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No Surprise as Ipso Brushes Off Latest Challenge over Serial Failures at Jewish Chronicle
The sham ‘regulator’ admits there are standards problems at Sir Robbie Gibb’s newspaper but insists – against all the evidence – that it has the matter under control, writes Brian Cathcart
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‘From Brexit to Clexit? Delaying Climate Action is the Right’s Next Big Political Culture War’
The manner in which the Conservatives’ anti-net zero campaign has been waged has resonant parallels with that which produced Brexit, writes Julian Petley
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Cancelling the Canceller: How ‘Martin Branning’ Made Dan Wootton a Timebomb
The GB News anchor has been suspended from his £600,000-a-year primetime show, and fired from his £250,000-a-year MailOnline column. Here we tell how his fall was inevitable, following Byline Times’ special investigation
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Editorial: The Populist Brand
Why do Russell Brand, Daniel Wootton and even Rupert Murdoch claim they are the victims of impersonal dark forces?
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The Links Between the ULEZ Protests, Radical Anti-Vaxxers and the Far Right
The heavily-publicised protests were not quite the grassroots movement the right-wing press made them out to be
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The Media Scandal the Media Didn’t Want to Touch: Byline Times Will Keep Exposing the ‘Dark Forces’ in the Shadows
This newspaper will continue its special investigation into TV presenter Dan Wootton and expose wrongdoing in the established media – without fear or favour
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Revealed: The Scandal of the Fake Newspapers Pushed by Conservatives in ‘Dirty Tricks’ Campaign
The elections watchdog has said the fake newspapers from local Conservative parties appear to be within the rules
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Conservatives Caught Publishing Fake Newspapers Again, as Party Mimics Defunct Local Outlet
This deception seems to be becoming part of a deliberate strategy by Conservative Party HQ.
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Dan Wootton’s Celebrity Targets Revealed
In the eighth part of its three-year special investigation into the private and professional conduct of GB News star Dan Wootton, Byline Times uncovers how the powerful journalist used the pretext of ‘underwear modelling’ to target young reality TV personalities. Here, for the first time, these people in the public eye speak out
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‘Tackling the Press’ Abuse of Women is a Long Overdue First Step to Changing how they are Publicly Perceived’
Sinead O’Connor’s passing has seen tabloid tributes about her talent and fearlessness – ignoring how the singer was demonised by the same newspapers when she was alive
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Dan Wootton and Martin Branning – The Proof
In the seventh part of its three-year special investigation, Byline Times can reveal the internet data leaks that tie the TV presenter to the online aliases he has not denied being connected to
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Truby’s Truth – How Murdoch Made Dan Wootton into a Monster
All Alex Truby wanted to find was the washing powder. Instead, he says, he found the key to a scandal now rocking the British media
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‘The Press Equivalent of the PPE “VIP” Channel’: Submission to COVID Inquiry On Newspaper ‘Bungs’ Calls for Answers on Use of Taxpayer Money
A government ad campaign poured cash into national newspapers during the pandemic. Byline Times is one of a number of signatories to a submission on the scheme to the COVID Inquiry
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‘Unacceptable’ Jewish Chronicle Puts Sham Press Watchdog IPSO on the Spot
A softly-softly approach to the newspaper’s reckless journalism has failed – now the ‘regulator’ has been challenged to make a landmark choice, writes Brian Cathcart
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MailOnline and The Sun Hid Serious Dan Wootton Claims – While Attacking Huw Edwards and the BBC
In the fifth part of our three-year special investigation into the private and professional conduct of GB News star Dan Wootton, Byline Times can reveal how The Sun and MailOnline have been protecting their star celebrity journalist
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Three Sensible, Non-Radical Things Labour Could Do to Reform our News Media
Nothing drastic is required if a new government is to tackle the obvious crisis in the way we get our news, while the benefits of change could be enormous
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Dan Wootton Paid Porn Stars with Sun’s Depp Money for Covert Catfish Sex Videos
In the fourth part of its three-year special investigation, Byline Times reveals how the GB News presenter and MailOnline columnist used News UK cash to pay male adult actors to secretly film themselves having sex with men he had targeted on Facebook
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Silence from Dan Wootton’s Employers MailOnline and GB News as Head of Commons’ DCMS Committee Demands Answers from his Former Boss The Sun Over Byline Times’ Investigation
Conservative MP Dame Caroline Dinenage has asked the tabloid’s editor Victoria Newton about this newspaper’s investigation into the influential TV presenter
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Dan Wootton was a ‘Serial Bully’ at the Sun – But Bosses Promoted Him as Complaints were Silenced
In the second part of its three-year investigation, Byline Times examines the professional conduct of the TV presenter when he was a leading editor at Rupert Murdoch’s powerful British tabloid
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‘The BBC Presenter Scandal: Every Editor and Reporter who Helped Promote the Sun’s Story Should Feel Shame’
How did they allow a threadbare tale from a totally discredited news source to swamp the airwaves and the news pages, asks Brian Cathcart
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Nigel Farage’s Bank Account, the Press and a Story ‘Too Good to Check’
The former Brexit Party Leader’s claims to have been politically persecuted by the banks have been taken at face value by publications that really should know better
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Sham Press Regulator Bows to Public Pressure and Condemns the Sun over Clarkson’s Attack on Meghan Markle
With complaints about the notorious column on the grounds of harassment, inaccuracy and racial discrimination dismissed by IPSO, this ruling will have no effect on the conduct of the press, writes Brian Cathcart
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Laundering the Lebedevs
How Boris Johnson ushered a ‘former’ KGB agent and his son into the British establishment – while most of the media looked the other way
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Johnson, Harry and the Press: ‘Exposing the Ethical Void’
With a mendacious former Prime Minister now returning to work for the press which enabled his rise, the moral bankruptcy of the media-political class is complete
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The ‘Boris Principle’: How Johnson and his Allies are Rewarded for their Failures
Boris Johnson’s new job at the Daily Mail is the perfect example of how failure is rewarded in British political and media life.
