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Odeon of Death Review of the Week: The Long Good Friday Agreement
The Odeon of Death takes a look at the week’s events through the medium of cinema.
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Watch Out Boris Johnson, the Chickens are Coming Home to Roost
Otto English on why the realities of high office are dawning on our new Prime Minister.
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Behind Boris Johnson’s Rhetoric of Home Ownership, His Government Promises a Far Crueller Society
Tom Cordell on how the new Government’s plans to increase home ownership will only result in housing inequality rising further in the UK.
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Regeneration Will Only Come by Accepting Our Grief Over a Broken Britain
The first step towards rebuilding our country is to acknowledge the profoundness of the damage symbolised by Boris Johnson’s rise to power.
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‘The Great Hack’: The Fightback Begins in the Brexit-Trump Culture Wars
Sheridan Flynn on the new Netflix documentary following Carole Cadwalladr’s ongoing mission for the truth about how our data is being weaponised to change the world.
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Brexit Britain’s Love Affair with its Navy is Rooted in a Foolish and Costly Obsession with the Past
How Brexiteers’ obsession with the sea and Boris Johnson’s promise of more money for ship-building represents a yearning for the days of Empire.
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Fear and Loathing in Whitehall
Will a cleansing anti-cyclone come and blow the oppressive suspicions and rumours away and re-establish the primacy of public service in the interests of the nation rather than party, and the principle that no one is above the rule of law?
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Cummings, Elliott, Westley – Boris Johnson’s Game of Russian Roulette
Otto English on how the new prime minister’s appointment of the toxic trio Dominic Cummings, Matthew Elliott and Chloe Westley is a massive hostage to fortune.
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Empty Promises: Boris Johnson’s 20,000 New Police Officers won’t Provide a Solution to Britain’s Creaking Justice System
North West England’s former Chief Prosecutor, Nazir Afzal, on why the new Prime Minister does not have a coherent crime and justice strategy – despite his ‘law and order’ rhetoric.
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Thousands of British Citizens Living in EU would have to Re-take Driving Tests in ‘No Deal’ Brexit Chaos, says Government
New guidance published by the Department for Transport reveals the upheaval a ‘no deal’ Brexit will cause for those looking to drive in EU countries.
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THE JUSTICE TRAP: How the Cash-Strapped Miscarriages of Justice Watchdog is No Longer Independent or Doing Its Job
Jon Robins explores the state of the Criminal Cases Review Commission and the dwindling number of potential miscarriages of justice being referred to the Court of Appeal.
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Enter the Emperor: Why Boris Johnson is our Caligula
With his love of himself, vanity projects and grand pronouncements, Otto English on why Britain’s new Prime Minister shares more than a few similarities with the Roman Emperor who proved too good to be true.
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Weaponising News: With a Disgraced Journalist in Number 10, the Fourth Estate is now the Fifth Battlespace
Peter Jukes looks back over three years of information warfare around the election of Donald Trump and the Brexit referendum and asks: how do we distinguish real journalism from disinformation?
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Ignore the Squealing Landlords, Rent Control offers the Chance of a Better Society
Tom Cordell on why the Mayor of London’s plans to control private rents in the capital could be the revolution required to break through the housing crisis.
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While Austerity is Intellectually Dead, it is Far from Over in Reality
Jonathan Portes on why ideology, short-termism and a relentless focus on Brexit has resulted in economic hardship continuing in the UK long after the Coalition Government.
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HMRC Staff Diverted to Brexit Work has Boosted Tax Credit Error and Fraud, Report Finds
£1.46 billion has been paid out in tax credits erroneously as civil servants are tasked with dealing with Brexit matters, according to the National Audit Office.
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‘We’ve Been Misled’ – Brexit Party MP Hopefuls Left Out in the Cold
Otto English continues his investigation into how Nigel Farage’s party is recruiting potential MPs – who have to pay a non-refundable £100 upfront…
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Darkness Descends: Government Suppressing People’s Right to Know
Iain Overton explains how the Freedom of Information Act used to be a useful tool for journalists to hold power to account. No longer.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg and the Brexiters’ Persistent Myths of Empire
Britain has not really faced up to losing an empire and the unresolved cost is playing out through the traumas of Brexit.
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Boom in Car Tax Evasion as Tax Discs Disappear
Half a million cars avoiding tax is leading to over a hundred million pounds of lost revenue reports David Hencke. The abolition of the need for every car and van in the UK to display a car tax disc has led to the tripling of the number of untaxed cars and soaring prosecutions and fines…
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Councils Monetising Housing to Pay for Public Services in an Age of Austerity
Tom Cordell continues his series on the housing crisis by looking at plans in Lambeth, south London, to use land assets to plug the gap in Government funding for local services.
