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More Protesters to Face Prison as Government Plans Bans on Face Masks and Flares at Demonstrations
“The Government is determined to shut down the ways in which ordinary people can take to the streets to make their voices heard,” Liberty says
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‘Assisted Suicide: Always Personal and Always Political’
For Penny Pepper, debates about changing the law on assisted suicide are a way in for a dangerous, niggling, idea of how we should value disabled people’s lives
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‘People with Learning Disabilities Can Be Overprotected’: A New Film Talking About Death
Saba Salman reports on a significant project that involves people with learning disabilities addressing the issues directly and shaping the narrative
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Conservatives Branded ‘Nasty Party’ as Voters Reject Plan to Target Sick and Disabled
Government plans to target welfare payments to the long-term sick and disabled are deeply unpopular, an exclusive new poll suggests
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European Parliament Elections: Experts and Law-Makers ‘Extremely’ Worried About Influence of Anti-Gender Movements
As Europe’s far-right movement gains alarming momentum, what are its funding, tactics – and prevention strategies?
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Just a Fraction of Voters Who Lack Photo ID Apply for ‘Free’ Identification – In Warning Sign for Mayoral Elections
Low take-up of the Government’s Voter Authority Certificate poses a risk to voters in May’s local elections, campaigners warn
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‘With his Poll Ratings Sinking, Sunak Goes For One More Attempt at Scapegoating the Vulnerable: The “Skivers” Revisited’
The Prime Minister’s announcements on sickness and disability benefits were not just another assault on an already punitive welfare system – they were nuclear-level gaslighting, writes Mary O’Hara
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‘The Prayer Ban at Michaela Community School Will Not Set a Landmark Precedent’
The CEO of the Islamophobia Response Unit sets out the significance of the High Court’s ruling being made in a very specific context of one school’s strict behavioural regime
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Special Report: Our Society’s ‘Non-Human’ Population – A National Scandal Ignored
Hardeep Matharu, Editor of Byline Times, explains why the May 2024 print edition focuses on the denial of human rights and basic care to people with learning disabilities
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‘Gideon Falter Came to a Pro-Palestine Demo Looking to Provoke – And the Media Gave him What He Wanted’
The chief executive of the Campaign Against Antisemitism appears to have got ‘exactly what he came for’ at the march, according to a witness who was there
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Retired Social Worker Who Faced Two Years in Prison for Holding Up Sign Outside Climate Trial is Cleared
Campaigners say the judge throwing out Government claims that Trudi Warner was in contempt of court is a victory for free speech
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The Law That Could Prevent the Next Hillsborough
35 years on from the disaster that killed 97 Liverpool fans, survivors believe a law demanding a ‘duty of candour’ in public inquiries could prevent future cover ups
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The Free Speech Union’s Key Role in Developing Government Legislation
Karam Bales examines the close links between the FSU, the Office for Students and the Government’s drive to legislate on freedom of speech
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‘A Keir Starmer Government Will Trigger a Revival of the Labour Left’
The Labour party leader’s long marginalisation of the Left cannot survive the realities of Government, argues his former advisor Simon Fletcher
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‘Stalked for Eight Years by a Man I Never Met’: Police Urged to Take Harassment More Seriously as Conviction Rates ‘Woefully Low’
A victim of stalking and harassment has spoken out as official figures show just how prevalent the crime is in the UK
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Cost of Living Charity Fired its Staff After They Tried to Unionise
Frontline advisors at Rooted Finance sacked on International Women’s Day
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Mask March Ban Has a Chilling Precedent for Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Activists in the UK
Refugees from Chinese oppression in Britain also believe the Government’s crackdown on face masks at demonstrations opens them up to reprisals
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The European Congress of Families and The International Organization for the Family
Karam Bales delves into a conference with ties to a Russian backed anti-gender network
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United Nations Summons UK Government Over Breaches of UN Convention on Disabled People’s Rights
Sunak’s Government has been called to face a UN committee over the shocking conditions faced by some disabled people after years of austerity
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The Frida Effect: In Praise of Disabled Women
On International Women’s Day, Penny Pepper celebrates how other disabled women came to be her pillars of strength, wisdom and joy
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Plans to Bar Politicians from Meeting Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Climate Activists are “Dangerous and Authoritarian” Say MPs
If MPs in other countries were barred from meeting civil society groups, the regimes would be “condemned and investigated” Dawn Butler told Byline Times
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Palestine Protesters Vow to Keep Marching Despite Fresh Clampdown Threats, as Muslim Council Blasts Islamophobic Rhetoric
Palestine protest organisers believe senior Government officials are placing heavy pressure on police to clamp down on their demonstrations
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Private Equity in Public Services: The Case of Special Educational Needs Schools
Private equity companies – many with connections to the Conservative Party – have been buying up large swathes of the public sector, including care homes, schools and GP surgeries. Special schools appear to be the latest hot property
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London Council Breaches Human Rights Law After Subjecting Asylum Seeker to Degrading Treatment
The High Court ruled against Croydon Council in relation to its treatment of a disabled asylum seeker.
