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Byline Times analysis of community cohesion and sectarian attempts to break it through the racialisation of poverty, Islamophobia as policy, the asylum system as spectacle, and the culture war waged against plural Britain.
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Why Some Labour MPs Fear a Kemi Badenoch led Conservative Party
The Conservative Party’s new leader has the potential to do a lot of damage, whether or not she wins the next general election
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The Powerful Interests Fighting Jeremy Clarkson’s Countryside Culture War to Avoid Inheritance Tax
Lobby groups are accused of whipping up fears about Labour’s inheritance tax reforms despite figures suggesting the vast majority of UK farms will be unaffected
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American Carnage: The Musk-Trump Plan for Total Collapse
A systems lens suggests a quarter of GDP could evaporate on a pathway to violent civil unrest, concentration camps, and genocidal violence that would be a free gift to Putin
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Calls for Government to Go ‘Much Further’ as Voter ID Changes are put to MPs
Campaigners warn thousands of legitimate voters will still be at risk of being disenfranchised under the ‘discriminatory’ system
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Government Could Reverse Conservative Attempts to ‘Gerrymander’ Mayoral Voting Systems
The voting system for Mayoral and PCC elections could return to a more proportional system, reversing changes allegedly designed to benefit the Conservative Party
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Far-Right Agitator Tommy Robinson will Miss his Own Protest as he’s Arrested Before Major London Rally
Anti-migrant activist detained by police ahead of a London demonstration, as his online following surges due to promotion by ‘X’ owner Elon Musk
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Stop Blaming Individuals for an Obesity Crisis Caused by Big Food Companies, Ministers Told
A damning new Parliamentary report warns that the UK’s broken approach to food has created a “public health emergency”
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The Government has a Way of Tackling Entrenched Health Inequalities Ready To Go – Will It Implement It?
An evidence-led, long-called for, but under-used programme of checks for people with a learning disability has the potential to help ease health inequalities more widely, Saba Salman reports
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The House of Commons Wants Your Views on Modernising Parliament – Just Don’t Say ‘Knock it Down’
It’s a bid to clean up Parliament’s act after years of sleaze and lobbying scandals
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Indifference for the Disabled: A Traumatising Night Affecting My Every Day
In her monthly column, Penny Pepper describes the aftermath of a terrifying break-in, which she fears may have been a disability hate crime
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Conservatives Mount Bungled Defence of Hereditary Peers in Bizarre Commons Debate
Does the Conservative Party support or oppose the idea of hereditary peers? Most of them won’t say…
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Government to Reject SNP Bid to Scrap the House of Lords – But Hereditary Peers Will Go
Lords reform bill is “114 years too little, too late” Scottish National Party says as Commons prepares to debate scrapping hereditary peers
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Why Yvette Cooper’s Claim That Middle East Conflict is Behind UK Hate Crime Spike ‘Completely Misses the Point – The Problem Runs Far Deeper’
A Home Office report on October 10 found that nearly 40% of religiously motivated hate crimes in the UK target Muslims
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‘The Higher Education Act is a Culture War Tactic Designed by Right-Wingers to Ensure Their Views are Heard’
‘It is difficult not to regard the Act as a classic piece of doublethink designed to censor freedom of expression in the guise of protecting it’
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Why Reform UK is Far-Right – and why Using the Right Terminology Matters
As Reform UK draws the UK’s media eye at a press conference today, Hope Not Hate argues it’s time for journalists to call it out
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Conservative Frontrunner Robert Jenrick Plans to ‘Win a Culture War’ with Young People
The favourite to succeed Rishi Sunak as Conservative party leader plans to launch an “air war” with younger voters
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‘Lucy Letby: The Thirlwall Inquiry and the Truth About the Countess of Chester Neonatal Deaths Scandal’
The inquiry has dismissed the increasing body of concern around the legitimacy of the verdicts as “noise”. It is anything but
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What the Media Doesn’t Say About Our Monarchy
‘The depravity that millions of people had to endure in the name of the monarch. Even the clothing, the crown, the gems – everything is soaked in blood’
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Yvette Cooper’s Plan to ‘Smash the Small Boat Gangs’ is Doomed to Fail, Warn Border Force Whistleblowers
Home Office officials and border staff tell Byline Times that the plan to tackle small boat crossings is little more than a rebranding exercise
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‘Unsurprising Seasonal Anxieties for the Disabled and Elderly’
In her monthly column, Penny Pepper wonders what new threats disabled and elderly people will face as the season turns
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Labour has ‘Broken’ the NHS in Wales, Claims Plaid Cymru as Party Sets Hopes on Government
