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After the Coronavirus Crisis – What is the Point of the Conservative Party?
Gareth Roberts makes his case that UK’s catastrophic handling of the COVID-19 pandemic should not be blamed on Boris Johnson’s Government alone – but on the entire Conservative Party
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The Rohingya, Uyghurs, Shiites, Ahmedis and the Homosexual: A Warning to British Muslims
Shahmir Sanni explains how the only way Muslims can defeat the far-right who demonise them is by joining forces with the LGTBQ community.
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Parliament’s Standards Committee Demands Apologies from Two Government Trade Ministers
As one minister resigns, David Hencke reports on a rare dual rebuke to two members of Boris Johnson’s Government.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Officials Accuse Britain and US of ‘Hubris’ and ‘Complacent Exceptionalism’ in their Response to COVID-19
A former WHO director blames ideology, years of austerity and the downgrading of public health for the UK’s failures in dealing with the pandemic. The UK and US Governments have suffered from “hubris” in their response to COVID-19 and failed to get a grip on the deadly disease because they believed they were “untouchable”, according…
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When the Political Becomes Personal: A Domestic Row Over COVID-19
Christina Patterson on how the contradictory and unreliable health advice from the UK Government over the Coronavirus crisis is causing tensions at home.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: The Prime Minister Is Not Immune from Scrutiny – Despite what his Cheerleaders Say
With calls being voiced for journalists not to criticise the Government over its handling of the COVID-19 outbreak, Otto English explores why this has never been more essential.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Who is the Government Trying to Fool – Us or Itself?
Dr John Ashton, a former director of public health, explores how the Government has communicated with the public during the COVID-19 outbreak and why the true scale of the crisis is being hidden.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: When Did the NHS Become a Charity?
To celebrate the first week of Yorkshire Bylines, a regional news site developed by YesWeWork using the Byline Times news template, Richard Sadler celebrates the formidable Captain Moore.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: ‘Putting Your Hands Up and Admitting When You Have Got It Wrong is the Only Way to Get It Right’
Dr John Ashton, a former director of public health, provides his take on where the web of deceit being spun at the very heart of Government is going to lead us all.
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Boris Johnson Said ‘Superman’ Brexit Britain would Take Advantage of COVID Pandemic and Go Its Own Way – Seven Weeks Before Lockdown
In new comments unearthed by Byline Times from a speech the Prime Minister delivered in early February, Johnson said COVID-19 would cause “real and unnecessary economic damage” beyond “what is medically rational”.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: We Must Commit Now to a Public Inquiry to Uncover the Truth on COVID-19
Brian Cathcart explains why political parties should back calls in a letter published today in the Financial Times to commit right now to holding a public inquiry into the UK’s response to the Coronavirus pandemic.
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Did Experts Fail to “Speak Truth to Power” Over ‘Targeted Herd Immunity’?
Hardeep Matharu speaks to a NHS consultant about how the politics of inevitability infected the UK Government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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‘A National Scandal’: A Timeline of the UK Government’s Woeful Response to the Coronavirus Crisis
Ian Sinclair and Rupert Read with comprehensive countdown to how Britain came to have one of highest COVID-19 per capita death rates in the world.
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Coronavirus: We Must Resist this Exercise in Hypernormalisation
Hardeep Matharu warns against becoming numb to the constructed reality being created by politicians as the UK gets to grips with the immense human cost of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Does COVID-19 Prove Women Are Best Suited to Lead in a Crisis?
New Zealand and Germany have been commended for their approaches to tackling the Coronavirus pandemic – does the fact that both are led by females hold the key to their success?
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Democracy in the UK – How Worried Should We Be?
Mike Buckley observes how authoritarian takeovers are often led by elected incumbents and finds worrying signs in Boris Johnson’s populist approach.
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Life on the Covid-19 Frontline: Only the Brave
Mark Conrad talks to senior staff about the risks faced by NHS workers tackling the Coronavirus – and precisely why hospitals become virus “hotspots”
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The Coronavirus Crisis: We Must Confront Grave Matters No Matter How Uncomfortable They Are
Dr John Ashton, a former director of public health, explains why it is wise to give thought during the COVID-19 pandemic to those life and death concerns we never usually want to confront.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: A “Distraction” of the Government’s Own Making – Why ‘Herd Immunity’ Won’t Go Away
A concept first discussed publicly by the Government itself, the Health Secretary is trying to put the genie back in the bottle – something which must not be allowed when people’s lives are the cost.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Herd Immunity has Infected UK Policy – But Who Was Patient Zero for this Toxic Transatlantic Idea?
Peter Jukes finds more evidence that the origin of the disastrous concept can be traced back to the Prime Minister’s chief advisor Dominic Cummings and his US links.
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Disaster Capitalism: Conservative Party Donor Cashes in on UK Government-Made PPE Shortages Amidst COVID-19 Crisis
Nafeez Ahmed reports on a new contract with the giant haulage firm whose executive chairman has donated nearly £1 million to the Conservatives.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Can Rishi Sunak Win the Peace, Not Just Fight the War?
