SubscriptionsAuthor: Peter Jukes
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‘A Clear Answer’: Russia Intervened in the Brexit Vote
Prime Minister Andy Burnham has broken ten years of establishment omertà over Putin’s plot to get Britain out of the EU, reports Peter Jukes
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Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK’s Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed
The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at Cambridge University. Why?
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Burnham Wins in Makerfield: Can the ‘Politics of Place’ Now Offer an Antidote to the Poverty of Possibility?
Having been on Reform UK’s target list as a winnable seat, Andy Burnham’s new constituency is a microcosm of Brexit Britain and the failed legacies of Thatcher and Blair. Peter Jukes and Hardeep Matharu paid a visit ahead of its seminal by-election
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‘My Personal Pride and Joy’: Mandelson’s UK Palantir Deal
The former US Ambassador considered a £750m MOD deal with the US tech company his landmark achievement. But how was it achieved?
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Reading the Riot Act: Reform UK’s Makerfield By-Election Candidate During the Summer of Trouble
The archive of Robert Kenyon’s suspended X account reveals intense activity after three children were murdered in Southport in 2024
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James Orr and the Messianic Transatlantic MAGA Alliance Trying to ‘Save’ Britain
Peter Jukes and Nafeez Ahmed reveal how James Orr, Nigel Farage’s new head of policy, is the key religious and ideological linkman for Palantir’s Peter Thiel and Sir Paul Marshall’s GB News
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Revealed: Peter Mandelson’s Russian Connections and Palantir Lobbying Links
The disgraced peer was appointed by Keir Starmer’s Government despite warnings about his role on the board of a Russian defence conglomerate linked to Moscow’s early-warning missile systems
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Naz Shah MP on Gorton and Denton Claims: ‘How Do Supposedly “Sectarian Muslims” End Up Voting for a Radically Progressive Party with a Gay Jewish Leader?’
The Labour MP told Byline Times that, from her experience of ‘clan-based politics’, it was not present in the Manchester by-election as Reform UK claims
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Reform Attacks Byline Times For ‘Attempting to Derail a Democratic Election’ – Before Blaming ‘Family Voting’ and ‘Muslim Sectarianism’ for Gorton and Denton Defeat
Having imported its own ideas for a DOGE and ICE from the US, Farage’s party now appears to be copying the Trumpian tactics of alleging vote-rigging in elections
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Bannon, Epstein, Farage and Johnson and the Plot to ‘Topple’ Theresa May
The far-right former Trump adviser told Jeffrey Epstein that “we are overthrowing May right now” as he worked with Boris Johnson to remove the then Conservative Prime Minister from office
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In Putin’s Orbit: The Crypto Politics of Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel
The web of ties between Epstein, Moscow and Silicon Valley leads back to Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage
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‘A Victim All Over Again’: The Mail Trial and the Murders of Stephen Lawrence and Daniel Morgan
Peter Jukes looks at how an ongoing High Court case plunges us back over thirty years to two murders in south‑east London and to a nexus of corrupt police officers and private investigators
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Trump and Musk Welcome Russian Propaganda After Sanctioning European Disinformation Experts
If there’s any question that the US is now more aligned with Russia rather than Europe, recent State Department decisions have removed all doubt
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Boris Johnson and Alexander Lebedev Must Be Investigated in a New Public Inquiry into Russian Influence
If you think the Gill conviction is bad, linking the Reform UK Party leader’s closest aide to the Kremlin, wait till you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin’s inner circle
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Nathan Gill, Voloshyn and the Kremlin’s European Network
The sentencing of Reform UK’s former leader in Wales to ten and a half years in prison should open the door to a broader investigation into the pro-Kremlin network that infiltrated European politics, reports Peter Jukes
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Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein
Nigel Farage was the figurehead and his partner Laure Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support
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What Nathan Did Next: A Kremlin-Backed Forum on How to Subvert Western Democracy
The former Reform UK Welsh Leader Nathan Gill was due to give a talk on cryptocurrencies at a Kremlin-backed convention in Moscow when he was arrested
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‘Stunned?’ Farage’s Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny
Insiders have told Byline Times it is ‘inconceivable’ the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide’s pro Russian statements
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‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem
Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’s strategic plan to crush Ukrainian independence with ‘Moscow’s Man in Ukraine’
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‘Blue Labour’ and the Thiel Effect: How MAGA Is Making In-Roads Into British Politics
The ideology of the ‘Make America Great Again’ movement, which has transformed politics in the United States, is having an impact in the UK. But how is this influence being transmitted?
