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Reform UK’s Crypto Billionaire Donor Could Profit From Military Exports to Israel Approved After Arms Suspension
British Defence firm QinetiQ, which Christopher Harborne owns a large stake in, received a military export licence involving Israel long after the UK suspended certain arms sales to the country
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Why Did Polymarket Trading Surge an Hour Before the Iran War Started?
There was a major spike in Polymarket bets predicting the Iran War, an hour before Trump’s strikes began, new analysis finds
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How Reform UK’s Crypto Billionaire Donor Christopher Harborne Made Millions From the UK Taxpayer
Have UK taxpayers inadvertently helped fund Nigel Farage’s party?
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Reform UK Sting Broadcast by Channel 4 Confirms Years of Byline Times Warnings
The extraordinary footage echoes concerns raised by Byline Times over the sources and beneficiaries of money flowing into Farage’s party.
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Jason Arday: We Must Rage – Rage Against the Journalism of Cruelty
The death of the academic shows the casual conversion of humiliation into entertainment by a media running on monetised hate and cruelty
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The Business of War: Who Really Benefits From Britain’s Planned Military Spending Surge?
As the Government gears up for a military spending bonanza, Iain Overton asks whether Britain is really defending its territory, or simply the profits of the global defence industry
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Six in 10 Russian Billionaires Are Still Not Being Sanctioned by the UK Government
A series of billionaires with ties to Britain remain untouched by the UK’s supposedly tough sanctions regime, reports Molly Gordon and Iain Overton
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The Property Moguls and Landlords Funding Reform UK Who Would Gain From Its Housing Policies
EXCLUSIVE: More than half of Reform UK’s corporate donors are property and construction figures who are set to benefit from Farage’s deregulation plans
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Nigel Farage Took £50,000 from Crypto Firms Then Said He Was ‘Not Aware’ of the Industry Funding His Party
The self-proclaimed ‘straight-talking’ Reform UK leader has been far from straight about who is funding his attempted rise to power, reports Iain Overton
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Reform UK Treasurer and Donors Share London Address with Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs
Reform UK’s Treasurer and three other donors have handed £1.55 million to Nigel Farage from Britain’s most expensive apartment block which is home to sanctioned Russian oligarchs and massive post-Soviet wealth
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The Arc of Love in the Age of AI Reproduction
Modern courtship is showing a similar transformation. The intimate rituals of waiting for a phone call or the uncertainty of a love letter sent have given way to dating apps driven by visibility, speed, and reward.
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The Algorithms Keeping Us In an Endless Scroll for Love
At first, she wasn’t prepared for the deluge of messages; the churn of compliments, the offers of romance; the opportunities for hook-ups that warmed her in ways unexpected.
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UK-Linked Components Traced to Tomahawk Missile That Struck Iranian School
Debris analysis and US procurement records reveal British links to the weapon that killed over a hundred school children in Iran, reports Isa Osman and Iain Overton
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The ‘Content’ of War in the Age of AI and Influencers
The bright lights across the Dubai sky on the night of 1 March 2026 were not shooting stars. They were air defence systems intercepting Iranian drones and missiles launched towards the Gulf allies of the United States.
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The Devil’s Butler: How Jeffrey Epstein Used London to Hide in Plain Sight
The Epstein Files expose how the UK’s capital served as a playground and protector for the sex offender and his wealthy associates. Iain Overton reports
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The Devil’s Butler: How Jeffrey Epstein Used London to Hide in Plain Sight
The Epstein files expose how the UK capital served as a playground and protector for the disgraced late financier and his wealthy associates
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How Luxury Lost Its Lustre
The decline and hollowing-out of popular luxury fashion is a parable of late capitalism. Iain Overton reports
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‘Made In Britain’: A Crafted Future?
On Kensington High Street, a few doors from the Underground, stands Japan House, London. Part gallery, part boutique, part cultural embassy, it is a masterclass in national self-promotion.
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The UK’s Shrinking Army Is Conducting Secretive Deployments in 51 Countries
The MoD sent 612 reservists abroad last year to 51 countries – including states with no declared UK mission
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Gaza ‘Humanitarian’ Hub to Function More as US Military Command Centre, Leaked Papers Suggest
The leaked documents suggest Trump’s plans for a ‘humanitarian relief’ centre for Gaza more closely resemble those for a US Army-run command post
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UK Government Flouted Own Rules Designed to Stop Gaza Intelligence Harming Palestinian Civilians
The revelation raises questions over whether the UK applied safeguards designed to prevent information from 600 RAF intelligence flights being used to harm civilians in Gaza
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Bassim Haidar: The ‘Globalist’ Billionaire Bankrolling Britain’s Anti-Globalist Party
Why is Nigel Farage’s supposedly ‘anti-globalist’ Reform UK being bankrolled by a globe-trotting billionaire who once advised Amnesty International and the World Economic Forum?
