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GENERAL ELECTION 2019: Byline Times’ Four Pillars of ‘Don’t Panic’
Boris Johnson’s sweeping victory is a disaster for the country, but he cannot deliver on his false promises. Here’s how to survive and resist because his nemesis will come.
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BBC Denies Breaking Electoral Law over Postal Votes
In another basic error from the public service broadcaster, its political editor breaks the strict secrecy of the postal ballot.
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This Election has been a Tsunami of Lies – It’s Time for Some Home Truths
As the populist Brexit surge shows, we have taken liberal democracy for granted for too long in the UK.
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More Digital Dark Arts: Brexit Party Supporters Hijack the Mayor of London’s Personal Website
Brexit Party supporters appear to have taken over more than one Labour party website, redirecting all searches and previous links to Nigel Farage’s party webpage.
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Selling Off the NHS: The “Great Prize” of No Deal Brexit
Leaked ‘sensitive’ documents from trade talks with the Trump Administration suggest the Holy Grail of Hard Brexiters is carving up Britain’s efficient, free universal healthcare.
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The Facebook Loophole: Rules about ‘Non-Party Campaigners’ are Making a Mockery of Democracy
After the ‘fake Green Party’ ads, Byline Times reveals nearly 3000 Facebook campaigns that escape electoral law and allow tens of millions of undeclared election spending.
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THE BOX SET: Byline Times on Boris Johnson
From jacuzzi justice to toxic masculinity, dodgy think tanks to Russian oligarchs and hedge fund backers, Trump, Steve Bannon, Dominic Cummings and Farage: here’s all you need to know about our Prime Minister.
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THE BOX SET: Byline Times’ Own Russian Interference Report
With Boris Johnson suppressing a report into Russian interference drawn up by Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee, Byline Times provides you with everything the Prime Minister doesn’t want you to know.
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Byline Times’ Election Manifesto
The 2019 General Election promises to be a poll unlike any other – so will our coverage.
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Christmas is Coming with the Unholy Trinity in Power
The dark arts channelled by Johnson, Gove and Cummings are still infiltrating our politics – but we can change this if we act quickly
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Incendiary Politics: How to Stop Fanning the Flames
Do not follow Bannon and Trump into the furnace of extremism. However outraged and provoked we feel, we must not rise to the bait of Johnson and Cummings.
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Lord Andrew Adonis to Step Down from House of Lords if Elected Labour MP in Kate Hoey’s Constituency
Lord Adonis spoke to Oliver Murphy about potentially becoming the first life peer to hand back his peerage to sit in the House of Commons.
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Why Boris Johnson’s Funding from Hedge Funds is a Matter of Public Interest
Following Byline Times’ story on the donors to the Prime Minister we provide more information on our findings and the importance for British politics
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Brexit Disaster Capitalism: £8 Billion Bet on No Deal Crash-Out by Boris Johnson’s Leave Backers
While the Prime Minister defies the law and insists Britain will leave the European Union on 31 October, his backers stand to make billions out of the disaster.
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Parliament Takes Back Control
This week began the fightback of representative parliamentary democracy against populism.
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BBC Finally Insists Opaquely Funded Think Tanks Declare their Interests
After Carole Cadwalladr challenged Director General Tony Hall over dark money lobbyists, the BBC have responded with new guide lines.
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Byline Times at Byline Festival
Our sister organisation Byline Festival will be kicking off tomorrow, with four days of thought-provoking talks, workshops and performances.
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Fear and Loathing in Whitehall
Will a cleansing anti-cyclone come and blow the oppressive suspicions and rumours away and re-establish the primacy of public service in the interests of the nation rather than party, and the principle that no one is above the rule of law?
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Reasons to be Cheerful: Trump’s Bigotry Backfires
The sight of Donald Trump surrounded by thousands of his supporters chanting “send her back” this week was chilling. But the reaction to it can give us a cause for hope.
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The Double Attack on Liberal Democracy
The far right’s collusion with Vladimir Putin is now well-documented, but support from the left puts democracy in even greater danger.
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The Clock is Ticking on Boris and Brexit, but Still No Headway on Confronting Electoral Wrongdoing
Even though they’re crucial to the security of future elections, the British institutions supposed to be safeguarding democracy are playing the game of passing the buck.
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The Media Got Us Into this Mess – Can it Get Us Out?
