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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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The Story of Brexit is the Story of Empire: Why Did Asian Immigrants Vote to Leave the EU?
The complicated love-hate relationship of immigrants from former colonies with the British Empire cannot be ignored if lessons are to be learned in post-Brexit Britain, says Hardeep Matharu
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Usurpers Three: the First Hard Brexit Propelled us into the Dark Ages
The Count of the Saxon Shore recalls how an aggressive Leave Campaign led to de-industrialisation and porous borders
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BACKDOOR BREXIT – Parliament Stumbling into International No-Man’s Land
Alex Varley-Winter on the Lost Week in Westminster, as Britain faces ‘Third Country’ Limbo, 10000 tons of Sheep and 2,000,000 tons of Landfill.
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Brexit Confusion – Don’t Blame Us
As the Brexit fuse burns to its cinder, what the UK needs more than ever, is a more acceptance that many Britons are simply bewildered as to what the hell is going on. That doesn’t make them stupid – it makes them normal.
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Lethal Victimhood: How the Far Right’s Tactic of ‘Reverse Terror’ is Spreading into Mainstream Media
After the targeting of a Byline Times writer to the death threats against the author of a parliamentary petition, it looks like right-wing publications are pandering to the incitement tactics of the extreme Far Right – fake claims of violence
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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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WORD OF THE WEEK: mentimutation (n.) a change of mind
The UK, according to the latest polling, is now chiefly a Remain country. At the opposite end of Brexit spectrum, this week a handful of prominent Leavers performed a swift volte-face and decided to throw their full support behind Prime Minister Theresa May’s contentious Brexit deal.
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One Week to Go: News from the Brexit Cliff Edge
A comprehensive round-up of what other media around the world are reporting about the looming exit of the UK from the European Union.
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When Will Brexiters Accept They Were Conned?
As every day brings more uncertainty, Otto English asks how long will it take Brexit voters to accept that they have fallen prey to a vast Ponzi scheme?
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The Great Brexit Trade Takeover: Unilateral Powers Assigned to Liam Fox
This month DIT Minister George Hollingbery quietly assigned its entire ambit to Fox himself, on a ‘temporary’ basis, as part of Brexit ‘contingency’ measures, but with zero Parliamentary oversight.
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ROBERT MERCER: Fuelling a Multi-million Dollar Anti-Muslim Propaganda Industry
Trump’s top donor, Robert Mercer, is at the centre of a multimillion-dollar anti-Muslim propaganda industry responsible for creating and spreading the same Islamophobic rhetoric found in the New Zealand shooter’s manifesto.
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The Disaster Capitalism Club: Part 2 – Sir Paul Marshall and Michael Gove
He’s head of one of the biggest hedge funds in Europe, a major contributor to the official Vote Leave campaign, and – along with Crispin Odey – one of the largest beneficiaries of the post-Brexit chaos: but Sir Paul Marshall is more than that.
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Michael Gove Challenged on Brexit Falsehood that Britain Can’t Revoke Article 50
One of the key players in Britain’s vote to leave the EU referred to the Scottish National Party as a “series of circus acts” when challenged over Brexit law.
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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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IN CONTEMPT: Brexit Secretary admits UK is Not Ready for ‘No Deal’
Six safeguarding bills are not passed and the Government continues to stall on anti-corruption law in Financial Services Bill
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Brexit Zugzwang: How the UK can escape the fierce checkmate-stalemate of now
As the country lurches towards March 29th – Zugzwang Brexit is where our politicians are now at. So what can be done?
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The Disaster Capitalism Club: Part 1 – Vote Leave Backers who Made Billions from Brexit
While this elite group have profited from the last three years of economic uncertainty real household incomes have dropped almost £1,000 and the average household will lose between £2,519 to £5,573 over the next 15 years.
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17 DAYS TO GO: News from the Brexit Cliff Edge
A weekly comprehensive round-up of what others are writing about the looming exit of the UK from the European Union.
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THE GREAT INDIFFERENCE: Brexit Wrongdoing Swept Under the Carpet
As serious allegations about Leave EU Official and Arron Banks continue to come out – the media and political class are complicit in a conspiracy of silence, says Otto English
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Crimea River: How Subversive Technology Piloted by Russia in Ukraine was used to Orchestrate Brexit and Trump
Why the West took a risk ignoring Russia’s subversive infiltration in Ukraine.
