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Identity, Empire and the Culture War

Byline Times explores the weaponisation of Britain's past as a key tool in a dark project of division and distraction

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‘Where Tunisia Leads, Britain Follows’

, 10 March 2023
Tunisia's populism and racially-charged purges offers chilling context for the UK's migration clampdown, writes Simon Speakman Cordall

‘Threatening to Leave the ECHR would be the Perfect Terrain for Next Conservative Election Campaign’

, 8 March 2023
The Government may do just enough to rile up the Conservative Party’s voter base by engineering yet another pointless row with European bodies, writes former diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall

‘The Roald Dahl Affair is a Lesson in the Culture War of Nostalgia’

, 22 February 2023
If voters can't be scared by the threat of the 'woke left' devaluing their house – they might be scared by it devaluing their childhood, writes Graham Williamson 

‘Kipling Out, Hemingway In? Why the Dahl Edits Fails on Diversity’

, 20 February 2023
The decision to alter Roald Dahl's texts to make them more inclusive misses the mark – and ignores wider failures of diversity in children's publishing, writes Sian Norris

Lee Anderson’s Culture Wars: How the Conservative Party is Flirting with Far-Right Hate to Appeal to its Base   

, 15 February 2023
Max Colbert documents the weaponisation of xenophobia among Tory politicians, with evidence suggesting the Government is encouraging extremism rather than countering it

‘Damn Rees-Mogg’s Politics of Civility’

, 27 January 2023
The Conservative MP's promise to bring back ‘civilised political debate’ in his new GB News show is an insult to the people harmed by this Government, writes Iain Overton

‘The Conservative Party: No Common Good’

, 16 January 2023
The Conservatives have abandoned their post-war commitment to any meaningful social contract, argues Chris Painter, and are reduced to discredited market dogmas and neo-imperial fantasies

Fighting Back Against National-Populism

, 19 December 2022
Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar consider what the progressive Left can do to counter dangerous hard-right thinking on the great social issues of our era

Red Tory to Blue Labour – How Spiked and Unherd are Keeping National Populism Alive

, 7 December 2022
Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar look at the reach and influence of an unlikely coalition of ex-Trotskyites, traditionalist Tories and communitarian Labourites 

Why We Are Not ‘Albanian Criminals’ Arriving On Your Shores

, 6 December 2022
Albanian citizen Gresa Hasa explains why she wants an apology from the UK Government

‘When he Chooses to, Rishi Sunak is Happy to Match Braverman in the Hate Speech Stakes’

, 3 November 2022
Asked about ‘grooming gangs’, he ignored the evidence and slapped the blame on a single ethnic minority – a revealing moment, writes Brian Cathcart

‘This Is Not Britain’s Obama Moment’

, 26 October 2022
Adrian Goldberg speaks to Michael Bankole, who has researched race and representation in politics, about what Rishi Sunak’s rise to power means for ethnic minorities in Britain for the Byline Times Podcast

EXCLUSIVE ‘The Dark Heart of Trussonomics: The Mainstreaming of Libertarian Theories of Social Darwinism and Apartheid’

, 10 October 2022
The legacy of the Nazi ideology of eugenics – popularised by Charles Murray’s controversial book 'The Bell Curve' – goes some way to explaining Trussonomics, writes Nafeez Ahmed

‘Ministers Can Make it Mean Anything they Want it To’: The Realities of Citizenship-Stripping in the UK

, 27 September 2022
Faima Bakar speaks to experts about the Government’s removal of citizenship without notice and its disproportionate impact on British Muslims

British Identity: The Empire’s Spectacle

, 22 September 2022
The mourning of the Queen’s death has been, largely unconsciously, a nation in a state of 'appearing', writes Joe Haward

Seven Decades of Social Progress – But is the UK Heading Backwards?

, 12 September 2022

‘The Uses of Diversity’

, 12 September 2022

The Diversity Mirage and the Next Prime Minister

, 21 July 2022

The Punditocracy and the Subversion of Progress

, 24 May 2022

Lessons for the Left from Scandinavia

, 21 April 2022

The Church of Putin

, 8 April 2022
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