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Katie Hopkins on White Minorities and the Great Replacement Theory
Footage reveals the British commentator, promoted by Donald Trump, promulgating the conspiracy theory of Muslim immigration that inspired the Christchurch terror attack.
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We Must Fight this Dangerous Attack on Our Civil Service
Dr Jennifer Cassidy on why Kim Darroch’s resignation after leaked emails revealed his criticisms of Donald Trump’s administration are such a blow for the rule of law.
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‘My Three-Year Battle with the DWP Over PIP: I Just Didn’t Want to Go On’
‘My Three-Year Battle with the DWP Over PIP: I Just Didn’t Want to Go On’
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Is Nigel Farage Fit to be the Next US Ambassador?
With the Brexit Party leader mooted to take up the position of our Man in Washington, Byline Times has some important security and background checks for him.
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Who are the 112 Brexit Party MP Candidates? It’s Anyone’s Guess
Otto English on his attempts to discover who Nigel Farage’s parliamentary candidates – announced by the Brexit Party leader last month but never formally identified – actually are.
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A Fresh ‘Failing Grayling’ Ferry Fiasco?
A report by the Public Accounts Committee reveals that time is running out for the Transport Secretary to re-order contracts to bring in supplies if the Hallowe’en Brexit deadline is met.
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How the Shooting Down of a Malaysian Jet Reveals Corbyn’s Putin Problem
Paul Canning reveals the Labour Leadership’s alarming tendency to mitigate the crimes of the Kremlin.
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Civil Servants Enjoy Bumper Bonuses while Government Watchdog Slams ‘Errors’ which Punish the Poorest
Both overpayments and underpayments by the Department of Work and Pensions have soared to unprecedented levels according to the National Audit Office
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The Myths of Immigration Just Don’t Add Up
Jonathan Portes, Professor of economics and public policy at King’s College London, on why the UK has long been a country shaped by immigration and immigrants – and how the reality of this is not as bad as the rhetoric portrays.
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How Can Our Rage Over Alabama’s Abortion Ban Achieve Justice for Northern Ireland?
Molly Greeves on why Alabama’s abortion ban should jolt those in the UK into action to secure rights to the procedure in Northern Ireland.
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Brexit and Empire: Nostalgia for a Nation that Never Was is Driving Britain over a Cliff
With the likely next Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, praising Britain today as the ‘Greatest Place on Earth’ all the unlearned lessons of Empire are coming back to haunt us.
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Brexit Party Parliamentary Candidates: Another Money-Making Scheme?
After an Electoral Commission investigation into Brexit Party PayPal donations, Otto English has questions about their recruitment of MPs.
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Why do the British Not Eat Horsemeat? How Icons of the British Countryside have been Weaponised by the Brexit Establishment
Iain Overton on where power has always resided in Britain – and why the horse is its ultimate symbol.
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BREXIT: “The Greatest Electoral Heist in History” – How to Safeguard Our Democracy
Kyle Taylor of the Fair Vote campaign says the war of words between Scotland Yard and the Electoral Commission over electoral law breaking proves Britain needs urgent legislation.
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The Clock is Ticking on Boris and Brexit, but Still No Headway on Confronting Electoral Wrongdoing
Even though they’re crucial to the security of future elections, the British institutions supposed to be safeguarding democracy are playing the game of passing the buck.
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Campaigners for British Ex-Pats Condemn Boris Johnson’s “Do-or-Die” Brexit Threat
Alex Varley-Winter reports on how British Citizens resident in the EU are left in a ‘void’ by UK politicians about the risk of being made ‘illegals’.
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Defeating Democracy with its Own Weapons – A Warning from History
Otto English on why the Brexit Party MEPs’ decision to turn their backs on the EU’s anthem is more worrying than just being a mere stunt.
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UK DETENTION CAMPS: Home Office Exposes Trafficked Children to Abuse
With US ‘migrant detention centres being compared to concentration camps, Alex Varley winter reports on how Britain has its own problem with non-criminal prisons.
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A Department in Disarray: The Secret Memos Revealing the Truth Behind the ‘Back to 60’ Pensions Scandal
Documents from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) tell a tale of a ministry not fit to handle informing millions of women born in the 1950s that they would lose their pensions and complacent politicians unwilling to take action.
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WORD OF THE WEEK: Bloviate
(v.) to talk boastfully or pompously; to talk without actually saying anything meaningful
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The One Thing Theresa May could do to Leave her Mark on History
Otto English on how a Prime Minister who will be remembered only for Brexit still has a chance to guarantee her place in posterity for something else.
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The Media Got Us Into this Mess – Can it Get Us Out?
This week Boris Johnson told us: “I paint the passengers enjoying themselves on a wonderful bus” – a useful ‘dead cat’ from the big question marks hanging over his plan for Britain and his competency in leading it.