Wales’ new First Minister Eluned Morgan is a former health minister, and has come under fire for lengthy waiting lists
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‘Time to Think Outside the Box, Keir Starmer: Open a Cross-Channel Safe Route for Asylum Seekers’
This is the real way to smash the people-smuggling gangs, writes Professor Derrick Wyatt
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Labour Needs the Muslim Vote to Stabilise its ‘Sandcastle Majority’
Sufyan Gulam Ismail offers some advice on how Labour can win back British Muslim voters after losing so many over the issue of Gaza
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‘The Tories Are Out But We’re Still Fighting for Our Disabled Community’s Rights’
Disabled people may have been cheering the end of Tory rule – but their trust has not been won by Labour, writes Penny Pepper
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‘I Predict A Riot: The Manufacturing of Islamophobic and Anti-Migrant Hate On Our Streets’
We must be honest about the fact that it is not only fringe rabble-rousers who have engaged in this damaging rhetoric, writes Adeeb Ayton
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Lies and Violence: How the Southport Tragedy Turned into a Riot
The independent regulator Impress has called for new legislation to tackle the dangers of social media misinformation
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Yvette Cooper’s Post-Rwanda Immigration Plans
The new Labour Government should abandon all of the failed hostile approaches to migration and asylum pursued by its predecessors, argues Zoe Gardner
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Labour Government Urged to End ‘Do As I Say, Not As I Do’ Attitude of Conservatives to Help Reverse Global Shift Towards Authoritarianism
Campaigners call on Keir Starmer to stop the ongoing erosion of civic space in the UK
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Tell MAMA: Why Is Government-Funded Group Under-Reporting Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes by More than 90%?
In part two of his investigation, Nafeez Ahmed reveals how a Government-funded organisation provides a statistically distorted picture of the national crisis of anti-Muslim hate crimes
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Government-Funded Anti-Muslim Hate Crime Monitor Accused of Focusing on ‘Extremism’
In the first part of this two part investigation, Members of the House of Lords question Tell MAMA’s transparency and governance. The organisation stands by its work.
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Disability Pride Month: Would You Dare Ask Any Other Marginalised Group What That Is?
Every change that improves the lives of disabled people has been predominantly led by disabled people themselves, whose stories are overlooked or misappropriated, writes Penny Pepper
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The Unpopular ‘Popular Conservatives’ Blame the Voters for Their Own Defeat
The ‘Popular Conservatism’ Conference exposed a party firmly stuck in conspiracy-driven denial about why it just suffered the worst electoral defeat in its history
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GB News Presenter Darren Grimes ‘Playing Into Far-Right Tropes of a Muslim Takeover’
The host posted a series of AI-generated memes featuring Labour leader Keir Starmer in Islamic dress alongside Muslim women
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United Ireland Referendum Needs to Involve Minority Groups as ‘Balance of Power Sits with Those Left Out of the Conversation’
Migrant communities could be the hidden kingmakers in a border poll, but to engage they must feel safe
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‘Disabled People Must Have the Capacity and Freedom to Vote’
There are 14 million disabled people in the UK – are politicians even considering them in this election campaign?
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The Truth About Immigration That Sunak and Starmer Aren’t Willing to Tell you About
Both party leaders are promising to slash immigration numbers without being honest about the big costs it will inevitably bring to our economy and public services
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The Big Questions Nigel Farage Should be Asked by the Media
Why is a party with so few elected representatives and even fewer ideas being given such an easy ride?
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Conservative Politicians and Press ‘Driving Spike’ in Disinformation on Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and 15-Minute Cities, Report Finds
A landmark study on the LTN policy finds that Government figures have latched onto cynical fear-mongering
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‘A Relentless Assault’: the Staggering Rise in Child Poverty in the UK
Gordon Brown responds to a shocking UNICEF report that UK child poverty has worsened drastically more than 38 other OECD nations
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‘Assisted Suicide: Always Personal and Always Political’
For Penny Pepper, debates about changing the law on assisted suicide are a way in for a dangerous, niggling, idea of how we should value disabled people’s lives
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Department of Health Sets Aside £21 Billion for Negligence Cases – But Has No Idea if Situation is Getting Better or Worse
A new report has found the ministry spends £3 billion a year on maternity services but paid out an ‘eye-watering’ £1.1 billion in claims for 2022-23
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‘People with Learning Disabilities Can Be Overprotected’: A New Film Talking About Death
Saba Salman reports on a significant project that involves people with learning disabilities addressing the issues directly and shaping the narrative
