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Tortoise and the Heir: The ‘Slow News’ Media Firm Behind the Observer Sale and the Curious Company It Keeps
As the Guardian announces the ‘sale’ of the 233-year-old Observer to Tortoise Media, Carole Cadwalladr takes a closer look at its moneymen
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Climate Groups Demand Gatwick and Luton Airport Expansion Decision is Delayed
The Government has already approved some airport expansion plans, but these two will be a bigger test of Ministers’ climate commitments
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The Reform UK MPs Already Being Bankrolled by Elon Musk
Nigel Farage is already benefiting financially thanks to the billionaire owner of X
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Conservative MPs Want to Scrap Workers’ Rights to Paid Holiday and Annual Leave
They are also seeking to overturn workplace protections from sexual harassment, calling them an attack on “free speech”
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The LGBTQ+ People Fleeing Donald Trump’s America
“We don’t feel safe here. It’s not just Trump, it’s the fact half our country voted for him”
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‘The West Will Regret Abandoning the Georgian People to the Clutches of Russia’
Europe and the US must wake up to the threat posed by Georgia’s repressive Russian-aligned regime, writes the UK’s former ambassador to the country
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The Deepfake Election: How Disinformation Could Swing the 2029 General Election
The next UK General Election could see the perfect storm for political lying, the head of factchecking organisation Full Fact tells Byline Times
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Nearly 40% of Asylum Seekers Housed at Controversial Ex-RAF Site Are Torture Victims
Some 580 asylum seekers are housed at RAF Wethersfield where radiological contamination and unexploded ordnance has been found
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Georgian Protesters Speak Out About ‘Mobile Torture Chambers’ and Reveal How They’re Fighting Back Against Violent Crackdowns
They fear the country’s incoming anti-Western president will quickly push to declare a state of emergency
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If the Government Wants to ‘Get Britain Working’, Why Is It Ignoring All the Learning Disabled People Who Want to Find Jobs?
Less than 5% of people with learning disabilities are employed, while 86% want to be. The Government must think about which Brits it values as being worthy of work
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Unions at War: The Bitter Battle Tearing Unite and the GMB Apart
Claims of bullying and harassment have erupted into public view as Britain’s biggest union faces strike action and internal unrest
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‘Wes Streeting’s Regressive Ban on Puberty Blockers is a Betrayal of Trans People’
The Health Secretary claims to be led by the evidence but has merely furthered the fact-free anti-trans agenda pursued by the Conservatives, argues Helen Belcher
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The Media Must Report On Georgia Violence: ‘Their Fight Is Ours, and the Scale of the Atrocities is Agonising’
Pro-European protesters are raging against the Putin-aligned Georgian Government’s decision to scrap the country’s bid to join the EU
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After Trump’s Return, Britain Is Next in the Firing Line of Putin’s War On Democracy
The real reasons lying behind Elon Musk’s relentless attacks on Keir Starmer and the UK Government
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Two-Tier Reporting: When Climate Protesters Slow Ambulances They’re Vilified, So Why Are Wealthy Farmers Given a Free Pass?
Media outlets rush to condemn climate change campaigners as “middle class” protesters causing “chaos” while ignoring greater disruption by millionaire landowners
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Burgers and Lies: The Corporate ‘Ghost Kitchen’ Food Delivery Outlets Posing as Independent Restaurants
A Byline Times investigation reveals how consumers are being offered the illusion of choice, while being sold the same food, from the same kitchens, under entirely different brands
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Alastair Campbell Showed How Keir Starmer Can Defeat Nigel Farage
Here is a ten-point plan for exposing the Reform party leader and his followers
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Keir Starmer’s Plan to Clean Up Political Lobbying Is Even Weaker Than the Conservatives’, Say Corruption Experts
Transparency campaigners slam what they describe as the Prime Minister’s ‘lacklustre’ approach to cleaning up politics
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Starmer’s Plan to Push Long Term Sick Into Work Risks ‘Devastating Deterioration’ of Conditions Costing Even More in the Long Run
The Government’s new plan for welfare has a fundamental flaw at its heart, argues Izzy Wightman
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Israel Is Accelerating Its Plans for the Complete Annexation of the Palestinian West Bank
Netanyahu’s Government is stepping up its plans ahead of the arrival of a sympathetic Trump administration
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The Urgent Challenges Facing Syria Following the Fall of Bashar Assad
The fall of the Syrian dictator poses a whole series of new challenges for the country, says chemical, biological, and radiological weapons expert Dan Kaszeta
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‘Britain’s Deeply Unfair Two-Party Electoral System is Dying and MPs Know It’
Startling new research reveals that this year’s General Election was the ‘most disproportionate ever’ with millions of votes wasted
