SubscriptionsAuthor: Josiah Mortimer
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Reform Council Sacks Long-Serving Vicar as Standards Chief, in Wave of Cuts to Scrutiny
Reverend Canon Hilary Barber says he was given no warning or thanks by Nigel Farage’s party for his years of service
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Reform UK’s ‘Meta Glasses’ Councillor Who Was Accused of Shaming Disabled Man and Dyslexic Colleague Is Put in Charge of Special Educational Needs
Sam Journet has been accused of bullying, intimidation and filming residents and staff with Meta-style camera glasses
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Ofcom Upholds Met Office Complaint Against Talk TV for Claiming Forecaster ‘Made Up’ Temperature Data
Exclusive: Broadcast regulator censures now-sacked Mike Graham’s show for unfairness to Met Office in landmark case
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Reform UK Councillors Told to Speak Only to GB News’ as Party Shuns Local Press
Local news editor in Ipswich says Reform party chair instructed his councillors to shut out the press in favour of only speaking to the right-wing news channel
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Toxic Pesticides Could Be Banned From UK Farms as Government Urged to Align With EU Rules
Ministers are considering a new report by a cross-party body which recommends closer alignment with European rules on limiting the use of harmful chemicals in our agriculture
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10,000 People Sign Official Petition Demanding Government End ‘Capture of UK Democracy by Media Billionaires’
Ministers will be forced to respond to the proposals for a new ‘Media Sovereignty Act’ after campaigners passed a key threshold
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The More Than 30 Scandal-Hit Reform Candidates Elected Last Week
Voters last Thursday returned dozens of Reform councillors who have variously pushed Islamophobia, antisemitic conspiracy theories, Covid denial and praise for Tommy Robinson and Enoch Powell
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Reform UK Candidate Accused of Mocking Disabled Residents as ‘Benefit Scroungers’ and ‘Skanks’
Harry Phillips, who is standing for Nigel Farage’s party in Surrey, allegedly described a constituent and his wife as ‘ponces of society’ in leaked messages seen by Byline Times
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Reform UK Refuses to Explain Why Nigel Farage Met and Posed with Man Criminally Convicted for Violent Attack on Anti-Racism Meeting at a Church
For a year-and-a-half, Byline Times has attempted to get to the bottom of a photograph showing the party’s leader with far-right activists. Now, this newspaper’s findings cast fresh doubts on Farage’s claim that he refuses to associate with extreme elements of the populist right
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Reform’s Plan to ‘Punish’ Green Voters With Detention Centres is ‘Election Interference’ Complaints Argue
Watchdog asked to investigate after party’s home affairs spokesperson ‘guarantees’ areas electing Reform MPs will be exempt from 24,000-capacity migrant facilities
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Plaid Cymru Leader Says Party Is Prepared for Government as Labour Dominance Collapses in Wales
Rhun ap Iorwerth claims only Plaid Cymru can stop Reform taking power in the Senedd, as he urges Labour and Green voters to back him in a “straight fight” against Farage’s party
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Reform UK’s Basildon Leader Accused of Bullying After Filming Council Staff and Residents With Meta-Style Smart Glasses
EXCLUSIVE: Cllr Sam Journet, who is leading Reform’s bid to take two Essex councils, was arrested last year following multiple complaints about him filming in private areas
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TUC Deputy Leader Says Labour Must Shout Louder About Workers’ Rights in Order to Beat Reform
Kate Bell says Nigel Farage’s party plans to roll back the Employment Rights Act and Equality Act are deeply unpopular
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Britain’s Solar Revolution Is Here and We Should Be Shouting It From the Rooftops
Ed Miliband is helping to turn the country into a nation of ‘solar zealots’ and Josiah Mortimer is enthusiastically along for the ride
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Bereaved Covid Families Demand Nigel Farage Sack Conspiracy Theory Reform Candidates
Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice tell the Reform leader that the conspiracy views revealed by Byline Times are “an insult” to the 230,000 people who died in the pandemic
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Reform UK Candidate Claimed COVID Was ‘Pentagon-Led Plot’ in Conspiracy Theory Journal
Exclusive: Reform candidate David Booth is listed as the author of a paper arguing the pandemic was “staged” by Western military and intelligence agencies
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Reform-Run Kent Council Sells Off Antony Gormley Sculpture After Raising Taxes
Nigel Farage’s flagship council quietly sold Two Stones, one of the sculptor’s earliest commissions, as part of a wave of publicly owned art disposals that critics call “shameful”
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Matt Goodwin’s Lucrative Hungarian Fellowship Could Be in Line for the Chop Following Orbán’s Defeat
The Orbán-controlled body for which the Reform UK and GB News commentator is a ‘visiting fellow’ is facing investigation over alleged misuse of public funds
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The Green Party Has No National Binding Rules on Selecting Local Candidates
Exclusive: A formal complaint exposes the absence of any nationally-binding selection rules in the Green Party. Zack Polanski has admitted it is a “real challenge” to vet its local election candidates
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14 Government Reforms the Media Has Largely Ignored Over Recent Weeks
You probably won’t have read much about these announcements designed to improve people’s lives across the UK
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From Coal Tip to Clean Energy: The UK Projects Turning Former Mines Into Renewable Powerhouses
Solar farms, wind turbines and geothermal heat pumps are breathing new life into former collieries. So why don’t we hear more about them?
