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Brexit Zugzwang: How the UK can escape the fierce checkmate-stalemate of now
As the country lurches towards March 29th – Zugzwang Brexit is where our politicians are now at. So what can be done?
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The Disaster Capitalism Club: Part 1 – Vote Leave Backers who Made Billions from Brexit
While this elite group have profited from the last three years of economic uncertainty real household incomes have dropped almost £1,000 and the average household will lose between £2,519 to £5,573 over the next 15 years.
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The Justice Trap: Murder by Numbers
Ben Geen was caught red-handed – a serial killer, or so it seemed. In the third of his series The Justice Trap, Jon Robins shows how a misreading of statistics led to a life sentence
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Government Committed to Privatisation of Probation – as Largest Provider Teeters on Collapse
As another provider of probation services teeters on the brink of collapse, the Government remains committed to a role for the private sector in supervising offenders.
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Tory Benefit Cap Condemned as Wasteful, Unproductive and ‘Cruel’ by Parliament
As Brexit continues to dominate all of British political life, what about the families up and down the country going hungry, cold and getting further in debt because of the benefit cap?
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17 DAYS TO GO: News from the Brexit Cliff Edge
A weekly comprehensive round-up of what others are writing about the looming exit of the UK from the European Union.
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INSIDE PREVENT: Heroism and Hate – How a Prevent Mentor Tackles the Far Right
A Prevent “mentor” helping to deradicalise people through his extraordinary experience inside a murderous neo-Nazi group speaks to Byline Times.
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THE UPSIDE DOWN: Early and Often – A Short History of Fixing Elections
John Mitchinson on the not-so-recent history of rigging the vote, bribing voters with booze and voter suppression, using whiskey
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A Quiet Kind of Terror: What It’s Like to be the Target of a Far Right Witch-hunt
A week after Mike Stuchbery became subject to targeted harassment and threats of violence, he reflects on the impact it has had on his life.
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Paul Manafort’s Sentencing Raises More Questions Than Answers
Caroline Orr explains how, when Manafort goes to prison, he will carry with him a slew of secrets about Super PACS, polling data and a possible Wikileaks Connection
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How to win an Oscar in one easy lesson
Journalist and DJ Chris Sullivan on the tired “magic formula” for gaming the Academy Awards system
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Prisons Minister: Our Criminal Justice System is “Much More Punitive than the Victorians Were”
How can the Government reduce the use of short prison sentences if judges lack confidence in community alternatives?
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THE GREAT INDIFFERENCE: Brexit Wrongdoing Swept Under the Carpet
As serious allegations about Leave EU Official and Arron Banks continue to come out – the media and political class are complicit in a conspiracy of silence, says Otto English
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Paul Manafort’s Sentencing Isn’t The End of His Troubles
Caroline Orr explains how Trump’s campaign manager’s apparently lenient prison sentence is only the first chapter of this saga
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Boris Johnson planning a Trump-like populist bid for PM: backed by Steve Bannon and the Far Right
You can get rid of the ridiculous bouffant hair, but that doesn’t stop you being a dangerous buffoon.
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The Foederati: How the English were the Original Federalists
The Count of the Saxon Shore provides another insight into the ‘Great Brexit from Rome’
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The Justice Trap: How Medical Orthodoxy can be Judge, Jury and Executioner
Two parents took their sick child to hospital. Within hours they were being questioned by police. Two days later, they were in court. Why?
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Government asks YouTube to Reconsider ‘Tommy Robinson’ Ban after he Threatens More Journalists with “a Knock on the Door”
After three days of intimidation and threats against Byline Times writer Mike Stuchbery, the Government agrees that YouTube must take action against Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.
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Crimea River: How Subversive Technology Piloted by Russia in Ukraine was used to Orchestrate Brexit and Trump
Why the West took a risk ignoring Russia’s subversive infiltration in Ukraine.
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How Repression in Belarus and Revolution in Ukraine Provides a Warning and a Lesson for Brexit Britain
Natalia Kaliada of the Belarus Free Theatre and Mark and Marichka Marczyk explain how protestors can’t abandon the barricades if they are to defend their freedoms.
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She’s Running for US President: but Who is Tulsi Gabbard?
Faisal Khan profiles high-flying democrat Tulsi Gabbard. What does she stand for? What does she believe in? And who funds her?
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Sharkey, Skydance and Sandals: Women Steal The Show
Feminism continues its roller-coaster ride in 2019. Justice for Women has successfully supported Sally Challen’s bid for a re-trial on the grounds that her former husband, who she killed in 2010, exerted coercive control over her. Emma Thompson’s resignation letter from the Skydance movie-in-the-making ‘Luck’ has been hailed as a “rallying cry” for the Time’s…
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‘We are at War’ with Putin MPs told: his Aim is to Divide Europe
Counter-misinformation group director tells parliamentary session how his Institute of Statecraft was a casualty of 21st Century ‘Hybrid War’
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Shanghai: What the Future looks like
Need a kick up the bum to get you moving again? Shanghai is the spot. It’s a global city on the rise and there’s no shortage of interesting, exciting and inspiring sites, sounds and tastes to leave you feeling ready to take on the world.
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Stuchbery’s Strange Histories: the Sad Tale of Gesche Gottfried
Millennials, and the generation that followed them, have often been painted as self-obsessed, image-conscious, fixated on the picture that they present to the world. But we only need look at the sad tale of Gesche Gottfried to understand that we’ve always been vain creatures.
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Trump’s Digital Operation Comes Under Scrutiny By House Judiciary Committee: THE ARGUMENT
Following the FACTS outlined by the congressional requests for documents, Caroline Orr sets out the road map ahead and argues a new era of accountability is on the way for Trump and his digital operation
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Trump’s Digital Operation Comes Under Scrutiny By House Judiciary Committee: THE FACTS
The expanded inquiry puts Cambridge Analytica, WikiLeaks, and the Trump campaign’s digital operation squarely in the cross-hairs of congressional investigators
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Britain’s decline, Britain’s ascension: Brexit on the Edge
BeLeave Whistleblower and Digital activist Shahmir Sanni argues that by revealing the post-colonial corruption of Westminster, Brexit also opens the door to real radical change.
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It’s not just Chlorinated Chickens: the Hidden Hand of Brexit Deregulation
In the rush to meet 29 March Brexit deadline, Charities warn Ministers crucial safeguards are being removed without the scrutiny of Parliament
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THE UPSIDE DOWN: Mould Breakers – the Magic and Mystery of Shrooms
If this column were to have a mascot, it would be a mushroom. Fungi are everywhere, they are important, they are deeply weird and we know very little about them.
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Whitehall Under Fire for Withholding ‘No-Deal’ List from MPs
Civil Service chief forced to defend Secrecy of Cabinet Papers; Assessment revealed that almost one-third of ‘critical’ no-deal projects would be off-track if the UK crashes out of the EU.
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Putin Pushing on an Open Door
By ignoring Law-Breaking and Social Media Monopolies British and American Politicians are doing Putin’s work for him, argues Tamsin Shaw
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The Justice Trap: It Could Be You
In the first of a new series examining the failings of our criminal justice system, Jon Robins explores why this should matter to us all.
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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?
