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‘The Gerry Adams Compensation Row Must Not Overshadow Decades of Trauma Inflicted on Civilians’
The priority for the UK Government is not to seek justice for the innocent civilians murdered, but to protect the state from the consequences, argues Emma De Souza
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‘More Empty Promises on Health and Social Care Let Disabled People Down Again’
Do I really need to keep saying that this is where the personal is the political? writes Penny Pepper
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‘Keir Starmer Must Join a Progressive Alliance for a Fairer Voting System or Get Steamrollered by a Reform-Conservative Pact’
The Labour Government is heading for an electoral reckoning unless it backs a more proportional voting system, argues Neal Lawson
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Joining the EU Single Market Could Be the Gamechanger for Keir Starmer’s Government
Both the UK economy and the new Labour Government needs an urgent shot in the arm. Could this be the solution?
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‘Elon Musk’s Venal ‘Rape Genocide’ Claims About Keir Starmer and Grooming Gangs Are Absurd’
The truth is Starmer made profound improvements to tackling crimes against women and girls while Director of Public Prosecutions, reveals a veteran barrister
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‘I Am Troubled When the BBC Treats This as a Serious Story’
Keir Starmer’s biographer Tom Baldwin on how the national broadcaster has helped to amplify Elon Musk’s lies
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‘Keir Starmer’s Transformational Political Project is Being Grossly Underestimated’
The relentless criticism of the Labour Government from a hostile media is completely at odds with its record and the historical context
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Elon Musk Is the One Bond Villain None of Us Asked For
A sinister far-right oligarch seeking to overthrow western governments from his seat in the White House is a story too strange for fiction
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Kemi Badenoch’s Refusal to Distance Herself From Elon Musk is an Act of Moral Cowardice
The Conservative Party leader’s refusal to criticise the X owner’s dangerous misinformation campaign against the UK should exclude her from ever returning to high office
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2024 In Review: The Year The Tory Story Ended
Russell Jones looks back at how the ‘worst parliament in history’ came to its calamitous conclusion
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‘Fiscal Nimbyism Makes It Far Harder to Fix Public Services’
Fed by an irresponsible media, neither voters nor political leaders are willing to accept the trade-offs inherent in fiscal choices, writes Chris Grey in his monthly column for the Byline Times print edition
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Keir Starmer’s Government Is Stuck in a ‘Right Wing Doom Loop’ That Will Only Help Nigel Farage
The Prime Minister’s acceptance of right-wing economic orthodoxy is pushing his party and the country towards disaster, argues his former adviser Simon Fletcher
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All the Big Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About
You won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks
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If the Government Wants to ‘Get Britain Working’, Why Is It Ignoring All the Learning Disabled People Who Want to Find Jobs?
Less than 5% of people with learning disabilities are employed, while 86% want to be. The Government must think about which Brits it values as being worthy of work
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Keir Starmer’s Plan to Clean Up Political Lobbying Is Even Weaker Than the Conservatives’, Say Corruption Experts
Transparency campaigners slam what they describe as the Prime Minister’s ‘lacklustre’ approach to cleaning up politics
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Starmer’s Plan to Push Long Term Sick Into Work Risks ‘Devastating Deterioration’ of Conditions Costing Even More in the Long Run
The Government’s new plan for welfare has a fundamental flaw at its heart, argues Izzy Wightman
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Sex Workers Fear ‘Disastrous’ Labour Government Plan ‘That Would Put Us Much More at Risk of Violence and Arrest’
Sex workers in the UK speak out after Belgium grants people in the industry employment rights in historic first
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‘Keir Starmer Must Ditch the Politics of Deliverism and Put the People Back in Charge’
The Prime Minister’s new target-driven ‘Plan for Change’ is based on a badly outdated view of how the modern world actually works, argues Neal Lawson
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Elon Musk’s $100m Threat to Bankroll Nigel Farage and Reform Exposes the Gaping Loopholes Endangering UK Democracy
Keir Starmer is being urged to act now to prevent foreign billionaires from exploiting these gaps in our electoral system
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Keir Starmer Rejects Call for ‘Fairer Votes’ Despite MPs Voting in Favour of Proportional Representation
The Prime Minister is blocking reform after the House of Commons voted in favour of a more representative voting system
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Government by ‘Talking Shop’? Hardly – Here’s Just Some of the Major Reforms Keir Starmer Has Introduced So Far
You don’t have to look very hard to see that Starmer’s Government has been far more active than the Daily Mail is telling you
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‘The UK Must Push Ahead with Chagos Islands Deal Before Trump Has the Chance to Overturn It’
The treaty represents a rare victory for international law and the “rules-based order” the UK is meant to stand for
