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‘Scrap Callous Photo ID Scheme’ Campaigners Demand as Report Reveals Scale of Voter Suppression
Three quarters of a million people didn’t vote because of the “continued failure of the voter ID regime”
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Fears of Mass Exclusion of Young Voters as Poll Reveals Numbers of 18-24 Year Olds Who Don’t Know About New Photo ID Rules
Young people, those with few qualifications, and voters in Scotland are least aware of new voter ID rules
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‘I Had to Argue for My Right to Vote’: Voters Report Being Denied a Say in Local Elections Due to Strict Photo ID Law
Voters say they struggled to prove their identities as polling stations enforced England’s draconian photo ID rules
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Just a Fraction of Voters Who Lack Photo ID Apply for ‘Free’ Identification – In Warning Sign for Mayoral Elections
Low take-up of the Government’s Voter Authority Certificate poses a risk to voters in May’s local elections, campaigners warn
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Millions Missing from Electoral Roll as Voters Face Double Whammy of Registration Issues and Photo ID
In some constituencies, one-fifth of potential voters have not signed up to the electoral roll, new analysis reveals
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Disabled Trans Woman Who Says She’s Been ‘Denied Vote’ Due to Photo ID Rules Launches Legal Challenge
The Government is refusing to expand the list of approved forms of voter ID despite warnings of large numbers of voters set to be turned away at the general election
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Fears of Discrimination as Scale of Voters Denied a Vote by Lack of Photo ID in By-Elections to Remain ‘Unknown’
The Electoral Commission has highlighted a black-hole in its research on the impact of voter ID ahead of the next General Election
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Thousands in England Denied a Vote as Exclusive Snapshot of Photo ID Rollout Revealed
Over 6,000 voters were turned away and didn’t return across around 50 council areas, Byline Times can reveal.
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Up to Two Million Potential Voters Put Off by New Photo ID Rules in May Elections, New Poll Suggests
In the latest in a series of damning reports, Byline Times reveals that the new mandatory voter ID requirements have caused confusion and anger among would-be voters. Josiah Mortimer reports
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VOTER SUPPRESSION LATEST: More Revelations of Voters Turned Away for Lacking Photo ID in England’s Local Elections
Latest updates as Byline Times reports on the rollout of mandatory voter ID in England
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VOTER SUPPRESSION WATCH: Voters Turned Away Without Photo ID Across England Amid Local Elections Concerns
‘It’s totally unnecessary… They are disenfranchising people.’ Josiah Mortimer and colleagues report from across England as ID is rolled out for the first time.
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Voter Plans One-Man Protest Against ‘Gerrymandering’ Mandatory Photo ID Law at Local Elections on Thursday
Just a fraction of the two million people who lack photo ID have applied for the government’s free scheme. How many will be denied a vote – or simply not bother – on Thursday? Josiah Mortimer reports
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We May Never Know How Many Voters are Turned Away for Lack of Photo ID
Just 85,000 voters signed up for the Government’s free photo ID – out of a potential two million. Now we may not find out the true scale of ‘voter suppression’, Josiah Mortimer reports
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Desperate Last Push to Get Photo ID to Voters Ahead of Mandatory Roll-Out Next Week
A last-minute rush is unlikely to be enough to prevent large numbers of people being effectively disenfranchised on 4 May, Josiah Mortimer reports
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Bouncers at the Ballot Box: Security Turned Away Voters In What Campaigners say is ‘Another Nail in the Coffin of Photo Voter ID’
Three people of colour were turned away from a polling station in Sheffield after a security guard checked their IDs on the door
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Biden in Northern Ireland: ‘Landmark Moment Reduced to No More than a Photo-Op by Downing Street’
The limited nature of the US President’s Northern Ireland visit stands in stark contrast to the scenes on the other side of the border, writes Emma DeSouza
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Inside the Silicon Valley Plot to Annex Venezuela for Oil That America Can’t Afford
Donald Trump’s decapitation of the Venezuelan Government opens the door to his Big Tech oligarch supporters’ dreams of creating an anti-democratic ‘Network State’ in the country, reports Nafeez Ahmed
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‘They’ve Ruined Christmas’: Nigerian Student Blocked By Home Office From Visiting UK Family for Holidays
British academic and his Nigerian wife repeatedly stopped from hosting family members, including at their own wedding, due to visa restrictions brought in by Keir Starmer’s Government
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Caroline Flack: Tried By Tabloid
More than four years on from the TV presenter’s death, her mother laments that the Labour Government is ‘scared of the press’ and will not consider media reform
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Kyiv Blackout As Putin Escalates His Attacks on the Ukrainian Grid
As temperatures drop, so too are Russian bombs on Ukrainian infrastructure, reports George Llewelyn from Kyiv
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UK Surveillance Flights Over Gaza: Are We Israel’s Useful Idiots?
