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A New Review into Children’s Deaths by their Parents’ Partners Raises Questions About the Future of Social Care
Does another review of more tragic deaths of vulnerable children provide the answers needed to protect children from harm, asks Katharine Quarmby
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Sunak Takes Cost of Living Action As Polling Shows Public Anger at Lack of Government Help
New polling by Omnisis for Byline Times shows cross-party hostility towards the Chancellor’s inertia over rapidly rising household costs
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The Ignored Long COVID Crisis
The Bank of England has warned of COVID-related labour shortages in Britain, but why aren’t we taking its long-term effects more seriously? Sasha Baker investigates
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Home Office Housing Asylum Seekers in Areas of Far-Right Activity
Byline Times investigates why hotel accommodation for those seeking asylum is being provided in areas facing hostility towards migrants
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Children’s Social Care Cannot Be Reformed Without Recognising the Impact of Poverty and Austerity
Following 12 years of cuts, is it any wonder that the children’s social care sector is in trouble? A new review misses some of the key structural causes
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Tough on Crime? The Conservatives Are No Longer the Party of ‘Law and Order’
Johnson has proposed authoritarian measures that fail to achieve true progress on improving justice and people’s safety, argues Sian Norris
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The Great Escape: How a City Exodus is Creating New Housing Crises in Satellite Towns
Sam Bright and Sascha Lavin explore how the ‘Zoomtowns’ phenomenon is putting a burden on local property markets
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‘We Can’t Live Like This’: Universal Credit Falls Short of Cost of Living Price Hikes
Rising energy bills, increased food costs – and yet benefits have not risen with inflation, leaving families struggling to make ends meet, Sian Norris reports
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‘A Sense That Rape is Decriminalised’: New Data Reveals Ongoing Crisis for Rape Victims
A new investigation by the Byline Intelligence Team reveals that fewer men are being convicted for sexual offences – a crime that impacts on one in five women
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Food Bank Britain
Rachel Morris considers the malaise of modern Britain as the Conservatives initiate Austerity 2.0
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‘Levelling-Up’ Is Dying in Johnson’s Desert of Ideas
As the nation nears the three year mark of Johnson’s Government, it’s time to be honest about the collapse of his flagship project, says Sam Bright
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‘Wipe Jews Off the Face of the Earth’: Racism and Antisemitic Slurs of Viral YouTuber Exposed
A recording exclusively obtained by Byline Times exposes YouTuber and Infowars alumnus Paul Joseph Watson using racist, homophobic and antisemitic slurs
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Local Elections 2022: A False Dawn? Labour’s Success in London Masks its Deeper Problems
Labour’s local election performance spells danger for the party, argues Sam Bright
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How Boris Johnson has Spread and Benefitted From Deeply Sexist Attitudes in Politics
The Prime Minister has pushed sexist tropes about women – while being given a free pass by those parts of the press which also trade in them, reports Adam Bienkov
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Why Porn in the House of Commons Is No Laughing Matter
Barrister Gareth Roberts explains why an addiction to pornography should be taken as seriously as those dangerously reliant on alcohol or drugs
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Barriers, Ignorance… And More Barriers: The Every Day Experiences of Disabled People
Society and politicians need to wake-up to the fact that disability is a normal part of the human condition that can impact us all, says Penny Pepper
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Russell Group University Assets Burgeon Under Conservative Rule
As students and lecturers face tougher circumstances, the wealth of their institutions has risen markedly in recent years, reports Sascha Lavin
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People Hosting Ukrainian Refugees Still Subject to Bedroom Tax, Government Confirms
Public housing tenants will still face spare bedroom penalties – even if that bedroom is used to host a Ukrainian refugee, reports Sascha Lavin
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The Shocking Divides Between London and the Rest of Britain
Sam Bright details some of the key findings from his new book, on the extreme imbalances between London and other parts of the country
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Renters Hit Hardest by Cost of Living Crisis
Data from the Office for National Statistics shows that renters are more likely to be struggling to make ends meet than those with mortgages
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‘Racial Profiling’: Black People Disproportionately Targeted by Transport for London Fixed Penalty Notices
As the Prime Minister continues to be investigated for COVID law-breaking, Dimitris Dimitriadis explores the penalties heavily issued to minority ethnic groups
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Crime and Punishment: Lived Reality is Now Divorced From Electoral Politics
Sam Bright considers why, after years of stagnating wealth and declining health in Britain, the Conservative Party hasn’t seen its support slump sooner?
