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‘Keir Starmer’s Government Is Now Even More Anti-Migrant Than Its Conservative Predecessors’
Hopes that Labour would abandon the Conservative trend of treating incomers as disposable and lesser beings have been dashed, argues Daniel Sohege
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Labour Minister Defends RAF Gaza Surveillance Flights Amid Growing Scrutiny of UK-Israel Relationship
Defence Minister Maria Eagle spoke at a private Israel Independence Day meeting and said the UK would continue to back the country
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How French Activists Are Leading an ‘Urgent’ Fight Against the Surging Far Right
Melissa Chemam details the multifaceted resistance mobilising against far-right groups, Islamophobia and racism across the Channel
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Keir Starmer’s Reform-Lite Strategy Has Left Him Marooned on an Island of Strangers
New polling finds a collapse in support for the Prime Minister among Labour voters, as he pursues a strategy that is also failing to win over supporters of Reform, reports Adam Bienkov
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The UK Is Failing to Tackle Violence Against Women Amid Rise of Misogynistic Influencers
Reduced budgets, rising online hate and the lack of an effective national strategy, are deepening the threat faced by women and girls, warn MPs
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Murder in Uniform: Britain’s Special Forces and Their Killings in Afghanistan
A groundbreaking new investigation has unveiled the horrifying scale of unlawful killing done in our name, reports Iain Overton
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Germany’s Political and Cultural Establishment Prepares to Stand Up to Putin and His Allies
As Germany rearms, Patrick Howse visits the eastern state of Saxony, where the country’s cultural elite are now also taking on Putin
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The BBC Must Be Mutualised to End Its ‘Pro-Establishment Bias’ Warns Report
It finds that BBC reporting is overwhelmingly focused on the concerns of senior politicians and business people around Westminster, rather than the country at large
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‘Keir Starmer’s Attempt to Out-Farage Reform on Migration Will Only End Badly’
The Prime Minister’s ‘unutterably depressing’ decision to follow Nigel Farage into the gutter of inflammatory anti-migrant rhetoric is a terrible error, argues former UK diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
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The UK Has Failed to Prosecute ISIS Fighters for Genocide After Allowing Hundreds to Return to Britain
Successive UK Governments have refused to pursue prosecutions against those suspected of war crimes abroad
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‘Why We Must Call the National-Populist Far Right by Its Name’
The centre left should stop being afraid of accurately describing and countering the global far right threat we now face, argue Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar
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‘As Trump Wrecks the Global Order, Big Business Must Decide Which Side It’s On’
Where are the voices defending the huge benefits that globalisation has brought to the world, asks Matthew Gwyther
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Between Silence and Shells: Life on the Edge in Kashmir’s Border Villages
As a fragile ceasefire takes hold between India and Pakistan, those living in the affected regions live in fear that the worst may still be to come
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Piss and Pity: A Disabled Person’s Eternal Search for an Accessible Convenience
Why is it acceptable for disabled people to live without a dignified way to go to the toilet? asks Penny Pepper
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Corporations Could Sue the Government Under India Deal, Campaigners Warn
Campaigners warn that it risks creating a system of “corporate courts”
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Government Urged to Wake Up to ‘Serious Cyber Threat’ as Report Reveals Some Systems Still Run on Windows 3.1
Risky ‘legacy’ IT systems make up 28% of the public sector’s IT estate
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‘Why Putin’s Three-Day May Ceasefire Declaration is Worthless’
The Russian president announced the ceasefire – from 8 to 11 May – without even speaking to Ukraine
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Green Party Deputy Leader Zack Polanski Says UK Must Leave NATO Because of Trump
The frontrunner to become the next leader of the Green Party of England and Wales tells Byline Times the UK must now form new alliances for “peace” instead
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‘The Cold Electoral Cynicism Behind Keir Starmer’s Blue Labour Strategy’
The Prime Minister’s advisers believe that when push comes to shove most progressive voters will have no real choice but to vote Labour, and they may be right, argues Neal Lawson
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David Lammy Accused of Misleading Parliament as New Report Reveals Huge Scale of Continued UK Arms Shipments to Israel
Thousands of items categorised as “munitions of war” continued to be sent to Israel after Keir Starmer’s Government suspended a series of arms licenses to the country
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Controversial Spy-Tech Firm’s Inclusion at NHS Confederation Expo Leads to Speaker Pulling Out
An internal NHS Confederation email acknowledged that ‘many colleagues will have concerns’ about Palantir’s inclusion
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‘Why Tony Blair’s Intervention on Net Zero Is the Most Irrational Contribution to Climate Discourse in Some Time’
There can be no “third way” to tackling the existential threat of man made climate change, argues Russell Warfield
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No10 Refuses to Release Keir Starmer WhatsApp Information Despite Labour Transparency Pledge
Starmer had pledged to end the “outrageous way government departments refuse freedom of information requests”.
