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Press Watchdog Writes to Conservatives and Party Chairs Over ‘Misleading’ Fake Newspapers
The party is “misleading voters into believing what they are reading is the work of local journalists from independent publications”
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‘Sunak’s Failure to Attend the UN General Assembly is a Disrespectful Missed Opportunity’
Britain cannot assume other countries will automatically bend the knee to it based on the country’s past historic greatness, writes former diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
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Britain’s Best Days are Behind Us Under the Conservatives, Say British People
A majority of voters believe “nothing in Britain really works” and say Rishi Sunak’s party has made public services worse, according to an exclusive new poll
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‘Noisy Reporting’ by Media of COVID Financial Scandals led to UK’s Slump in Corruption Index, Cabinet Office Claims
A new parliamentary report reveals that, apart from the £16.4 billion estimated tax and benefit fraud found by the National Audit Office last year, ministers have no idea about the level of fraud in the rest of government
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Dozens of Tory and Labour MPs Can Claim Extra Allowance for Third Child – Despite Backing ‘Cruel’ Two-Child Benefit Cap
422,000 households across the UK are estimated to be affected by the two-child allowance limit – but not Members of Parliament
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Climate ‘Sceptic’ MP Steve Baker in War of Words Over Local Campaign Group Bidding to Unseat Him
The former European Research Group chairman was a prominent Brexiteer but has now turned his attention to anti-Net Zero campaigning.
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‘Yes Gillian, the Tories have done a F**cking Good Job… of Ruining Britain’
Like some effluent King Midas, everything the Conservative Government has touched has turned to crap, writes Otto English
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Only 2% of Fraudulently Claimed COVID Cash from Rishi Sunak’s £22 Billion Pandemic Scheme Recovered by Government
A new parliamentary report details a complete lack of planning in handing out the money to small businesses, pubs, restaurants and some retail premises and clubs
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Johnson Loyalist Baroness Charlotte Owen Nails her Colours to the Mast in First House of Lords Votes
The youngest ever life peer cast four failed votes with the Government before she’s even made her first speech
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Conservative Chaos Hands Ministers More than £1 Million in Severance Payments
The unprecedented churn in senior government positions means some ministers have been given pay-outs worth more than seven times what they received as their salary
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‘Britain and the US: How the Oligarchies Posing as Democracies have Been Exposed’
Something even worse than government run by politicians is government run by politics, writes AC Grayling
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‘Austerity is a False Economy that has Brought the Nation’s Roof Crumbling Down’
The collapsing school buildings scandal has exposed how the Government failed to ‘fix the roof while the sun was shining’
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‘If Our Government Turns on its Own People, We Will Need the ECHR to Protect Us’
The European Court of Human Rights is there to safeguard us against our own worst impulses – calls to leave its jurisdiction are deeply troubling, writes Alexandra Hall Hall
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BBC Under Fire for Segment Suggesting Covid is ‘Less Harmful than the Flu’
“There are a small number of people who believe that Covid is no big deal anymore. That’s wrong,” Doctors in Unite Covid lead Dr Jonathan Fluxman tells Byline Times
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The Links Between the ULEZ Protests, Radical Anti-Vaxxers and the Far Right
The heavily-publicised protests were not quite the grassroots movement the right-wing press made them out to be
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How the Government Failed to Act on the Collapsing School Building Scandal
Ministers’ claims that the school building scandal only emerged ‘over the summer’ is contradicted by evidence of warnings going back years
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Fake Newspapers and Struck Off Firms: The Conservative Candidate to Replace Nadine Dorries MP
The man picked by the Conservative Party to stand in Nadine Dorries’ Mid Bedfordshire seat already has a string of controversies under his belt
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Rishi Sunak’s Government is ‘Institutionally Corrupt’ Say Voters
A majority of voters believe corruption in the UK Government has got worse in recent years, according to our exclusive new poll
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Rishi Sunak Says ‘All Crimes’ Must Be Investigated – So Why is he Blocking Plans to Go After Fraudsters, Cronies and Kleptocrats?
