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The Media is Displaying the Same Blind Spots that Allowed the Conservatives to Push Britain to the Brink
The British press’ selective scrutiny of the new Government is letting the country down, writes Hardeep Matharu and Peter Jukes
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The UK’s Race Riots: A Trial Run for Another US Insurrection?
Peter Jukes draws out the connections between the violence on Britain’s streets and the Capitol Insurrection
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The Politics of Farage and Reform is No Joke of a Matter – The Established Media Must Learn Its Lessons and Start Holding Them to Account
The normalisation of racism and dog-whistles will only get worse if the press continues to treat Farage as an entertaining figure representing the ‘real views’ of the British people – it must stop, writes Byline Times’ Editor
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‘Culture Thrives On Dialogue and Difference’: Seasons Greetings From Byline Times
An end of year reflection from Peter Jukes, Co-Founder and Executive Editor of Byline Times
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Byline Times in the News Stands: From Covering the Crimes of the British Press to Starting a New Paper
Byline Times’ Co-Founder Peter Jukes recalls his journey of the past decade: from exposing the corruption of our newspapers to launching his own in shops across the country this week
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Exploding ‘Megxit’: Our Royalty and Press Paint a Distorted Portrait of Britain
In its first retail print edition available in shops, Byline Times reveals what the story of Prince Harry and Meghan’s departure from the Royal Family raises about power and identity, monarchy and modernity in Britain today
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Editorial: The Populist Brand
Why do Russell Brand, Daniel Wootton and even Rupert Murdoch claim they are the victims of impersonal dark forces?
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The Media Scandal the Media Didn’t Want to Touch: Byline Times Will Keep Exposing the ‘Dark Forces’ in the Shadows
This newspaper will continue its special investigation into TV presenter Dan Wootton and expose wrongdoing in the established media – without fear or favour
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Johnson, Harry and the Press: ‘Exposing the Ethical Void’
With a mendacious former Prime Minister now returning to work for the press which enabled his rise, the moral bankruptcy of the media-political class is complete
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‘A Great Power for Evil’
In Byline Times’ fourth anniversary print edition editorial, Peter Jukes and Hardeep Matharu explore how and why the established media continue to have a monopoly over the damaging narratives shaping our politics and culture – more than a decade after the phone-hacking scandal
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‘Taking Sides in Journalism: Objectivity is Not Neutrality’
In his editorial from the February 2023 print edition of Byline Times, Peter Jukes looks at Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch and the scandals around ‘Russiagate’ coverage in the US
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2022: Earthquakes and Volcanoes
in his editorial from the December print edition of Byline Times Peter Jukes says the tumultuous events of the last year may have been shocking, but not a complete surprise
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Britain on the Brink: ‘It’s Not Just Liz Truss: it’s Brexit’
In his editorial from the October 2022 print edition of Byline Times, Peter Jukes argues that Liz Truss is ushering in the final phase of the Brexit project It wasn’t supposed to happen like this. When David Cameron took over as leader of the Conservatives in 2005, he wanted to transform its electoral reputation as the…
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Exposing the Conservative Hedge Fund Scandal: Better Late than Never – Or Too Little Too Late?
As Kwasi Kwarteng faces questions over his attendance at a cocktail party with financiers, Byline Times’ Editor Hardeep Matharu asks why this newspaper’s warnings from three years ago about the influence of hedge fund donors in politics were ignored
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Pluralism versus Populism – The Battle Rages On
In his editorial from the August 2022 print edition of Byline Times, Peter Jukes explores the big new political battle shaping the world
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The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee: An Unprecedented Reign – But What Next for 21st Century Britain?
The Queen’s 70 years on the throne have seen Britain undergo extraordinary change – how will the monarchy’s constitutional and societal role continue to evolve in the years ahead?
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The Real Trojan Horse: Beware Russians Bearing Gifts
As Russian troops reach Kyiv, state terror is rained on innocent civilians. Peter Jukes and Hardeep Matharu explore why the British Conservative Party has ignored Putin’s violent extremism in the mother of all intelligence failures
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Vladimir Putin Holds Up a Dark Mirror to Boris Johnson
Though the British Government and the Kremlin appear to be in conflict, Peter Jukes and Hardeep Matharu trace the underlying currents of oligarchy that unite them.
