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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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Foreign Interference: Trump Leans on Johnson to Meddle in Mueller Probe
Donald Trump, currently mired in new allegations of using Ukraine to interfere in the next US election over the summer, was at the same time reportedly asking the British Prime Minister to help discredit the report of Robert Mueller, the Special Counsel tasked to investigated Russian interference in the US. A heavily redacted version of…
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Brexit Disaster Capitalism: Government Doffs Tinfoil Hat at Questions over Hedge Funds and Conflicts of Interests
Concerns first raised by Byline Times about the hedge funds and City backers donating to Boris Johnson were discussed in an Urgent Question in Parliament today.
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Cabinet Ethics Probe into Johnson’s Hedge Fund Backers
Byline Times has information that the prime minister’s backing by hedge funds invested in a hard Brexit is coming under scrutiny by the Cabinet Office.
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Brexit Disaster Capitalism: Are Boris Johnson’s Hedge Fund Backers Driving Policy?
A documentary by Channel 4 confirms Byline Times’ concerns about the potentially damaging role of hedge funds and city traders who are the Prime Minister’s main financial backers.
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Brexit Disaster Capitalism: £8 Billion Bet on No Deal Crash-Out by Boris Johnson’s Leave Backers
While the Prime Minister defies the law and insists Britain will leave the European Union on 31 October, his backers stand to make billions out of the disaster.
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The Compromising of Our Civil Service with Propagandists Matters Now More than Ever
Jonathan Portes, professor of economics and public policy at King’s College London, on why untruthful claims by civil servants in their quest to support government policy must be called out. “A free trade agreement between the US and the UK could increase trade between our two countries three to four times,” US Vice President Mike…
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‘Democracy Dies when Fact and Information is Denied’
Stephen Colegrave speaks to crossbench peer Lord Victor Adebowale about how our democracy is teetering dangerously on the edge of a cliff.
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Putin’s Funding of Italy’s Far-Right: The Pivotal Role of Aleksandr Dugin
Zarina Zabrisky provides a timeline of Aleksandr Dugin’s career and his connections to Russian Intelligence.
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‘Incontinent Mendacity’: Prime Minister Lied About Plans to Suspend Parliament, Court Documents Suggest
James Doleman on explosive revelations from Scotland’s Court of Sessions as Boris Johnson faces a legal challenge over proroguing Parliament.
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Brexit Party Paypal Investigation: Rampant Impermissible Donations Revealed by Watchdog’s Visit Tip of the Iceberg?
Byline Times’ exclusive report on the loopholes in the Brexit Party PayPal funding led to a visit from the elections watchdog which subsequently revealed impermissible donations – but questions remain.
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‘Children Dying from Deep Fake Videos and Anti-Vaxxer Messages Spread on Social Media Platforms’
The threats posed by technology to our democratic processes will only get worse in the years to come unless action is taken, MP Damian Collins warns.
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BBC Finally Insists Opaquely Funded Think Tanks Declare their Interests
After Carole Cadwalladr challenged Director General Tony Hall over dark money lobbyists, the BBC have responded with new guide lines.
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‘We Need a Moratorium on Facebook Political Ads to Keep our Elections Safe’
“Facebook should be nowhere near politics,” warns investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr.
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Brexit Party MP Candidates – Chums and Comrades: The Intrigue Continues
Otto English’s investigation into the parliamentary candidates selected so far by Nigel Farage’s party – and those who paid the non-refundable £100 online application fee but haven’t made the cut.
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Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage’s ‘World for Brexit’: What is their Opaque New US Lobbying Group About?
In the wake of Labour concerns about ‘dark money’ influencing British elections, Turlough Conway looks deeper at Nigel Farage’s US registered World for Brexit.
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Russia Didn’t Need to Hack Votes to Help Elect Trump – It Hacked Voters’ Minds Instead
By overstating the threat, or continually pushing the idea, that Russia hacked votes in the 2016 US presidential election, we may be playing right into our adversary’s hands
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BREXIT: “The Greatest Electoral Heist in History” – How to Safeguard Our Democracy
Kyle Taylor of the Fair Vote campaign says the war of words between Scotland Yard and the Electoral Commission over electoral law breaking proves Britain needs urgent legislation.
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The Clock is Ticking on Boris and Brexit, but Still No Headway on Confronting Electoral Wrongdoing
Even though they’re crucial to the security of future elections, the British institutions supposed to be safeguarding democracy are playing the game of passing the buck.
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The Transatlantic Triumph of Trumpism: Boris Johnson – A Plan Years in the Making
Though most people assume Steve Bannon-style populism arrived with Brexit in 2016, the planning, the people, and the project first came together three years earlier.
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I Knew I was Being Lied to by Newspaper Editors Over Phone Hacking, says Sir Brian Leveson
The judge who led the Public Inquiry into Press ethics has revealed he ‘knew’ some national newspaper editors were lying to him under oath about phone hacking, Byline Times can report today.
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Brexit Party Must Return Any Impermissible Donations, Says Electoral Commission
Now the Electoral Commission has agreed it’s likely that the Brexit Party broke electoral laws during the European Elections, it is legally obliged to return impermissible donations with 30 days of receipt.
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Brexit Party’s PayPal Funding Methods Slammed by Elections Watchdog – But What Needs to Happen Next?
