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Articles predominantly based on historical research, official reports, court documents and open source intelligence.
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Labour MP Dawn Butler Says She Is Thinking of Running for London Mayor
Butler told the Byline Festival on Saturday that her party must understand that socialism is “not a dirty word”
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Keir Starmer’s Government Says Elon Musk’s X AI Chatbot Endorsing Hitler Is a ‘Matter for the Company’
The Prime Minister’s spokesman dismisses calls to leave the social media platform, despite its official ‘Grok’ bot posting a series of antisemitic comments
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Fraud-Spotting Data Analytics and AI Could Close £6 Billion Black Hole In Government Finances
The technology has already recouped hundreds of millions of pounds and could be extended right across Government, according to a new report by the National Audit Office
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Patel, Braverman and Jenrick Immigration Scheme Led to Unexpected and Unregulated Influx of 1.2 Million Foreign Workers
Nearly ten times as many entered the UK under under Brexiters’ unvetted skilled worker visa scheme as arrived in small boats
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£2 Billion of Fraudulent Covid Loans Remains At Large With Government Accused of ‘Passivity’ in Claiming Funds
Huge sums of money have yet to be returned by businesses five years after the last Conservative Government’s Covid ‘bounce back’ loan scheme was launched
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Hundreds of Local Authorities Remain on the Brink of Bankruptcy, Despite Government Bailouts
An ageing population and successive cuts by the last Conservative Government have left local council budgets on the brink, reports David Hencke
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The BBC and Gaza: a Public Broadcaster Under Fire
“The BBC has an aversion to any language that describes Israel’s actions as war crimes – even when this language is being used judiciously by respected experts”
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Raining on his Parade: Trump’s Military Blunder
A clear majority of Americans are opposed to the US President’s army parade, and his handling of immigration and the economy
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Revealed: The £264 billion Price Tag of the UK’s Carbon Capture Strategy
Critics argue the technology is a “dangerous distraction” to the real measures required to tackle catastrophic man-made climate change
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BBC Bosses Draw Up Plans to Win Over Reform Voters by Changing News and Drama Output
The Director General Tim Davie and other executives discussed altering BBC “story selection” in order to secure the “trust” of supporters of Nigel Farage’s party
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‘A Warning From Europe on Why Keir Starmer’s ‘Blue Labour’ Strategy Is Such a Dangerous Dead End’
Attempts by centre left parties to mimic the right on immigration almost always ends up strengthening the very far right parties they hope to defeat, reports Olly Haynes
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Sellafield Nuclear Waste Cleanup Is 13 Years Behind Schedule and £20 Billion Over Budget
A damning new parliamentary report warns that “the site is becoming increasingly unsafe” due to the delays
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Police to Get Powers to Ban Masks at Protests as Starmer’s Government Accused of ‘Copy and Pasting’ Conservative Plans
Human rights groups fear those wearing masks for health or religious reasons, and dissidents seeking to protect themselves from hostile foreign states, will be swept into the criminal justice system
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UN Confirms Russian Drone Attacks on Kherson are Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes
Zarina Zabrisky, who first exposed the “human safari” in Kherson for Byline Times in July 2024, reports on the UN’s historic confirmation that Russia deliberately targeted civilians in a campaign of terror.
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Failing Celebrity-Run Care Home for Girls Permanently Shut to Keep Children Safe
Court upholds Ofsted’s decision to close AP Care Homes with judge scathing about owner Ampika Pickston’s professional conduct exposed during an 18-month Byline Times investigation into the crisis-hit facility
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Family Justice in Crisis: Thousands of Children Waiting Years for Court Decisions
A National Audit Office report reveals nearly 50,000 unresolved family court cases in England, with some children waiting more than two years due to chronic delays, rising costs and fragmented oversight
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The UK Is Failing to Tackle Violence Against Women Amid Rise of Misogynistic Influencers
Reduced budgets, rising online hate and the lack of an effective national strategy, are deepening the threat faced by women and girls, warn MPs
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The UK Has Failed to Prosecute ISIS Fighters for Genocide After Allowing Hundreds to Return to Britain
Successive UK Governments have refused to pursue prosecutions against those suspected of war crimes abroad
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Green Party Deputy Leader Zack Polanski Says UK Must Leave NATO Because of Trump
The frontrunner to become the next leader of the Green Party of England and Wales tells Byline Times the UK must now form new alliances for “peace” instead
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David Lammy Accused of Misleading Parliament as New Report Reveals Huge Scale of Continued UK Arms Shipments to Israel
Thousands of items categorised as “munitions of war” continued to be sent to Israel after Keir Starmer’s Government suspended a series of arms licenses to the country
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Keir Starmer’s Benefit Cuts Cast Doubt on His Pledge to End Homelessness
“If you take money away from people who haven’t got very much, you’ll get more homelessness,” warn campaigners
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‘Total Information Collapse’ and the Tribunal of Truth