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Is Russia Losing the Great Game in Central Asia?
Iain Overton travelled to Tashkent, where cranes rise over Soviet relics and Chinese cars fill the streets, to see how Uzbekistan has become the lodestar of Central Asia’s quiet pivot away from Moscow
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Ukraine’s Other War: The Battle Against Drug-Resistant Bacteria
The black earth trenches on the battlefield are not only producing casualties. They are breeding superbugs, reports Iain Overton
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UK Surveillance Flights Over Gaza: Are We Israel’s Useful Idiots?
The UK may inadvertently be helping Israeli forces bomb civilian areas in Gaza, explains Iain Overton
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Shock and Orr: Meet the Farage-Supporting ‘Philosopher King’ of British Authoritarianism
The Cambridge professor providing the intellectual underpinning for JD Vance and Nigel Farage, is described by one academic colleague as being ‘more Tommy Robinson than St Thomas Aquinas’
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Secret Report Reveals British Army’s Culture of Harassment and Hostility Towards Women
Male soldiers routinely sent explicit photographs to female colleagues and stalked them on WhatsApp, the report reveals
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UK Charity Sanctioned Over ‘Distressing’ Fundraising Video for Israeli Military
The action by the Charity Commission followed a Byline Times investigation into the video, which appeared to show a Palestinian being hit by Israeli munitions
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‘Britain Has Abandoned Its Soft Power for the Demands of the Military-Industrial Complex’
Keir Starmer’s decision to cut humanitarian aid in order to fund military spending is already having a deeply damaging impact, argues Iain Overton
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How Tech Profited From The Loneliness of ‘Liquid Love’
Community over consumption, connection not isolation, civil dialogue instead of identity politics – all must be prioritised if we are to tackle our profoundly alienating times, writes Iain Overton
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BBC Scraps Pledge to Show Gaza Medics Documentary ‘As Soon as Possible’
The corporation has shelved plans to broadcast the harrowing Gaza: Medics Under Fire film pending an ‘ongoing review’ into its coverage of the Israel-Gaza conflict in another programme. Iain Overton reports
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‘To Say It Is One-Sided Is an Understatement’: The BBC and Gaza – A Public Broadcaster Under Fire
An insider raises concerns to Byline Times of the corporation’s ‘really extraordinary’ acquiescence to Israeli ‘propaganda’ – and a new report suggests its double-standards in the reporting of Palestinian suffering amounts to institutional bias. Iain Overton reports
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BBC Admits ‘Regret’ After Again Failing to Disclose British Colonel’s Links to Israeli Defence Force
The broadcaster failed to inform listeners of Colonel Richard Kemp’s connections to the IDF, despite an earlier rebuke from the Charity Commission, following an investigation by Byline Times
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The BBC and Gaza: a Public Broadcaster Under Fire
“The BBC has an aversion to any language that describes Israel’s actions as war crimes – even when this language is being used judiciously by respected experts”
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BBC Scraps Pledge to Show Gaza Medics Documentary ‘As Soon as Possible’
The BBC has shelved plans to broadcast the harrowing ‘Gaza: Medics Under Fire’ documentary pending an “ongoing review” into its coverage of the conflict
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‘I Was Targeted by a Hostile Crypto Spambot Swarm That Revealed How X’s Algorithm Has Been Truly Broken’
The automated block attack tricks the algorithm into thinking your account should be suppressed, reports Iain Overton
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‘Where Once There Was God, Now There Is Code’: The Lure of Life In The Matrix
The urge to believe that we may be programmed is, at its heart, a crisis of meaning, writes Iain Overton
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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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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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A Rising Tide For Shareholders While Bill Payers Struggle to Stay Afloat: Who Owns Britain’s Water?
A Rising Tide For Shareholders While Bill Payers Struggle to Stay Afloat: Who Owns Britain’s Water? Iain Overton reports on the hidden foreign profiteers behind the UK’s most essential utility Britain’s water industry appears to be at breaking point. Leaking pipes, record sewage spills, and mounting public outrage over soaring bills will have left many…
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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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‘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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‘I’m Breaking The Silence’: The Woman Who Says She Is Exposing Greenwashing in Global Advertising
Polina Zabrodskaya has taken her former employer, AMV BBDO, to an employment tribunal alleging constructive dismissal