Turlough Conway, who broke the story of the Brexit Party’s questionable PayPal funding structure, provides an analysis of what must now be done to safeguard our electoral processes.
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‘Boris Johnson and Michael Gove Must Have Known About Illegality’: Why the Two Vote Leave Leaders are a Threat to Democracy
Shahmir Sanni reveals how two of the contenders to replace Theresa May cannot absolve themselves of responsibility for wrongdoing during the EU Referendum.
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Brexit Party Candidates Elected to the European Parliament
Brexit Party MEPs will now sit in Europe’s highest law-making body as the elected representatives of the people of Britain. Who are they and why does it matter?
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‘PayPal Man’ – Questions the Electoral Commission Must ask the Brexit Party
Turlough Conway, who broke Byline Times’ exclusive investigation into the Nigel Farage and PayPal affair, says the Electoral Commission have a duty to check key elements in the Brexit Party’s funding.
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Property, Finance, Hedge Funds, Lobbying, Media: a Guide to the Brexit Party’s Elite MEP Candidates
Byline Times provides a profile of twenty of Nigel “Man of the People” Farage’s candidates for this week’s Euro Elections, and they look very much like the elites he rails against.
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“Never Seen Anything like it”: The Funding of the Brexit Party Needs Urgent Investigation
After Byline Times’ exclusive investigation into Nigel Farage’s claims of unprecedented crowd funding and donations to his new party, we call for an urgent and thorough investigation from the Electoral Commission
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‘Dodgy Money and Dirty Data’: MP Looking to Future-Proof Elections Suspicious of ‘Brexit Cover-Up’
In an exclusive interview, Labour MP Stephen Kinnock questions why nothing has been done about allegations of electoral wrongdoing in the 2016 Referendum and speaks about how his new parliamentary inquiry will be on the case.
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Mueller Report – Assange Spread Seth Rich Conspiracy Theory to Cover for Russia
Assange and the “radical transparency” organisation he founded wittingly waged a disinformation campaign to provide cover for themselves — and they used a dead man’s name to do it.
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MUELLER REPORT: Trump and Campaign Officials Coordinated with WikiLeaks
The Trump campaign didn’t have to coordinate directly with the Russian government — because it had a middleman to do its dirty work.
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MUELLER REPORT – Attorney General Bill Barr’s Timeline of a Cover-Up
As the world awaits publication of the Mueller Report, Attorney General Bill Barr is readying himself for the final act of a slow-motion cover-up.
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How Farage’s Campaign Colluded with Putin to Weaponise Hate and Islamophobia
Following Channel 4’s revelations that Nigel Farage’s Leave EU campaign faked inflammatory photos of sexual attacks and staged videos about migrants, Byline Times has evidence of more racist propaganda sourced from the Kremlin.
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Democracy in Danger: ‘Online Harms’ plan fails to tackle threat posed by ‘Dark Ads’
As Whitehall publishes plans to tackle online abuse, Conservative and Labour big-hitters issue stark warning over UK elections
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Attorney General Barr’s new Letter lays out his latest Coverup Scheme
Attorney General Barr appears to be living up to his nickname of the “Coverup General,” this time by burying the substance of the Mueller report and selectively editing the information that will see the light of day.
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Democracy in Danger: What Happened to our Data after the EU Referendum?
In the light of multiple investigations into Brexit online campaigns, Byline Times asks whether our election data is secure or could be misused in future votes.
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Democracy in Danger: How Safe is Britain’s Next Election?
With the country on the edge of a snap general election or second referendum in an age of digital psyops, is our electoral system equipped for votes to be free and fair?
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Mueller Summary: the Obstruction Case Leaves a Cloud of Doubt Hanging over Trump’s Presidency
Attorney General Barr’s hasty decision to let Trump off the hook on obstruction of justice leaves a cloud of doubt that will linger for the remainder of Trump’s presidency.
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Mueller’s Report is Done — Here’s What to Expect Now
Caroline Orr explains how special counsel Mueller’s report represents the end of the beginning, not the beginning of the end.
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The Disaster Capitalism Club: Part 2 – Sir Paul Marshall and Michael Gove
He’s head of one of the biggest hedge funds in Europe, a major contributor to the official Vote Leave campaign, and – along with Crispin Odey – one of the largest beneficiaries of the post-Brexit chaos: but Sir Paul Marshall is more than that.
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New York Prosecutors Just Threw A Wrench In Trump’s Potential Plans to Pardon Paul Manafort
Trump’s former campaign chairman could face up to 25 years in state prison on the new charges. And Trump can’t pardon these crimes.
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The Disaster Capitalism Club: Part 1 – Vote Leave Backers who Made Billions from Brexit
While this elite group have profited from the last three years of economic uncertainty real household incomes have dropped almost £1,000 and the average household will lose between £2,519 to £5,573 over the next 15 years.
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Paul Manafort’s Sentencing Raises More Questions Than Answers
Caroline Orr explains how, when Manafort goes to prison, he will carry with him a slew of secrets about Super PACS, polling data and a possible Wikileaks Connection
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Trump’s Digital Operation Comes Under Scrutiny By House Judiciary Committee: THE ARGUMENT
Following the FACTS outlined by the congressional requests for documents, Caroline Orr sets out the road map ahead and argues a new era of accountability is on the way for Trump and his digital operation
