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Dark money, lobbying, regulatory capture, state institutions hollowed by donor factions, foreign interference, and the financialisation of political power.
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Protest Leaders Convicted Over Gaza March Pledge to Appeal ‘Extraordinary’ Ruling
Palestine Solidarity Campaign director and Stop the War vice-chair convicted over Gaza demonstration that Met Police and Judge say broke restrictions
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Voters in Reform Seats Don’t Like Nigel Farage’s Plan to Rip Up Workers’ Rights
Even voters in Nigel Farage’s own constituency support the new workers rights that he has committed to tear up, a major new poll suggests
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Deaf Residents in Reform Councils Say They Have Been ‘Shut Out’ as Party Replaces Collapsed Deaf Charity With Just £22,000 in Funding
Local hearing impaired people say they are losing a vital lifeline, with opponents of Nigel Farage’s party accusing them of a political attack on perceived ‘woke’ services
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Blow to Nigel Farage After Government Bans Crypto Donations in Urgent Crackdown on Foreign Political Interference
Keir Starmer’s Government acted following publication of a review launched in the wake of Reform’s Welsh Leader Nathan Gill being jailed for taking pro-Russian bribes
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Reform UK Councils Are Dismantling the Fight Against Climate Change
Nigel Farage’s party is spreading climate change denial, while blocking any localised action to deal with the threat, an academic analysis of Reform councils has found
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MattGPT: The Sorry Tale of Matt Goodwin’s AI-Assisted, Fake-Quote-Filled New Book
It turns out that even ChatGPT has a more stringent approach to accuracy than the former professor, Matt Goodwin, reports Mic Wright
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Trump’s Iran War Is Pushing the Post War International Order to Breaking Point
The US President’s reckless actions risk destroying the global political order, but could something good emerge from the wreckage, asks Alexandra Hall Hall
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Reform Kent Council Suffers Walk Out After Party Declares ‘Immigration Emergency’ During Meningitis Outbreak
The motion by Nigel Farage’s party blamed the spread of “infectious diseases” on undocumented migrants
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How Trump Is Manufacturing Enemies Out of His Own Citizens
The Trump administration is using disinformation against anti fascists in order to criminalise dissent, argues Caroline Orr Beuneo
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Reform UK Skip Mandatory By-Election Debate After Nigel Farage Called Defectors Who Avoid the Ballot Box ‘Disgraceful’
Nigel Farage previously said that defectors who refuse to hold by-elections are “disgraceful” and guilty of a “complete insult” to the electorate
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The Elections Watchdog Doesn’t Know Where Reform UK’s Crypto Donations Are Coming From
The UK’s electoral watchdog tells Byline Times it wants tough new legal powers to prevent overseas donors from secretly bankrolling British political parties
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Is Paris About to Swing to the Right?
As voters prepare to go to the polls in the ‘City of Light’, Olly Haynes examines whether growing unity between the right and far-right in the French capital could be about to take it on a dark turn
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The Oil Lobby Is Using the Iran War to Revive North Sea Drilling but Official Data Shows It Won’t Cut Bills
Fossil fuel funded think tanks, petrostate-linked policy institutes and oil market insiders are all being presented as impartial observers by the media, reports Nafeez Ahmed
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Reform UK’s Crypto Provider on Register That Housed North Korean Money Laundering
Byline Times investigation prompts calls by MPs to ban crypto donations, as alarm is raised about the methods used to finance Nigel Farage’s party
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Crypto Donations Now Accepted by Three UK Parties as Concerns Grow Over Foreign Interference Threat
Reform UK and the far-right Homeland Party are now both accepting cryptocurrency donations, as calls grow for Labour to use its elections bill to secure our democracy
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Revealed: The Staggering Amount of Time Nigel Farage has Spent on ‘Second’ Jobs Since Becoming an MP
The Reform UK leader has logged more than 1,100 hours for 14 outside employers since his election in July 2024
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11 Loopholes in Labour’s Elections Bill which MPs are Pushing to Close
Labour MPs break ranks to demand ‘Representation of the People’ law is tightened up to tackle crypto donations, AI deepfakes and more
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Trump’s Iran War Revives Israeli Plan to Remake Middle East that Drove Post-9/11 Invasions
A Bush era neoconservative network has reorganised under Trump and is now directing the exact same regime change playbook against Tehran
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Tommy Robinson Amplifies Death Threat Against Keir Starmer During US Tour With Trump Insiders
The convicted far-right criminal shared the threat as he was handed extraordinary access to the US State Department by the Trump administration
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Nigel Farage’s Long History of Crying ‘Fraud’ Whenever His Party Loses Elections
The Reform UK leader has a long record of blaming his own party’s election defeats on “cheating” by ethnic minorities, yet no evidence of it can ever be found
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Naz Shah MP on Gorton and Denton Claims: ‘How Do Supposedly “Sectarian Muslims” End Up Voting for a Radically Progressive Party with a Gay Jewish Leader?’
