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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.
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THE UPSIDE DOWN: Wetworld – the Most Unlikely Thing in the Universe
We live in strange times. Familiarity is draining from our lives; old political alignments are dissolving; the weather is unpredictable and violent. But perhaps we should try harder to embrace the strangeness: after all, we are made from the most unlikely thing in the universe.
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What is Nigel Farage’s New Brexit Party?
The former UKIP leader has promised to wipe out the Conservatives if they don’t deliver Brexit, but what else do we know about his new political venture?
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Special Counsel Mueller’s Team just dropped a Huge Clue about the Russia Probe during a Closed-door Hearing
The revelation that the special counsel’s office is still unraveling mysteries at “the heart” of the Russia investigation seems to contradict the recent suggestion by acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker that the inquiry is “close to being completed.”
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Communities Unite to Defend Against the Far Right
Londoners united on a chilly Sunday night to attend the inaugural meeting of the London Anti-Fascist Assembly.
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The Prehistoric Common Market: Golden Finds on a German Hillside
As archaeologists are increasingly discovering, humanity has always been interconnected, relying on the exchange of ideas to function.
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Britain is in Crisis – is a New Centrist Party the Solution?
Since the EU Referendum in June 2016, Westminster has regularly been awash with rumours of a new centrist party. With polls showing increasing disaffection with the leadership of the traditional parties and distrust in wider politics, the opportunities for a new Macron-style party are all the greater. The New Statesman is reporting that half a…
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Top Law Firm Gets Injunction as Lawyer Jailed for Sex Assault
The ‘magic circle’ law firm Linklaters has been granted a temporary injunction preventing a former executive from revealing details of alleged ‘struggles’ facing women at the company. The UK injunction, granted by a High Court judge earlier this week, was issued on the same day that a federal court in Germany dismissed an appeal by…
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Theresa May is Flying Flight Brexit into a Crash Landing
As Theresa May travels to Belfast and Brussels, time is running out. Article 50 needs to be extended or the UK crashes out with No Deal. After all – it didn’t say “Brace! Brace! Brace!” on the side of that bus.
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The Lessons of Ukraine’s EuroMaidan are Vital to the UK as we Stumble toward Brexit
The conflict in Ukraine came with the suppression of hopeful young people waving the blue and yellow flag of the EU. They saw in that symbol a sign of hope that we have all but lost sight of in the UK.
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Phone Hacking: Time the Police Stepped In
Evidence against executives and editors is piling up in the civil courts, but newspapers are just buying their way out of trouble. The right place for this is the criminal courts, which means the Met must act
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The Far Right American Funding Behind a Grass Roots Student Movement
Turning Point USA is funded by a number of wealthy right-wing businessmen. This week Turning Point UK tried to launch a similar pseudo-grassroots young conservative movement in Britain.
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Kremlin Social Media Backing Jacob Rees-Mogg (2018)
Social Media research shows British MP Jacob Ree-Mogg’s #Moggmentum campaign is being pushed by accounts linked to a powerful Kremlin disinformation operation.
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‘Yellow Vest’ Protesters Run Rampant in London and Attack Police Station
With Brexit weeks away, serious questions need to be asked about both the Metropolitan Police and Government’s approach towards increasingly violent ‘Yellow Vest’ protests.
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Snowmaggedon Brexit: An Inch of White Stuff Brings Britain to a Halt — Tell Me Again About No Deal
Snow has shut schools, emptied supermarkets and left motorists stranded. A glimpse of what No Deal Brexit might bring? You ain’t seen nothing yet, says Otto English
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A Message to You, Rudy
While it’s sometimes fairly lazy to find a contemporary angle to finish on, Rudolf’s story does bring to mind several political leaders as of late, unable to take the reins and engage with a fracturing, divided populace.
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‘No One is Coming to Save Me’ – Can Prisoners Become their own Life Coaches and Escape our Failing Jails?
Hardeep Matharu meets the charity helping inmates to think about their lives and how to transform them and explores why we can’t wait for the Government to make prisons places of change.
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‘Victimised Twice Over’: Supreme Court Rules Against the Wrongly Convicted
The Supreme Court’s ruling that victims of miscarriages of justice can only claim compensation if they can prove their innocence ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ is a blow to the idea of justice, according to campaigners.
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KILLER FACTS: Islamophobia and Brexit
To accompany Faisal Khan’s exploration of the reasons behind the spike in Islamophobic hate crimes after the Brexit referendum, here are some key statistics compiled from official sources:
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Brexit has become a Doomsday Cult
Planet Brexit can be reached, the spaceship is coming, we simply have to extract the metal bits from our bras and check that we have set our watches correctly.
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Islamophobia is Real – and Russia is Promoting It
Faisal Khan examines the rise of hate crimes against British Muslims and what is causing it.
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Sleight of Hand: Beware of the Brexit Referendum Three-Card Trick
Amidst the growing clamour for a second referendum to break the parliamentary impasse around her Brexit deal, some Whitehall insiders are claiming that Theresa May could use a clever ‘three-card-trick’ to force her unpopular deal through.
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Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson Adviser Steve Bannon Implicated in Mueller Investigation
As Steve Bannon is identified of the ‘High-Ranking’ Trump Campaign official in the Roger Stone indictment, the question of Russian collusion not only moves upwards to the President, but across the Atlantic
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Mueller Looks to London – How Roger Stone’s Arrest by the FBI spells Trouble for Nigel Farage and Brexit
The arrest of Trump’s long time political advisor for his contact with Wikileaks and Russian hacking of the Democratic Party has two key leads to the UK and Brexit
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Is Boris Johnson Betraying Britain with his Bannon-Style Paranoia about the Deep State?
There’s little doubt Boris Johnson was inspired in his deep state rhetoric by Steve Bannon…. The problem for Boris Johnson is that Steve Bannon is a key subject of the FBI investigation into Russian interference.
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What is Behind the Rise of the ‘WHITE RIGHT’?
In the past decade, 71% of the 387 murders committed by extremists in the US had been perpetrated by the far right, while Muslims were responsible for 26%
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New MENTAL HEALTH Review ‘has raised FALSE HOPES in Minds and Hearts of many Black People’
The Modernising Mental Health Act report fails to offer a solution to what is one of the most glaring problems in the mental health service – the vast number of Afro-Caribbeans who are sectioned compared to the majority white population.
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The BBC on the Edge of the Abyss 2: THE ARGUMENT
The BBC has failed the license fee-payer in its core duty to inform when it comes to three of the biggest stories of recent years. Peter Jukes explores why should this concern each and every one of us.
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Mail on Sunday Phone Hacking – ‘Smoking Gun’ Emails Quoted Messages to Top Editor
THE MAIL on Sunday is today embroiled in a growing phone hacking crisis after explosive emails obtained by Byline Investigates show one of the paper’s top editors receiving transcripts of actor Sadie Frost’s voicemails.
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Travel Down Under Like A Sydneysider
“I start every day with a flat white at my local café. Then, when I get home from work, I pop down to the beach for a sunset swim. Living is Sydney is like being on permanent vacation.”
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The BBC on the Edge of the Abyss 1: The Facts
2018 has been a troubling year for those who support public service broadcasting and the national broadcaster’s remit to inform, not just to entertain.
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‘Political Content Removed’ as UK Treasury Minister Met ‘Dark Money’ US Think Tanks
Unearthed reveal Treasury minister Liz Truss met with representatives of five US libertarian groups at the UK taxpayers cost. But her political remarks have been censored
