Outside the system
Author: Jake Tacchi
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The World’s Cheapest Big Mac: What Burgernomics Tells Us About Lebanon’s Economic Crisis
It tastes the same, the packaging’s the same – but the differing costs of a McDonalds Big Mac can hold clues to a country’s economic health, and in Lebanon, the diagnosis isn’t great
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The North-South Asylum Divide: Refugees Most Likely to be Housed in the North
A clear regional disparity exists when it comes to housing people seeking asylum, with the majority of families concentrated in deprived regions
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UK Universities Received At Least £190 Million from Major Arms Manufacturers in Past Eight Years
A new investigation shows the scale of investment from arms manufacturers in UK universities
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‘An Appropriate Donor’: AI Research at Oxford University Funded by Controversial Firm Linked to Chinese State
A £300,000 artificial intelligence project at the university is sponsored by Tencent – a Chinese company reportedly involved in censorship, surveillance, and Xi Jinping’s propaganda regime
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HS2 Ltd Does Not Know How Many Oak Trees it has Destroyed
A freedom of information request has revealed the extent of the damage done to ancient woodland – and failures to count the destruction – caused by the controversial rail project
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Mind the Gap: Top Male Government Special Advisors Paid 22% More than Female Counterparts
Analysis of the gender pay gap in Government by the Byline Intelligence Team shows that Westminster has a long way to go to achieve equal pay
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Priti Patel, Nigel Farage, and the Fake News Around Asylum Claims
The numbers of people seeking asylum and refugee resettlements in the UK don’t match the rhetoric coming from Government or the Right, finds the Byline Times Intelligence team
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An Unequal Kingdom: 12 Graphs that Show How We Were Never ‘In This Together’
The Byline Intelligence Team exposes the poverty and inequality that has burgeoned during 11 years of Conservative rule
