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Keir Starmer’s EU Reset Deal Is the First Crack in the Brexit Wall Holding Britain Back
This agreement marks the beginning of the end of the suffocating Brexit consensus that has gripped British politics for a decade, argues Adam Bienkov
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‘MPs Need to Listen to the Scientists, Not the Oligarchs’ — Scientists Sound the Climate Alarm at Westminster
Chris Packham was joined by more than 150 scientists in a demonstration urging Westminster to start listening to the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change
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‘Why the Critics of University Expansion May Have Had a Point’
Opening up higher education to half the country hasn’t been quite the progressive boon we were promised, argues Neal Lawson
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Why the Home Office’s ‘AI Asylum Success Story’ Was Anything But
The Home Office briefed the media that their AI tool would save officials 44 years of working time. What they didn’t mention was all the mistakes that it made
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‘Keir Starmer’s Painful Immigration Speech Is a Direct Affront to the Diagnosis He Was Voted in On’
The PM’s white paper was not the ‘evidence-led’ policymaking he promised, rather it was ‘cheap, short-termist, headline politics’, writes Mathilda Mallinson
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‘Keir Starmer’s Government Is Now Even More Anti-Migrant Than Its Conservative Predecessors’
Hopes that Labour would abandon the Conservative trend of treating incomers as disposable and lesser beings have been dashed, argues Daniel Sohege
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Labour Minister Defends RAF Gaza Surveillance Flights Amid Growing Scrutiny of UK-Israel Relationship
Defence Minister Maria Eagle spoke at a private Israel Independence Day meeting and said the UK would continue to back the country
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Keir Starmer’s Reform-Lite Strategy Has Left Him Marooned on an Island of Strangers
New polling finds a collapse in support for the Prime Minister among Labour voters, as he pursues a strategy that is also failing to win over supporters of Reform, reports Adam Bienkov
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‘Keir Starmer’s Attempt to Out-Farage Reform on Migration Will Only End Badly’
The Prime Minister’s ‘unutterably depressing’ decision to follow Nigel Farage into the gutter of inflammatory anti-migrant rhetoric is a terrible error, argues former UK diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
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The UK Has Failed to Prosecute ISIS Fighters for Genocide After Allowing Hundreds to Return to Britain
Successive UK Governments have refused to pursue prosecutions against those suspected of war crimes abroad
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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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‘As Trump Wrecks the Global Order, Big Business Must Decide Which Side It’s On’
Where are the voices defending the huge benefits that globalisation has brought to the world, asks Matthew Gwyther
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Corporations Could Sue the Government Under India Deal, Campaigners Warn
Campaigners warn that it risks creating a system of “corporate courts”
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Green Party Deputy Leader Zack Polanski Says UK Must Leave NATO Because of Trump
The frontrunner to become the next leader of the Green Party of England and Wales tells Byline Times the UK must now form new alliances for “peace” instead
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‘The Cold Electoral Cynicism Behind Keir Starmer’s Blue Labour Strategy’
The Prime Minister’s advisers believe that when push comes to shove most progressive voters will have no real choice but to vote Labour, and they may be right, argues Neal Lawson
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Controversial Spy-Tech Firm’s Inclusion at NHS Confederation Expo Leads to Speaker Pulling Out
An internal NHS Confederation email acknowledged that ‘many colleagues will have concerns’ about Palantir’s inclusion
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‘Why Tony Blair’s Intervention on Net Zero Is the Most Irrational Contribution to Climate Discourse in Some Time’
There can be no “third way” to tackling the existential threat of man made climate change, argues Russell Warfield
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No10 Refuses to Release Keir Starmer WhatsApp Information Despite Labour Transparency Pledge
Starmer had pledged to end the “outrageous way government departments refuse freedom of information requests”.