Gareth Roberts argues that the Chancellor must not revert to type after the COVID-19 pandemic eases and preside over the continued under-funding of public services.
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‘Behind Closed Doors Johnson and his Cabinet Do Not Applaud the NHS – They Ideologically Oppose It’
From his time working with Brexit and Conservative lobby groups, Shahmir Sanni argues that the people in power in the UK actually despise social services, despite their praise of them during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: More Austerity Doesn’t have to be the Answer to a COVID-19 Recession
Stephen Colegrave on why using austerity to justify the right-wing claim that the ‘cure is worse than the disease’ is so damaging in the fight against the Coronavirus.
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The Year of Living Distantly: The Stuff that Happens Somewhere Else
Christina Patterson explores how she is coming to terms with our terrible new reality – and the snatches of beauty within it.
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COVID-19 SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Part Three – Behavioural Scientists told Government to use ‘Herd Immunity’ to Justify Business-As-Usual
In the third part of his investigation, Nafeez Ahmed reveals how laissez-faire attitudes have hampered a proper response to the Coronavirus pandemic in the UK.
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COVID-19 SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Part Two – Government Documents Reveal Concern for ‘Economic’ and ‘Business’ Impacts Prevented Early Action
Nafeez Ahmed on evidence that Boris Johnson’s Government was more focused on saving money than lives when it came to issues such as school closures.
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COVID-19 SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Part One – The Politicised Science that Nudged the Johnson Government to Safeguard the Economy over British Lives
In the first part of his investigation, Nafeez Ahmed looks at the serious flaws of scientific fatalism and inaccurate modelling.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: ‘Mass Testing is the Vaccine Until there is a Vaccine’ and Could Prevent 70% of Deaths’ say NHS Consultants
Stephen Colegrave reports on why two NHS doctors have written to Boris Johnson with their recommendation that only mass testing can now prevent a significant number of COVID-19 deaths in the UK.
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Can Rishi Sunak’s Budget Satisfy the New Red Wall Conservatives?
Mike Buckley provides an analysis of why he believes the Government’s first budget – and the pressures of the Coronavirus outbreak – will be unable to satisfy its new Red Wall Conservative voters.
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Stalinist and Reductionist: How the UK Government Created the Worst-Case Scenario
John Ashton, the former senior public health director who first questioned the UK Government’s response to COVID-19 on the BBC, finds a ray of hope.
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Herd Immunity – Timeline of a Climb-Down
Stefan Simanowitz recounts how counterclaim and backlash over a flawed Government policy wasted precious days in the UK’s fight against the Coronavirus.
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The Herd Instinct and ‘Herd Immunity’: The Etiology of a Bad Idea
The science didn’t change – the politics did. Peter Jukes follows an inflammatory and disastrous theory as it spread rapidly through the British body politic.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Mistake Over ‘Herd Immunity’ Has Cost Us Vital Time
Mike Buckley sets out the Government’s strategy towards the COVID-19 outbreak so far and explores why its handling of it already raises much bigger questions about the country’s governance – concerns which have been there all along.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: We Are Right to be Concerned About the Government’s Response
Mike Buckley explains how Boris Johnson’s administration has one of the laxest responses to the pandemic compared to other countries and believes it is unnecessarily putting lives at risk.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Why Might the UK Government Care More about Markets than Deaths?
As a former consultant to the Department of Health, Stephen Colegrave explains how premature deaths are under-recorded and demands full transparency over government scientific advice.
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GET COVID DONE
Otto English explores why Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings’ supposed strategy of tackling the Coronavirus through the UK population developing ‘herd immunity’ is so dangerous to us all.
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Government Wasting Billions on Brexit Preparations and Drowning the Nation in Red Tape
The National Audit Office reveals the haemorrhaging of taxpayers’ money and the draining of resources from public services reports Stephen Delahunty.
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Labour Must Win Over England or Accept Never Winning Power Again
Hardeep Matharu explores the findings of a new report suggesting that the Labour Party must go beyond economic and social concerns and engage with people’s feelings about their identity.
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Conservative Party Receives £1.5 Million from Big Polluters in Three Months
New analysis by DeSmog raises more questions about the Prime Minister’s commitment to tackling the climate emergency.
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Boris Johnson’s Rhetoric Can’t Produce the Extra Nurses the NHS Desperately Needs
A new report by the National Audit Office reveals there were 43,000 vacancies for nurses at the end of last September. What is the Prime Minister’s plan to fill these and how will his new points-based immigration system help?
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Life in the Farage Lane
Gawain Towler spills the beans on the fast and furious task of being Nigel Farage’s right-hand man, an era which seems to have drawn to a close with the end of the Brexit Party.
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Fowl Play: How US Chicken Imports will Pollute Britain’s Poor
Since joining the EU British food has gone from bog-awful to top-notch, but Otto English reveals how a US Trade deal will unravel 40 years of progress.
