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Honestly held opinions and provocative argument based on current events or our recent reports.
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Why so Sore, Donny? Fascism has Deep American Roots
London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s comment on Donald Trump’s nativism, isolationism and bigotry has hit a sore spot.
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A Modest Proposal: How to Solve the Brexit Impasse
Otto English has one simple way to cut through the years of bickering over Britain’s exit from the EU – put Nigel Farage in charge.
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SCIENCE HOOKER: Buying Redemption – Academic Reparations
Adi MacArtney on the debate in British institutions about how to account for their colonial past.
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Narendra Modi’s Re-Election is Terrifying for Muslims in India
Faisal Khan on why the BJP Prime Minister’s win in India’s general election is concerning for minorities in the world’s largest democracy.
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Phony War: Iran Humiliates Trump by Calling His Bluff
CJ Werleman explains the logic behind attempts to escalate tensions in the Gulf: it’s all about bluster, and arms deals
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Dispossessed, Disenfranchised, Denied My Vote
Chani Klapka, one of the 3.1 million EU citizens resident in the UK and eligible to vote in the Euro Elections, describes her Kafkaesque experience.
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Boris Johnson’s Jacuzzi Justice
Why Boris Johnson’s politicised intervention on a prisoner’s temporary release – a case he will know nothing about – is dangerous.
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The Last Straw? In Defence of the Milkshake
The milkshake has emerged as a potent tool in showing the Far Right in the UK for what they are – cowards and frauds, argues Mike Stuchbery.
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Your Vote this Thursday will be a Message to the Far Right. No Further
Mike Stuchbery draws strength from history and argues that anyone who cares about stopping the Far Right, now fighting in a Europe-wide alliance, needs to vote in the Euro Elections this Thursday
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“Never Seen Anything like it”: The Funding of the Brexit Party Needs Urgent Investigation
After Byline Times’ exclusive investigation into Nigel Farage’s claims of unprecedented crowd funding and donations to his new party, we call for an urgent and thorough investigation from the Electoral Commission
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Iran Crisis: Sketchy Intelligence and Propaganda – We’ve Been Here Before
CJ Werleman sees a familiar pattern in the stoked-up tensions between the US and Iran, and once again the media is failing to check the march to war.
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AstroTurfers of Britain Part Two: Who is Behind Brexit Party Recruitment and its PR Makeover?
Otto English delves deeper into Claire Fox and Spiked Online’s close connection to Nigel Farage’s new party, and discovers another PR executive involved in recruiting potential MEPs.
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JUSTICE FOR DAPHNE: Where the Maltese Authorities Cover-Up, ‘The Sweepers’ Step Up
Nineteen months after the murder of Daphne Caruana Nicola and with no proper official investigation, a group of Maltese journalists are filling the gap
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WikiLeak Leaks: from Transparency to Trolling for Putin
Stephen Komarnyckyj on a cache of hacked materials that shed a disturbing light on the culture of a man and an organisation once hailed as champions of transparency.
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Why the Breakdown of the BBC is a Microcosm of British Politics
Peter Jukes argues that the public broadcaster is easily gamed by bad actors and vested interests who can break the rules with impunity – just like so many other key British institutions.
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How War could be Prevented Globally for Just $2 Billion – and with the Help of More Women
Stephen Colegrave interviews Dr Scilla Elworthy about her business approach to peace, and the qualities of feminine intelligence for women and men as essential skills in building a safer world.
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Has ISIS been defeated?
Faisal Khan asks: what next for the Islamic State following the loss of its Caliphate?
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Brexiter Psychosis: Delusions, Self Deception and Britain’s Political Disorder
Psychologist and therapist Emmy van Deurzen argues that, beyond the lies and propaganda around Brexit, something more dangerous may be at play – self-deception.
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MYTH AND TABOO: Can Integration Ever Solve Racism?
Far from being topics of taboo, integration, immigration and racism have been politicised for years in dishonest narratives. Are Tony Blair and other centrists going down the same path again as populism rears its ugly head once more?
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Brexit Party Spiked – Nigel Farage’s Disastrous Revolutionary Communist Party Candidates
Otto English on how it’s not only Claire Fox who is taking the wheels off the Brexit Party bus.
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Julian Assange is a Misogynist — and Yes, that Matters
Sexism is a potent political force and an important part of Assange’s legacy. We ignore it at our own peril.
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Paypal Man: Why won’t Farage reveal who is funding his Brexit party?
