assets
In the wake of the Sri Lankan terror attacks CJ Werleman reports on how Muslim communities have been at the forefront of combating extremist groups.
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Rebels without a Pause: Activism won’t rest this Bank Holiday Weekend
Here’s how you can get involved over the weekend.
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WORD OF THE WEEK: straddlebug
(n.) a non-committal, equivocating politician [19C slang] There were local elections in England and Northern Ireland this week (though not, despite what Boris Johnson thinks, in London). And with the results now in, for the first time in a long time one clear message has been sent to Westminster: the overtly pro-Remain Lib Dems and…
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‘The Way of the Wild West’: Calls for an Inquiry over Babylon ‘GP at Hand’ App
The GP At Hand app had led to one tiny medical centre in London now serve more than 48,000 patients. MP Andy Slaughter calls for inquiry into the digital services undermining the NHS.
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Who’s Backing Boris Johnson for PM? And what’s in it for Lynton Crosby?
The former Mayor of London and Foreign Secretary is on manoeuvres this summer: James Hanning explores the possible pipelines of money fueling him.
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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.