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‘If Reheated Blairism Is Keir Starmer’s Answer to Donald Trump Then He Is Asking the Wrong Questions’
The UK Government is dominated by figures from a discredited past at a time of radical global change, argues Neal Lawson
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‘The UK and EU Must Stand Together to Secure Ourselves Against the Threat from Trump’
Europe must wake up to the growing security threats posed by Russia and the new Trump administration
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Public Demands Starmer Resurrects Leveson Press Corruption Inquiry Amid Collapse in Trust in UK Media
The mother of late TV presenter Caroline Flack calls for Starmer to “find the courage” to restart it as exclusive new YouGov polling finds public wants reform
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The Psycho-Social-Techno Politics of ‘MAGA’ Trumps Democracy – And the Liberal Left Has No Answer
Donald Trump’s second victory in the United States is a warning sign to democracies everywhere of the centrality of emotions – and their manipulation – in the new politics of gross inequality and psychic rebellion fuelled by tech-driven alternative realities, writes Hardeep Matharu
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Privilege and Property: ‘How Reporting on Private School and Farm Taxes Reveals More About Newspaper Owners Than Anything Else’
Hysteria around Labour’s VAT on private schools and inheritance tax on farms are not the existential threats they’ve been made out to be in the press
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Keir Starmer Has Good Policies, He’s Just Not Communicating Them Properly
Rachael Reeves’ budget was disappointing. Not for its content, but the way it was communicated
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Trump’s Victory: ‘The British Left Has Been Warned of a Far-Right Future’
The UK needs a revolution in the way politics and democracy works – starting with proportional representation, writes Neal Lawson
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Why Some Labour MPs Fear a Kemi Badenoch led Conservative Party
The Conservative Party’s new leader has the potential to do a lot of damage, whether or not she wins the next general election
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Rachel Reeves’ Budget is Far from the ‘Radical’ Plan the Conservatives are Claiming
Reeves’ budget only looks radical if you believe the Conservative spin that their own plans were anything other than a cynical scorched earth tactic by a desperate government that knew it was going to lose
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Budget 2024: The Elephant in the Room is that Brexit Has Made Britain a Much Poorer Place
The unspoken truth of Rachel Reeves’ Budget is that leaving the EU has left Britain permanently worse off
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Anger from Green Groups and Transport Campaigners as Rachel Reeves Freezes Fuel Duty While Bus Fares Surge
Maintaining the £3bn tax break for motorists has been a long-term campaign of The Sun newspaper
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The Imaginary Trade Off Between Workers’ Rights and Growth
‘The argument against labour rights is politically flawed, because it ignores the impact of having a large number of workers in insecure and bad jobs’
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Will Labour Restore the BBC to the National Broadcaster We Need It To Be – Or Believe It Can Benefit from a Subservient Corporation Afraid to Hold Power to Account?
Starmer’s Government has an opportunity to reverse years of Conservative attacks on impartiality and independence – our democracy requires it to act beyond narrow party interests, former BBC producer and journalist Patrick Howse writes
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UK Sanctions on Israeli Settlers are ‘Wholly Insufficient’ – the Violence Should be ‘Treated as Terrorism Rather Than Criminality’
The Foreign Secretary David Lammy is being urged to go much further in response to violence by Israeli settlers
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‘Keir Starmer’s Belief that Endless Growth Creates Stability is a Dangerously False Misrepresentation of the Situation we face’
A fixation with economic growth has led humanity to the brink of catastrophe, argues Tom Scott
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How the US Presidential Election may Turn November’s European Political Community Summit Into a Fight Over Ukraine
The summit, which is being hosted by Hungry’s far-right President Viktor Orbán, will take place days after the US goes to the polls.
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Keir Starmer’s First 100 Days in Power: A Report Card
The Prime Minister reached the milestone as his popularity plummets in the aftermath of a freebies scandal and Sue Gray’s resignation. But has it all been bad?
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Claim of a Deal Between The Sun and Starmer Is ‘Conspiracy Theory Created For Clicks’, News UK Insiders Say
‘No such deal was done with Starmer. It simply did not happen’, one of a number of sources told Byline Times
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Major Construction Company Goes Bust Halting Labour Plans for Prisons and Schools
The Ministry of Justice has confirmed that 24 projects in the prison service have been halted, and two schemes involving new courts were affected
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‘Keir Starmer is Playing Right Into his Political Opponents’ Hands’
The Labour leader’s failure to define his own Premiership is allowing his enemies to do it for him
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David Lammy Unleashes On Vladimir Putin in Remarkable UN Speech – Then Takes aim at Russian Ambassador
The Foreign Secretary’s attack on Russian President was in stark contrast to Joe Biden’s final speech at the UN General Assembly on 24 September
