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The Russia Conundrum: Can a Critic of Putin be Inadvertently Serving his Interests?
Boris Johnson’s friend Aleksandr Temerko is one of a number of wealthy London-based Russians who, while opposing Vladimir Putin, are linked to organisations that are potentially useful to the Kremlin dictator.
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7 Reasons to Vote Tactically Not Tribally
Actor Hugh Grant sets out why today’s General Election may be the last chance to save Britain from the lies engulfing it.
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Make Britain Great Again: How Johnson Wants to Turn Britain into a South American State
Stephen Colegrave looks at how Boris Johnson’s determination to make Brexit a success is in danger of increasing inequality and social problems in Britain on a scale not seen before.
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This General Election Exposes how our Nation was Failed
On the eve of the most important election in a generation, Otto English asks: will Britain – failed by so much – survive the coming trauma?
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General Election 2019: What to Look Out for on the Night
David Hencke’s guide to the seats to keep an eye on and a few surprises that may be on the way.
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This General Election is about our Identity as a Nation – Do Voters Know what’s at Stake?
One of the tragedies of the 2019 General Election campaign is that the fundamental decision about the type of country we will become has not been made clear to voters
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The Re-Emergence of English Nationalism Defines Brexit
Film-maker Sheridan Flynn explores English identity through an Irish lens and what Britain can learn from Ireland about how the divisions of Brexit can ever be healed.
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Trolls, Sock Puppets and Useful Idiots: An Anatomy of an Election Disinformation Campaign
Peter Jukes dissects how ‘No 10 sources’, mainstream broadcast journalists and an army of hired online activists tried to save Boris Johnson from himself.
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Friday 13th: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
Paul Niland explores the lurking horror of a Johnson majority government for British jobs, the economy and the other pitfalls of his murky Brexit plans.
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How Politicians Talk To You: Oven-Ready Rhetoric during the General Election
Luke Murphy dissects the slogans of the General Election 2019 and what they reveal about class, empire, royalty and racism in Britain today.
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The Perplexing Predictable Attraction of the Lies, Damn Lies, of the Conservatives
James Melville sets out the state the Conservatives have left Britain in after nine years in power – and wonders why people are still willing to give them their vote.
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Johnson’s Brexit Deal is Getting No Scrutiny – But it is the Most Damaging Proposal Ever Put to Voters
The Conservatives’ withdrawal agreement is a ticking time bomb under our economy, rights and public services – why aren’t opposition parties or the media highlighting this to the electorate?
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The Future of Journalism is at the Heart of this General Election
Brian Cathcart, Professor of Journalism at Kingston University, argues that the cosy relationship between Boris Johnson and most of the press means there will be no check on his power if he is elected with a majority.
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Conservative Party Media Tactics: Playing the ‘Tommy Robinson’ Victimhood Card
With Michael Gove turning up at Channel 4, and threats being issued to defund the public service broadcaster, is his party trying to be Stephen Yaxley-Lennon or Vladimir Putin?
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Johnson Moonlights for £800k, Corbyn Just Does the Job
New analysis shows that, despite his populist announcements, the Prime Minister was the highest earning MP during the last Parliament.
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Siding with Boris Johnson will Never Give the Working Class Access to his Power
Aimee Pearcy asks: why are ordinary working families willing to vote for policies that will hurt them?
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Institutional Racism has become a Key Election Issue
Isobel Ingham-Barrow on how Islamophobia in the Conservative Party needs root and branch investigation.
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The Humanity of the London Bridge Victims is the Real Fight Against Terror
Hardeep Matharu mourns the death of two young reformers and the horrific exploitation of their legacies by Boris Johnson and the tabloid press.
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Reasons to be (Cautiously) Cheerful
Otto English raises a glass half full – to a future of hope after the years of chaos which may follow next month’s General Election.
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Climate Deniers and Big Polluters are Backing Boris Johnson and the Tories for a Reason
New analysis by DeSmog reveals the Prime Minister as the Conservative MP who has received the most donations from individuals and companies actively lobbying against action on climate change.
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John Sweeney: ‘BBC hasn’t Told Truth to Power and Tony Hall Should Resign’
Veteran investigative journalist joins a growing chorus of criticism of the public service broadcaster.
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40% of the Cabinet: Shocking Levels of Islamophobia Found in the Conservative Party
Stephen Colegrave on a new report into the prevalence of anti-Muslim statements throughout all levels of Boris Johnson’s party.
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Labour’s Policies could Transform Britain after Years of Austerity – it Now Needs to Convince the Public it Can Pull it Off
The director of Labour for a Public Vote on why Labour is the only party to have correctly identified that next month’s General Election is about much more than Brexit.
