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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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Nigel Farage’s Chosen Reform Mayoral Candidate Suggested Black Britons Can’t Be English
The party’s candidate for Mayor of Doncaster claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon ‘lineage’ and attacked ‘third world cultures’ in now-deleted posts
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The UK Must Urgently Distance Itself From Elon Musk and Space X, Warns Parliamentary Report
The UK’s infrastructure has become far too reliant on the far-right billionaire, who could ‘politicise’ our reliance upon his companies, the report warns
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Russia’s ‘Phase Zero’ Is Here and War With NATO Is Now Inevitable, Experts Warn
The same psychological warfare tactics Moscow used to prepare the ground for its invasion of Ukraine are now being used against the rest of Europe, writes Zarina Zabrisky
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Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People
The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy
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‘Geert Wilders’ Far-Right Retreat Leaves a Very Dutch Political Mess’
The advance of centrist parties in the Dutch elections will not be enough to produce a new stable governing coalition, argues Chris Keulemans
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Keir Starmer’s Election Reforms Will Leave UK Politics Exposed to Dark Money and Foreign Interference, Warns Labour MP
The party’s former Shadow Democracy Minister said the Government was failing to take the bold steps required to eliminate foreign interference in our elections
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Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand ‘Test and Trace’ Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel
Exclusive: Boris Johnson’s senior advisor pushed for Covid contracts to be handed to companies run by Trump-supporting tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison
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Reform UK Just Won Britain’s Least-Prestigious Award – For ‘Promoting Pseudoscience’
Nigel Farage’s party was recognised for “widespread embrace of climate change denialism and antivaccine misinformation”
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Reform UK Treasurer Profited From Financial Ties to Elon Musk and Trump’s Silicon Valley Billionaires
Reform’s biggest donor and Treasurer Nick Candy held investments in a US venture fund tied to Trump-supporting tech billionaires, including Elon Musk
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The Reform Backlash: Caerphilly By-Election Result Shows Nigel Farage’s Party Is Much Weaker Than It Looks
Despite widespread media predictions of a Reform victory on Thursday, Farage’s defeat shows his party continues to be overestimated, argues Adam Bienkov
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Reform Council Asks Opposition for Help Making Cuts After ‘Desperate’ Search for Savings Falls Short
Exclusive: Nigel Farage’s struggling flagship Kent administration is now reaching out to other parties, after failing to identify the millions of pounds in savings they promised
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UK Government’s ‘Failure to Investigate Foreign Interference’ Challenged in Europe’s Highest Court
The group of former MPs warn that UK elections are “still at risk” over the Government’s failure to investigate “credible evidence” of Russian interference
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Inside Epstein’s Russian Tech Web: How Oligarch Cash and Three Women Connected Moscow to Silicon Valley
Leaked records obtained by Byline Times reveal how Kremlin-linked investors used Epstein’s network to channel oligarch money into Silicon Valley
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What Nathan Did Next: A Kremlin-Backed Forum on How to Subvert Western Democracy
The former Reform UK Welsh Leader Nathan Gill was due to give a talk on cryptocurrencies at a Kremlin-backed convention in Moscow when he was arrested
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Pro-Trump Tech Billionaires Are Poised to Cash In on Gaza’s ‘Peace’ Deal
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
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‘Stunned?’ Farage’s Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny
Insiders have told Byline Times it is ‘inconceivable’ the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide’s pro Russian statements
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‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem
Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’s strategic plan to crush Ukrainian independence with ‘Moscow’s Man in Ukraine’
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Moldova Election: How Russia Tried and Failed to Hack the Vote
Russian operatives launched a vast online operation to sway the vote, bankrolled by Moscow and local proxies, Théo Provoust reports
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1,500 Pledge to Risk Arrest at ‘Largest Ever’ Protest Against Palestine Action Ban
Major demonstration in Trafalgar Square on Saturday could nearly double total of 1,600 arrested under terrorism laws since ban came into effect in July, organisers claim
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Calls for New Inquiry Into Russian Interference After Reform’s Former Welsh Leader Pleads Guilty to Bribery
As the Kremlin steps up its political interference efforts in the West, is it time for a new Russia Report?
