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Byline Times exposes the Government’s dangerous ‘herd immunity’ approach towards the Coronavirus pandemic, as well as how incompetence and conspiracies contributed to the UK’s shocking death toll
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The COVID-19 Crisis is a Chance to Reinvent Education for the 21st Century
Dr John Ashton, a former director of public health, argues that we must not miss the opportunity to modernise education in the UK and, at the same time, tackle social injustices following the Coronavirus pandemic.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: In COVID-19, the US is Experiencing the Consequences of its Wars
CJ Werleman explains how the tables have unfortunately been turned on American citizens as they experience the Coronavirus pandemic – and how it should open their eyes to the damage inflicted by their country elsewhere.
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The Conservative Government is Protecting Dominic Cummings More than they have Protected our Care Homes
James Melville argues that the Dominic Cummings Scandal has become Boris Johnson’s ‘Black Wednesday’ moment when authority drains away even from his core support
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Dominic Cummings’ Biggest Blind Spot is Dominic Cummings
Hardeep Matharu explores why the chief advisor’s revelation about his failing eyesight was so revealing – about his lack of self-knowledge and need for reality.
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Boris Johnson Cannot be Allowed to Treat the Country as his own Private Urinal
To Musa Okwonga, the Dominic Cummings scandal proves that the Prime Minister and his Cabinet are no longer public servants — they treat the public as their servants.
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14,000 Brits Could Now Appeal Lockdown Fines Thanks to Dominic Cummings
Gareth Roberts explores the unexpected legal consequences of the Government’s defence of the Prime Minister’s chief advisor
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Bearing False Witness: How Mr and Mrs Cummings Broke the Ninth Commandment
Reverend Joe Haward provides a Bylines Times ‘Thought for the Day’, in light of current events and the duty in the Ten Commandments to tell the truth.
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Ruling from the Shadows: Why Dominic Cummings Poses a Threat to the Country
The track record of the Prime Minister’s chief advisor – under fire for breaking lockdown rules – has proved him to be anything but transparent, writes Iain Overton.
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Government Silent On Involving Credit Firm in COVID-19 Testing
Stephen Delahunty reports on concerns about credit agencies being used by health bodies when processing patient data.
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‘Dear World, What A Strange Place You Have Become’
18-year-old student Daisy Davidson explains the thinking behind a website she set up to chronicle people’s feelings of the Coronavirus crisis around the world.
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SWEDEN: The Other ‘Herd Immunity’ Country Vying for the Highest Coronavirus Per Capita Death Rate in the World
As Britain and Sweden compete in COVID-19 fatalities, James Melville considers the catastrophic failures of the Scandinavian country compared to its neighbours
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The Northern Hemisphere Must Not Stand by and Let Coronavirus Devastate the South
Portia Antonia Alexis looks at the devastating results if COVID-19 runs rife in the southern hemisphere and how an international response is needed to save more than 30 million lives.
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UPDATED FIGURES: The UK Now has the Highest Health Worker Deaths in Europe
Stephen Colegrave investigates the huge gulf between Britain and many other countries in the number of health worker COVID-19 fatalities.
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No Checks Please, We’re British – Indefensible UK Border Policy
Otto English investigates multiple shocking reports of a complete lack of COVID-19 checks for those arriving in the UK from abroad.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Boris Johnson’s COVID-19 Message Exploits a Long-Established Culture of Individualism
Jon Bailes explores why the Government may have changed its Coronavirus messaging to ‘Stay Alert’ and how this represents the tenets of a culture in which social problems are blamed on perceived individual failings.
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Putin’s Critics Raided at Home During the COVID-19 Lockdown
Sarah Hurst reports on how the Kremlin, while facing mounting criticism for its handling of the Coronavirus pandemic, has been using quarantine to track down its foes.
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Populism and the Pandemic: Argentina Responded to COVID-19 while Brazil Ignored
James Melville continues his international analysis of Coronavirus responses with the stark contrast between two South American neighbours
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Is Racism in the Medical Profession Contributing to High BAME Staff Deaths from COVID-19?
Tasnim Nazeer speaks to NHS doctors and nurses from minority communities who have experienced discrimination in the workforce.
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Independent SAGE – A Beveridge Report for Britain’s COVID-19 Public Health Disaster
Byline Times’ CMO, former director of public health John Ashton, praises the recommendations of the independent report convened by Sir David King
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The Coronavirus Crisis: It’s Time to Discuss the United States’ Most Dangerous 36%
CJ Werleman discusses a new poll which indicates sustained support for Donald Trump over COVID-19 and distrust of the country’s top infectious disease expert – and where this lethal aversion to the truth among a sizable part of the population could lead.
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From the Epicentre of Coronavirus: Chinese Views of Britain’s Chaotic Lockdown
As China loosens its lockdown, Tom Williams reports on how its citizens still cannot believe the lax approach of the UK to testing, tracing and social distancing.
