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Wales Offered Stark Choice Between ‘Reform-Led Government or Plaid Cymru’ – as Labour’s 26-year Rule Starts to Crumble
Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth says Nigel Farage’s party could ‘undo Wales’s fledgling democracy’ as polling shows dramatic shift away from Labour
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Nigel Farage’s ‘£7 Billion DEI Savings’ Don’t Actually Exist
The media is widely reporting Reform UK’s claims they could save billions by cutting equality schemes. The real figure appears to be around 250 times smaller, reports Josiah Mortimer
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‘How the Media is Cashing in on the Rise of Nigel Farage’
News organisations are failing the country at the moment when responsible independent journalism is most needed, argues Mathilda Mallinson
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‘Seven Reasons the Left Keeps on Losing’
Progressives need to learn these lessons from the national populists in order to defeat them, argues Neal Lawson
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Government Urged to Adopt Automatic Voter Registration to Fix ‘Woefully Inefficient and Outdated System’
Campaigners believe ‘millions more could be enfranchised with no additional burden on individuals or extra cost’
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Failing Celebrity-Run Care Home for Girls Permanently Shut to Keep Children Safe
Court upholds Ofsted’s decision to close AP Care Homes with judge scathing about owner Ampika Pickston’s professional conduct exposed during an 18-month Byline Times investigation into the crisis-hit facility
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How Our Politicians Created an ‘Island of Strangers’ So They Don’t Have to Make Our Lives Any Better
By presenting tougher immigration as a solution to people’s discontent, Keir Starmer and others sidestep the real reasons why people feel estranged in their lives – it’s a cynical and simplistic political ruse that keeps everyone alienated, writes Hardeep Matharu
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Government Accused of ‘Facilitating Genocide’ in Gaza Over Shipment of Fighter Jet Parts to Israel
The Government were taken to court in a bid to block the supply of parts campaigners believe may be used to commit war crimes in Gaza
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‘The Case for Climate Popularism in the Green Party’
The future of UK politics is a fight between the Greens and Reform and its clear which Green candidates are the best placed to lead that battle, argues Rupert Read
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‘The Draconian Anti-Protest Laws That Are the Real Threat to Free Speech in the UK’
A new report calls on the Government to ‘look again’ at repealing laws passed under the last Conservative Government
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‘Google’s Illegal Monopoly and How US Court Decision Comes at a Critical Time for UK and EU Policymakers’
A landmark antitrust decision against Google in the US will have profound iImplications for the digital economy in the UK and beyond, writes Stephen Kinsella and Tim Cowen
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How Wales Became the Target of a Right Wing Culture War
Rachel Morris on the politicians and media organisations now cynically trying to exploit Wales for their own political gain
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‘Keir Starmer’s EU Deal Is Far Better Than the Media Is Telling You’
Much more needs to be done to repair the damage of Brexit, but this is a welcome step in the right direction, argues the Director of the Independent Commission on UK-EU Relations
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Keir Starmer’s EU Reset Deal Is the First Crack in the Brexit Wall Holding Britain Back
This agreement marks the beginning of the end of the suffocating Brexit consensus that has gripped British politics for a decade, argues Adam Bienkov
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‘MPs Need to Listen to the Scientists, Not the Oligarchs’ — Scientists Sound the Climate Alarm at Westminster
Chris Packham was joined by more than 150 scientists in a demonstration urging Westminster to start listening to the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change
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‘Why the Critics of University Expansion May Have Had a Point’
Opening up higher education to half the country hasn’t been quite the progressive boon we were promised, argues Neal Lawson
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Why the Home Office’s ‘AI Asylum Success Story’ Was Anything But
The Home Office briefed the media that their AI tool would save officials 44 years of working time. What they didn’t mention was all the mistakes that it made
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‘Keir Starmer’s Painful Immigration Speech Is a Direct Affront to the Diagnosis He Was Voted in On’
The PM’s white paper was not the ‘evidence-led’ policymaking he promised, rather it was ‘cheap, short-termist, headline politics’, writes Mathilda Mallinson
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‘Keir Starmer’s Government Is Now Even More Anti-Migrant Than Its Conservative Predecessors’
Hopes that Labour would abandon the Conservative trend of treating incomers as disposable and lesser beings have been dashed, argues Daniel Sohege
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Labour Minister Defends RAF Gaza Surveillance Flights Amid Growing Scrutiny of UK-Israel Relationship
Defence Minister Maria Eagle spoke at a private Israel Independence Day meeting and said the UK would continue to back the country
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Keir Starmer’s Reform-Lite Strategy Has Left Him Marooned on an Island of Strangers
New polling finds a collapse in support for the Prime Minister among Labour voters, as he pursues a strategy that is also failing to win over supporters of Reform, reports Adam Bienkov