Sunak’s Government is throwing out plans to get dirty money out of the UK
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‘We Need to Confront the Lie That There are ‘Safe Routes’ for Refugees to Come to the UK’
The truth is that Rishi Sunak’s Government is complicit in forcing desperate people to risk their lives in order to seek refuge in this country
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‘The Modern Conservative Party Holds the ‘Will of the People’ in Contempt’
In Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives, the ethos of public service is being replaced by self-service
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Conservative London Mayoral Candidate Susan Hall Backs Fringe Right Wing ‘Restore Trust’ that Challenges Criticism of Empire
The endorsement thrusts her campaign into the centre of a debate about empire in what is a proudly multicultural city
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The Culture War Coming for Your Birth Control
Contraceptive rights has become the new front in the far-right’s attack on women
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Green Party ‘At Risk of Going Bust’ Amid Trans Row Legal Challenge from Former Deputy Leader
The party’s accounts suggest there is “significant doubt” about whether it can continue as a “going concern” due to a series of legal challenges.
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‘The Right-Wing Outrage Over Sadiq Khan’s Supposed ‘Pay Per Mile’ Scheme Stretches the Limits of Hypocrisy’
Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson privately backed the same road-pricing schemes the Conservatives are now attacking the London mayor over.
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‘The Trauma of COVID Opened a Door That Governments and Corporations Can’t Close’
The pandemic has revolutionised how an entire generation see work, education and society
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How Cultural Workers are Striking Back Against Poverty Pay
A new wave of unionisation in the cultural sector is pushing back against a decade of austerity in the sector
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Sunak’s Government Accused of ‘Hiding’ from Damning United Nations Inquiry on Treatment of Disabled People
From the Bedroom Tax to Work Capability Assessments, the Government is accused of systematically failing disabled people
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Fake Newspapers Sent by Political Parties Should be Banned, Voters Say
Two thirds of Conservative voters also want the tactic currently being pushed by Rishi Sunak’s party to be outlawed
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Rishi Sunak’s Many Failures to Fully Declare his Conflicts of Interests
The claim that the PM’s failure to declare his wife’s investment in a childcare company subsidised by his Government was ‘inadvertent’ is open to question
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Favourite to Replace Nadine Dorries Pledges Not to Take Second Job or Presenting Gigs as MP
Lib Dem leader Ed Davey tells Byline Times he backs ‘minimum service’ requirement on Lib Dem MPs after Nadine Dorries fails to speak in Parliament for over a year
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‘Conservative Attempts to Fight a Climate Change ‘Culture War’ Betray Our Planet’
Conservative strategists are prioritising partisan games over the survival of the planet, writes Tom Burke
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Why is Lee Anderson So Close to a Reclaim Party-backing GB News Presenter?
Max Colbert and Josiah Mortimer explore the Conservative Party Deputy Chairman’s links to the hard-right former lad’s mag editor
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Voters are Posting the Conservative Party’s Fake Newspapers Back in Bid to Cost Them a Fortune
There has been a major backlash to the party’s attempts to pass off campaign leaflets as independent local newspapers
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Rishi Sunak’s Summer Holiday Diary
Like millions of ordinary, hard-working, British billionaire families, it can be hard to make it look like you are having to juggle the finances for a summer holiday, Rishi Sunak tells Otto English
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Tufton Street-Linked Trans-Exclusionary Charity Receives Surge in Funding
The LGB Alliance has received a surge in donations amid ongoing calls for it to lose its charitable status
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How the Younger Generation is Being Betrayed on Climate Change
As the climate crisis worsens, our politicians are increasingly giving in to the demands of corporate lobbyists
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Revealed: The Scandal of the Fake Newspapers Pushed by Conservatives in ‘Dirty Tricks’ Campaign
The elections watchdog has said the fake newspapers from local Conservative parties appear to be within the rules
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Vive la Slebolution: Can Fame Save the UK from Infamy?
With politicians moving into TV talk shows and entertainment, can celebrities, sports stars and social media influencers move the other way, and make a difference in politics?
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Behind the Masks: The Controversial Decisions That Left Healthcare Workers Exposed
EXCLUSIVE INVESTIGATION: Some of the same people that noted surgical masks were useless for airborne viruses also made decisions to limit the use of effective respirator masks: a decision that had devastating ramifications when the pandemic struck.
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‘There’s Nothing Patriotic about Anti-Green Extremism’
It is no coincidence that the Government’s backtracking reflects the anti-green rhetoric often involving those who pushed for Brexit
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Conservatives Caught Publishing Fake Newspapers Again, as Party Mimics Defunct Local Outlet
This deception seems to be becoming part of a deliberate strategy by Conservative Party HQ.
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‘As Iran’s Islamic Regime Draws Up Tyrannical New Hijab Plans, Where is the International Outrage?’
If a new ‘Hijab and Chastity Bill’ succeeds with no condemnation from voices abroad, the international community will be culpable, writes Parisa Hashempour
