The former FBI agent’s pardon came after his co-defendant’s daughter donated $3.5 million to Donald Trump
A former Israeli Prime Minister and intelligence chief described Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein as “owners” of a venture fund. The founder of Palantir, now embedded in Britain’s most critical infrastructure with the help of Peter Mandelson, has denied the claim – but emails reveal how Thiel cultivated Epstein as a business partner
Key figures in Nigel Farage’s party are demanding a UK version of Trump’s immigration enforcement agency, in the wake of the killings of Alex Pretti and Renée Good
Peter Thiel’s controversial data firm – which holds contracts with the UK’s NHS and Ministry of Defence – researched protest prediction for the US Army before agreeing to build ICE’s data platform to conduct mass deportation. Are its tools now targeting democratic dissent as well as illegal immigration?
Government and media organisations used the power of words to shift moral responsibility for the ICE killings, argues linguist Dan Clayton
The President is using Soviet-style redirection to wage an information war across America, argues Grant Stern
The growing backlash against ICE’s killing of Alex Pretti will be a turning point in public opinion towards the President, predicts Alexandra Hall Hall
The President’s increasingly threatening behaviour has shown clearer than ever before why Britain needs to be back in the heart of the EU, argues Jonathan Lis
Regardless of how people vote, the chances of a Democrat Government coming to power in 2029 is now virtually nil, argues Brynn Tannehill
For all his attempted bullying, taunts and threats, Trump’s delusional Davos speech revealed a man who is far weaker than he appears, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
The Canadian Prime Minister’s powerful response to the growing threat from Donald Trump has put other world leaders to shame, argues Simon Nixon
The politicians and commentators who mocked those warning about the threat posed by the US President as being “hysterical” need to face up to their own role in the calamity now unfolding, argues Adam Bienkov
The Reform UK leader received payment from David Bailey, who collaborated with the convicted fraudster behind the Trump-Russia influence scandal
I no longer feel safe to speak or act freely in a country where people are being arbitrarily detained and killed and where the truth is becoming whatever Donald Trump says it is, reports Alexandra Hall Hall
The US President’s plans to capture Greenland pose a grave threat to Europe’s future that its leaders can no longer afford to ignore, argues Simon Nixon
The United States’ entire security apparatus is now being used to spread far-right propaganda rather than tackle genuine threats, reports Caroline Orr Bueno
For the Russian leader, Trump’s proposed ‘peace deal’ is merely a way to continue his war by other means, writes Denis Mikhailov
The European Union is far stronger and more united than those inside the Trumpian echo chamber have fooled themselves into believing, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
Documents show Jeffrey Epstein was not cast out after his child sex-crime conviction but remained embedded in a confidential inner circle of Silicon Valley founders with strategic influence on the modern world, including Musk, Bezos, Brin, Page, Gates and Zuckerberg
Steve Witkoff’s real-estate empire is bankrolled by a former adviser to Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and a key architect of Moscow’s Ukraine negotiations
A Trump-aligned anti-abortion lobbyist who hosted Nigel Farage’s meeting with a 6 January rioter in Florida has been funding and advising the Reform leader while pushing Project 2025’s hard-right agenda into Britain
The channel was criticised by media reform campaigners for its “fawning” interview with the President as it dismissed revelations of his extensive ties to Jeffrey Epstein
The leaked documents suggest Trump’s plans for a ‘humanitarian relief’ centre for Gaza more closely resemble those for a US Army-run command post
Nigel Farage was the figurehead and his partner Laure Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support
A key supporter of the Home Secretary’s hard line on asylum seekers is also an admirer of Trump’s former campaign manager – one of Jeffrey Epstein’s closest confidantes
Jeffrey Epstein helped shape Trump’s MAGA movement through a secret alliance with its chief architect, Steve Bannon, who told him it could help him “stave off Time’s Up for a decade” in return for strategic and financial support
TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak warns that tech and media billionaires are threatening our democracy, as they campaign to destroy the BBC
Keir Starmer’s Government risked being implicated if the President’s attacks were found to break international law, reports Alexandra Hall Hall
Byline Times’ analysis of key sources in the memo about the BBC’s alleged ‘progressive bias’ shows it relied on highly partisan right-wing, Trump-aligned organisations
The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President
The scale of protests against the President show he can still be beaten, but only if his opponents start offering a coherent alternative, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
The same digital technologies that helped the Israeli military target Gazans are now being embedded in its peacetime infrastructure, with Trump-supporting billionaires poised to benefit
The President’s America-first, Palestine-last plan for Gaza risks collapsing under its own contradictions, argues Rana Sabbagh
A new daily GB News programme broadcast from Washington features climate denial, vaccine misinformation, and non-stop praise for Donald Trump – as its hosts tell the American audience that the UK needs to be ‘saved’
The author of The New Age of Genocide, Martin Shaw, on why Trump’s ‘peace’ plan will allow the ongoing destruction and replacement of a Palestinian Gaza
Former UK Foreign Office diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall makes the case for why America’s ‘long shot’ strategy could be the best hope of delivering peace
The ideology of the ‘Make America Great Again’ movement, which has transformed politics in the United States, is having an impact in the UK. But how is this influence being transmitted?
Following his appearance on a panel with Alastair Campbell, Byline Times examines the writings of the thinker who is apparently inspiring Silicon Valley Tech Bros and the Vice President of the United States
As a proud naturalised US citizen who has been publicly critical of the President, I am becoming increasingly fearful about my future here, writes Alexandra Hall Hall
Officers drove away the advertising van showing an image of the US President with the convicted paedophile as nearby activists and journalists were questioned