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Brexit Party Must Return Any Impermissible Donations, Says Electoral Commission
Now the Electoral Commission has agreed it’s likely that the Brexit Party broke electoral laws during the European Elections, it is legally obliged to return impermissible donations with 30 days of receipt.
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MEP: Portugal’s Court is trying to “Break” Football Corruption Whistleblower
As Rui Pinto, the man behind the Football Leaks website is detained without charge in Lisbon a leading anti-corruption politician has stepped forward to make the case for his release.
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Why the Landmine Legacy of Princess Diana Must Address a 21st Century Reality
Iain Overton reports on how publicity around British landmine clearance efforts tend to ignore the War on Terror and the rise of IEDS.
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“They think they have No Choice but to Take their Own Lives” – The Shame of Australia’s Manus Island Must End
CJ Werleman explores what it will take to shift the Australian Government’s controversial policy of sending refugees from Asia and the Middle East to offshore detention facilities.
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HONG KONG PROTESTS: British-Made Riot Gear Used in Crackdown
The Government appears to have stepped up the sale of security equipment to Hong Kong following the Umbrella Movement protests in 2014. How does this fit with the UK’s role in standing up for the city’s people?
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Whatever they say, Fast Fashion Brands aren’t Sustainable
Erika Koljonen investigates whether cheap and cheerful clothing can be sustainable as the fast fashion brands claim.
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‘John Wick’ Body Count: Do Violent Movies Inspire Violence Amongst their Viewers?
Chris Sullivan on the age-old debate about whether fictional displays of violence increase it in reality, now informed by some groundbreaking research.
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Anybody can be a Hero: The Story of Lilo Hermann
Whenever Mike Stuchbery travels to Stuttgart he is reminded that the courage to resist authoritarianism and tyranny isn’t restricted to a particular kind of individual and here manifests itself in the form of a bookish single mother.
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Watching the Apocalypse? Turn off the TV and Find a Better Ending
Salena Godden’s fourth episode of ‘Pessimism is for Lightweights’ warns of the dangers of too much bad news and the need for hope.
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The Bad Press Hunters – ‘A Major Organised Crime Story’
Stephen Colegrave talks to two journalists relentlessly exposing media criminality. Featured in a recent BBC Radio 4 documentary, Graham Johnson and Dan Evans are reformed journalists who now expose corrupt practices and illegal activities in the British media. Graham was the only reporter to have voluntarily come forward to admit to phone hacking in his…
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THE UPSIDE DOWN: The Limits of Charm – Britain’s Worst Ever MP
John Mitchinson on the life and times of Ignácz Trebitsch and the prescient lessons our politicians can take from his grisly demise.
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THE BORIS JOHNSON SHOW PART 2: Keeping the Show On the Road
In the second part of his profile on the Tory leadership favourite, Otto English explores Boris Johnson’s use of realpolitik in his drive towards grabbing the keys to No. 10.
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The Triumph of Trumpism in the UK – Only Truth Can Set Us Free
With Boris Johnson emerging as a clear candidate to succeed Theresa May as Conservative leader and to enter Number 10 Downing Street as Britain’s next Prime Minister, it’s time to think the unthinkable and speak of the unspeakable.
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GRENFELL: TWO YEARS ON – Little Has Changed for Social Housing Tenants
Natalie Bloomer and Samir Jeraj report on how the tragedy at Grenfell Tower still hasn’t led to change for others living in poor conditions.
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MOOD-BASED TRAVEL: Hong Kong – City in the Sky
In the latest in his series exploring how to experience travelling as a antidote to your mood, Kyle Taylor sets out the wonders of Hong Kong.
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Racism, Homophobia, Violence, Drugs: Fans Reveal Harsh Reality of British Football Grounds
While the Football Association and Kick It Out strive for improvements, a new survey reveals shocking attitudes among those who attend top-level matches.
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When Will the World Do Something to Save Rohingya Muslims?
CJ Werleman on why the international community should hang its head in shame over its failure to help stop the genocide still ongoing in Myanmar.
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HONG KONG PROTESTS: Will UK Take Action over Extradition Law Driving Hundreds of Thousands of Protesters to the Streets?
Proposals by Hong Kong’s authorities to allow the extradition of suspects to China have caused outrage in the city. Does the law contravene the “one country, two systems” agreement between the UK and China?
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Brexit Party’s PayPal Funding Methods Slammed by Elections Watchdog – But What Needs to Happen Next?
Turlough Conway, who broke the story of the Brexit Party’s questionable PayPal funding structure, provides an analysis of what must now be done to safeguard our electoral processes.
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Boris Johnson is Britain’s Donald Trump – Complete with Bannon and Russia Cover-Up
Boris Johnson finally launched his bid to become Britain’s Prime Minister today, and it’s clear that the same dark money and data are behind him.