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‘Keir Starmer’s Attempt to Out-Farage Reform on Migration Will Only End Badly’
The Prime Minister’s ‘unutterably depressing’ decision to follow Nigel Farage into the gutter of inflammatory anti-migrant rhetoric is a terrible error, argues former UK diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
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The UK Has Failed to Prosecute ISIS Fighters for Genocide After Allowing Hundreds to Return to Britain
Successive UK Governments have refused to pursue prosecutions against those suspected of war crimes abroad
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‘Why We Must Call the National-Populist Far Right by Its Name’
The centre left should stop being afraid of accurately describing and countering the global far right threat we now face, argue Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar
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‘As Trump Wrecks the Global Order, Big Business Must Decide Which Side It’s On’
Where are the voices defending the huge benefits that globalisation has brought to the world, asks Matthew Gwyther
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Corporations Could Sue the Government Under India Deal, Campaigners Warn
Campaigners warn that it risks creating a system of “corporate courts”
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Green Party Deputy Leader Zack Polanski Says UK Must Leave NATO Because of Trump
The frontrunner to become the next leader of the Green Party of England and Wales tells Byline Times the UK must now form new alliances for “peace” instead
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‘The Cold Electoral Cynicism Behind Keir Starmer’s Blue Labour Strategy’
The Prime Minister’s advisers believe that when push comes to shove most progressive voters will have no real choice but to vote Labour, and they may be right, argues Neal Lawson
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Controversial Spy-Tech Firm’s Inclusion at NHS Confederation Expo Leads to Speaker Pulling Out
An internal NHS Confederation email acknowledged that ‘many colleagues will have concerns’ about Palantir’s inclusion
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‘Why Tony Blair’s Intervention on Net Zero Is the Most Irrational Contribution to Climate Discourse in Some Time’
There can be no “third way” to tackling the existential threat of man made climate change, argues Russell Warfield
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No10 Refuses to Release Keir Starmer WhatsApp Information Despite Labour Transparency Pledge
Starmer had pledged to end the “outrageous way government departments refuse freedom of information requests”.
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Local Elections: ‘Keir Starmer’s Rightward Shift Is Laying the Ground for Nigel Farage’
Labour’s embrace of economic and political orthodoxy is forcing voters to look elsewhere for change, argues Keir Starmer’s former adviser Simon Fletcher
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Nigel Farage Is Killing the Conservative Party and Starmer Must Change Course to Avoid the Same Fate
Telling voters that the Reform leader is right, but they shouldn’t vote for him anyway, is no more likely to work for Labour than it has for the Conservatives, argues Adam Bienkov
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Keir Starmer’s Benefit Cuts Cast Doubt on His Pledge to End Homelessness
“If you take money away from people who haven’t got very much, you’ll get more homelessness,” warn campaigners
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Reform UK Facebook Groups Are Full of Racist Far Right Posts and Islamophobic Conspiracy Theories
Groups set up by Reform UK officials contain posts calling for Muslims to be lynched and suggestions that Jewish people are trying to “dilute out country with foreign invaders”
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Labour’s Pledge to Recruit New Teachers Not Enough to Prevent ‘Serious Shortage’
Despite the new Government giving teachers a 5.5% pay rise last year – pay is still one of the key reasons for recruitment failures, the Department for Education said
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How a ‘Populist’ Media Has Mainstreamed the Far Right
Right-wing daily papers in the UK do not represent ‘public opinion’ – they simply reflect the radical right views of those ‘who own and run them’, argues Julian Petley
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‘Peter Mandelson’s Fixing of Keir Starmer’s Visit to Spytech Firm Palantir Raises Serious Questions’
Palantir was represented by a lobbying firm founded by Mandelson, Iain Overton and Max Colbert report
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‘Keir Starmer’s Weaponisation of Foreign National Crime Statistics Risks Stoking Violence and Empowering the Far Right’
Ranking crimes by nationality risks stoking a repeat of last summer’s racist riots, argues Minnie Rahman, who urges ministers to focus on fairness and rehabilitation instead
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‘Total Information Collapse’ and the Tribunal of Truth
Peter Jukes, Co-Founder and Executive Editor of Byline Times, on the urgent need for media accuracy and why joining Impress, the independent press regulator, is the best way for us to uphold those values
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‘We Are Witnessing the Slow Death of Two Party Politics’
UK politics is approaching a tipping point where the failing duopoly that has governed Britain for many decades finally comes to an end, argues Neal Lawson
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How the British Media Laundered a Far Right Conspiracist’s Reputation
Parts of the British media have expressed outrage after Renaud Camus, who originated the far-right ‘Great Replacement’ conspiracy theory was banned from entering the UK
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‘The Media Is Silent About Female Asylum Seekers – Yet Fixated About Men Arriving in the UK’
There’s a reason news outlets never focus on the many women seeking refuge in the UK, argue Mathilda Mallinson and Helena Wadia
