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Oligarch press ownership, BBC capture, disinformation networks, the weaponisation of free speech, and the media’s refusal to investigate itself.
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Ofcom Confirms GB News Is Not Being Held to Different Rules on Impartiality
Julian Petley and the Good Law Project informed the broadcast regulator that it would apply for judicial review of its approach to the controversial channel unless it made clear the same rules apply to it
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Retired Social Worker Who Faced Two Years in Prison for Holding Up Sign Outside Climate Trial is Cleared
Campaigners say the judge throwing out Government claims that Trudi Warner was in contempt of court is a victory for free speech
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Caroline Flack’s Lawyer Suggests Decision to Charge her May Have Been ‘Driven by Desire’ to Appease Media as Met Police Probe Case
A recent Byline Times investigation uncovered evidence that led to the Metropolitan Police announcing that it is re-examining its decision to charge the TV star with assault
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‘I Called out “Free Speech Champion” Laurence Fox as a “Racist” – and He Tried (and Failed) to Bully Me into Silence’
In an exclusive interview, Mukhtar Yassin explains how “a normal working-class bloke from the Ends” took on the millionaire-backed Reclaim Party leader
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Catfish Nation: Hundreds Targeted in Same Sexual WhatsApp Scam as Law ‘Struggles to Keep Up’ with Phenomenon
As Westminster is rocked by a ‘honeypot’ scandal, Byline Times has uncovered two strikingly similar catfish conspiracies targeting celebrities and the public over the past five years
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We’re All ‘Funding Hate’: UK Government Biggest Spender on GB News Advertising
Film producer and former peer David Puttnam speaks up against taxpayer support for the controversial channel
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Newspapers Knew New Team GB Kit Was Not a ‘Flag Redesign’ Project
A Team GB spokesperson told Nathan Jones-Sparkes that the British Olympic Association was very clear with the press that its new kit design would always feature the Union Jack
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Lawfare: How Journalists and Activists Can Combat Vexatious Litigation
Lawyer Stephen Kinsella examines the exploitative use of legal threats, and offers advice on how not to play the game
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Princess Diana ‘Phone Pest’ Story Links Both Rupert Murdoch and Piers Morgan to the ‘Criminal-Media Nexus’ of Police Corruption
An amended claim by Prince Harry in the High Court puts both the interviewer and newspaper mogul in the spotlight
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‘Telegraph Takeover Bid Backed by UAE Doesn’t Matter – Because there’s an Agenda at Every Newspaper’
A former Editor of The Independent provides an inside look at just how much influence the owners of British newspapers – including Rupert Murdoch – have on what gets written
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‘Why We Will Apply to Take Ofcom to Court Unless It Explains Its Approach to GB News’
Julian Petley and the Good Law Project argue that the channel is being held to different standards on impartiality from those governing public service broadcasters
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‘Starmer Cosied Up to the Murdoch Press in the Same Week It Faced New Allegations of Criminality – Why?’
The latest legal claims allege that law-breaking at the Murdoch tabloids has been even more widespread and systematic than previously acknowledged
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‘An Assault on Democracy’: Rishi Sunak Backs Bill to Overturn Sadiq Khan’s ULEZ Extension
The Conservatives are seeking to overturn the London Mayor’s flagship clean air scheme, despite being more than 20 points behind him in the race for City Hall.
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Sunak’s Government Misses Another Key Environmental Target
A National Audit Office report shows government pledges to decarbonise domestic heating has failed to meet half its target
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Getting ‘Closure for Carrie’ – the Family of Caroline Flack is Seeking New Answers from Scotland Yard after Byline Times probe
New evidence uncovered in a Byline Times #MediaToo investigation questions the assault charge that led to the TV presenter’s suicide
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The BBC’s Road to Appeasement
As Theresa May’s former Communications Director Robbie Gibb is re-appointed to the BBC board, the new retail edition of Byline Times’ reveals the inside story of how the corporation was cowed by the Conservative party machine
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Sunak’s Private Meetings With Murdochs and Right-Wing Editors Were Purely ‘Social’ Says Government
Voters will never know what was discussed between the PM and media bosses
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Rishi Sunak’s Plans for New Gas Power Stations Will Leave UK ‘Stranded’ in Push for Net Zero
The Chair of a cross-party committee condemned the Prime Minister’s plans for a new wave of fossil fuel power plants
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Dan Wootton Finally Axed from GB News as Ofcom Rules Against Channel in Misogyny Row
The presenter was suspended from the channel in September after his exchange with Laurence Fox
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Slow Progress Leaves High Seas Unprotected One Year On from Historic Agreement
The High Seas Treaty is seen as vital to meeting an international target to protect a third of oceans by 2030
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Revealed: 85% of Leading UK Pension Providers Found to have ‘Inadequate’ or ‘Poor’ Climate Action Plans
Despite making commitments to actively engage with efforts to tackle climate change, a new study found many providers to be failing in multiple areas
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Long COVID in Scotland: NHS Trust Accused of Medical Negligence
The family of a child suffering Long COVID claims they have faced ‘medical gaslighting’ and been consistently denied NHS care
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Why is the Environment Regulator Investing Millions in the Most Climate-Polluting Banks?