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‘Julian Assange Is Not Superhuman – What Is Being Done to Him Is Unworthy of Any Democracy’
Stella Assange speaks to Byline Times about her fears for her husband if his extradition to the US is allowed following a forthcoming hearing in London
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‘Fighting the Five Giants: It’s Time to Renew Our Social Contract’
Every one of us will experience illness, damage, impairment, disability and, inevitably, old age, writes Penny Pepper
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Prince Harry Demands Piers Morgan Police Probe as ‘Shockingly Dishonest’ Mirror Pays Out Again Over Hacking
Substantial evidence of criminal behaviour and cover-up at Mirror Group Newspapers emerged last summer at trial
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Brianna Ghey: ‘When the World Finally Saw the Person Her Family Always Loved’
Katherine O’Donnell delivers a powerful rebuke to the media and politicians for the ‘irrational, obsessional’ hatred and misrepresentation that Brianna Ghey and her family faced every day
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Ireland Takes UK Government to European Court Over Controversial Northern Ireland Legislation in Little-Noticed Move
A law granting immunity to perpetrators during The Troubles was passed despite overwhelming opposition from parties in Northern Ireland and the Irish Government
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Democratising the NHS: Beyond ‘Whatever the Board Wants’
Top-down management culture at NHS trusts needs to change to include frontline staff and patients on their boards, argues Alicia Clegg
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Leading UN Figure Gives Scathing Verdict on UK Government’s Climate Campaign Clampdown and “Chilling” Effect on Protest Rights
The UN’s spokesman on ‘climate defenders’ hit out at the Conservatives’ suite of anti-protest laws – and media rhetoric against green activists.
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‘As Soon As Comedy Feels Controlled, It Loses Its Power’: The Comedians Afraid of Lawyers
The myriad threats comedians face is explored in the new edition of ‘Index on Censorship’, writes its Editor-in-Chief Jemimah Steinfeld
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The Awesome Rise of AI… You Must be Choking
In her monthly column, Penny Pepper explores her love-hate relationship with artificial intelligence
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A Culture of Failing to Protect Women: The Shocking Stories of Police Misconduct
Andrew Kersley speaks to those who have experienced inappropriate and degrading behaviour at the hands of police officers – with few consequences
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‘Stopping Male Violence Must Focus on Men: Why the Government’s New Spiking Measures Continue to Fail Women’
Despite more than 6,700 reports of spiking in England and Wales, the Government’s new initiatives fall short of meaningful action, writes Reclaim These Streets co-founder Jamie Klingler
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Extinction Rebellion Co-Founder Slams Legal System After Suspended Sentence for HS2 Protest
Dr Gail Bradbrook is among the most high-profile climate activists to be sentenced over protests
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‘Get Brexit Done’ is now ‘Stop the Boats’: Is the Rwanda Bill the Conservatives’ Trojan Horse?
We again have some members of the Conservative Party arguing that the UK needs to abandon another European institution, writes former British diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
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The Politics of Disability: A Forgotten Minister for Forgotten People
The real danger is that disability is regarded as a niche issue which only affects a small group who can easily be ignored, writes Stephen Unwin
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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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‘The Time for Human Rights is Now’
Human rights are about our relationship with those who wield public power, writes the CEO of the British Institute of Human Rights
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‘These LGBT Freaks – Do We Have Them Castrated?’: Inside Europe’s Invite-Only Conversion Therapy Conference
The event was organised by the International Foundation for Therapeutic and Counselling Choice – a London-based company that says it is a ‘home for the once-gay’
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Strikes by Ambulance and Border Force Staff now ‘Effectively Banned’ After Minimum Service Levels Pass By Government Diktat
When workers now vote to strike in key sectors, they could be forced to attend work by order of a ‘work notice’
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When Lost Humanity Breaks Down Healthcare
Penny Pepper reflects on the concerning and uplifting behaviours she witnessed during her four-week stay in hospital this summer