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Double Trouble for IPSO: The Sham Press Regulator is Contending with Two Crises at Once
The very limited authority of the UK press industry’s tame watchdog is under assault from its members, vividly exposing the contradictions in its make-up, writes Brian Cathcart
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Boris Johnson’s Rise and Fall Has Perfectly Exposed Britain’s Broken Political Culture
The disgraced former Prime Minister’s long career at the top of British politics should be a matter of national shame
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‘The Patronisers Club and the Calculator of Hate’: A Bigoted Focus on Disability Continues
When will the disabled experience be seen and valued in a humane way?
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‘The Telegraph’s Last Hurrah? Laundering a Hard-Right Think Tank’s COVID Lockdown Claims’
As the newspaper is put for sale, a widely-publicised report claiming ‘only’ 1,700 lives were saved by lockdown – which was splashed on its front page – is not what it seems
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Prince Harry Takes a Stand for Us All: ‘If They’re Supposedly Policing Society, Who On Earth is Policing Them?’
The crisis and corruption in the British press is one of the biggest, ongoing scandals of our time. Byline Times tips its hat to Prince Harry
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Harry Makes Court History: Prince Says ‘Piers Conspired to Hack Diana’ and he ‘Feared Stabbing Over Morgan Mirror Stories’
The Duke of Sussex’s testimony is the first to be given by a senior royal to a civil court in more than 130 years
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‘The Price of Sausages: The Telegraph’s Calculator of Hate’
Attacks on disabled people have all too often dressed themselves in the clothes of good housekeeping – as the newspaper’s tax calculator suggests
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Rishi Sunak Refuses to Join Ukraine in Sanctioning Alexander Lebedev
The UK has taken no action against the Russian oligarch and Boris Johnson associate, despite Ukraine and Canada targeting him for his alleged ties to Putin’s regime, reports Adam Bienkov
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Harry and the Press: Read All About It?
A prince of the realm taking on Britain’s biggest newspapers is surely newsworthy? Not if you’re a reader of one of these titles, writes Liz Gerard
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‘Isn’t Journalism about Finding New Stories?’: The Climate News the Media Ignores
Rachel Donald talks to scientists and activists who are turning to protest because of the gate-keepers in the media who refuse to cover their research
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‘It’s Not the Economy, Stupid. It’s the Press’
The right-wing papers have trashed the country and they mean to go on doing so whoever wins the next election. We must stop them, writes Brian Cathcart
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Prince Harry’s Trilogy Battle with the Press: Seconds Out for Round One
The phoney war is over – Prince Harry’s phone-hacking wars have begun, reports Dan Evans
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LOCAL ELECTIONS 2023: Rishi Sunak Falls Victim to his Own ‘War on Woke’
The Conservative Party’s huge defeats in the local elections reveal a party that is increasingly out of step with modern Britain, reports Adam Bienkov
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UK Lags Behind on Press Freedom as Media Dominated by Handful of Oligarchs and the Rich Target Journalists
Just three media groups dominate the national newspaper market – and help shape our political narrative, while the Government has failed to act against ‘lawfare’, a new report finds
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Rishi Sunak’s New Far-Right Ally and the International Authoritarian Elite
Sunak’s warm welcome of the far right Italian Prime Minister exposes the increasingly authoritarian direction of his own Government, reports Adam Bienkov
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Queen had ‘Secret Agreement’ with Murdoch Papers to Spare Harry Hacking Trial Ordeal, Court Hears
The Duke of Sussex claims secret deal included ‘very large’ payout for his brother Prince William
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‘A Great Power for Evil’
In Byline Times’ fourth anniversary print edition editorial, Peter Jukes and Hardeep Matharu explore how and why the established media continue to have a monopoly over the damaging narratives shaping our politics and culture – more than a decade after the phone-hacking scandal
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Extinction Rebellion Faces the Ugly Side of the Press
The established media has been determined to stir up concerns that XR’s big four-day action will disrupt the London Marathon, writes Stephen Colegrave
