Outside the system
Author: 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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The Nathan Gill Affair: Farage’s Close Ally and the Kremlin-Backed Forum on How to Subvert Western Democracy
Ahead of the sentencing on 21 November of former Reform UK Leader in Wales Nathan Gill, who accepted bribes from an alleged Russian agent, Peter Jukes reveals how the ex-MEP was due to give a talk on cryptocurrencies at a convention in Moscow when he was arrested
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The Carousel of Scapegoats
People are social animals and – in the absence of an absolute improvement in your life – there is a destructive but all too human solution: make sure others are relatively more miserable than you are.
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From Underground Man to Internet Man: Apocalyptic, Cleansing Violence
In 1976, Peter Jukes wanted to be Travis Bickle. A decade later, he realised the Taxi Driver anti-hero was a psychopath. Now he suspects Bickle’s dangerous saviour complex underpins the architecture of our tech platforms
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‘Blue Labour’ & the Thiel Effect
The ideology of the ‘Make America Great Again’ movement has transformed politics in the United States – and is now flowing into the UK. Nafeez Ahmed and Peter Jukes investigate how this influence is being transmitted
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How the Alt-Right Gets In
Following Curtis Yarvin’s appearance at a London festival with Alastair Campbell, Nafeez Ahmed and Peter Jukes examine his writings, which are reportedly inspiring Silicon Valley Tech Bros and the US Vice President
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‘Thick as Thieves’ Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem
Nigel Farage has finally admitted that Nathan Gill, the former MEP convicted of bribery, was one of his closest aides. But the Reform UK Leader’s claim that he didn’t know about Gill’s association with ‘Moscow’s man in Ukraine’ stretches credulity to the limit. Peter Jukes investigates
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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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Editorial – After the Iceberg, the Conservative Ship Founders
For us at Byline Times, reading the Guardian’s recent revelations in the ‘Boris Files’ – a cache of nearly 2,000 leaked documents from Boris Johnson’s private office and Downing Street activity – is rather like mapping an iceberg five years after it sank the traditional Conservative Party and destroyed much of the probity of the…
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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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Clive Lewis MP: ‘I Never Thought I’d Hear Myself Say I Think My Party is Making this Country Weaker in Preparation for an Authoritarian-Right Government’
What happened to Keir Starmer’s pledge that Labour would return to power with a ‘government of service’? Peter Jukes and Hardeep Matharu speak to the backbench Labour MP to understand why the Government is focusing on how to ‘stop the boats’ rather than fixing people’s everyday lives
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Jeffrey Epstein’s Russian ‘Tech Maidens’
As the scandal around the release of the Epstein Files continues to follow Donald Trump, Peter Jukes investigates the late sex offender’s ties to Vladimir Putin-linked individuals with a curious career trajectory
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Lord Heseltine – ‘Nigel Farage, Let’s Not Mince Our Language, Is Mr Trump’s Vicar in England’
Fifty years on from the UK’s 1975 referendum on its continued membership of the then European Communities, the former Conservative Deputy Prime Minister speaks to Peter Jukes and Hardeep Matharu about the future of our involvement in Europe, the rise of populism on both sides of the Atlantic, and how Brexit has reshaped his party…
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Editorial – Carving Up a Baked World
The Plumb-Pudding in Danger, James Gillray’s 1805 cartoon of the French Emperor Napoleon and the British Prime Minister Pitt the Younger, not only satirised the two warring superpowers as they carved up the Atlantic and the European landmass between them, it also visualised the Victorian ‘great power’ theory of history.
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Editorial – The Endless Insecurity of ‘Digital Nomads’
If the product is free, you’re the product. When it comes to so much of our lives lived on social media, this is one of the defining truths of our age, and it is brilliantly realised in Vincenzo Latronico’s novella Perfection, translated into English by Sophie Hughes, which was recently shortlisted for the International Booker…
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The Kindness of Strangers
It is entirely plausible that Donald Trump, when he constantly compares US asylum seekers to serial killer Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, is confusing these two uses of the word ‘asylum’.
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The Tribunal of Truth: Byline Times Joins Press Regulator
Peter Jukes, Co-Founder and Executive Editor of Byline Times, explains why joining Impress – the independent press regulator – is the best way to uphold accuracy and trust as investigative journalism enters a difficult new era of change
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Editorial – The Need to Be Seen
We must remember that ‘social democracy’ wasn’t just about the material benefits of the welfare system, but also something much more elusive and immaterial: people feeling they have some control over their lives and that their voices are heard. That isn’t so hard to see, nor so far away that it isn’t achievable.
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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
