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Refugee Week 2023: Where is the ‘Compassion’?
While Suella Braverman claims her approach to asylum is compassionate, Index on Censorship’s Assistant Editor explores how the reality is very different to the rhetoric
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‘Cameron and Osborne’s Claims that Austerity had No Impact on COVID Preparedness is Jaw-Dropping’
Austerity, combined with poor policy decisions, left the NHS in a far weaker position by the time David Oliver was caring for his first Coronavirus patient in March 2020
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Gove Fails to Tackle £100 Billion of Unaudited Local Council Accounts
A parliamentary report confirms Byline Times’ story about the collapse in the auditing of how taxpayers’ money is being spent on public services
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Faulty Connection: When Rishi Sunak Met the Warehouse Workers
A heavily-staged ‘PM Connect’ event did little to dispel impressions that Britain’s PM is deeply out of touch with voters
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Lords Demand Political Parties Launch Tougher Checks on Foreign Donations – But Ministers Set to Block Move
There are fears that foreign powers can use proxies to channel cash into UK political parties
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‘Why Left-Wing Labour Members – Including Politicians Like Me – Feel Stifled By Keir Starmer’s Leadership’
Keir Starmer has closed-off policy-making and refuses to engage with critical voices, writes a Labour peer
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Conservative Party Exempts Selected Media Outlets From Paying To Cover its Conference
The decision to charge journalists to cover the event has been condemned as a threat to media freedom
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Over 200,000 Demand Rishi Sunak Blocks Liz Truss from Appointing Pals to House of Lords and Getting Huge ‘Annual Taxpayer Bung’
Even her former aides are livid at the plans
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Revealed: The Charles Koch Foundation’s Staggering Donations to UK’s Top Universities
New research by Byline Times reveals that billionaire oil magnate Charles Koch – behind hundreds of millions in annual donations promoting climate science disinformation and right-wing causes in the US – has been contributing to academic research in UK institutions
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By-Elections Frenzy: Opposition Gears Up for Potential Conservative Rout – But How Should Tactical Voters Decide?
Both Labour and Lib Dems are tactically channelling resources for the forthcoming by-elections, eyeing Tory-held seats. But there’s no sign of a formal pact
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Rewarding Failure: How Ineffective Private Outsourcing Firms Become the Default Managers of Public Services in the Long-Term
As Byline Times reveals that around half of the Government’s biggest outsourcing partners are failing to hit minimum targets, experts warn that attempts at reform are not enough
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Rewarding Failure: ‘Startling’ Number of Government Outsourcing Firms Not Hitting Minimum Targets
Despite problems in meeting key performance indicators, these companies seem to be managing a significant and growing share of public services
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Government’s Target to Abolish Fossil Fuel Use in All Power Generation by 2035 Not Credible, Report Finds
The Government is expecting taxpayers to pay through their fuel bills for the transition to zero use of fossil fuels but has given no indication of the extra cost
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Russian Roulette: Foreign Interference and how the Conservatives are Gambling with our Elections
Despots and kleptocrats have their eyes trained on British politics – and our laws are doing little to protect us
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Rishi Sunak’s Cowardice over Boris Johnson’s Lies is a Mark of Shame on his Government
The Prime Minister has refused to stand up against his predecessor’s shameful record of dishonesty
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It is in Former Brexit Voters that the Flame of a Truly Impactful Rejoin Movement is Now Being Kindled
Many of the leave voters George Llewelyn met in 2021 were dissatisfied Eurosceptics who are now ardent rejoiners. How did it happen?
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Hundreds of COVID-Related Contract Documents – Worth More Than £7 Billion – Have Still Not Been Published
Despite Government claims, a total of 272 contracts by NHS England and NHS Supply Chain Coordination have not been made public
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Johnson, Harry and the Press: ‘Exposing the Ethical Void’
With a mendacious former Prime Minister now returning to work for the press which enabled his rise, the moral bankruptcy of the media-political class is complete
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The ‘Boris Principle’: How Johnson and his Allies are Rewarded for their Failures
Boris Johnson’s new job at the Daily Mail is the perfect example of how failure is rewarded in British political and media life.
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Rishi Sunak Will Fail Key Pledges on Migrants, National Audit Office Reveals
The official watchdog says both the Prime Minister’s promises – to reduce asylum seekers backlog and stop housing them in hotels – will not be met
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Planning for No Deal Brexit Under Boris Johnson Scuppered UK’s Readiness for a Pandemic, Covid Inquiry Hears
Report exposes delayed pandemic preparation due to government machine having to focus fully on avoiding a crash-out exit from the EU without a deal.
