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Honestly held opinions and provocative argument based on current events or our recent reports.
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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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How aid Cuts Disproportionately Impact Women and why Israel’s Decision to ban UNRWA Will Have an ‘Unequally Cruel Impact on the Most Vulnerable’
Israel banned Gaza’s largest provider of humanitarian support on Monday in a decision UNICEF dubbed ‘a new way to kill children’
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Britain’s Failure to Stand up for International Law in Gaza is ‘Shameful’, Says Tony Blair’s Former International Development Secretary
Clare Short tells Keir Starmer’s Government to stand up for its principles and end Britain’s role as a “lieutenant” for the United States
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America, What are you Thinking?
Could the American people really be about to elect a man as obviously unfit for high office as Donald Trump as their next commander in chief?
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Rachel Reeves’ Budget is Far from the ‘Radical’ Plan the Conservatives are Claiming
Reeves’ budget only looks radical if you believe the Conservative spin that their own plans were anything other than a cynical scorched earth tactic by a desperate government that knew it was going to lose
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‘Bernard Henri Lévy’s ‘Israel Alone’ is Nationalism Dressed in Humanist Clothes’
The French intellectual’s book on October 7 and the Gaza war reveals the failure of some of Israel’s defenders to see Palestinian suffering
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Notification Nation: How we all Became Slaves to our Phones
Big tech is holding us hostage to technology in ways that are dramatically altering how we function as human beings
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Hunters and Hunted: The Terrible Truths About AI-Assisted Manhunts in Gaza
These technologies are removing accountability from warfare and making it harder to hold individuals or governments responsible for extrajudicial killings
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The Imaginary Trade Off Between Workers’ Rights and Growth
‘The argument against labour rights is politically flawed, because it ignores the impact of having a large number of workers in insecure and bad jobs’
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How the Media ‘Justified’ the Shooting of Chris Kaba and then ‘Conducted a Merciless Autopsy’ on his Life
The headlines about Chris Kaba tell us more about the society and media in this country than his killing
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Will Labour Restore the BBC to the National Broadcaster We Need It To Be – Or Believe It Can Benefit from a Subservient Corporation Afraid to Hold Power to Account?
Starmer’s Government has an opportunity to reverse years of Conservative attacks on impartiality and independence – our democracy requires it to act beyond narrow party interests, former BBC producer and journalist Patrick Howse writes
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Donald Trump, the BBC and the Real ‘Foreign Interference’ in this Election
Why is the BBC giving so much coverage to a complete non-story about Labour and the Democrats, just because the Republican candidate would like them to?
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A Donald Trump Victory Would Open the Door to a Dangerous new Era of the Global Far Right
The re-election of a national populist US President would be a severe threat to the future of liberal democracy
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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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‘We Are All Palestinians’
A free preview of Anthony Barnett’s new monthly column exclusive to the Byline Times print edition
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Harris Fights Off Fox Grilling, but Polarised US Presidential Election Still Misses the Bigger Picture
Americans will go to the polls in less than 20 days but the race still dominated by personality rather than growing international crises
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‘Wes Streeting’s Weight-Loss jab Plan to get Obese Unemployed People Back to Work Puts Economic Value Before Health’
The Health Secretary’s initiative shows that fatphobia is now one of the last acceptable forms of prejudice
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‘Keir Starmer’s Belief that Endless Growth Creates Stability is a Dangerously False Misrepresentation of the Situation we face’
A fixation with economic growth has led humanity to the brink of catastrophe, argues Tom Scott
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The Media is Displaying the Same Blind Spots that Allowed the Conservatives to Push Britain to the Brink
The British press’ selective scrutiny of the new Government is letting the country down, writes Hardeep Matharu and Peter Jukes
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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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How the US Presidential Election may Turn November’s European Political Community Summit Into a Fight Over Ukraine
The summit, which is being hosted by Hungry’s far-right President Viktor Orbán, will take place days after the US goes to the polls.
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Keir Starmer’s First 100 Days in Power: A Report Card
The Prime Minister reached the milestone as his popularity plummets in the aftermath of a freebies scandal and Sue Gray’s resignation. But has it all been bad?
