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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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‘I Set Up a Fake Far-Right News Channel to Interview Reform UK Candidates and This Is What They Told Me’
The Reform hopefuls were quick to condemn scandals supposedly overseen by Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat councils, without realising they were actually condemning the actions of their own party
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Reform UK’s Basildon Leader Accused of Bullying After Filming Council Staff and Residents With Meta-Style Smart Glasses
EXCLUSIVE: Cllr Sam Journet, who is leading Reform’s bid to take two Essex councils, was arrested last year following multiple complaints about him filming in private areas
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All The Kings’ Horses and All the Kings’ Men Can’t Put the US-UK ‘Special Relationship’ Together Again
It will take far more than some clever speechifying from the King to repair the deep damage the US President has done to relations with his country’s former closest ally, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
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Nigel Farage Promotes Reform UK Donor’s Pothole Repair Machine on Election Leaflets
The promotions of JCB’s flagship ‘Pothole Pro’ followed hundreds of thousands of pounds being gifted to the party
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Reform UK Candidate Runs Firm Hired by Sanctioned Pro-Putin Bosnian Serb Leadership
Kenneth Morris, who is standing for the party in Erdington, Birmingham, co-ordinates the UK arm of a transnational far-right political network
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Bereaved Covid Families Demand Nigel Farage Sack Conspiracy Theory Reform Candidates
Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice tell the Reform leader that the conspiracy views revealed by Byline Times are “an insult” to the 230,000 people who died in the pandemic
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Economists Slam Reform UK’s ‘Fantasy’ Claims That ‘Boriswave’ Migrants Will Cost Households £20,000
“Reform have simply invented their own numbers…” say experts
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A US Defence Analyst’s Warning to Britain: ‘I Watched Our Democracy Die. You’re Next’
A US defence analyst argues that the United States has become a zombie democracy, locked into decline – and that Reform UK is now planning the same for Britain
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Reform UK Candidate Claimed COVID Was ‘Pentagon-Led Plot’ in Conspiracy Theory Journal
Exclusive: Reform candidate David Booth is listed as the author of a paper arguing the pandemic was “staged” by Western military and intelligence agencies
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Why Americans Need to Get Much Angrier About Donald Trump
Hope is not a strategy and my fellow Americans need to wake up to the far greater damage to the US this President could still cause, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
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EXPOSED: How Viktor Orbán Bankrolled the Network Around Reform UK
As Hungary’s Prime Minister suffers a historic electoral defeat, Byline Times maps out how his government’s funding arm channelled hundreds of thousands of pounds into organisations at the heart of Britain’s hard right.
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Reform-Run Kent Council Sells Off Antony Gormley Sculpture After Raising Taxes
Nigel Farage’s flagship council quietly sold Two Stones, one of the sculptor’s earliest commissions, as part of a wave of publicly owned art disposals that critics call “shameful”
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The British Tax Havens Shielding Big Oil’s Iran War Windfall
As Shell and BP prepare to pocket billions from Trump’s war in Iran, a Byline Times investigation reveals how British jurisdictions are quietly doing the work of protecting them
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Matt Goodwin’s Lucrative Hungarian Fellowship Could Be in Line for the Chop Following Orbán’s Defeat
The Orbán-controlled body for which the Reform UK and GB News commentator is a ‘visiting fellow’ is facing investigation over alleged misuse of public funds
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Reform UK Energy Prize Winners Had Nominated Party’s Own Branch Chair
As Greater Manchester Police confirm they are reviewing a complaint into the prize draw, Byline Times can reveal that the party’s Wigan branch chair – nominated by the winners – was present at the doorstep prize ceremony
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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