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Male, Pale and Colonial: Russell Group Universities Dominated by Named Buildings Reflective of a Bygone Era
Max Colbert investigates the backgrounds of those commemorated on leading university campuses
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Drop in Life Expectancy Due to Poor Pandemic Management ‘Chilling’, Says Sir Michael Marmot
New research shows that England and Wales saw the biggest reduction in life expectancy after the US between 2019-21, while the life expectancy of the poorest continues to drop
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Talking About My Generation: How the Conservative Party has Punished Young People
From mental health services to tuition fees, the Government has damaged the welfare and prosperity of the next generation, writes Daisy Steinhardt
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Rishi Sunak’s Plan to Soften Blow of Universal Credit Cut has been a £1 Billion Bust
Nic Murray explores the Chancellor’s underfunded and misjudged scheme to help deprived families make ends meet
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Lessons for the Left from Scandinavia
Progressive parties in the Nordic countries have also been wrestling with reactionary views towards immigration in recent years, documents Shafi Musaddique
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North Loses Out as Government Replaces EU ‘Shared Prosperity Fund’
Sam Bright and Tom Robinson calculate the reductions in UK regional development spending, compared to the equivalent EU scheme
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Young People As Prime Targets: Student Loan Hike is the Latest Frontier of the Conservative ‘Culture War’
By allowing student loan debt to soar, the Government is seeking yet more division between young and old, says Maheen Behrana
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Above and Beyond the Law: ‘Partygate’ has Fatally Exposed Britain’s Political System
In a succession of scandals, Boris Johnson has opened the floodgates to wrongdoing and impunity by politicians like never before – aided by his lawless friends in the British press and a sclerotic constitution
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Extremism Tsar Met Anti-Muslim Witch-Hunt Agency Advised by ‘White Genocide’ Believer
The Government’s Commission for Countering Extremism appears to be consulting academics enthralled by far-right Great Replacement theories, even as it holds closed meetings with Britain’s security services
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How has the Black Lives Matter Movement Influenced British Education?
Dr Cheryl Diane Parkinson considers how grassroots campaigners are applying anti-racist principles to the schooling system
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Private Schools Attended by Cabinet Ministers Increase Assets by £300 Million in Six Years
Sam Bright and Sascha Lavin report on the burgeoning wealth of Britain’s elite, fee-paying institutions, and the character of the politicians they have created
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Wage Stagnation and the Conservative Party’s Ideological War on Workers
The current cost of living crisis can be placed firmly in the context of the Conservative Party’s antipathy to the strife of the working class, says Thomas Perrett
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‘A Crime Against Humanity’: New Study Finds ‘Explicit’ Proof of Live Organ Harvesting by Chinese State
CJ Werleman reviews a new Australian National University report, providing horrific new details of China’s abuse of political prisoners
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Boris Johnson is Fighting a ‘Culture War’ to Cling On to Power
The Prime Minister’s divisive comments about trans people are part of a broader attempt to replace his losing political war with a winning cultural war, reports Adam Bienkov
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The Non-Dom Conservative Oligarchy
Playboys and plutocrats are now the natural constituency of Boris Johnson’s party, argues Sam Bright
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Levelling Down: Government Energy Inaction Will Hit the Poorest People and Regions
Spiralling household costs will undermine Boris Johnson’s promises to ‘Red Wall’ voters, reports Thomas Perrett
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How Johnson’s Government is Using Oligarchs in its Attempt to Rebuild the ‘Red Wall’
Sam Bright and Sascha Lavin explore how the Government is inviting questionable regimes into Britain’s former industrial heartlands
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From Nostalgic Disability Direct Action On Screen – To Rishi Sunak’s Cold Shoulder in the Spring Budget
A new BBC film, ‘Then Barbara Met Alan’, looking at the beginnings of disability direct action, contrasts sharply with Rishi Sunak ignoring disabled people from his Spring Statement, says Penny Pepper
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Backwards Britain: Having Rejected a European Future, We Can Only Hark Back to an Imperial Past
Hardeep Matharu explores how the Russian invasion of Ukraine has exposed the UK’s perilous retreat – at a time when collaboration and a new vision of itself is required to navigate the dangerous realities of a changing world
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Macron and the Long March of the French Far-Right
Radical right-wing forces in France will not be buried by a second Macron presidency, says Shafi Musaddique
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Wheat Wars: How the Conflict in Ukraine is Afflicting North Africa
Dimitris Dimitriadis and Iain Overton consider the ways in which violence in Ukraine may provoke social and economic unrest across the globe