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Greens Could Be ‘Kingmakers’ in Wales as Leader Reveals Power-Sharing Demands
EXCLUSIVE: Welsh Green leader says the party’s support in a potential coalition “doesn’t come free”
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Protest Leaders Convicted Over Gaza March Pledge to Appeal ‘Extraordinary’ Ruling
Palestine Solidarity Campaign director and Stop the War vice-chair convicted over Gaza demonstration that Met Police and Judge say broke restrictions
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Voters in Reform Seats Don’t Like Nigel Farage’s Plan to Rip Up Workers’ Rights
Even voters in Nigel Farage’s own constituency support the new workers rights that he has committed to tear up, a major new poll suggests
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Deaf Residents in Reform Councils Say They Have Been ‘Shut Out’ as Party Replaces Collapsed Deaf Charity With Just £22,000 in Funding
Local hearing impaired people say they are losing a vital lifeline, with opponents of Nigel Farage’s party accusing them of a political attack on perceived ‘woke’ services
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Blow to Nigel Farage After Government Bans Crypto Donations in Urgent Crackdown on Foreign Political Interference
Keir Starmer’s Government acted following publication of a review launched in the wake of Reform’s Welsh Leader Nathan Gill being jailed for taking pro-Russian bribes
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Reform UK Councils Are Dismantling the Fight Against Climate Change
Nigel Farage’s party is spreading climate change denial, while blocking any localised action to deal with the threat, an academic analysis of Reform councils has found
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Reform Kent Council Suffers Walk Out After Party Declares ‘Immigration Emergency’ During Meningitis Outbreak
The motion by Nigel Farage’s party blamed the spread of “infectious diseases” on undocumented migrants
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The UK Could Be Quietly Heading for a Solar Power Revolution
As fossil fuel prices soar due to Trump’s Iran war, the UK Government’s plans for ‘energy independence’ could transform how British households power their homes, reports Josiah Mortimer
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Reform UK Skip Mandatory By-Election Debate After Nigel Farage Called Defectors Who Avoid the Ballot Box ‘Disgraceful’
Nigel Farage previously said that defectors who refuse to hold by-elections are “disgraceful” and guilty of a “complete insult” to the electorate
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Daily Mail Forced to Correct Electric Car Price Claim After Misleading Readers
Self-appointed press regulator IPSO initially refused to investigate the paper, until polling suggested that nearly two-thirds of readers had been misled
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GB News Under Fire After Airing ‘White Genocide’ Conspiracy Theory From Former Boris Johnson Aide
Ofcom is under pressure to investigate after the channel promoted his claims that white Britons face demographic “genocide” by ethnic minorities who will “turn on” them
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Crypto Donations Now Accepted by Three UK Parties as Concerns Grow Over Foreign Interference Threat
Reform UK and the far-right Homeland Party are now both accepting cryptocurrency donations, as calls grow for Labour to use its elections bill to secure our democracy
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11 Loopholes in Labour’s Elections Bill which MPs are Pushing to Close
Labour MPs break ranks to demand ‘Representation of the People’ law is tightened up to tackle crypto donations, AI deepfakes and more
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Nigel Farage’s Long History of Crying ‘Fraud’ Whenever His Party Loses Elections
The Reform UK leader has a long record of blaming his own party’s election defeats on “cheating” by ethnic minorities, yet no evidence of it can ever be found
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Reform Chairman Who Boasts of Expertise in Business ‘Compliance’ Had Ten Firms Struck off for Breaking Company Law
Exclusive: Paul Donaghy established at least 10 firms struck off by Companies House, according to official records
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Your Party’s Chaotic Conference Exposed a Movement at War With Itself
Heckling, expulsions and a power struggle between Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana dominated the first major gathering of Britain’s newest socialist party, reports Josiah Mortimer
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BBC Apologises for Failing to Challenge ‘Dark Money’ Climate-Denial Lobbyist
EXCLUSIVE: BBC faces fresh allegations of bias after corporation admits interview with ‘Net Zero Watch’ lobbying chief Andrew Montford ‘fell below usual standards’
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Reform UK’s ‘Cost Cutting’ Council Prepares to Raise Taxes After Presiding Over £46 Million Overspend
Nigel Farage’s flagship Kent County Council, which promised to “reduce waste and cut your taxes” is set to raise bills on local taxpayers, after spending tens of millions of pounds over its budget
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The Government Has Cut Air Pollution Funds to Councils by 99% as Illegal Levels of Pollution Shorten Lives
New data shows just £1.5 million was given to councils in England in the past year to tackle air pollution – down from a high of £225 million in 2021
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GB News Downplay Revelations About Trump’s Epstein Links as Presenters Echo White House Spin
The channel was criticised by media reform campaigners for its “fawning” interview with the President as it dismissed revelations of his extensive ties to Jeffrey Epstein
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Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Accused of Fabricating Evidence For Data Breach Investigation
EXCLUSIVE: Reform is accused of falsifying the evidence it provided to the Information Commissioner’s Office, following allegations that it breached data rules
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TUC Chief Warns Labour to Stop ‘Slippery Slope’ Towards Nigel Farage’s Anti-Migrant Politics
Paul Nowak tells Byline Times that Keir Starmer’s Government must stop seeking to ‘out-Farage Farage’ on migration, as Shabana Mahmood faces backlash from Labour MPs over her asylum plans