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AUSTERITY JUSTICE: No Lawyers, No Advice – the ‘Legal Aid Desert’ Created by Cuts
Chris Grayling’s 2013 cuts slashed the legal aid budget by a third – £751 million. Jon Robins examines the toll this is taking on people’s everyday lives.
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THE BORIS JOHNSON SHOW: PART 1 – A Role on which the Curtain Never Falls
As the favourite to become our next Prime Minister launches his leadership bid, Otto English looks back on the life, times and the very many lies of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson.
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Rory Stewart’s Development Department ‘Spinning Landmark Report to UN on UK Poverty’
Civil servants in the Department for International Development ‘only wanted to hear good news’ to pass on to the UN, says disability charity.
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FAR RIGHT FUNDING: The Rebel Reporters Threatening the UK’s Rule of Law
Mike Stuchbery examines the funding and support for Far Right figures delivered under the guise of journalism.
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Citizens Committee Pushing for Public Pressure on Government over Saudi Arms Sales
Faisal Khan reports on the continuing questionable relationship between Britain and Saudi Arabia.
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Charity Watchdog to Condemn Oxfam Over Haiti Sexual Exploitation – But Ignore Global Sexual Abuse of Refugees and Aid Workers
A report by the Charity Commission will single out Oxfam’s failures on sexual exploitation, while brushing aside the much bigger scale of the problem.
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What was the Point in Jailing Natalie McGarry?
With the former SNP MP sentenced to 18 months in prison for embezzlement, court reporter James Doleman ponders the utility of incarceration for non-violent crimes.
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THE UPSIDE DOWN: Learning to Love Weeds
John Mitchinson explores why weeds force us to think differently about what is and isn’t ‘natural’
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Banned, Banished, Bullied and Bankrupted: Breaking the Male Stranglehold of Football
Lewes FC is leading the world in refusing to accept the myths about women’s football.
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Brexit and Climate Science Denial: The Tufton Street Network
Mat Hope , of DeSmog, maps the shadowy network of lobbyists and politicians working together to push for environmental deregulation — all in the name of Brexit.
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Armour, Kimonos and a Moment of Peace – a Testing Week for Salena
Salena Godden writes her third episode of ‘Pessimism is for Lightweights’ about a testing week that had a precious moment of solidarity
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WORD OF THE WEEK: caciquism
(n.) political bossism; a political system in which one powerful figure wields considerable power or influence The first is that it could win you a game of Scrabble one day. In 1982, a professional player named Karl Khoshaw played caziques (an official alternative spelling caciques) in an international Scrabble tournament and, with a score of…
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“All the Heroes are Dead” – the Liberation of Nazi Fortress Europe Remembered
Otto English compares the reality of war and the brotherhood through trauma of WW2 veterans with the Victor comic book versions of history.
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Science Hooker’s June Science Picks
A review of the most interesting news about science from around the universe by Byline Times’ science correspondent Adi MacArtney
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Extensive Use By Mirror Group News Desks of Private Investigators Exposed in Court
Names of at least seven middle-managers found in a sample of 2% of private investigator invoices but the company’s lawyers say stories also came from public domain sources.
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London Shell Companies at the Centre of Ukrainian Influence Operations
A cache of hacked documents which allegedly expose an FSB agent has been released by the Distributed Denial of Secrets, but the truth reveals the importance of UK shell companies
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AUSTERITY JUSTICE: ‘The Death of an Idea’ – How Legal Aid Cuts are Causing Systematic Poverty
Jon Robins sets out how the erosion of ‘access to justice’ for huge swathes of social welfare law is having a very real impact on poverty in the UK
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Government tells 3.8 Million Women they had No Right to Know their Pensions were being Taken Away
David Hencke reports from the extraordinary second and final day of a judicial review over the government’s decision to remove the pension rights of the #BackTo60 women born in the 1950s.
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The Fake Debate around Climate Change – How to Defy the Right Wing Media Machine
CJ Werleman says climate change activism can overcome the generational divide by focusing less on doom and instead identify the corporate culprits.
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Unbroken: The Story of Artemisia Gentileschi
Mike Stuchbery on a renaissance artist who overcame the predatory sexism of her day and survives as an emblem of feminist persistence.
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‘An Abuse of Power’: Court Hears Government Knew Millions of Women were Being Robbed of their Pensions
A judicial review is told that millions of women born in the 50s were kept in the dark about losing pension rights.
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Facebook the ‘Largest Fraud in Corporate History’ – Fake Accounts and Customer Data Theft
Aaron Greenspan, who claims to be the original creator of Facebook, attacked the giants of Silicon Valley in the UK parliament, alleging fraud, dishonesty, and data theft on a massive scale.