This week Boris Johnson told us: “I paint the passengers enjoying themselves on a wonderful bus” – a useful ‘dead cat’ from the big question marks hanging over his plan for Britain and his competency in leading it.
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The Triumph of Trumpism in the UK – Only Truth Can Set Us Free
With Boris Johnson emerging as a clear candidate to succeed Theresa May as Conservative leader and to enter Number 10 Downing Street as Britain’s next Prime Minister, it’s time to think the unthinkable and speak of the unspeakable.
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Brexit Party Candidates Elected to the European Parliament
Brexit Party MEPs will now sit in Europe’s highest law-making body as the elected representatives of the people of Britain. Who are they and why does it matter?
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Property, Finance, Hedge Funds, Lobbying, Media: a Guide to the Brexit Party’s Elite MEP Candidates
Byline Times provides a profile of twenty of Nigel “Man of the People” Farage’s candidates for this week’s Euro Elections, and they look very much like the elites he rails against.
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“Never Seen Anything like it”: The Funding of the Brexit Party Needs Urgent Investigation
After Byline Times’ exclusive investigation into Nigel Farage’s claims of unprecedented crowd funding and donations to his new party, we call for an urgent and thorough investigation from the Electoral Commission
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‘Tell the Truth’ – Journalism, Activism and Extinction
Byline Times will never let activism lead our journalism, but our journalism will sometimes – we hope – lead to activism.
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Met Commander Hints at Tougher Stance Towards Extinction Rebellion Protests
A today’s session of the UK parliamentary committee on Human Rights, Commander Adrian Usher made a surprise shot across the bows of the growing climate change protest movement.
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The Sad, Misplaced Martyrdom of Julian Assange
There are many reasons to be concerned about the founder of WikiLeaks begin extradited to the US – but publishing the truth isn’t one of them.
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The Worst in the European Parliament: How Truant Brexit MEPs are making a Mockery of Britain
Exclusive research by The Overtake reveals that party once led by Nigel Farage has the worst attendance record across the whole continent
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Bulletins from the Brexit Cliff Edge – 9 April
Byline Times’ regular wire-service rounding all the bad news fit to print about Britain’s pending exit from the EU
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Losing Momentum – can Jeremy Corbyn Survive a Split from his Base?
The unprecedented, unpunished rebellion of shadow cabinet members against a three-line whip raises the question: is Jeremy Corbyn only the ‘spiritual leader’ of the Labour party?
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News from the Brexit Cliff Edge
Byline Times regular update on all the news about Britain’s pending exit from the EU
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Democracy in Danger: What Happened to our Data after the EU Referendum?
In the light of multiple investigations into Brexit online campaigns, Byline Times asks whether our election data is secure or could be misused in future votes.
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Welcome to our Special Brexit Launch Edition
Now seems like a good time to launch a new newspaper – but not for the reasons many expect. The heart of our paper will be investigations. We will follow the story wherever it goes, without fear or favour. No PR company, advertiser or press baron can influence the stories we choose.
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Islamophobia and the Limits of Free Speech
How much longer can our mainstream press escape the consequences of their false reporting and dangerous rhetoric around our Muslim communities?
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Sins of Omission, Sins of Commission: Alt-Right Reaction to Far Right Terrorism
Major right-wing celebrities on social media betrayed their ideological guilt and complicity after the murder of 50 attending Mosques in Christchurch
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Don’t tear up our last shred of constitutional legitimacy
For too long we’ve relied on unwritten norms to underpin our governance – norms of honesty, shame, resignation or apology for misleading parliament and the public or breaking ethical rules and professional guidelines… We need a written constitution to protect the public…
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Boris Johnson planning a Trump-like populist bid for PM: backed by Steve Bannon and the Far Right
You can get rid of the ridiculous bouffant hair, but that doesn’t stop you being a dangerous buffoon.
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Government asks YouTube to Reconsider ‘Tommy Robinson’ Ban after he Threatens More Journalists with “a Knock on the Door”
After three days of intimidation and threats against Byline Times writer Mike Stuchbery, the Government agrees that YouTube must take action against Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.
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The Catastrophe of Success
The catastrophe of success: Trump, Gove and Johnson never expected to win. What now?
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Correction of the Week – 25th February
While other newspapers hide their errors, we promise to make their corrections prominent – and ours.
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Justice for Daphne: the Avalanche of Legal Cases Before Caruana Galizia’s Murder
Maltese Investigative Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was subject to a staggering number of legal challenges before she was assassinated in 2017