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Local Elections: ‘Keir Starmer’s Rightward Shift Is Laying the Ground for Nigel Farage’
Labour’s embrace of economic and political orthodoxy is forcing voters to look elsewhere for change, argues Keir Starmer’s former adviser Simon Fletcher
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Nigel Farage Is Killing the Conservative Party and Starmer Must Change Course to Avoid the Same Fate
Telling voters that the Reform leader is right, but they shouldn’t vote for him anyway, is no more likely to work for Labour than it has for the Conservatives, argues Adam Bienkov
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Keir Starmer’s Benefit Cuts Cast Doubt on His Pledge to End Homelessness
“If you take money away from people who haven’t got very much, you’ll get more homelessness,” warn campaigners
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Reform UK Facebook Groups Are Full of Racist Far Right Posts and Islamophobic Conspiracy Theories
Groups set up by Reform UK officials contain posts calling for Muslims to be lynched and suggestions that Jewish people are trying to “dilute out country with foreign invaders”
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Labour’s Pledge to Recruit New Teachers Not Enough to Prevent ‘Serious Shortage’
Despite the new Government giving teachers a 5.5% pay rise last year – pay is still one of the key reasons for recruitment failures, the Department for Education said
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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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‘Peter Mandelson’s Fixing of Keir Starmer’s Visit to Spytech Firm Palantir Raises Serious Questions’
Palantir was represented by a lobbying firm founded by Mandelson, Iain Overton and Max Colbert report
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‘Keir Starmer’s Weaponisation of Foreign National Crime Statistics Risks Stoking Violence and Empowering the Far Right’
Ranking crimes by nationality risks stoking a repeat of last summer’s racist riots, argues Minnie Rahman, who urges ministers to focus on fairness and rehabilitation instead
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‘Total Information Collapse’ and the Tribunal of Truth
Peter Jukes, Co-Founder and Executive Editor of Byline Times, on the urgent need for media accuracy and why joining Impress, the independent press regulator, is the best way for us to uphold those values
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‘We Are Witnessing the Slow Death of Two Party Politics’
UK politics is approaching a tipping point where the failing duopoly that has governed Britain for many decades finally comes to an end, argues Neal Lawson
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How the British Media Laundered a Far Right Conspiracist’s Reputation
Parts of the British media have expressed outrage after Renaud Camus, who originated the far-right ‘Great Replacement’ conspiracy theory was banned from entering the UK
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‘The Media Is Silent About Female Asylum Seekers – Yet Fixated About Men Arriving in the UK’
There’s a reason news outlets never focus on the many women seeking refuge in the UK, argue Mathilda Mallinson and Helena Wadia
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‘Disability, Illness and Impairment are the Norms of Human History – Living Through This Labour Government’s Benefits Cuts Is Brutal’
Cutting disability benefits will do nothing but heighten the scapegoating of disabled people once again – how can a Labour Government introduce such a punitive measure? Penny Pepper asks
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‘What Is the Point of Labour Winning the Next General Election if It Governs as Reform-Lite?’
The political strategy being pursued by Keir Starmer and his advisers means that whichever party comes first in 2029, Nigel Farage wins, argues Neal Lawson
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‘The Free Speech Debate Has a Lot to Do With Race – But the Media Won’t Tell You That’
The ‘sheer hypocrisy’ of the UK’s right-wing media in celebrating Trump’s ‘free speech ultimatum’
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Matt Hancock Intervened to Help Conservative Donor’s Pizza Firm Land Lucrative Covid PPE Contract
Two days before winning the contract, the company, which had no previous experience of supplying medical equipment, removed ‘pizza’ from its name
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‘The Culture War is Dead: Long Live the Culture War’
Julian Petley explains why the University of Sussex ‘freedom of expression’ case is so concerning
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Keir Starmer Urged to Seize a ‘Once in a Generation’ Opportunity for Real House of Lords Reform
The Prime Minister previously watered down his commitment to “abolish” Parliament’s unelected second chamber
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Woman Arrested in Fraud Investigation Linked to £25m ‘VIP’ Covid PPE Deal Referred by Conservative Minister
The director of the company awarded a multimillion pound Government contract was arrested on suspicion of fraud, conspiracy to cheat the public revenue and fraudulent evasion of income tax
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The Dead End of Keir Starmer’s ‘British Cars for British Workers’ Trump Cosplay
The Prime Minister’s attempts to embrace Trump-style rhetoric, while rejecting everything that rhetoric implies, risks making him look ridiculous, argues Adam Bienkov
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‘The Anti-Democratic Tyranny of the Office For Budget Responsibility’
A decades-long trend of outsourcing democratic decisions to unaccountable institutions like the OBR is leading Britain towards ruin, argues Neal Lawson
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‘A Trump Trade Deal Would Open the UK’s Doors to the Big Tech Robber Barons’
The only deal the US President and his oligarch beneficiaries are interested in is one that would allow them to feast on our public services and consumer rights, argues Nick Dearden
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Matt Hancock Used His Personal Email Account to Help ‘VIP’ Supplier Win £25 Million COVID PPE Contract
Excalibur Healthcare, which supplied the UK Government with tens of millions of pounds worth of unusable PPE, ultimately folded owing taxpayers £22 million
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Russian Interference: Some Good News for Once – Journalism Can Make a Difference
The Labour Government has finally been true to its word on a ‘foreign agents registration’ scheme, six years on from Byline Times campaigning for it
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‘Elbows Up, Britain’: Canada’s Boycott of American Goods Spreads to the UK
How British voters could hold the cards when it comes to resisting President Trump’s global trade war