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Curtis Yarvin: How the Alt-Right Gets In
Following his appearance on a panel with Alastair Campbell, Byline Times examines the writings of the thinker who is apparently inspiring Silicon Valley Tech Bros and the Vice President of the United States
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From Epstein to Starmer: Mapping Peter Thiel’s Web of Influence in the UK
The tech billionaire Trump-backer is rapidly gaining influence over politics and public services in the UK, reports Peter Jukes
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‘Total Information Collapse’ and the Tribunal of Truth
Peter Jukes, Co-Founder and Executive Editor of Byline Times, on the urgent need for media accuracy and why joining Impress, the independent press regulator, is the best way for us to uphold those values
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Russian Interference: Some Good News for Once – Journalism Can Make a Difference
The Labour Government has finally been true to its word on a ‘foreign agents registration’ scheme, six years on from Byline Times campaigning for it
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Trump’s Mob Rule: An Offer We Can Only Refuse
If Europeans come from Venus, Peter Jukes observes, it’s only because they are aware (unlike Elon Musk) of the bleak devastation of Mars
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From Murdoch to Musk: Hacking the State
While the media mogul spent more than half a century building up back-door political influence, the social media broligarch stormed into the US Government in just two years. Peter Jukes explores how the use of power through media has evolved
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From Z to X: How Russian Information Warfare Primed the World for Trump and Musk
“Money and information are the twin tactical nukes of modern politics” according to Steve Bannon. But the the seeds for this tech dystopia were sown more than a decade ago
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The Centrists Cannot Hold: Client Journalism and Our ‘Concierge Media’ Are Threatening Liberal Democracy
Obeying in advance by US and British media means they cannot combat the march of the hard right Broligarchs
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Patriotism & Pluralism: the Power of the English Language Comes from Its Migrant Past
Insular definitions of the national past overlook the very things we should take pride in
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Amerexit: Oligarchy Comes to the United States
Peter Jukes in the December Print Edition of Byline Times
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X – Marks the Spot: Russia’s Second Front
Peter Jukes looks at the mounting evidence that Elon Musk is using his social media platform as a vector to attack Ukraine and support Putin’s murderous invasion
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The Media is Displaying the Same Blind Spots that Allowed the Conservatives to Push Britain to the Brink
The British press’ selective scrutiny of the new Government is letting the country down, writes Hardeep Matharu and Peter Jukes
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#MediaWatch: Supping with the Devil with a Long Spoon
As the TUC passes a motion warning of the “existential crisis” in British journalism, Peter Jukes asks for your help to deal with the dual threats of legacy media monopolies and big tech
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A Trip to the Southern Front: Human Dignity and the War Zone in Your Head
Peter Jukes visits the vibrant city of Odesa and discovers more about the Ukrainian spirit of resistance at the front line in Kherson
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The UK’s Race Riots: A Trial Run for Another US Insurrection?
Peter Jukes draws out the connections between the violence on Britain’s streets and the Capitol Insurrection
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From Russia With Likes: Nigel Farage Dominates Social Media During General Election – Boosted by Bots Stoking Racism
The Reform Party is hovering around 18% of the vote, yet Farage’s and his party’s Facebook posts generated six times more reactions and shares than either Labour or the Conservatives and their leaders
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A ‘Russia Hoax’ or Russian Hopes? How Putin’s Troll Farms are Boosting Nigel Farage’s Campaigns – Again
Islamophobia, the Great Replacement Theory, and GB News are key elements in the Russian propaganda networks supporting the Reform Party
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The Five Questions Nigel Farage is Never Asked About Brexit, Trump and Russia
As the media provides the Reform Leader with a prominent platform, Peter Jukes considers all the concerning lines of enquiry that journalists never confront him with
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Conservative Party Threatens Byline Times with ‘Ludicrous’ £30,000 Copyright Claim Over Images Exposing Candidate’s Links to Convicted Drug Dealer
Jonathan Gullis refused to comment on our story while Stoke on Trent Conservative Federation threaten punitive legal case
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The Spectacle of Impunity: Phone-Hacking Cover-Up Claims Cross the Atlantic
With news that senior Murdoch executives now face a civil trial, Peter Jukes looks back on a decade of deceit
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Princess Diana ‘Phone Pest’ Story Links Both Rupert Murdoch and Piers Morgan to the ‘Criminal-Media Nexus’ of Police Corruption
An amended claim by Prince Harry in the High Court puts both the interviewer and newspaper mogul in the spotlight
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‘A Nationalist Uprising’: Islamophobia and the Bannonisation of British Politics
As Liz Truss joins Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson as the latest recruit to Steve Bannon’s dangerous and undemocratic internationalist ‘anti-globalism’ – more online information warfare and hate will be the result, writes Peter Jukes