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Britain’s Chernobyl: COVID-19 and the Cost of Lies
Hardeep Matharu finds echoes of the nuclear explosion that helped end the Soviet Union and the UK’s response to COVID-19, which has resulted in one of the highest Coronavirus death rates in the world.
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In a Life and Death Crisis, Will the British People Finally Wake-Up to the Reality of Boris Johnson?
Musa Okwonga explains why, despite the Government’s objectively scandalous handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, those in the UK remain broadly supportive of the Prime Minister.
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97%: Latest COVID-19 Frontline Fatalities reveal Shocking impact on BAME Staff
Almost all medical staff and two-thirds of nurses who have died from the Coronavirus have come from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities reports Mark Conrad
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WHITEHALL ANALYTICA – THE AI SUPERSTATE: Part 2 – Is COVID-19 Fast-Tracking a Eugenics-Inspired Genomics Programme in the NHS?
Nafeez Ahmed explores the troubling implications and assumptions of the Government’s AI-driven gene programme
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WHITEHALL ANALYTICA – THE AI SUPERSTATE: Part 1 – The Corporate Money Behind Health Surveillance
The first part of Nafeez Ahmed’s major investigation into the money, men and motivation behind a massive move into medical data.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Beware the Hawks and Vultures Cashing In On Public Health
Azfar Shafi examines how the conflation of security and public health, as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, has the potential to hollow out our public services to an extent not seen before.
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Stay Alert. Take Back Control. Don’t Blame Us
Mike Buckley argues that the UK Government’s apparently confusing ‘Stay Alert’ messaging is actually carefully calibrated to wash their hands of blame.
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100 Days of Zero Border Health Checks Reveal UK Government’s Laissez-Faire Response to COVID-19
Stuart Heaver reports on how at least a million air passengers have entered the UK without checks since its first Coronavirus case.
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Nerd Immunity and the COVID-19 Infodemic: Contagious Conspiracies
Our Secret Scientist looks why Coronavirus conspiracy theories have gone viral, and suggests new ways we can vaccinate ourselves against disinformation.
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BAME Coronavirus Deaths Inquiry: Trevor Phillips Appointment ‘Insensitive and Insulting’
As British Muslims on the healthcare frontline bear the brunt of COVID-19 fatalities, Dr Shazad Amin joins mounting calls for Public Health England to reverse its decision.
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CORONAVIRUS CRISIS: We Are Not All In This Together
Stephen Colegrave reports on how COVID-19 only intensifies the disparity of wealth, health and opportunity that is driving the UK apart.
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Dangerous and Subversive – The Government’s New ‘Stay Alert’ COVID-19 Messaging
Rebecca Welshman detects a disturbing subtext which echoes Boris Johnson’s Churchillian rhetoric over the pandemic while shifting blame away from his administration.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Corporations Make Moves to Cynically Exploit COVID-19
Stephen Delahunty delves into the industries using the COVID-19 outbreak to repackage old demands and further their interests under the cover of a crisis.
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It’s Not Too Late to Prevent the Mental Health Crisis of Coronavirus
Stephen Colegrave compares the failure to prepare for the mental health impact of COVID-19, especially on the young, to the Government’s neglect of care homes.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Can the Government be Trusted to Get Tracker App Right?
With the UK faltering out of lockdown, former MP Paul Farrelly looks at searching questions the Government faces over trust and competence as it rolls out its home-grown COVID-19 Tracker App.
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How Costa Rica Nipped Coronavirus in the Bud
James Melville continues his comparisons of global best practice responses to the Pandemic with the first Latin America country to report a COVID-19 case.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: ‘Humans Are Not Herds’ – WHO Director Blasts ‘Brutal’ Idea of Human Herd Immunity to Tackle COVID-19 Pandemic
The comments of Dr Mike Ryan have again raised questions about the strategy the UK Government was pursuing in the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak in the country – when it still had a chance to contain its spread.
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Coronavirus Frontline Fatalities Pass 200 as Confusion Reigns over Revised Lockdown Plan
As the tragic milestone of 200 health and care worker COVID-10 deaths is passed, Mark Conrad reports on how doctors fear lockdown confusion could lead to further fatalities
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Immunology Pioneer’s Legacy Threatened by Coronavirus Lockdown
While the Jenner Institute is at the centre of the search for a COVID-19 vaccine, David Hencke explains how a museum dedicated to Edward Jenner is threatened because of the lockdown.
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The Year of Living Distantly: Lockdown Shadows of the Mind
Confined to a small urban apartment during the COVID-19 pandemic, Bonnie Greer reflects on her time in the Actors Studio, and how shaming memory brings self-knowledge.
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WHITEHALL ANALYTICA: NHSX Contact Tracing App — Management Outsourced to Private Company and to be Accessed Overseas
David Hencke explores COVID-19 contracts worth £8m handed out by the UK Government for its controversial centralisation of personal data.
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After the Coronavirus Crisis – What is the Point of the Conservative Party?
Gareth Roberts makes his case that UK’s catastrophic handling of the COVID-19 pandemic should not be blamed on Boris Johnson’s Government alone – but on the entire Conservative Party