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‘America Is Ignoring the Warning Signs of Giving Up Its Commitment to Fighting Human Rights Abuses – At Home and Abroad’
The Trump administration appears concerned that it would be hypocritical to criticise governments abroad for doing things which it would like to do in the US, writes Washington-based Alexandra Hall Hall
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What People Really Think of Trump’s First 100 Days in Office
Despite distain for many of Trump’s policies, Independent voters still don’t think the Democrats are the answer
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Local Elections: ‘Keir Starmer’s Rightward Shift Is Laying the Ground for Nigel Farage’
Labour’s embrace of economic and political orthodoxy is forcing voters to look elsewhere for change, argues Keir Starmer’s former adviser Simon Fletcher
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Nigel Farage Is Killing the Conservative Party and Starmer Must Change Course to Avoid the Same Fate
Telling voters that the Reform leader is right, but they shouldn’t vote for him anyway, is no more likely to work for Labour than it has for the Conservatives, argues Adam Bienkov
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Keir Starmer’s Benefit Cuts Cast Doubt on His Pledge to End Homelessness
“If you take money away from people who haven’t got very much, you’ll get more homelessness,” warn campaigners
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Private Correspondence Reveals How David Cameron Helped Old Etonian School Friend Fast-Track COVID Testing Firm
Emails released to Byline Times reveal the close connections between senior Conservatives and those prioritised for multimillion pound COVID contracts
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The Beginning of the End or ‘Trump 2028’? 100 Days of an Unprecedented Presidency
There may be a far more sinister motive for Donald Trump to go as far as to try to violate the constitutional ban on running for a third term, writes Washington-based Alexandra Hall Hall
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‘Trump’s War on Academic Institutions Is Even Worse Than You Think’
This is the greatest assault on academic freedoms in generations, argues Emma DeSouza
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Reform UK Facebook Groups Are Full of Racist Far Right Posts and Islamophobic Conspiracy Theories
Groups set up by Reform UK officials contain posts calling for Muslims to be lynched and suggestions that Jewish people are trying to “dilute out country with foreign invaders”
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Labour’s Pledge to Recruit New Teachers Not Enough to Prevent ‘Serious Shortage’
Despite the new Government giving teachers a 5.5% pay rise last year – pay is still one of the key reasons for recruitment failures, the Department for Education said
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How a ‘Populist’ Media Has Mainstreamed the Far Right
Right-wing daily papers in the UK do not represent ‘public opinion’ – they simply reflect the radical right views of those ‘who own and run them’, argues Julian Petley
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Power, Visas, and the Politics of Exclusion: How Borders Are Being Used to Silence Dissent
Borders are now being used not just to prevent the passage of people, but of ideas too, argues Iain Overton
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How the BBC’s Flawed Impartiality Scuppered a Podcast About a Heating System
Former BBC producer and reporter Patrick Howse explores the latest worrying sign of the BBC’s flawed interpretation of ‘impartiality’
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Company That Supplied Hundreds of Millions of Pounds of Unusable COVID Tests Saw Profits Skyrocket to £178 Million After Lobbying Conservative Peer for Contract
Primer Design’s turnover jumped by 4,800% after supplying tests that were later deemed “unfit for public use”
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UK Election Officials Are Not Keeping Any Records of How Many Overseas Donors Are Bankrolling UK Politics
Democracy campaigners are calling for urgent reform of UK electoral laws, as Nigel Farage’s party launches a fundraising drive among voters living in overseas tax havens
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‘Peter Mandelson’s Fixing of Keir Starmer’s Visit to Spytech Firm Palantir Raises Serious Questions’
Palantir was represented by a lobbying firm founded by Mandelson, Iain Overton and Max Colbert report
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Nigel Farage Branded a ‘Con Artist’ by Green Party Leader Who Challenges Him to Climate Debate
Reform UK leader accused of being “bankrolled by fossil fuel interests, climate deniers, and major polluters” after he questioned the link between human activity and climate change
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Putin’s Response to Trump’s Appeasement Plan: Hell in Kyiv
Paul Conroy surveys the scale of the destruction to the Svaytoshinsky neighbourhood, fifteen minutes from downtown Kyiv
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‘Reform UK and the Rising Threat to Muslims and Minorities in Britain’
The rise of Reform should worry all of those who value justice and equality and the democratic fabric of this country
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‘Keir Starmer’s Weaponisation of Foreign National Crime Statistics Risks Stoking Violence and Empowering the Far Right’
Ranking crimes by nationality risks stoking a repeat of last summer’s racist riots, argues Minnie Rahman, who urges ministers to focus on fairness and rehabilitation instead
