SubscriptionsAuthor: Peter Jukes
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John Berger at 100
Peter Jukes celebrates the centenary of the birth of John Berger – one of the figures who inspires Byline Times’ analysis on the ideas we think with
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Saying the ‘Unsayable’: Russian Interference
Andy Burnham has broken a decade of establishment silence over Putin’s plan to get Britain out of the EU. Peter Jukes reports
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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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The Digital Domain Is the Most Mortal of All
Social media and digital storage are radically changing our concept of time and consciousness of death, writes Peter Jukes
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Dark Forces Erupting Into View
Ever since Byline Times started seven years ago, we have aimed to connect the immediate with the long term; to show how breaking news is not just ‘the first draft of history’ but a telling symptom of deeper, underlying forces.
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Flukes, Strays, Shadows
Automation can’t compete with the material delight of chance encounter in storytelling, writes Peter Jukes
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Yes, Androids Do Dream of Electric Sheep
Peter Jukes explores how the hallucinations of AI reveal that machines can never match the power of the human unconscious
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Reform UK and Big Tech Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel’s ‘Political Pipeline’ Recruitment Project at the World-Renowned University Revealed
The 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 hard-right and foreign influence at Cambridge University. Why?
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Editorial – Take a Sad Song and Make It Better
Albert Camus’ 1942 essay The Myth of Sisyphus attempts to tackle that great existential of dilemmas we humans find ourselves in: how do we live if we know we will die?
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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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Makerfield: Can the ‘Politics of Place’ 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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The Tyranny of Literacy: How Writing Only Scratches the Surface
Text has always been more a technology of control than true creativity, writes Peter Jukes
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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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Hedge Funds and Tech Bros: Reform UK James Orr’s Road to Damascus
How did Nigel Farage’s head of policy move from corporate law to political religiosity? Peter Jukes and Nafeez Ahmed report
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Editorial – Eventful Times
As Byline Times enters its eighth year of publication, the need for independent, reader-funded journalism has never been more stark. While both the established press and social media become more concentrated in the hands of a billionaire class, the morbid symptoms of their malfunction mount.
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Machine Yearning: From God to Aliens to Chatbots – The Metaphysics of Loneliness
For those of us old enough to remember the Apollo missions, the sight of Artemis II blasting off towards the Moon may have brought back something a bit more complicated than Space Age tristesse or déjà vu.
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Editorial – Enough is Enough
Though it may take time to fully percolate through to London and Washington, the resounding defeat of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in the Hungarian elections suggests the tide is turning after a 10-year surge of chaotic politics across Europe and the US.
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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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The Iconography of Destruction
Peter Jukes explores how the US President has spent his life riding the storm – but how much longer can he avoid reaping the whirlwind of his ‘American carnage’?
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The Epstein Files Reveal the‘Plot to Topple’ Theresa May
Far-right former Trump advisor Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein worked with Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage to “overthrow” Theresa May at the height of the 2018 Brexit crisis in the UK, newly released messages in the Epstein Files show.
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Reform Attacks Byline Times
Reform UK accused Byline Times of “attempting to derail a democratic election” for reporting on Matt Goodwin’s academic ties to organisations linked to discredited pseudoscientific race ideology
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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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Nazir Afzal: ‘Class Discrimination Isn’t a Complex Mystery – It’s a Structural Issue Quietly Enforced, Politely Denied, Endlessly Deferred’
The Chancellor of Manchester University has co-authored a new report, ‘Class Ceiling’, examining working-class participation in the creative industries across Greater Manchester. He spoke to Hardeep Matharu and Peter Jukes about how opportunities for people from poorer backgrounds has declined since the 1960s, and why his work prosecuting the grooming gangs perpetrators as the former…
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The Sleep of Reason; The Lightbulb of Brutal Clarity
Like that 2010 exposure of US foreign policy discussions, the Epstein Files shine a light on a global policy-making programme – not one run by elected politicians or the ‘deep state’, but an international set of monied oligarchs enjoying a tax-free, lawless lifestyle in the offshore archipelago of dark money and shadow banking.
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‘Brexit, Just the Beginning’
The network of ties between the late sex offender, Moscow, and Silicon Valley help explain not only the unexpected political developments in the West in recent years – but the role of ‘reinventing the financial system of the 21st Century’. Peter Jukes reports
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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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Zack Polanski – An Outsider Going Mainstream?
In September, Zack Polanski – a Member of the London Assembly since 2021 – was elected to the Green Party’s top job. His leadership has seen its membership double to more than 150,000 – overtaking those of the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats.
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There in Spirit: ‘Hamnet’ and Hamlet’s Ghost
You don’t need to be well-versed in Shakespeare to appreciate Hamnet.
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Russia Propagandist Welcomed, European Disinformation Experts Sanctioned
If there’s any question that the US is now more aligned with Russia than Europe, recent State Department decisions have removed all doubt.
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Editorial – Brutality and Affinity
America’s attack on Venezuela and the capture of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife. The uprising in Iran and the massacre of thousands of protestors. Donald Trump’s continued threats to take over Greenland and destroy the Nato alliance by targeting one of its members.
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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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Fun and Joy Are Very Powerful Political Forces
In the turbulence of the post-2008 financial crisis period, in the UK and the US, there was the emergence of a range of political figures who previously would have been nowhere near formal politics.
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For Better Or For Worse – The Fallacy of the Mean
It used to drive me mad. It could have been my Christmas post office job, or summer shifts at a record warehouse or an electronics firm, but I remember on more than one occasion a manager complaining about the quality of job applicants.
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Dinner with Mr Brexit
Dinner with Mr Brexit Steve Bannon’s European ‘Revolution’ – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein Nigel Farage was the figurehead of the ‘Movement’, which his partner Laure Ferrari started – while Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing regular support. Peter Jukes reports on new revelations in the Epstein…
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Editorial – Sanctuary
It seems quintessentially English. Though most of our subscribers are not London-based, and we have a readership from across the world, Southwark Cathedral is in effect the parish church for the area in which Byline Times’ office is located.
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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
