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Whatever Happened to Matt Goodwin?
How did Reform’s candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election go from being a ‘fully-paid up member of the liberal left’ to a Farage disciple, asks David Edgar and Jon Bloomfield
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Shock and Orr: Meet the Farage-Supporting ‘Philosopher King’ of British Authoritarianism
The Cambridge professor providing the intellectual underpinning for JD Vance and Nigel Farage, is described by one academic colleague as being ‘more Tommy Robinson than St Thomas Aquinas’
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Raining on his Parade: Trump’s Military Blunder
A clear majority of Americans are opposed to the US President’s army parade, and his handling of immigration and the economy
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‘Geert Wilders Thought He Could Finally Push Through His Destructive Agenda – But He Ran Out Of Patience’
No government in recent history has produced so little new legislation – yet the damage caused is immense, writes Chris Keulemans
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‘Why We Must Call the National-Populist Far Right by Its Name’
The centre left should stop being afraid of accurately describing and countering the global far right threat we now face, argue Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar
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How a ‘Populist’ Media Has Mainstreamed the Far Right
Right-wing daily papers in the UK do not represent ‘public opinion’ – they simply reflect the radical right views of those ‘who own and run them’, argues Julian Petley
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True Grit: The Student Blockades in Serbia
Nicole Burgund reports from inside one of Europe’s most important protests
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Blue Labour on MAGA Square: Maurice Glasman’s Journey to Trumpism
Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar look at the nationalist populist drift of Labour’s anti-progressive tendency
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Populist Simplicity in a Hyper-Complex World: Will Trump Overplay His Hand?
Hardeep Matharu dissects what the now infamous Oval Office meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky revealed about the American President’s approach – and speaks to political scientist Brian Klaas about why his ‘alternative realities’ don’t stack up against real-world complexities
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‘Trump’s War on Science Could Be Coming to the UK Soon’
There is a concerted global effort to undermine the very concept of evidence-based policy and scientific progress, argues Kit Yates
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Complexity Is Reality – But There’s No Possibility For It In Today’s Political Culture
One of the biggest triumphs of the modern political right has been to close the space in which nuance and ambiguity can even sit, writes Hardeep Matharu
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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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Trump’s Return: Keeping the Subtle Flame of Integrity Lit
By paying attention to our complex and often contradictory humanness, we can keep our integrity through chaos and disruption
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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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‘If Reheated Blairism Is Keir Starmer’s Answer to Donald Trump Then He Is Asking the Wrong Questions’
The UK Government is dominated by figures from a discredited past at a time of radical global change, argues Neal Lawson
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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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The Psycho-Social-Techno Politics of ‘MAGA’ Trumps Democracy – And the Liberal Left Has No Answer
Donald Trump’s second victory in the United States is a warning sign to democracies everywhere of the centrality of emotions – and their manipulation – in the new politics of gross inequality and psychic rebellion fuelled by tech-driven alternative realities, writes Hardeep Matharu
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Trump’s America: The Fulcrum of a Global ‘Network War’ on Democracy
The re-elected President’s backers believe democracy is finished – the fight to save it must transform it
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‘Wales Could Lead the Way Across the Globe if it Criminalises Political Lying’
A dishonest doctor gets struck off the medical register. The banker who steals from his clients goes to jail. A deceitful military officer gets cashiered. Why should politicians not expect to play by the same rules?
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The Curtain Comes Down on the Conservatives’ Theatre of Cruelty
Hardeep Matharu, Editor of Byline Times, explores why the June 2024 print edition focuses on how ‘cruelty is the point’, to a point – and what the left must understand about the role of emotion in politics today
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‘Not a Bullet for Ukraine’: The Rise and Fall, and Rise Again, of Slovakia’s Populist Prime Minister
Robert Fico rode to electoral victory for the third time on a wave of strongman populism, media capture and pro-Russia rhetoric. But are the cracks beginning to appear?