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The Attack Lines That Could Hurt Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Hardest
A new mega poll of voters reveals where Reform UK are most vulnerable to political attacks from their opponents
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Reform UK’s Crypto Donations Put Under Spotlight as Experts Warn It’s ‘Impossible to Trace’ Foreign Cash
Anti-corruption campaigners raise the alarm over loopholes that could allow large sums of untraceable money to slip past checks
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‘America’s Allies in Europe and Asia Are Stuck Between Trump and a Hard Place’
Trump’s Presidency has exposed the weaknesses at the heart of our global security alliances, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
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Nigel Farage’s Reform a Bigger Far-Right Threat Than the BNP, Says UK’s Leading Anti-Racism Campaigner
Hope not Hate’s CEO Nick Lowles says Reform’s rise is mainstreaming ideas that were previously taboo even on parts of the far-right
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Farage’s Trillion Pound Black Hole: The Real Cost of Reform UK’s Mass Deportation Plan
Exclusive: Reform’s plan, which it claims would net huge savings over the coming decades, would actually cost the UK about £70-90bn over the next ten years alone, new analysis of official statistics and forecasts suggests
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Where Is the Opposition to Nigel Farage’s Immoral Mass Deportation Plan?
Keir Starmer’s Government’s refusal to explicitly condemn the Reform leader’s plans to tear thousands of families and communities apart is only clearing his path to Downing Street, argues Adam Bienkov
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‘What’s the Point of the Lib Dems in a Post-Liberal Era?’
As Ed Davey’s Party gathers for its annual conference, Neal Lawson asks whether the party can still prosper in an increasingly illiberal political era
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Trump Protest Van Highlighting Epstein Links Was Blocked by Police Within Minutes of Approaching Windsor Castle
Officers drove away the advertising van showing an image of the US President with the convicted paedophile as nearby activists and journalists were questioned
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‘Trump’s UK State Visit Highlights the Death of US Soft Power’
Trump is not just hostile to the concept of soft power, but actively working to dismantle the institutions which promote it, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
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Reform UK Council Backs Climate Denial Motion Saying Man Made Climate Change Is ‘Unproven’
The motion denying the existence of man-made climate change comes after Reform councils across the country ripped up local environmental schemes
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Deadly Memes: Tyler Robinson’s Far-Right ‘Groyper’ Ties
Despite initial reports and President Trump’s claim that the suspect in the murder of Charlie Kirk was a ‘leftist’, two pieces of evidence point the other way
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From Epstein to Starmer: Mapping Peter Thiel’s Web of Influence in the UK
The tech billionaire Trump-backer is rapidly gaining influence over politics and public services in the UK, reports Peter Jukes
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Reform UK Accused of ‘Betraying Residents’ for Benefit of Fossil Fuel Donors as More Net Zero Targets Scrapped
Nigel Farage’s party is scrapping green initiatives in local authorities across the country after taking millions of pounds in donations from oil and gas interests
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‘Calling Reform Racist Doesn’t Work’ Say Unions as They Shift Strategy to Counter Nigel Farage’s Party
Union leaders are changing tack amidst rising support for Nigel Farage’s party among their members
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BBC Accused of Pro-Reform Bias as Lib Dems Launch Campaign to End ‘Wall to Wall’ Farage Coverage
They accuse the BBC of “following Farage around like a lost puppy” and have complained to Ofcom to demand fair coverage
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How Reform UK Is Importing Conspiracy-Fuelled MAGA Politics to the UK
Reform’s annual conference was filled with anti-vaxxers, climate change deniers and senior advisers to the Trump administration
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The Big Tobacco, Climate Denial Lobbyist and Crypto Firms Sponsoring the Reform UK Conference
Big corporations and lobby groups are putting their cash behind the rise of Nigel Farage’s party
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Reform Deputy Leader Owns £4m Mansion and Belgravia Pad While Attacking Angela Rayner’s ‘Property Mountain’
EXCLUSIVE: Richard Tice MP co-owns Buckinghamshire estate with tennis court and lake – despite his attacks on Rayner’s £800,000 flat purchase
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Reform UK Conference: Anti-Vax Misinformation Doctor Given Prime Health Slot
Leading doctors have accused Nigel Farage of putting lives at risk by letting Aseem Malhotra give the only health-related address at the conference
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Kemi Badenoch’s ‘Free Speech’ Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Party Conference
The ban on covering the party’s annual gathering came despite Badenoch’s repeated commitment to “fight” for free speech and a free press
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Palestine Action Arrests Condemned as ‘Deeply Alarming’ While British Press Remains Silent
The Liberal Democrats described the arrests of campaigners against the ban on the group as a “dangerous precedent” for free speech, yet the British press remains largely silent about it
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Sacked, Expelled, or in the Dock: All the Reform UK Councillors Nigel Farage Has Lost in Just Four Months
Party faces questions over candidate screening after string of resignations, expulsions and criminal investigations
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Undue Influence: The Reform-Supporting Online Network Using AI to Monetise Anti-Migrant Hate
A prominent social media campaign for Brexit and Boris Johnson has morphed into a large-scale network boosting Reform and pushing anti-migrant hate, reports Katherine Denkinson