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How Repression in Belarus and Revolution in Ukraine Provides a Warning and a Lesson for Brexit Britain
Natalia Kaliada of the Belarus Free Theatre and Mark and Marichka Marczyk explain how protestors can’t abandon the barricades if they are to defend their freedoms.
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Britain’s decline, Britain’s ascension: Brexit on the Edge
BeLeave Whistleblower and Digital activist Shahmir Sanni argues that by revealing the post-colonial corruption of Westminster, Brexit also opens the door to real radical change.
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It’s not just Chlorinated Chickens: the Hidden Hand of Brexit Deregulation
In the rush to meet 29 March Brexit deadline, Charities warn Ministers crucial safeguards are being removed without the scrutiny of Parliament
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Whitehall Under Fire for Withholding ‘No-Deal’ List from MPs
Civil Service chief forced to defend Secrecy of Cabinet Papers; Assessment revealed that almost one-third of ‘critical’ no-deal projects would be off-track if the UK crashes out of the EU.
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Putin Pushing on an Open Door
By ignoring Law-Breaking and Social Media Monopolies British and American Politicians are doing Putin’s work for him, argues Tamsin Shaw
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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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COMMENT & ANALYSIS
What is ‘SENSITIVE’? – The suppressed No Deal Impact report This week’s Contempt Committee hearing followed the successful threat of contempt proceedings being used by MPs to force the release of Brexit-related Cabinet papers. “It really would be to the eternal shame of the Conservative party if it were to continue to support a no-deal…
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Contempt Inquiry challenges Government bid to stop MPs releasing ‘sensitive’ Brexit documents
The Government would like its own legal advice and Cabinet papers to be off-limits to Opposition MPs Parliament’s Procedure Committee has held its final hearing on how Theresa May’s minority Government was found In Contempt of Parliament last December. The MPs’ inquiry – known officially as the “Powers of the House of Commons to Call…
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Cohen’s Explosive Testimony on Trump and Wikileaks puts Farage back in the Spotlight
Roger Stone’s speakerphone conversation with Trump about Wikileaks and hacked emails coincides with a secretive meeting between Stone and Nigel Farage at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland that year.
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Contempt threat by Breakaway Independent Group MPs forces Cabinet to release £13bn cost of No Deal Brexit
The revelations in the Government’s ‘Implications for Business and Trade of a No Deal Brexit’ report are an Alarming Wake-Up Call. But can the public hear it?
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The Real Militant Tendency: ERG and the Brexit Layercake
Otto English looks into the background and funding of Jacob Rees-Mogg’s ERG, alleged to operate like a ‘party within a party’ by senior Conservative MPs
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No Deal Scenarios – Secrecy, Dark Money & Hidden Hands
In Brexit negotiations the transparency of the EU is in stark contrast to Britain, dominated by the hidden hand of think tanks and dark money
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In Contempt – Democracy in Darkness
Alex Varley-Winter announces her new Investigation into Executive Overreach in the Tumult of Brexit, and Calls out for Inside Information
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Parliament Kept in the Dark About Brexit Trade Deals while the Sun Shines
International Trade Secretary Liam Fox claimed he showed MPs a list of Brexit trade deals. He never has. The Sun got it first.
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Explosive Report Exposes the Molten Core of the Brexit, Trump, Russia Scandal
The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee’s final report on disinformation and fake news reveals new evidence and calls for new investigations into dark data, dark money and Russian influence in British elections.
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Killing Democracy, Softly
Without a written constitution, our governance relies on abiding by norms of good behaviour with the backstop of the criminal law. Now both are vulnerable to soft corruption. Ten months after the Metropolitan Police received a file on potential illegality within Brexit referendum campaigns, Byline Times has learnt that Scotland Yard has still not decided…
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Senior Labour MPs Accuse Met Police of ‘Cover-Up’ and ‘Unacceptable Delays’ in Investigating Brexit Wrongdoing
Criminal investigations into Leave campaigns still stalled amid allegations up to a dozen MPs in the frame.
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Time to Speak for Britain – Before It’s Too Late
As Ford threatens to quit the UK and each day brings more catastrophic news – staying silent is no longer an option.
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Rolled Over: Liam Fox Keeps MPs in the Dark about 750 Brexit Trade Deals
MPs today pressuring Trade Secretary Dr Liam Fox to explain hundreds of trade agreements had to ‘play detective’ on the web to discover the facts.