The Labour MP told Byline Times that, from her experience of ‘clan-based politics’, it was not present in the Manchester by-election as Reform UK claims
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Reform Attacks Byline Times For ‘Attempting to Derail a Democratic Election’ – Before Blaming ‘Family Voting’ and ‘Muslim Sectarianism’ for Gorton and Denton Defeat
Having imported its own ideas for a DOGE and ICE from the US, Farage’s party now appears to be copying the Trumpian tactics of alleging vote-rigging in elections
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Hope Beats Hate: Green Party Defeats Reform and Labour in Huge Gorton and Denton By-Election Victory
A concerted political and media campaign to scare voters about a “Green Menace” winning this by-election failed, reports Adam Bienkov
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Rupert Lowe Posed With Neo-Nazi Who Recruits White Supremacists Into Restore Britain
Chris Mitchell, who has claimed that “Jewish control over our people WILL be coming to an end” and described himself as a “Nazi-Buddhist”, was welcomed into the party by Lowe
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Trump’s State of the Union Address: The Purest Ugliest Vaudeville
Nakedly exploitative and grimly partisan, this was US politics at its worst, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
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Reform’s Plans to Import Trump’s Authoritarian ‘Project 2025’ Blueprint to the UK
Far from defending British independence, Reform and its by-election candidate Matt Goodwin are taking blueprints – and cash – from a global network of American hardliners
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Reform UK’s Matt Goodwin Advised the Wealthiest 1% While Claiming to Stand Against ‘The Elite’
Goodwin’s definition of “the elite” includes university professors and civil servants while seemingly excluding the investment bankers, asset managers and global real estate executives who pay him
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Exclusive Poll: Anti-Reform Tactical Voters Poised to Defeat Nigel Farage’s Party in Gorton and Denton By-election
Greens and Labour are in an effective dead heat against Reform UK, with tactical voters leaning towards Zack Polanski’s party
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Reform’s Matt Goodwin Advises Conservative Peer Linked to Relaunched Nazi Race Science Platform
Reform’s Gorton and Denton by-election candidate advises Toby Young, who has advocated for “progressive eugenics” and has ties to the front publication for a reconstituted Nazi eugenics foundation
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Revealed: Reform UK Matt Goodwin’s Academic Ties to Rebranded Nazi Eugenics Front
Reform’s Gorton and Denton candidate, who has said that genetics will expose the “inherent differences between groups” has links to multiple organisations tied to discredited racist pseudoscience
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Big Tech Helped Elon Musk Meet Jeffrey Epstein Four Times After Conviction
Despite what they claim, Silicon Valley’s most powerful founders knew they were meeting, dining and emailing with a convicted sex offender and were told to keep quiet about it
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‘Build That Wall’: Why Secretary Rubio Is No Jack Kennedy
The Secretary of State’s address to European leaders showed how far American leadership has fallen under Donald Trump, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
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‘Keir Starmer’s Government Is Ignoring Growing Demands to Come Clean on Russian Interference in Our Democracy
A long-promised bill to clean up the funding of British politics and protect against foreign interference has failed to deliver, argues Sergei Cristo
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Bannon, Epstein, Farage and Johnson and the Plot to ‘Topple’ Theresa May
The far-right former Trump adviser told Jeffrey Epstein that “we are overthrowing May right now” as he worked with Boris Johnson to remove the then Conservative Prime Minister from office
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Nigel Farage Advisor Tied to Russian Oil Profits Via Orban-Backed Influence Operation
The man in charge of developing Reform’s plans for Government sits on the board of an organisation whose funding is tied to Russian oil money
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Trump Pardon Buries FBI’s Secret Work for Putin’s Oligarchs
The former FBI agent’s pardon came after his co-defendant’s daughter donated $3.5 million to Donald Trump
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Reform MPs Accused of Pandering to Putin After Skipping Russian Interference Debate
Nigel Farage’s party refused to attend the debate, called after more than 100,000 people signed a petition demanding a public inquiry into Russian interference in British politics
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Whatever Happened to Matt Goodwin?
How did Reform’s candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election go from being a ‘fully-paid up member of the liberal left’ to a Farage disciple, asks David Edgar and Jon Bloomfield
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Thiel Spokesman Denies Former Israeli PM’s Claim Jeffrey Epstein ‘Co-Owned’ Palantir Founder’s Venture Fund – But Confirms Epstein was a Limited Partner
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
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The Devil’s Butler: How Jeffrey Epstein Used London to Hide in Plain Sight
The Epstein files expose how the UK capital served as a playground and protector for the disgraced late financier and his wealthy associates
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Pro-Trump AI Giants Pushed Greenland Expansion Weeks Before Trump’s Bid to Seize the Island
Trump-supporting AI firms have complained that electricity shortages and environmental regulations are hampering the industry in the United States
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In Putin’s Orbit: The Crypto Politics of Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel
The web of ties between Epstein, Moscow and Silicon Valley leads back to Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage
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Tommy Robinson and the London News Website Linked to a Putin-Backed Propaganda Network
Far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon was appointed as an ambassador to an unregistered charity connected to a Russian ‘black PR’ operation
