David Meller was referred to the ‘VIP Lane’ by his long-term political ally Michael Gove
A significant number of GPs are leaving permanent positions for locum roles or leaving clinical careers altogether, according to a new research by EveryDoctor
Four years on from leaving the EU, the Department for Business and Trade’s overview of Brexit tells a powerful story – of fiction
The move comes amid harrowing personal accounts from healthcare workers who say they’ve suffered “devastating” injuries caused by preventable exposure to COVID-19 at work
Top-down management culture at NHS trusts needs to change to include frontline staff and patients on their boards, argues Alicia Clegg
The impotent ‘War on Drugs’ policy pursued by the Government won’t work without an attitudinal shift, argues Ian Hamilton.
The National Health Service is under threat unless the Government starts properly paying its workforce, reports Michaela Makusha
Cat Fraser, who has lived with the chronic illness for years, says it’s time to get Long Covid on the agenda and give its many victims the support they need.
The real ‘one per cent’ are those voters who still trust the Prime Minister, reports Adam Bienkov
The considerable upcoming reduction in spending calls into question the Government’s ‘Living with COVID’ strategy
Byline Times has been unravelling the dealings behind the procurement of personal protective equipment (PPE) in the UK since the very early days of the pandemic. Here’s what we learnt – and what we still need answers to…
A lawyer acting for the lawyer of Baroness Michelle Mone told Byline Times it would be defamatory to suggest David McKie ‘knowingly represented a false position’
Her representatives threatened to sue us for reporting the facts. Now the truth is finally out
A film about the PPE scandal did not declare to some contributors it was being funded by a company that won £203 million in Government PPE contracts
A Freedom of Information battle means Byline Times can now reveal the cost to the public for the Government’s doomed legal challenge to the Covid inquiry
Kit Yates argues that the former Prime Minister’s lack of scientific training was not the real problem
The Covid Inquiry has revealed the former PM to be a deeply negligent and dishonest individual. The only question now is how he was allowed to get away with it
The public – and scientists – were not able to scrutinise the Government’s interpretation of the scientific evidence with which it was being supplied, argues Independent SAGE member Kit Yates
New revelations suggest the Prime Minister had a reckless disregard for the science of protecting the public during a global pandemic
The proposed changes ‘are symptomatic of the continued systematic violation of disabled folk’
Dr Kit Yates examines the lessons emerging from the Covid Inquiry and why fear of pressure from politicians led to the creation of Independent SAGE
NHS doctor David Oliver explores how the Conservatives’ NHS policies left it in a dire state and unable to cope with the pandemic
As the new Mental Health Act is quietly dropped, David Hencke reports on how the crisis in mental health services across the country is failing the most vulnerable people in society
David Oliver gives a physician’s view of the Covid-19 Inquiry evidence and what it reveals about the Conservative Government
As the Covid Inquiry has revealed, Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings are morbid symptoms of a sick system. At the heart of that sickness is the media
Damning evidence from the Covid Inquiry reveals how the former PM was enabled by a system determined to look the other way, reports Adam Bienkov
The disgraced ex-PM also claimed “COVID is just nature’s way of dealing with old people” the official inquiry heard.
England was the last of the four nations to require masks in schools following heavy resistance from the then Prime Minister and Education Secretary
The then Prime Minister held unminuted meetings with the press baron he later elevated to the House of Lords despite security concerns
Officials are refusing to roll out vaccines to most people under the age of 65, despite warnings of a major outbreak this winter, Karam Bales reports
UsForThem is linked to controversial anti-vax campaign figures and organisations believing in a global socialist ‘Great Reset’ led by powerful capitalists
A conspiratorial group of extreme Brexit lobbyists mounted an extraordinary campaign against one of the world’s most prestigious science journals – part of a series of joint investigations between Byline Times and Computer Weekly
Medical cannabis is legal in the UK – but only if you can buy a prescription. Here is an anonymous account of navigating the situation
A new short film reveals the heart-wrenching stories of those who lost their loved ones to COVID – and exposes the politics of poverty behind the crisis
Grace Oppong told Byline Times that her daughter has been repeatedly hospitalised due to mould and damp
Byline Times regular court reporter James Doleman reflects on his terminal diagnosis and the kafkaesque bed blocking situation many like him find themselves in
A new parliamentary report reveals that, apart from the £16.4 billion estimated tax and benefit fraud found by the National Audit Office last year, ministers have no idea about the level of fraud in the rest of government
A new parliamentary report details a complete lack of planning in handing out the money to small businesses, pubs, restaurants and some retail premises and clubs