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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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Clean Water Protesters to March on Parliament Launch as They Urge Labour to Review ‘Failing, Greedy’ System
A clean water coalition is calling for the new Government to enforce existing laws and comprehensively review the UK’s entire water infrastructure and will march on parliament on 3 November
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Starmer’s £22 Billion Carbon Capture Gamble is a ‘Waste of Money and Helps Polluting Sectors Avoid Changing How They Operate’
The Government is making a huge bet on a technology that has never previously delivered, argues climate campaigner Alethea Warrington
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COVID Inquiry: ‘The Headlines That Show the Media Failed to do its Job Before the Second Wave Hit’
When it became apparent that natural immunity would not prevent a second wave, right-wing media backed calls to remove measures and allow immunity to build up via infections
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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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‘How the ‘Terrorist’ Label is Used to Shut down Grievances and Ignore Human Rights – and is Less About How You’re Fighting, Than Who’
Why Israel has a ‘right to defend’ itself, but Iran’s ‘revenge’ does not qualify as ‘self-defence’. Unpicking the double standards playing out in Western media
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Kemi Badenoch’s Plans are a Mirror Image of Donald Trump Backers’ ‘Project 2025’ Agenda
The Conservative leadership candidate plans to dismantle Britain’s institutions, in a hard-right overhaul that echoes that of Trump supporters in the US
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How the Online Safety Act Risks Pushing Young People to Dangerous Spaces Online
Age-verification requirements offer a false sense of safety, and risk both privacy and national security
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Elon Musk: A Dangerous ‘Evolution’
Has the world’s richest man simply lost his marbles or been ‘radicalised’ by his own platform? David Troy traces his beliefs and behaviour to paint an altogether more concerning picture of the X owner’s political and cultural journey
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Robert Jenrick’s Special Forces Comments Expose a ‘Desire to Tear up UK’s Commitment to Protect Basic Rights and Freedoms’
The Conservative leadership frontrunner has caused widespread outrage after claiming that Human Rights laws are forcing British special forces to kill rather than detain suspected terrorists
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Israel Gaza War: ‘Britain Can’t Shirk its Responsibility any Longer and Must Lead International Community to Stop Bloodshed’
As the anniversary of Hamas’ 7 October 2023 attack on Israel nears, the Muslim Association of Britain urges the UK not to be on the ‘wrong side of history’ and to act now
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‘Keir Starmer is Playing Right Into his Political Opponents’ Hands’
The Labour leader’s failure to define his own Premiership is allowing his enemies to do it for him
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Access no Areas: How Nigel Farage’s Exclusionary Tactics Come Straight From Trump’s Playbook
‘Cherry-picking attendance harms the breadth of diversity reporting on events – we urge a rethink of the policy, ensuring all journalists can attend future party conferences’
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David Lammy Unleashes On Vladimir Putin in Remarkable UN Speech – Then Takes aim at Russian Ambassador
The Foreign Secretary’s attack on Russian President was in stark contrast to Joe Biden’s final speech at the UN General Assembly on 24 September
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‘I Got Inside the Reform Club, Where Hate Speech is a Virtue’
The Reform club claims to be politically neutral, yet, according to its website ‘remains true to its founding principles. In this spirit, it continues to be a place for progressive thinking, social change and the championing of reform’
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Nigel Farage’s Nationalism Exposed: Champion of ‘Little England’ Courts Global Elites at Nomad Capitalist Event
While the Reform leader portrays himself as a champion of England’s white working class, his personal actions align far more with the interests of the ultra-wealthy and global elites
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‘Vladimir Putin is Trapped Between Only bad Choices – he Can’t Stop the War, and he Can’t Win’
Even the Russian state’s propagandists are asking, ”What was the point of even starting this whole thing?”
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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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‘Report Showing Police Officers Accused of Domestic Abuse Have Been Promoted Shows Little has Changed Since Sarah Everard Murder’
The Centre for Women’s Justice has released a damning report based on the testimony of more than 200 women who allege attacks by their police officer partners
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What Gazans Really Think of the War, Who They Blame, and What They Want to Happen Next
An ‘extraordinary’ new poll reveals some uncomfortable truths about the war in Gaza