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Israeli Government Lashes Out at ICC as Leaked Documents Reveal Secret Links to UK Lobby Group
The International Criminal Court is under enormous pressure to drop its arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
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Government’s ‘Independent’ Extremism Adviser Who Backs Palestine Protest Crackdown Has New Links to Defence Industry
The former MP, who was appointed as a Government adviser by Boris Johnson, faces calls to quit over his potential conflicts of interest
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The Death of the Critic: From Cultural Visionaries to Vacuous Performers
Critics must reclaim their roles as navigators of meaning – not algorithmically-rewarded pastiche provocateurs, writes Iain Overton
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Decision to Limit COVID Vaccines Will ‘Amplify Health Inequalities and Lead To More Hospitalisations’
The decision to further restrict access to vaccines “will leave many vulnerable people unprotected” warn academics and health professionals
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Keir Starmer Considers Closing Elon Musk Donations Loophole to Stop ‘Foreign Interference’ in UK Elections
A rumoured $100 million donation from Musk to Nigel Farage’s Reform would be banned under the proposal
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The Trumpian Power Worship at the Heart of Jordan Peterson’s ‘We Who Wrestle With God’
In arguing the Left is in league with the devil, Peterson inadvertently reveals the religious reverence to power and money defining the pro-Trump Right
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Sex Workers Fear ‘Disastrous’ Labour Government Plan ‘That Would Put Us Much More at Risk of Violence and Arrest’
Sex workers in the UK speak out after Belgium grants people in the industry employment rights in historic first
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‘Keir Starmer Must Ditch the Politics of Deliverism and Put the People Back in Charge’
The Prime Minister’s new target-driven ‘Plan for Change’ is based on a badly outdated view of how the modern world actually works, argues Neal Lawson
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Bad Cops: Why the Climate Crisis Keeps Getting Worse No Matter How Many Conferences World Leaders Hold
Governments and businesses keep talking the talk on preventing a catastrophic climate breakdown, while consistently refusing to walk the walk
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Elon Musk’s $100m Threat to Bankroll Nigel Farage and Reform Exposes the Gaping Loopholes Endangering UK Democracy
Keir Starmer is being urged to act now to prevent foreign billionaires from exploiting these gaps in our electoral system
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Running with the Hares: Why The Guardian’s Observer Sale to Tortoise Will End in Tears
Guardian Media Group journalists are right to resist plans to sell the Observer newspaper to James Harding’s Tortoise Media, argues Mic Wright
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Keir Starmer Rejects Call for ‘Fairer Votes’ Despite MPs Voting in Favour of Proportional Representation
The Prime Minister is blocking reform after the House of Commons voted in favour of a more representative voting system
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Pro-European Protests Sweeping Across Georgia Stir Memories of a Darker Past
Huge numbers of protesters are demonstrating their resistance to their disputed Government’s Putin-pleasing decision to suspend the country’s bid for EU membership
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‘Litany of Failures’ Exposed by Damning Report Revealing Huge Scale of Conservative Prisons Crisis Inherited by Keir Starmer
Just 5% of the additional prison places promised by Conservative ministers in 2016 have been delivered
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Government by ‘Talking Shop’? Hardly – Here’s Just Some of the Major Reforms Keir Starmer Has Introduced So Far
You don’t have to look very hard to see that Starmer’s Government has been far more active than the Daily Mail is telling you
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Lebanese People Recover Their Lives From the Rubble Following Ceasefire With Israel
Celebration is mixed with mourning and despair in Beirut as the scale of destruction is revealed
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Rishi Sunak Accused of Having ‘Something to Hide’ After Burying Post-Downing Street Interests Behind Financial ‘Firewall’
The former PM and his wife, whose combined wealth is estimated at £651 million, have set up an opaque new arrangement, preventing any scrutiny of their ongoing finances
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Trump’s Return and the Farage Blindspot: Dismissing What We Disagree With in the Hope It Will Disappear Isn’t the Answer – Reality Proves Otherwise
Not taking seriously political figures we find undesirable will not change their potential impact or ambitions – Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Steve Bannon, and Nigel Farage only benefit from being underestimated, writes Hardeep Matharu
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Was COP29 a Cop-Out? Those Bearing the Brunt of Climate Change Say Yes
“In many ways, this COP was a deep disappointment”, those feeling the full force of catastrophic climate change tell the Byline Podcast
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Meet the Witches of Boutcha: Guardians of Kyiv’s Skies
A volunteer unit made of mainly women talk about how joining Ukraine’s Butcha Witches ‘is like taking revenge on life’
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Violence Erupts in Georgia After Government Suspends EU Accession Bid
Critics say the ruling Georgian Dream party has twice this week violated the country’s constitution following parliamentary elections now slammed by the EU as rigged