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‘Cultural Apartheid’: How Boris Johnson has Maligned Muslims for Years
With Islamophobia rife in the Conservative Party, and its leader mocking Muslim women as ‘letterboxes’ and ‘bank robbers’ Alex Tiffin looks back on Johnson’s history of prejudice.
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Boris Johnson’s Selfish Lies on Russian Interference Put our Entire Democratic System at Risk
Retiring Labour MP and Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee member Ian Lucas urges the Prime Minister to take the threat posed by Putin’s Russia seriously – and put the UK before his own personal interests.
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Could the Muslim Vote Stop Boris Johnson in his Tracks?
Stephen Colegrave looks at the importance of the Muslim vote in the 2019 General Election and why it is so anti-Conservative.
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Far Right Influence: Why ‘Tommy Robinson’ Endorsing Boris Johnson is Not as Surprising as You Think
As the English Defence League founder backs the Prime Minister and Nigel Farage, his former producer, Caolan Robertson, exposes the covert encouragement ‘Tommy Robinson’ received from Conservatives.
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Who will Win the Battle over Economic Orthodoxy?
Iwan Doherty considers the competing economic approaches of the Conservative and Labour parties in the 2019 General Election.
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Remainers Need to Start Attacking Boris Johnson’s Brexit Deal Before it’s Too Late
The director of Labour for a Public Vote asks: why are none of the opposition parties using the Prime Minister’s Brexit deal to their advantage?
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Beyond the Law: Tory Dystopian Propaganda Scam Goes Unpunished
The Conservative Party deceived in plain sight when it changed its press office Twitter account name during last night’s Leader’s Debate to “factcheckUK”. Voters must remain vigilant to all attempts to mislead.
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Corruption and Kompromat: Putin’s New World Order
Paul Niland, founder of Lifeline Ukraine, unpicks what Boris Johnson and Donald Trump might be looking to hide – and how this fits within Vladimir Putin’s broader vision to takeover the West.
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Why Voting for the Tories is Political Stockholm Syndrome
James Melville argues that the appeal of the Conservative Party to the UK electorate is the greatest British political tragedy of the modern era.
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What does Boris Johnson’s ‘Faustian Pact’ with Farage Really Mean?
The director of Labour for a Public Vote explains why he thinks next month’s General Election is still wide open, despite Nigel Farage’s apparent altruism towards Boris Johnson’s Tories.
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Russian Influence Part I: What Johnson Doesn’t Want You to Know
With the British Prime Minister personally intervening to suppress a parliamentary report into Vladimir Putin’s ‘active measures’ in UK politics, Peter Jukes reveals what Boris Johnson wants to hide.
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Boris Johnson’s Brexit Withdrawal Bill ‘Power Grabs’ Torpedoed by House of Lords Peers
The Lords’ Constitution Committee rushed out a report on the last day of Parliament to provide the only clause-by-clause scrutiny of the Prime Minister’s EU withdrawal legislation.
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How the Daily Mail’s ‘Hate Crime Hoax’ is Gaslighting the Nation for Boris Johnson
Zeeshan Ali debunks attempts to deny the rise in racist attacks in the UK as an attempt to legitimise Boris Johnson’s Islamophobic remarks.
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THE BOX SET: Byline Times on Boris Johnson
From jacuzzi justice to toxic masculinity, dodgy think tanks to Russian oligarchs and hedge fund backers, Trump, Steve Bannon, Dominic Cummings and Farage: here’s all you need to know about our Prime Minister.
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Fighting Division and Disinformation – from Outside the Westminster Media Bubble
After 18 years, and with an important role in Parliament’s landmark fake news inquiry, a veteran Labour MP diagnoses the real echo chamber in politics.
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The March of the Oligarchs: 1979 to 2019
Peter Jukes with the historical background to a new Byline Times series on a global phenomenon that best explains Boris Johnson and Donald Trump.
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Christmas is Coming with the Unholy Trinity in Power
The dark arts channelled by Johnson, Gove and Cummings are still infiltrating our politics – but we can change this if we act quickly
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Johnson, Gove, Cummings: The Trio Behind a Law-Breaking Campaign Obstructing Further Investigation – What are they Hiding?
MP Ian Lucas asks why Boris Johnson and his team will not appear before Parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee to answer his important questions about electoral law.
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Spooking the Spooks: Media Complicity and Security Concerns over Lebedev and Johnson
Otto English looks at the relationship between the son of a KGB spy and the Prime Minister and how it raises troubling questions about the closeness between media owners and politicians.
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Government Found Out Over £100 Million Advertising Campaign – But Is the Truth Even Murkier?
Former Saatchi & Saatchi marketing director, Stephen Colegrave, continues to dig into how political advertising has gone rogue.
