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Revealed: The Pro-Hitler Messages Behind the ‘Neo-Nazi’ Libel Case Funded by Reform’s Crypto Billionaire Donor
Ben Delo financed a failed legal case in defense of two writers who privately exchanged pro-Hitler messages and talked about studying Mein Kampf
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Nigel Farage Handed Platform by GB News to Defend Reform UK’s £72m Donations From Crypto Billionaires
“These donations are completely legal,” insisted the Reform UK leader as he used his first appearance as a GB News host for six months to dismiss all questions about where his party is getting its record-breaking funding from
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Why Canada Could End Up With a Better Deal With the EU Than the UK
As the UK continues to hesitate over drawing back towards the EU, Canada has spotted an opportunity, argues former diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
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How Reform UK’s Crypto Billionaire Donor Christopher Harborne Made Millions From the UK Taxpayer
Have UK taxpayers inadvertently helped fund Nigel Farage’s party?
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Reform UK Could Pocket Nearly £500,000 in Interest if They Are Forced to Return £72 Million Crypto Billionaire Donations
EXCLUSIVE: Electoral Commission confirms interest earned on impermissible gifts can be kept, prompting calls for Nigel Farage to hand any proceeds to charity
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Why Reform UK Could Be Forced to Hand Back Their £72m Donations From Crypto Billionaires
Christopher Harborne and Ben Delo gave a record £36 million each over the weekend to Nigel Farage’s party, but a new law means they may have to take it all back
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Nigel Farage Funder George Cottrell’s Inner Circle Hosted Indicted Cocaine Trafficker
Cottrell’s partner is the sister of two men indicted over an alleged operation involving 5,670 kilograms of cocaine, who are tied to one of the most powerful organised crime groups in the Balkans
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From 9/11 to Southport: The Deadly Blind Spots in Britain’s Counter-Terror System
Suha Kidwai examines why, a quarter-century after 9/11, a system built around extremist ideologies still struggles to confront people fixated on mass violence
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Reform UK Members Dismiss Climate Crisis as ‘Farce’ After Record Summer Heatwaves
Attendees at Nigel Farage’s party conference suggest crisis is manufactured by the Government in order to control the population
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Conservative Peer Hosts Far-Right Activists Alongside US-Funded Anti-Abortion Group
Prominent Neo-Nazis attended the event in Parliament, hosted by an anti-abortion group, in which they called for politicians to “stop importing an invasive foreign serf class”
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Green Party Split Over Iran as Members Push to Oppose IRGC Ban and Sanctions
A conference motion with significant backing urges an end to sanctions on Iran and opposes banning the IRGC – putting party policy on a collision course with its own MPs
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Voter ID Has Damaged Trust in UK Elections, Study Finds
Young people, low-income and trans voters were among the groups hardest hit by the policy imposed by the last Conservative Government, academics found
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Reform UK Donations Overwhelmingly Have Overseas or Tax-Haven Ties
Analysis of the latest Electoral Commission filings shows 87% of the £5.4m in donations newly-declared by Nigel Farage’s party came from donors linked to offshore jurisdictions
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‘Israel’s Shrill Attack on Ed Miliband Exposes Its Weakness’
Alexandra Hall Hall, a former UK diplomat who worked on the Middle East Peace Process in the Foreign Office, argues that Israel’s extreme response to the UK shows it is now losing the argument
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Key UK Nuclear Deterrent Link Destroyed Over Yorkshire
The Ministry of Defence has refused to clarify whether the catastrophic mid-air failure of the Trident relay system was a weather accident or sabotage
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Andy Burnham Insists He Still Backs Electoral Reform After Amendment Blocked
Ministers offer cross-party talks on changing Westminster’s voting system as bid for speedy reform stalls
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The BBC Is Just Nodding Along
The corporation’s news coverage has lost its soul as a bulwark against unaccountable power and extremism, writes a former BBC News producer
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‘Our Anger Over Jason Arday’s Death Is Not Enough’
As Cambridge University launch an inquiry into the case of Professor Arday, led by former Chief Prosecutor Nazir Afzal, Richard Sudan from The Voice argues his death must inspire action, accountability and lasting change
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Reform UK Sting Broadcast by Channel 4 Confirms Years of Byline Times Warnings
The extraordinary footage echoes concerns raised by Byline Times over the sources and beneficiaries of money flowing into Farage’s party.
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Conservative and Reform Bid to Ban ‘Foreign’ Language Election Leaflets Defeated
The Conservative push explicitly criticised Green Party campaigning in the recent Gorton & Denton by-election
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Police Contradict Reform Council Over Claim Town Centres are ‘Unsafe’ Due to Asylum Seekers
Force says Braintree, Colchester and Chelmsford “are safe” and crime is down, as Reform-run county council launches £150,000 private security patrols over asylum seeker arrivals
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Andy Burnham Faces Backlash Over Apparent Retreat From Donations Cap Pledge
Open letter says ‘politics should not be for sale’ as Government resists extending its £100,000 overseas-donor limit to UK voters
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The Dark Money Questions Surrounding Kemi Badenoch’s Net Zero Attacks
Onward, whose report underpinned Claire Coutinho’s speech tearing up the 2050 target, has taken money from National Grid, Equinor, Shell and BP
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UK Sent Top Security Chief to Trump’s Left-Wing Crackdown Summit
The US is turning domestic and global counter-terror systems against political opponents – how is Britain responding?