The UK may inadvertently be helping Israeli forces bomb civilian areas in Gaza, explains Iain Overton
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‘Let No One Believe the Lie That Zelensky Could Have Avoided War by Spurning NATO’
It’s time to bury this myth for good, argues Derrick Wyatt
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The Alaska Summit: ‘You Can’t Negotiate With a Lion When Your Head Is Inside Its Jaws’
Denis Mikhailov, a Russian dissident lawyer now exiled to Poland, explains how Trump’s generosity to Putin only solidifies his tyranny
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Founders of ‘Apolitical’ Patrol Group in Bournemouth Include Asylum Hotel Activist and Reform Candidate
EXCLUSIVE: One leading ‘Safeguard Force’ figure previously expressed hope Reform would “set the world on fire” if elected. Another shared anti-migrant memes featuring weapons
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Inside the Hall of Mirrors: The Telegraph’s Dangerous Games Over Online Harms
The paper which acted ‘grossly irresponsibly’ during Covid is now doing the same thing with the Online Safety Act, argues Julian Petley
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‘The Depravity of Gaza’s Aid Crisis Shows What Happens When Profit Comes Before Human Rights’
In just over a month, the UN reports that over 850 Gazans have been killed at, or within close proximity to aid distribution sites in Gaza
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How Resident Doctor Strike Exposed a Generational Rift Within The Profession
Pay talks are set to resume after a five-day walkout ended last Wednesday. Maira Rana does the math in defence of the strike
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The Cost of Lies: Why We Identify With Deadly Misinformation
From Covid to climate change, understanding the role unevidenced conspiracy theories fulfil for individual and social identity in a shifting world can better help explain our ‘post-truth’ age
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Budapest Fights Back and Defies Orban’s Pride Ban With Largest Ever March
Viktor Orbán’s Government humiliated as more than 180,000 protesters defy his decision to ban Budapest Pride
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How Billionaires ‘Look Sideways as People Die in the Very Supply Chains of Our Businesses’
The ‘Excessive Wealth’ Conference hears from a millionaire heir about how global corporations exploit consumers and undermine democracy
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‘Israel’s Strikes on Iran Will Have Consequences for Decades and Threaten the Entire Middle East’
Chris Doyle of the Council for Arab-British Understanding on the ‘escalating fears’ experienced by people across the region
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Inside the Collapse: How Putin’s Russia Turned Its Opponents into Exiles
There is a deliberate policy by the Kremlin to exile, neutralise, and effectively erase alternative political life within the country, reports Denis Mikhailov
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‘Keir Starmer’s Timid Refusal to Nationalise Failing Water Companies is a Symptom of a Government Cast Adrift’
Starmer’s administration is proving itself to be “devoid of moral compass or political courage”, argues Labour MP Clive Lewis
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Government Accused of ‘Facilitating Genocide’ in Gaza Over Shipment of Fighter Jet Parts to Israel
The Government were taken to court in a bid to block the supply of parts campaigners believe may be used to commit war crimes in Gaza
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Labour Minister Defends RAF Gaza Surveillance Flights Amid Growing Scrutiny of UK-Israel Relationship
Defence Minister Maria Eagle spoke at a private Israel Independence Day meeting and said the UK would continue to back the country
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Company That Supplied Hundreds of Millions of Pounds of Unusable COVID Tests Saw Profits Skyrocket to £178 Million After Lobbying Conservative Peer for Contract
Primer Design’s turnover jumped by 4,800% after supplying tests that were later deemed “unfit for public use”
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Dan Wootton Hit With £7,500 Costs Over Failed Court Bid to Name ‘Catfishing Victim’
The former GB News host failed to overturn a High Court order protecting the anonymity of a man he allegedly catfished into sharing sexual material online
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Warning Over UK ‘Slide Towards Authoritarianism’ After Raft of Just Stop Oil Prison Sentences Are Upheld
The Court of Appeal upheld sentences totalling 35 years for climate activists
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Nigel Farage Pictured With Far-Right Activists Who Posted ‘Pride Swastikas’ and Racist Rants
EXCLUSIVE: The Reform UK leader posed for pictures with the group of prominent far-right activists known for their extreme, racist and Islamophobic posts
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The Elon Musk Online Outriders Hoping to Take Control of UK Politics and Oust Keir Starmer
The world’s richest man is amplifying a series of often extreme Alt Right voices bent on radically reshaping our politics
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Brit National’s 30-Year Fight for Justice Amid Claims US Extradition Deal Was ‘Violated’ and Evidence Was ‘Fabricated’
Azhar Lal was extradited in 1991 under an agreement meant to prevent him from having his sentence increased to life without parole, which he claims, was never honoured
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‘Elon Musk’s Venal ‘Rape Genocide’ Claims About Keir Starmer and Grooming Gangs Are Absurd’
The truth is Starmer made profound improvements to tackling crimes against women and girls while Director of Public Prosecutions, reveals a veteran barrister
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Will Young: ‘It Got Much Worse After Pop Idol. I’m Surprised There Hasn’t Been an Exposé on The X Factor’
The first Pop Idol winner – and Byline Times supporter – speaks to Josiah Mortimer about the pressures of fame and the stories he believes are still to come to light about the reality TV music world
