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As a GP Attending Prevent training, I was Surprised by Extinction Rebellion’s “Extremist” Listing – but not Shocked
, 16 January 2020
Dr Adnan Siddiqui argues the targeting of XR as an extremist organisation supports growing concern the government's policy is about criminalising views it finds threatening.
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Crime and Justice
Extremism
UK Politics
The Real Project Fear: Fake News and ‘Johnny Foreigner’
, 14 January 2020
James Melville highlights the paradox of our xenophobic media driven by press proprietors who are non-domiciled for tax reasons or based overseas.
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Brexit
Europe
Foreign Affairs
Immigration
Media
Newspapers
Rupert Murdoch
UK Politics
We Must Kill Marketing Before it Kills Us
, 14 January 2020
Stephen Colegrave, former marketing director of Saatchi and Saatchi, explains why the Mad Men world of marketing must die.
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Advertising and Marketing
Climate Change
Economics, Finance and Money
Environment
Mental Health
Society and Welfare
Sociology
UK Politics
Trump’s Plans to Extend the US Muslim Ban Exposes his Policy of Cruelty
, 13 January 2020
CJ Werleman on why the US President will keep targeting Muslims and step up his attacks on Islam as his begins his 2020 re-election campaign.
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Argument
Donald Trump
Foreign Affairs
Muslims and Islam
United States of America
US Politics
Editorial: First they Came for Our Children
, 10 January 2020
With the youth vote heavily against Boris Johnson, the Tory Government's first moves seem to be gunning for the young.
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Editorial
Boris Johnson
Conservative Party
Education
Europe
Foreign Affairs
UK Politics
Rediscovering Northern Soul: The Territorial Injustice of Austerity
, 9 January 2020
James Melville explores how Boris Johnson can respond to a protest vote against the territorial injustice of austerity.
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Austerity
Brexit
Conservative Party
Economics, Finance and Money
England
General Election 2019
Society and Welfare
UK Politics
Harry and Meghan are Taking on the Corporate Press – Fighting for Issues which Should Matter to Us All
, 9 January 2020
Brian Cathcart, Professor of Journalism at Kingston University, on why Britain's right-wing press will be intent on destroying the marriage of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex now more than ever.
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Argument
Arts
Celebrity
Media
Monarchy
Newspapers
Rupert Murdoch
Society and Welfare
Can Protests Save India’s Muslims or is it Too Little, Too Late?
, 9 January 2020
CJ Werleman considers whether the Modi Government's crackdown on Muslims is indicative of India never having been a liberal democracy in the first place.
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Argument
Democracy
Foreign Affairs
India
Global Britain and the Great Retreat
, 7 January 2020
Musa Okwonga makes the case that Boris Johnson's relative silence on the US' assassination of Qasem Soleimani is a sign of things to come for a more isolationist, inward-looking Britain.
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Boris Johnson
Brexit
Foreign Affairs
General Election 2019
London
UK Politics
Boris of Bolsover? Johnson and the Empathy Gap
, 7 January 2020
Stephen Colegrave delves into the Prime Minister's empathy gap and why it will inevitably let down the Conservative Party's new northern voters.
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Austerity
Boris Johnson
Brexit
Class
Conservative Party
Crime and Justice
England
General Election 2019
Health and medicine
Law
Policing
Psychology
Society and Welfare
Sociology
UK Politics
‘Omnicide: Who is Responsible for the Gravest of All Crimes?’
, 7 January 2020
Danielle Celermajer calls for accountability for the destruction unfolding in Australia – a crime against humanity she believes is akin to genocide.
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Australia
Climate Change
Environment
Foreign Affairs
History
Sociology
We need ‘Smart Justice’ More than ‘Tough Justice’
, 6 January 2020
The former Chief Inspector of Prisons, Nick Hardwick, argues that time is running out for a progressive alternative to Boris Johnson's backward plans for the criminal justice system.
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Argument
Boris Johnson
Conservative Party
Courts
Crime and Justice
General Election 2019
Law
Society and Welfare
UK Politics
Scotland: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
, 6 January 2020
James Doleman looks at the potential constitutional crisis as the two nations drift apart and sees no easy solution.
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Argument
2016 EU Referendum
Boris Johnson
Brexit
Conservative Party
General Election 2019
Scotland
Scotland
Scottish Independence
UK Politics
Australia Can Only Save Itself if it Fixes the Rot in its Political System
, 6 January 2020
A media dominated by Rupert Murdoch and big mining political interests are leading Australia to a climate catastrophe
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Australia
Climate Change
Environment
Foreign Affairs
Media
For British Muslims the Outlook for 2020 is Continuing Racist Abuse from the Press
, 6 January 2020
Even the outgoing chair of Britain's main press regulator admits there's a problem with Islamophobia, but Brian Cathcart reveals how his successor thinks powerful white people are the victims.
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Journalism
Media
Newspapers
Not a Class Act: British Establishment Honours the Man who Ruined Thousands of Lives
, 28 December 2019
The knighthood for Iain Duncan Smith shows the disdain of the ruling class for the most vulnerable people in society, argues Natalie Bloomer
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Austerity
Class
Homelessness
UK Politics
The World’s Midnight: but the Nights are Getting Shorter
, 20 December 2019
To celebrate the Winter Solstice, Byline Times has a ray of light in all the doom and gloom. | To celebrate the Winter Solstice, @RVAWonk has a ray of light in all the doom and gloom.
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Editorial
Uncategorized
Climate Science Failed By Not Getting Us to Panic Sooner
, 20 December 2019
With more concerning climate emergencies unfolding in the past week in Australia and Greenland, CJ Werleman asks: what will it take for people to wake-up to reality?
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Activism
Environment
Science
Can the Opposition to Conservatism Finally Find a Common Cause?
, 20 December 2019
The Labour Party first gained parliamentary representation when Liberal chief whip Herbert Gladstone agreed to stand down 51 candidates. Could an alliance of a similar kind work again at the next general election?
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Conservative Party
General Election 2019
Labour Party
Liberal Democrats
UK Politics
Labour Lost for Failing to back Remain, Not because it Failed to Back Brexit
, 19 December 2019
The Labour Party must work out how to scrutinise the Government on Brexit and outbid the Tories on the NHS, public services and aspiration to keep its current voters and win back its heartlands.
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Argument
Brexit
Conservative Party
General Election 2019
Jeremy Corbyn
Labour Party
Society and Welfare
UK Politics
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