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A Fellowship in Dark Times
A 2021 message from Byline Times’ co-founder and executive editor Peter Jukes
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Untold Stories: The Daniel Morgan Murder
Journalism is not about the fictions people want to hear, but the inconvenient facts that they may want to ignore or may be hard to tell “To rethink continuously the business of storytelling”. That is the motto that welcomes visitors in the highly-patrolled reception lobby to Rupert Murdoch’s News UK headquarters at London Bridge. I…
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Editorial: Over and Out – Cummings Fails to Super-Forecast His Own Demise
Even as he is booted out of Government, Dominic Cummings is still cultivating the misplaced notion that he is a mastermind
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Editorial: A Narrow Escape
The US Presidential Election result shows the amount of work that needs to be done, at home and abroad, to combat the rise of authoritarian populism and the people it speaks to
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Editorial: The Nation’s Immune System and the Cost of Lies
On Byline Times’ first anniversary, a big thank you to all our readers and subscribers for your support.
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EDITORIAL: Cracks of Optimism Appear
The Facade of Competence in the Johnson Government didn’t take Long to Crumble.
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Editorial: The Battle of Brexit May be Lost, but the Cultural and Constitutional War Goes On
The problem is not in the stars of the EU flag but in ourselves Brexit is not the cause of British decline, but a symptom. Every institution that has failed over the past three years since the EU Referendum – from our electoral laws to our oligarch-captured media, a supine BBC and the dominance of a…
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Editorial: First they Came for Our Children
With the youth vote heavily against Boris Johnson, the Tory Government’s first moves seem to be gunning for the young.
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The World’s Midnight: but the Nights are Getting Shorter
To celebrate the Winter Solstice, Byline Times has a ray of light in all the doom and gloom. | To celebrate the Winter Solstice, @RVAWonk has a ray of light in all the doom and gloom.
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Byline Times’ Election Manifesto
The 2019 General Election promises to be a poll unlike any other – so will our coverage.
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Christmas is Coming with the Unholy Trinity in Power
The dark arts channelled by Johnson, Gove and Cummings are still infiltrating our politics – but we can change this if we act quickly
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Incendiary Politics: How to Stop Fanning the Flames
Do not follow Bannon and Trump into the furnace of extremism. However outraged and provoked we feel, we must not rise to the bait of Johnson and Cummings.
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Parliament Takes Back Control
This week began the fightback of representative parliamentary democracy against populism.
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Fear and Loathing in Whitehall
Will a cleansing anti-cyclone come and blow the oppressive suspicions and rumours away and re-establish the primacy of public service in the interests of the nation rather than party, and the principle that no one is above the rule of law?
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Reasons to be Cheerful: Trump’s Bigotry Backfires
The sight of Donald Trump surrounded by thousands of his supporters chanting “send her back” this week was chilling. But the reaction to it can give us a cause for hope.
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The Double Attack on Liberal Democracy
The far right’s collusion with Vladimir Putin is now well-documented, but support from the left puts democracy in even greater danger.
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The Media Got Us Into this Mess – Can it Get Us Out?
This week Boris Johnson told us: “I paint the passengers enjoying themselves on a wonderful bus” – a useful ‘dead cat’ from the big question marks hanging over his plan for Britain and his competency in leading it.
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The Triumph of Trumpism in the UK – Only Truth Can Set Us Free
With Boris Johnson emerging as a clear candidate to succeed Theresa May as Conservative leader and to enter Number 10 Downing Street as Britain’s next Prime Minister, it’s time to think the unthinkable and speak of the unspeakable.
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‘Tell the Truth’ – Journalism, Activism and Extinction
Byline Times will never let activism lead our journalism, but our journalism will sometimes – we hope – lead to activism.
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The Sad, Misplaced Martyrdom of Julian Assange
There are many reasons to be concerned about the founder of WikiLeaks begin extradited to the US – but publishing the truth isn’t one of them.
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Welcome to our Special Brexit Launch Edition
Now seems like a good time to launch a new newspaper – but not for the reasons many expect. The heart of our paper will be investigations. We will follow the story wherever it goes, without fear or favour. No PR company, advertiser or press baron can influence the stories we choose.
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Islamophobia and the Limits of Free Speech
How much longer can our mainstream press escape the consequences of their false reporting and dangerous rhetoric around our Muslim communities?
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Don’t tear up our last shred of constitutional legitimacy
For too long we’ve relied on unwritten norms to underpin our governance – norms of honesty, shame, resignation or apology for misleading parliament and the public or breaking ethical rules and professional guidelines… We need a written constitution to protect the public…
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Boris Johnson planning a Trump-like populist bid for PM: backed by Steve Bannon and the Far Right
You can get rid of the ridiculous bouffant hair, but that doesn’t stop you being a dangerous buffoon.
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The Catastrophe of Success
The catastrophe of success: Trump, Gove and Johnson never expected to win. What now?