Populist, anti-elitist, libertarian? Nigel Farage’s new party doesn’t have any ‘members’ and is secretive, authoritarian and looks like a one man dictatorship.
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Extinction Rebellion Meets the Establishment: Showdown, Sell Out, or Something Else?
Extinction Rebellion is meeting London Mayor Sadiq Khan today, and tomorrow Environment Secretary Michael Gove and Shadow Chancellor John Mcdonnell. But the hope lies in fearless cities, not tepid symbolism.
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‘Tell the Truth’ – Journalism, Activism and Extinction
Byline Times will never let activism lead our journalism, but our journalism will sometimes – we hope – lead to activism.
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Unpaid Labour – How Climate Change Protests are leading to a ‘Birth Strike’
The threat of environmental catastrophe has led a growing group women to become so concerned about bringing that they have gone on birth strike.
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Neo-Darwinism and Neuro-Bigotry: Toby Young’s Hit Job on Greta Thunberg
Louise Raw argues that the commentator and former free schools boss Toby Young has a track record attacking people with special educational needs.
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Government Shows More Disdain for Greta Thunberg and Climate Change
After the PM refused to meet Greta Thunberg yesterday, the Treasury shuns an important committee Inquiry about climate change this morning
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Tommy Robinson is set to Run for European Parliament – What Next?
Louise Raw counters some of the myths around the former EDL founder and argues there is only one antidote if Robinson announces his candidacy
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Fox Breaks Cover – from Revolutionary Communist to Farage’s Right Hand Woman
Otto English on the weird moral maze of would-be Brexit Party MEP Claire Fox and her Spiked Network.
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The Colombo Conundrum: Britain, Sri Lanka and the lingering ISIS Threat
As ISIS claims responsibility for the Sri Lanka bombings, Byline Times looks at the broader threat posed by radicalised supporters returning from conflict zones – and how Britain’s response relies on local public bodies.
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What the Papers Don’t Say about Extinction Rebellion
Stephen Colegrave argues that the media is both uninformed and under-estimating this radical new activist movement.
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England’s Sense of Self — the Disunited Kingdom
On St George’s day, Matthew Durkin argues that Andrew Marr of all people should know the real grievances behind the Brexit vote — English nationalism.
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Rape, Race and UKIP’s MEP Candidate
Carl Benjamin, the would-be UKIP MEP for South-West England, must recognise that he speaks out of both sides of his mouth when it comes to issues such as racism and misogyny.
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The Punchback of Notre Dame: Incendiary Lies Fan the Flames
Otto English describes how the tragedy of Notre Dame and the sense of solidarity and reflection that followed were quickly over-run by conspiracy theories and hate.
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Farage should Fix Himself – Brexit Party Boss Busted
Oliver Norgrove, a former Nigel Farage admirer and Vote Leaver staffer, explains how Brexit broke itself on the back of ‘grotesque simplifications’.
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Assange: Arrest was Inevitable – Extradition is Not a Done Deal
Long time campaigner for whistleblowers and hacktivists, @auerfeld , argues that the fight against extradition of Julian Assange to Trump’s America is the real cause célèbre
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The BBC ‘Facilitates Fascism’ says Corporation’s Former Reporter
Patrick Howse spent decades reporting news for the BBC, risking life and limb. He believed in Auntie’s credo. But the former producer says the corporation’s unquestioning Brexit coverage has now crossed the line.
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Black Holes – A Lesson in Perspective
Katie Bouman, the woman who created the algorithm to prove Einstein’s theorem, has given Otto English a breath of Brexit relief
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A Thousand Small acts of Kindness – How to Tame the Black Dog of Depression
Mike Stuchbery speaks out about his mental health struggles, and in doing so finds a cure in the kindness of others
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‘I made a promise to Assange that, if this day ever came, I would fight for him’
Icelandic poetician Birgitta Jonsdottir, who collaborated with WikiLeaks in its early days, speaks up to defend him against extradition
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The Sad, Misplaced Martyrdom of Julian Assange
There are many reasons to be concerned about the founder of WikiLeaks begin extradited to the US – but publishing the truth isn’t one of them.
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‘Bigots Hate to see Minorities getting Involved in Politics – that’s Why we Should’
What does it mean to be a political Muslim woman in a racist, misogynist, abusive online world?
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Brexit Confusion – Don’t Blame Us
As the Brexit fuse burns to its cinder, what the UK needs more than ever, is a more acceptance that many Britons are simply bewildered as to what the hell is going on. That doesn’t make them stupid – it makes them normal.