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Boris Johnson’s Privileges Committee Verdict Exposes Rishi Sunak’s Complicity
The Prime Minister is deeply complicit in every part of Boris Johnson’s disgraceful period at the top of British politics
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Workers ‘Will Find a Way’ Around New Conservative Anti-Strike Laws – Including by Pulling ‘Sickies’
Former TUC General Secretary says the “ingenuity of working people” will prevail over anti-union legislation.
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‘Rishi Sunak Continues to Use Johnson’s Brexit-Fuelled Political Racism’
‘Stopping the boats’ and making immigration a key issue is the only strategy the Prime Minister has to keep a core Conservative base come the next election
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‘You Can’t Live’: Apprentices are Paid Just £5.28 an Hour – and They’re Demanding a Raise
Mary Davenport (centre right), a former apprentice forced to drop out due to financial struggles, is speaking up about rock-bottom pay
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Child Abuse Inquiry Participants Say Suella Braverman has ‘Used Them’ and Dashed Their Hopes
Eight years since the landmark independent inquiry began and six months after it delivered its report, there has been no practical response from the Home Secretary
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Council Coffers Crisis Revealed: Auditing of Public Money by Local Authorities Collapses – So How is Taxpayers’ Cash Being Spent?
Serious problems have arisen after the Government abolished the Audit Commission and handed the job to private accountancy firms instead
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An Experiment in Herd Immunity? Missing Data on COVID Deaths in Education
Was the UK trying to use schools to “booster” infections in the early days of the Coronavirus pandemic? Did teachers suffer? There is little data to prove either way
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London Property Agent Accused of Breaking the Law by Charging Deposit Just to Make an Offer
Renters in the capital are encountering controversial practices as the housing crisis worsens, writes our Chief Reporter
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Make or Break Moment for Protest Rights as Lords Set to Vote on ‘Chilling’ Changes
Leading barrister and dozens of organisations raise serious concerns about the “chilling effect” of the Government’s latest attempt to restrict the right to protest
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Double Trouble for IPSO: The Sham Press Regulator is Contending with Two Crises at Once
The very limited authority of the UK press industry’s tame watchdog is under assault from its members, vividly exposing the contradictions in its make-up, writes Brian Cathcart
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Boris Johnson’s Rise and Fall Has Perfectly Exposed Britain’s Broken Political Culture
The disgraced former Prime Minister’s long career at the top of British politics should be a matter of national shame
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Expectation vs Reality: The Hard Hand Dealt Young People in 2023
We could be working 15-hour weeks, enjoying our free time, and living like people of the future. Matt Gallagher asks: Why aren’t we?
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Rogue Drones and Tall Tales
Kate Devlin dispels the sudden Science Fiction panic around superintelligence, and looks at the real threats to employment and the environment from AI and machine learning
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The Volunteer Army: ‘Empty Promises are No Solution to Serious Pressures on Health and Social Care’
Consultant David Oliver laments yet another ‘Policy Zombie’ from the Government
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Anger as Labour Refuses to Back Bid to Stop Government Quietly Changing Definition of Disruptive Protest
The government is preparing to quietly amend the definition of disruptive protest in ‘chilling’ change already rejected by peers
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Boris Johnson’s Career as Uxbridge’s ‘Absentee’ MP Could Soon be Over
As the Privileges Committee concludes whether Boris Johnson was in contempt of Parliament over Partygate, the former PM’s opponents are preparing to oust him from office
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Coronation Controversy Continues: The Met Police Keeps Defending the Erosion of Peaceful Dissent
As the dust settles on the coronation, peaceful protesters need more than hints at a forthcoming apology, writes our Chief Reporter
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Plans for a Mass Tactical Voting Campaign to Defeat an ‘Unholy Alliance’ of Conservatives and Reform UK
The next General Election could be decided by millions of tactical voters turning out to defeat Rishi Sunak’s party
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‘The Telegraph’s Last Hurrah? Laundering a Hard-Right Think Tank’s COVID Lockdown Claims’
As the newspaper is put for sale, a widely-publicised report claiming ‘only’ 1,700 lives were saved by lockdown – which was splashed on its front page – is not what it seems
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Government War on Transparency Threatens COVID Inquiry: What We Learnt from this Week’s Hearing
The Government’s refusal to provide key documents to the inquiry is a blow to the pursuit of truth in the COVID Inquiry – but bereaved families and inquiry chiefs are determined to get answers
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Prince Harry Takes a Stand for Us All: ‘If They’re Supposedly Policing Society, Who On Earth is Policing Them?’
The crisis and corruption in the British press is one of the biggest, ongoing scandals of our time. Byline Times tips its hat to Prince Harry
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Government Fraud Quadruples on Rishi Sunak’s Watch, New Report Reveals
HMRC contributed enormously to the rise in fraud after the then Chancellor approved tens of billions to be spent on pandemic support schemes