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‘In Fighting for the Cause of Refugees and Migrants, We Fight For Ourselves’
AC Grayling reflects on what immigration really means, how right-wing politicians are twisting that meaning to exploit xenophobia, and what can be done to counteract their rhetoric
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‘Populists Learn From Each Other’: Is the World Heading for a Tipping Point in 2024?
The prospect of another Trump presidency in the US, rising authoritarianism and multiple complex conflicts around the world make for a depressing picture
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Reversing the Road to Unfreedom: The Polish Elections are Finally Some Good News for Democracy
Those in America looking for a way out of the toxic Trumpian cycle should look to Poland as a starting point
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State Complicity and Ethnic Cleansing in India
Evidence that the Manipur state government is stoking tribal and religious conflict in northeast India has accelerated separatist demands
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‘Children of Men’ – 17 Years On: A Grave Warning to a Nation Adrift
The 2006 film set in a dystopian London of the future has much to say about modern Britain – especially the ‘doom loop’ trapping younger generations, writes Matt Gallagher
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Rishi Sunak’s ‘100,000 Migrants Under Labour’ Lie is Proof of his Weakness
An increasingly desperate Prime Minister is resorting to false claims about his opponents in order to cling to office, writes Adam Bienkov
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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 World Burns as Our Dangerous Age of Unreason Fuels the Flames’
The Conservative Party may well be on the wrong side of public opinion – as well as history – when it comes to its lack of commitment to tackling the climate emergency
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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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Professors, Power and Projection: the Case of Matthew Goodwin
Martin Shaw looks at Goodwin’s new book and its claims that Britain is run by a ‘woke’ new elite
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Bannon, Brexit, Johnson and Cambridge Analytica: the Daughter of Time
Peter Jukes reports on more revelations about the transatlantic right-wing network, and why the Government is withholding key information on the former Prime Minister’s role
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Suella Braverman to Address Radical ‘National Conservatism’ Event With Ties to US Right
The Home Secretary is a keynote speaker at the conference, which has previously hosted Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orban, reports Karam Bales
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The Fleet Street ‘Friendlies’ Climb On Board Braverman’s Prison Ships
The Home Secretary’s tabloid-pleasing plans to float desperate refugees offshore are designed to distract from the Government’s own failings, reports Adam Bienkov
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‘Where Tunisia Leads, Britain Follows’
Tunisia’s populism and racially-charged purges offers chilling context for the UK’s migration clampdown, writes Simon Speakman Cordall
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Fighting Back Against National-Populism
Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar consider what the progressive Left can do to counter dangerous hard-right thinking on the great social issues of our era
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Red Tory to Blue Labour – How Spiked and Unherd are Keeping National Populism Alive
Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar look at the reach and influence of an unlikely coalition of ex-Trotskyites, traditionalist Tories and communitarian Labourites
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A City Caught Between Industrial Change and Climate Change
Sam Bright examines how Britain can learn from the city of Groningen in the Netherlands, and how our recent political history provides a warning to the Dutch establishment
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The Toxin of Televisuality
As the democratic dangers posed by social media are exposed, the degradation of our politics by the small screen should not be forgotten, writes AC Grayling
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‘Emily Maitlis is Right – the BBC should be Telling the Public the Truth when the Government is Lying’
The Corporation does not know how to respond to the dangerous populism we find ourselves in, writes former BBC journalist Patrick Howse
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Liz Truss’ ‘Lazy Brits’ Comments Expose her Own ‘Plastic Patriotism’
A leaked recording of the Tory leadership frontrunner deriding UK workers for lacking “graft” gives the game away about her real views of the British people, reports Adam Bienkov
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Pluralism versus Populism – The Battle Rages On
In his editorial from the August 2022 print edition of Byline Times, Peter Jukes explores the big new political battle shaping the world
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How Should We Respond to the Conservative Party’s Authoritarian Turn?
David Lowther speaks to experts in national identity and authoritarianism, to shed light on how progressive forces should react to the debasement of democracy under this Government