The Environment Agency vowed that its pension fund would be going green – Byline Times’ analysis suggests this has not been the case
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Two Police Forces to Take No Further Action Against Dan Wootton – As GB News Presenter Reveals Police Scotland as well as The Met Were Investigating
Byline Times has not previously reported on any investigation into the journalist by Police Scotland
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Clean Air Activists Accuse London Mayor Sadiq Khan of ‘Burying’ his Controversial Silvertown Tunnel Project as Election Nears
The £1.2 billion tunnel is arguably the biggest infrastructure project Khan has approved – but he rarely brings it up
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Surprise ‘People’s Assembly’ Comes to Court as Climate Protestors’ ‘Last Legal Defence’ May Be Removed
The Government appears keen to limit climate protestors’ legal justifications for direct action
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David Meller: Exploring the Political Nexus Behind the Michael Gove Ally Given Controversial £164 million PPE Deals
After being awarded six large PPE contracts the Conservative donor was last year elevated to the prestigious UK Board of Trade by Kemi Badenoch
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Closure for Carrie: How Caroline Flack’s Mum is Still Fighting for Truth Four Years After Her Death
On the anniversary of Caroline Flack’s death, Byline Times launches a new #MediaToo investigation into her treatment by the police and the media with an interview with her mother Christine
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Climate Movement Pledges ‘Maximum Disruption’ to Hold Keir Starmer to Account for £28bn Green U-Turn
Protesters plan to target the Labour leader’s decision to ditch his flagship climate commitment
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‘The Government is Looking the Other Way as Our Rivers Are Being Poisoned’
Ministers’ failure to properly monitor nitrogen pollution in our waterways is effectively encouraging further breaches of environmental law by farmers and big business, reports Thomas Perrett
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Prince Harry Demands Piers Morgan Police Probe as ‘Shockingly Dishonest’ Mirror Pays Out Again Over Hacking
Substantial evidence of criminal behaviour and cover-up at Mirror Group Newspapers emerged last summer at trial
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Morgan On Marcus Rashford: Did Someone Say ‘Hypocrisy’?
A recent column by the former Editor of the Daily Mirror on the superstar footballer revealed more about himself than the 26-year-old England player, writes Mic Wright
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Labour Backs Leveson-Style Press Reforms in Commons Vote
The party’s decision signals continuing, if low-key, commitment to press reform, writes Brian Cathcart
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Keir Starmer and the Labour Party – Press and Pundits Running Out of Dirty Tricks
Veteran media observer Tim Fenton watches as the right wing press paints itself into a pre-election corner
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Caroline Lucas to Demand Ban on MPs Working for Fossil Fuel Giants as Polluters Spend Millions Shaping UK Politics
Several serving MPs work for oil and gas firms, while many more accept gifts or take jobs for big-polluting sectors after leaving Parliament
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Time for Truth: Calls Grow for Police Probe into Piers Morgan and Mirror Editors
A prominent lawyer, hacking victim and an ex-police officer are joining Prince Harry in demanding police action into Mirror Group crimes and alleged lies to the Leveson Inquiry
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Landmark Legal Action Launched Against NHS Trusts for ‘Failure to Protect’ Staff During COVID Pandemic
The move comes amid harrowing personal accounts from healthcare workers who say they’ve suffered “devastating” injuries caused by preventable exposure to COVID-19 at work
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‘Media Bill Votes Will Show Us the Real Keir Starmer’
How far will Labour go to appease the billionaire press ahead of the general election? We are about to find out, writes Brian Cathcart
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Leading UN Figure Gives Scathing Verdict on UK Government’s Climate Campaign Clampdown and “Chilling” Effect on Protest Rights
The UN’s spokesman on ‘climate defenders’ hit out at the Conservatives’ suite of anti-protest laws – and media rhetoric against green activists.
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Culture Secretary Hits Out at Supposed BBC Bias – But Claims Ofcom-Hit GB News is ‘Balanced’
The comments come despite GB News being subject to a swathe of Ofcom complaints about its broadcasts and Conservative MPs interviewing other Conservative MPs on the channel
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‘Morals More Akin to the Mafia’: Former Minister on Illegality at the Murdoch Empire
From politicised phone hacking to aiding and abetting insurrection, the lawless threat of Murdoch’s organisations to democracy is only now becoming clear
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Rumbled: Dan Wootton ‘Comeback Planned’ on ‘Free Speech’ Platform Used by Russell Brand
Wootton has been suspended from his presenting role on GB News since September after an on-air misogyny storm. Now he is said to be preparing to launch a channel on a controversial video platform
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‘Contradictory’ and ‘Self-Defeating’: MPs Slam Government for Building New Houses in High-Flood Risk Areas
As Chancellor, Rishi Sunak reduced the budget for flood protection