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Reform’s £645,000 ‘Ghost’ Pollster
Exclusive: Payments to a business with no public footprint and a string of missing invoices are raising fresh questions about Reform UK’s campaign spending
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Raft of Senior Reform Councillors Fail to Declare Interests
Four Reform councillors – including the council’s deputy leader and two serving cabinet members – amended their registers of interests within days of Byline Times querying undeclared firms and shareholdings
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Reform’s First 100 Days in Norfolk: ‘Flag Fights, Resignations, Broken Promises’
A newly-elected Labour councillor charts 100 days of a Reform-run county council – scrapped funds, a resigned chief executive, a lost by-election, and not much sign of the ‘laser focus on value for money’
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Gold Firm That Employs Nigel Farage Predicts Unrest and Violence Under a Reform Government
Exclusive: Promo material for Direct Bullion tells savers a Farage-led government could spark riots not seen since the poll tax – while paying the Reform leader hundreds of thousands of pounds
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‘A Polar Bear on an Iceberg? Here’s This Picture of Catastrophe and You’ve Totally Depoliticised It’
The climate crisis can’t be solved without a commitment to fighting injustice at the same time – Asad Rehman, chief executive of Friends of the Earth, sat down with Byline Times’ Editor in Chief to explain why
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‘Irrational, Ineffective, Dangerous’: French Inquiry Condemns UK Border Policy
£648 million of UK taxpayers’ money sent to France has gone unaccounted for since 2018, with a further £660 million due to be spent by 2029.
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USS Lincoln: ‘The Ships Are Breaking Almost as Fast as the People’
Exhaustion, low morale, ‘starvation’ rations and broken equipment: Brynn Tannehill examines what the 260-day deployment of the USS Abraham Lincoln says about the limits of US power
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Wine, Vapes And ‘Woke Mental Health’ Jibes: Leaked Emails Expose Reform Council Meltdown
Exclusive: Leaked messages from Durham County Council’s Reform administration reveal in-fighting, resignations and a leadership accused of belittling mental health issues
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Is Andy Burnham About to Create a British Constitution?
The Prime Minister has just opened the door to a radical change to how we are governed, writes Anthony Barnett. Will he now walk through it?
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Chairman Farage: How Reform UK Operates as a Democratic Party in Name Only
The party’s founding documents reveal the extraordinary levels of power Nigel Farage wields over Reform UK, making it all but impossible for party members to remove him
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UK Government Sues Conservative-Linked VIP Lane PPE Firm for £90 Million
Documents obtained by Byline Times reveal how a Conservative MP whose office is housed in a building owned by the firm, lobbied officials to push through the deal
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Reform’s Nadhim Zahawi Accused of ‘Fantasy’ After Falsely Claiming Labour-Backer Dale Vince Bankrolled Count Binface
The former Chancellor told ITV viewers that Dale Vince gave Count Binface hundreds of thousands of pounds for his Clacton campaign. Both say this is completely false
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Reform UK Paid £440,000 to Firms Linked to Party Insiders
Exclusive: Electoral Commission filings reveal payments to companies run by Reform activists, donors and a former party chairman
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A Police Report, Legal Threats and a Splinter Party: Inside the Demise of Advance UK
Byline Times reveals the criminal complaint and data protection dispute surrounding the collapse of the rival party to Reform UK
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Nigel Farage Reported to Met Police Over Alleged Misconduct in Public Office
The Reform UK leader’s non-disclosure of a £5 million ‘gift’ from a crypto billionaire could amount to a criminal offence, leading democracy groups allege
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Reform UK Tells Its Activists ‘Don’t Drink and Tweet’ Because ‘The Biggest Threat to Reform Is the People in It’
EXCLUSIVE: “If this was sat on the desk of an anti-Reform journalist, what are they going to do with it?” the leaked internal training course warn its members
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Zack Polanski Promotes Radical Plan to Break Up Britain’s ‘Billionaire Media’
Green leader throws weight behind Media Sovereignty Act campaign to stop press barons “literally buying democracy”
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Did the Trump Administration Have a Role in the Ceuta ‘Migrant Invasion’?
Trump-aligned think tanks have previously advocated using Ceuta to exert pressure on Madrid, reports Simon Nixon
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Reform Council Leader’s Firm Advised £95 Million Project Which His Own Council Is a Partner In
Cllr Paul Mackings’ consultancy has advised on the South Tyneside College relocation since 2021 and his firm gave £111,000 to Reform UK weeks before he stood as a candidate