Peter Jukes, Co-Founder and Executive Editor of Byline Times, on the urgent need for media accuracy and why joining Impress, the independent press regulator, is the best way for us to uphold those values
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How the British Media Laundered a Far Right Conspiracist’s Reputation
Parts of the British media have expressed outrage after Renaud Camus, who originated the far-right ‘Great Replacement’ conspiracy theory was banned from entering the UK
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Keir Starmer Urged to Seize a ‘Once in a Generation’ Opportunity for Real House of Lords Reform
The Prime Minister previously watered down his commitment to “abolish” Parliament’s unelected second chamber
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Woman Arrested in Fraud Investigation Linked to £25m ‘VIP’ Covid PPE Deal Referred by Conservative Minister
The director of the company awarded a multimillion pound Government contract was arrested on suspicion of fraud, conspiracy to cheat the public revenue and fraudulent evasion of income tax
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‘Everyone Hates Elon’ Protesters Invite Londoners to Smash Up Tesla in Protest Stunt
Participants can “safely and legally smash up a Tesla to vent their rage at Elon Musk, the far-right and billionaires”, as anti-Tesla protests spread across the UK
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Prospective Thames Water Private Equity Buyer ‘Sent Bills Soaring’ in UK and US
Campaigners say the preferred buyer of the failing UK water firm has a record of “rampant profiteering and financial abuse of service users” on both sides of the Atlantic
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Matt Hancock Used His Personal Email Account to Help ‘VIP’ Supplier Win £25 Million COVID PPE Contract
Excalibur Healthcare, which supplied the UK Government with tens of millions of pounds worth of unusable PPE, ultimately folded owing taxpayers £22 million
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Keir Starmer Plans to Crack Down on Political Interference by Foreign Billionaire Donors
The Prime Minister is under pressure to close legal loopholes that would allow tech billionaire and Donald Trump aide Elon Musk to funnel millions of dollars into right-wing political parties in the UK
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Report Condemns Hundreds of Millions of Unrecovered Covid Sports Loans
MPs point to the ‘direct conflict’ for permanent secretary of department and the huge sums given to professional rugby clubs
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Eight Years After Grenfell, the Government Still Doesn’t Know How May Homes Are Unsafe and Has No Clear Plan to Fix Them
Repeated promises to clean up the scandal of homes covered in highly dangerous flammable cladding are still not being met, warn MPs
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Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Funded by Tax Haven Linked Firms as Party Seeks Tax Exile Donors
The party is seeking overseas funding from those who are “unhappy with the amount of regulation and tax in the UK”
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Conservative Peer Helped Firm He Held Shares in Land £58 Million Covid PPE Contract
Newly-released documents reveal the peer also helped a “generous and loyal supporter” of the Conservative party secure another £93 million PPE contract
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Musk’s DOGE Is Inspired by Pro-Kremlin Monarchists and 1930s Technofascism
Musk’s top DOGE operative is linked to a Russian American network of anti-West pro-Kremlin monarchists inspired by the 1930s counter-democracy “Technocracy” movement, of which Musk’s grandfather was a member
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Keir Starmer’s Government Will Keep Voter ID, Despite Thousands Turned Away From Polls
The Democracy Minister said scrapping the system, introduced by Boris Johnson’s Government is “not on the table”
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Kemi Badenoch Ditches Net Zero Target After Taking Donations From Funders of Tufton Street Climate Denial Group
The Conservative leader and her Shadow Net Zero Secretary took funding from key backers of lobby groups campaigning to curb action against climate change
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Prisons Overcrowding Crisis to Force Keir Starmer to Release Thousands More Prisoners Early
The crisis followed the last Conservative Government’s failure to fulfil its promise to build up to 20,000 more prisons places before leaving office
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Conservative Peer Lord Feldman Helped ‘Good Friend’ of Michael Gove Win VIP PPE Deal
Documents released by the Covid Inquiry reveal a network of connections between senior ministers, advisers and those handed lucrative Covid contracts
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Conservative Fixer Lord Feldman Lobbied Boris Johnson to Push Through Dyson’s Ventilator Contract
Private messages between Boris Johnson and his team reveal they were “on a mission” to secure the contract with leading Brexiteer James Dyson
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UK’s £32m Investment in Peter Thiel-backed Autonomous Weapons Firm Revealed Amid Deepening Ties to Trump Administration
The contracts, seen by Byline Times, include £7 million for a fleet of near silent ‘ghost drones’
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Michael Gove Told Officials to Buy 10,000 Ventilators From Dyson During Pandemic in ‘Affront’ to Procurement Rules
Evidence published by the Covid Inquiry reveals that the Conservative Minister was “insistent that an order” was placed with leading Brexiter Sir James Dyson’s firm
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UK Taxpayers’ Cash Is Funding an Arms Firm Whose Biggest Shareholder Is Now Bankrolling Nigel Farage’s Reform UK
The UK Government’s big increase in defence spending will likely hugely benefit Reform UK’s biggest donor
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The Utter Mismanagement of HS2 Is Now Damaging the UK’s Global Reputation, Say MPs
A new parliamentary investigation details the many billions of pounds wasted on a scheme, the exact future of which still remains in doubt, reports David Hencke
