Outside the system

Free from fear or favour

Edition 78 – October 2025

cover of Byline Times edition 78, "From Maggie to MAGA" - a collage of Conservative Party leaders

Inside

Highlights

  • Inside The Patriot Games

    Inside The Patriot Games

    Charlie Lloyd reports from the Reform UK Party Conference – an event with an energy that will concern all of the mainstream political parties

  • The Borsellino Bombing and the Rise of Berlusconi

    The Borsellino Bombing and the Rise of Berlusconi

    First published in July by the Italian investigative outlet L’Indipendente, Stefano Baudino and Riccardo Ongaro investigate the assassination of the two top anti-mafia judges, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, in the summer of 1992 – and how a series of cover-ups and backroom deals paved the way for the rise of Italian Prime Minister and…

  • How Trump’s ‘Reverse Algorithmic Capture’ Is Creating the Unseen Curators of Our New Digital Realities

    How Trump’s ‘Reverse Algorithmic Capture’ Is Creating the Unseen Curators of Our New Digital Realities

    The US Government is shaping by – by stealth – the emergence of a privatised information infrastructure that serves its ideological aims. Caroline Orr reports

  • Diaspora Dinners: Traditional Iranian Kotlets

    Diaspora Dinners: Traditional Iranian Kotlets

    The modest kotlet could be dressed up on a silver platter and garnished with parsley, tomatoes, and pickles; or it could be slipped between any of our myriad Iranian flatbreads, combined with tomato, and pickled cucumber, to make the world’s most delicious sandwich.

Martin Rowson’s cartoon

cartoon by Martin Rowson depicting Morgan McSweeney stood in the doorway of a shopfront, under the sign "McSweeney Todd's - Demon Barber & Stylist", taking a bite of a pie filled with, wait is THAT? Ms Rayner? Angela?

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